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Tel Aviv (JTA) — Direct
flights between Israel and
Moscow may be a step closer.
Senior officials of El Al,
Israel's national airline, were
discussing the issue with of-
ficials of the Soviet airline
Aeroflot in Vienna this week.
Both sides have agreed to
examine the possibility of a
Moscow-Tel Aviv air link.
Transport Minister Moshe
Katsav disclosed last week
that Israel asked for the talks
two months ago, but the
Soviet response came only
last week.
The Israelis are proposing
direct flights to Moscow,
noting that some 25,000 peo-
ple travel between Israel and
the USSR each year.
It is not known whether
Aeroflot would establish
flights to Israel if a commer-
cial aviation agreement is
reached or whether El Al
would merely be given land-
ing rights in Moscow.
Meanwhile, El Al has pull-
ed out of an international con-
ference on air safety to be
held in Israel next month.
The airline, which boasts
the most sophisticated and ef-
fective anti-terrorist
measures of any world airline,
withdrew its sponsorship of
the conference reportedly be-
cause the public forum might
disclose secrets of value to
would-be aerial hijackers and
bombers.
Conference organizers
stressed that any secret or
restricted information would
be confined to closed-door
sessions.
Israeli security experts
were disturbed by the recent
display at a news conference
of a booby-trapped radio-tape
receiver and a suitcase.
It was manufactured by a
private aircraft security firm,
which will be a major partici-
pant in the air safety confer-
ence.
The idea apparently is that
demonstrating the technol-
ogy available to terrorists
will help devise
counter-measures.
Kids to Church
Or Synagogue?
Toronto (JTA) — Can a
Jewish father who takes his
children to the synagogue on
Saturdays stop his separated
Roman Chatholic wife from
taking them to Mass on
Sundays?
The Ontario Supreme
Court will hear the custody
case in February.
Canadian courts have
generally recognized the
right of the custodial parent
to determine the religious up-
bringing of the children. But
that is starting to change, as
judges begin to place more
importance on the relation-
ship of the non-custodial
parent — usually the father —
and his children.
The mother in this case con-
verted to Judaism when she
married, but has since return-
ed to the Catholic faith. She
wants to baptize her 11-year-
old son and his younger sister
and register them in
catechism classes.
The father wants his son to
have Bar Mitzvah lessons as
he approaches the age of 13.
He is seeking custody of the
children, in part because of
the dispute over which
religion will prevail in their
upbringing.
At least one in four Jews
marries outside the faith in
Canada. The rate is much
higher in the United States.
Shin Bet Gets
More Power
Tel Aviv (JTA) — The Inner
Cabinet has given the Shin
Bet more extensive power to
combat the Palestinian upris-
ing in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip.
It has also accepted a
number of assumptions which
seem to add up to an increas-
ed reliance on force, according
to a report in Ma'ariv last
week.
Shin Bet, Israel's top secret
internal security agency, has
been given ministerial
authorization to be more ac-
tively involved in foiling
planned attacks, apprehen-
ding the terrorists responsi-
ble for them and gathering
high quality intelligence.
Shultz Slated
For ADL Award
New York (JTA) — Secretary
of State George Shultz will be
presented the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith's Klinghoffer Award in
June 1989 for his contribu-
tions in combatting
terrorism.
The award is given by the
ADL's Leon and Marilyn
Klinghoffer Memorial Foun-
dation, which was organized
after the 1985 murder of Leon
Klinghoffer aboard the cruise
ship Achille Lauro.
Klinghoffer's daughters, Il-
sa and Lisa, cited Shultz's
decision earlier this month to
deny PLO leader Yassir
Arafat a U.S. visa, which
would have allowed him to ad-
dress the U.N. General
Assembly in New York.