I DETROIT'S HIGHEST RATES 12 MONTH CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT 9.00% Effective Annual Yield* Minimum Deposit of $500 9.308%* *Compounded Quarterly Rates to change without notice This is a fixed rate account that is insured to $100,000 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Cor- poration (FSLIC). Substantial Interest Penalty for early withdrawal from certificate accounts. FIRST SECURITY MAIN OFFICE 1760 Telegraph Rd. (Just South of Orchard Lake) E OUAl HOUSING OPPORTUNITY 14 BANK FSB PHONE 338•7700 352•7700 HOURS: MON.-THURS. 9:30-4:30 FRI. 9:30-6:00 FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1989 MEMBER FSLIC Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corp. Your Savings Insured to 1100.000 FRONTLI NES JCCouncil Urges Detroiters To See Israel In The Spring RICHARD PEARL Staff Writer S how solidarity with Israel by celebrating springtime there, says the Detroit Jewish Communi- ty Council. That idea underlies the special March 2-10 Detroit Jewish Community Solidari- ty Trip the Council is pro- moting to its nearly 300 con- stituent organizations as well as to the general Jewish com- munity, says David Gad-Harf, Council executive director. "We hear feedback from people living in Israel," said Gad-Harf. "Some are disap- pointed by the sharp reduc- tion in American tourism there. "We've heard that the hotels are nearly empty, and that's both a financial as well as an emotional strain on Israelis because tourism is the No. 2 industry in the state," he said. "We want to reassure them that there is no slackening of support for Israel, and this trip is designed to assure them of the maintenance of that support." The special trip — priced at $999 per person, double oc- cupancy, including round-trip airfare from Detroit, five-star hotel accomodations and most meals — has already received about two dozen firm com- mitments, with another 50-60 Detroiters "seriously think- ing about it," said Gad-Harf on Monday. "But that number may be low even now, because in the last few days, our phones have been ringing." The registra- tion deadline is Jan. 23. Space is limited to 200, with the Council aiming for a minimum of 100 tourists. The Council has scheduled an informational meeting 7 p.m. Tuesday at United Hebrew Schools. Speakers will include Council member Kathleen Straus of the American Jewish Committee- Detroit Chapter, who recent- ly returned from an Israel trip. If 200 go, the delegation will make history as one of the largest ever from Detroit. "There is no more beautiful place in the world to celebrate the arrival of spring than Israel," said Paul D. Borman, Council president, who will lead the tour with Gad-Harf. Another Detroiter, David Hermelin, will be joining the trip as chairman of the Springtime in the Galilee. tourism arm of Operation In- dependence, an American group trying to boost Israel's economy by encouraging U.S. investments in Israel, tourism and imports from the Jewish state. Tour highlights include Jerusalem — Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial, the Western Wall and the Knesset; the Galilee, Golan Heights and kibbutzim; and Tel Aviv, Caesarea and Dizengoff Street nightlife. The trip will offer kosher food and non-stop flights bet- ween New York and Israel via El Al Israel Airlines. Gad-Harf said the Council isn't competing with other Jewish organizations offering Israel tours, just supplemen- ting them. "We encourage them (peo- ple who ask which tour to take) to go with their own group;' he said. "The point is to get people to go to Israel." Israel's PLO Response Frustrates Its Friends DAVID HOLZEL Israel Correspondent A t a recent teleconfer- ence with the Israel Government Press Of- fice, the Jewish community leadership of Baton Rouge, La., had two principal ques- tions, according to Yoram Et- tinger, the GPO's director. "They wanted to know why Israel doesn't test the PLO to see if its intentions are peaceful. They also asked how we know if the PLO is a ter- rorist organization," he said. Not very comforting, corn- ing from Israel's best friends, but then a lot of questions have been asked in response to the Palestine Liberation Organization's diplomatic in- itiative of the last few weeks — including Yassir Arafat's appearance before the United Nations in Geneva, America's opening of a dialogue with the PLO, Arafat's promise to find the perpetrators of the bombing on Pan Am Flight 103, and his appearance on the cover of Time magazine. The main question put to Israel is, What_are you going to do about it all? The Israeli response so far -- a promise of a new peace in- itiative of its own at an unspecified later date — has left Israel's American Jewish friends "in a high level of frustration," in the opinion of Harry Wall, the Anti-Defama- tion League's Jerusalem director. "They wish Israel would get its act together." Wall, Ettinger and others involved in Israel's Hasbarah, or propaganda information, urge caution and patience with Israel as its new govern- ment decides what steps to take next. Wall said Israel's ap- pearance of diplomatic stasis may not be a bad thing if movement means backing in- to a precarious position. Ya'akov Levy, director of the Israel Foreign Ministry's in- formation division, pointed out that the PLO has let out some of the steam from its diplomatic juggernaut in re- cent days. Most damaging, he said, 4 4 • 1 -4 4