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FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1989

Israel May No Longer
Hire Workers From Gaza

An immediate consequence
was the failure of street
cleaners and gardeners to
report to their jobs Sunday in
the Ashkelon and Ashdod
municipalities. Apparently
they preferred to lose pay
than risk their lives.
Past experience shows that
many will gradually return to
work. But increasing
numbers are looking for alter-
native work inside the Gaza
Strip.
For much of last week, the
Gaza Strip and West Bank
were sealed off from Israel
and under blanket curfews to
prevent incidents while
Israelis observed Memorial
Day for their war dead and In-
dependence Day.
About 100,000 Arabs from
the territories are employed
in Israel, chiefly in menial
jobs that many Israelis refuse
to take.
Last week, Police Minister
Haim Bar-Lev of Labor and
Transport Minister Moshe
Katsav of Likud offered
separate proposals to limit
the number of Arabs from the
territories working in Israel.
David Mana, director
general of the • Government
Employment Service, said
over the weekend that such a
measure would not create a
major labor shortage in
Israel.
He said Arab workers could
be replaced for three months
by unemployed Jews.

Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel
may have reached a turning
point in its large-scale
employment of Arabs from
the administered territories.
The practice is on the wane
and may eventually come to
an end.
That is because of moun-
ting antipathy and fear bet-
ween Jews and Arabs oh both
sides of the Green Line, spur-
red by the continuing upris-
ing in the territories. Anti-
Arab sentiment is especially
rife in southern Israel.
Arab day-laborers from the
Gaza Strip had to run a
gauntlet of rocks hurled at
their cars by Jewish youths
when they began returning to
their jobs in Israel last
Saturday.
About 30 cars with Gaza
license plates were ambushed
on the road connecting Gaza
with Ashkelon and Ashdod.
Jewish settlers in the West
Bank have had the same ex-
perience driving through
Arab-populated areas.
Jews of Ashkelon and
Ashdod are in an especially
angry mood since the dis-
covery last week of the re-
mains of Sgt. Avi Sasportas,
a paratrooper missing since
Feb. 16.
The Israel Defense Force
imposed a nightly curfew on
the Gaza Strip, effective
Saturday. Workers cannot
leave their homes before
a.m.

PLO Admission To Other
U.N. Agencies Unlikely

Geneva (JTA) — The defer-
ral last week of the Palestine
Liberation Organization's bid
for full membership in the
World Health Organization
has severely diminished its
chances for admission into
the other U.N. agencies to
which it planned to apply, ac-
cording to political observers
here.
The 166-nation World
Health Assembly, the WHO's
governing body, voted 83-47
Friday afternoon to postpone
consideration of the PLO's ap-
plication for membership as a
sovereign state for one year
until is next annual meeting
in May 1990.
The vote was one of the rare
occasions when an American-
led initiative against Palesti-
nian aspirations was sup-
ported by the Soviet Union
and China.
Thirty countries, Israel

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among them, abstained or
were not present for the vote.
The head of the Israeli
delegation, Health Minister
Ya'acov Tsur, explained to the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
later that Israel abstained
from voting to postpone the
issue because "we cannot
agree to have it re-examined
next year."
PLO leader Yassir Arafat
blamed the Americans for the
Palestinian defeat and accus-
ed the United States of resor-
ting to "cheap blackmail!'
The United States had, in
fact, served notice two weeks
ago that it would withhold its
assessed $73.8 million con-
tribution to the WHO's fiscal
1990 budget if the PLO were
admitted.
Arafat, for his part, insisted
that the "Palestine state" will
continue to seek admission to
other U.N. agencies.

