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peace process — when he
meets President Bush and
other senior administration
officials early the following
week to press Egypt's claim
to an increase in his current
$2 billion-a-year military
and economic aid package
from Washington.
Finally, Egypt, the only
Arab country to have signed
a peace treaty with Israel, is
anxious to expand the pro-
cess, break out of its isola-
tion and resume its position
of primacy within the Arab
world.

With Jordan's King Hus-
sein no longer a major player

in the peace process, Mubar-
ak perceives 'himself as be-
ing the only realistic media-
tor between Israel and the
Palestinians; moreover, with
frustration mounting among
Palestinians in the occupied
territories, the Egyptian
leader regards the need for
some kind of accommodation
as an -urgent necessity.
In the final analysis, the
fate of the Mubarak in-
itiative will be largely
determined by the Israeli de-
fense minister, who has won
a wide measure of trust and
respect for his tough, no-

nonsense handling of the 21-
month-old intifada.
Rabin's last-minute deci-
sion to visit Cairo this week
was being perceived as a
clear sign that he is taking
the Mubarak plan seriously;
that he sees in it the pros-
pect of some movement to-
ward realizing the Palestin-
ian election initiative that
he helped draft with his Li-
kud prime minister.
There is indeed an
unusually close rapport be-
tween Rabin and Shamir,
who are regarded as con-
stituting the glue holding
the national unity coalition
together.
The latest turn of events is
therefore being seen as a
sign that Shamir may be
cautiously unbending and
that he may be ready to ac-
cept Egyptian mediation as
a means of achieving a dia-
logue with the Palestinians.
The $64 question now is
whether Shamir can with-
stand the certain opposition
of such party hard-liners as
Ariel Sharon and whether
those ambitious Labor Party
ministers, already jostling to
succeed Shimon Peres, will
allow Rabin to steal the
thunder. ❑

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Szeged Shul Restored
With Anonymous Funds

Szeged, Hungary (JTA) —
Fifty years after the out-
break of the war that
brought the Holocaust, the
splendid Great Synagogue of
Szeged has once again come
to life.
In a ceremony last week
the domed and turreted
turn-of-the-century syna-
gogue was dedicated after an
extensive restoration job fi-
nanced by a former Szeged
Jew who is now an American
citizen.
The donor, who wishes to
remain anonymous, was
presented a medal by the
city for his efforts in a pri-
vate ceremony.
Seven busloads of people
came from Budapest for the
celebration, which was ad-
vertised in wall posters in
Szeged itself, and well over
1,000 people in all attended,
including the town's deputy
mayor, government repre-
sentatives from Budapest,
Hungarian Jewish commu-
nity leaders, officials from

the American Joint Distri-
bution Committee and the
Israeli representative in
Hungary, Shlomo Merom.
The Jewish Joint Distribu-
tion Committee adminis-
tered the anonymous donor's
contribution, estimated by
sources at about $300,000,
and helped arrange restora-
tion. "This will be a most
memorable day for me and
for everyone who was here,"
said JDC honorary Execu-
tive Vice President Ralph
Goldman.
He stressed that the Szeg-
ed synagogue would be the
first in the world which will
remain as a synagogue but
be maintained in perpetuity
by the Hungarian govern-
ment and the local city au-
thorities. Under an agree-
ment reached with the gov-
ernment, the temple will
also be used for secular con-
certs and cultural events.
The Szeged synagogue was
built at the turn of the cen-
tury.

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