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Israeli leaders are worried that most of the emigrants will choose to go to the United States rather than Israel, and that the money needed to care for the larger numbers will be taken from allocations that would have gone to the Jewish Agency in Israel. This past week in New York, the Israeli and Diaspora heads of the Jewish Agency attempted to wrestle with the problems created by the ex- pected emigration of between 30,000 and 40,000 Soviet Jews in 1989 — a considerable increase over the 19,000 allowed to leave last year. About two-thirds of the $400 million Agency budget is funded by contributions rais- ed by community federations and the United Jewish Ap- peal. The UJA and federations also fund services to Soviet Jewish emigrants provided overseas by HIAS and the Joint Distribution Committee and locally by the federations themselves. Close to 90 percent of the Russian Jews now coming out want to go to the United States, and larger numbers of emigrants will raise resettle- ment costs to American Jewry. The cost of keeping them temporarily in a JDC- run transit camp in Ladispoli, near Rome, while their ap- plications to enter the United States are processed, also will increase. HIAS, the JDC and the federations will need at least $55 million more this year to cope. But if the U.S. govern- ment cuts, as it expected, sup- port for Soviet Jewish refugees and others entering the the country, the Jewish community will have to raise perhaps another $30 million to handle the needs. Israeli Agency leaders, headed by Chairman Simcha Dinitz, have registered their firm opposition to any cuts in the Agency budget to pay these extra costs. The Israelis have for years resented the fact that most Soviet Jews who leave Russia become "drop-outs" — that is, they j z" • s " 0■,;‘ - Located on Farmington Road just South of Maple Road in West Bloomfield • 661-1700 Stop by at your convenience SPECIALISTS IN ENERGY SAVINGS IMPROVEMENTS SOLAR SASH REPLACEMENT WINDOWS & DOORS PRE-WINTER SPECIALS 25% OFF WE ARE YOUR COMPLETE HOME IMPROVEMENT COMPANY S Eat less saturated fat. WINDOWS AND DOORS NAME BRANDS WE CARR Y: • FOREVER UNFRAME Wekliel4nsulated Vinyl • &WOE VINYL • GREAT LAKES VINYL • CIERTAI NTEED VINYL ANDERSON W000 •• • FELLA W000 • AMERICAN W000 HOMEOWNER With every 5 windows purchase, re- ceive 2 Piston tickets in a custom suite at the Palace! 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Dinitz said that moving the transit facility to Israel would mean that thousands of emigrants would be exposed to Israel, and that some would change their minds and settle there. Others, he said, could continue to the United States as refugees or with some other status. The tens of millions of dollars sav- ed by dismantling the Rome facilities, he said, would be spent by the Agency in Israel. This idea has been strenu- ously opposed by other Agen- cy officials, who said it would be a betrayal of Zionism to turn Israel into a transit camp for Jewish emigrants or to allow them to leave as "refugees." Dinitz said he was opposed to a proposal by U.S. federa- tions to hold a special cam- paign for , resettlement of Soviet Jews, even if some of the money would be earmark- ed for absorption in Israel. "We can't collaborate in such an effort," he said, "but we can't stop them from doing it. The federations have endow- ment funds and other sources from which they can take the money to pay for resettling the drop-outs." Another proposal raised is for the Agency to take over the transit facilities in Ladispoli, but there seem to be formidable obstacles. 1989 Jerusalem Post ANSWER TO PAGE 52 PUZZLE NERTZ EDH AMORE EZER P I P r C IM ZEPHANIAH ALEPH RKO ALA I INGO S AMPERE ELK BARRIO LA ELEGANT HAR POP D AKEE EGED L S R IT SMETANA I PSALMS RES ETUDES PAL LED AR I AS LE VI ANDA AMA MOSES TICUS EMOTE EVEN .FRE NAHUM ESS SEL I TROPE 0 -1 • 114