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African origin — will be
deprived of badly needed
funds diverted to the new
immigrants.
Ben-Menahem (Likud) and
his Knesset colleague Eli
Dayan (Labor) — who is also
of Sephardi origin — said
that while aliyah is essen-
tial, it should not be at the
expense of the old-timers
who came to Israel in the
1950s, or by their children.
Among knowledgeable
people today, there is grow-
ing concern over the fate of
the two million Jews of
Russia, in a climate of fierce,
often anti-Semitic nation-
alism in Great Russia, in
Moldavia, in the Caucasus,
and in the Moslem republics.
The sense of urgency and
fear of what will happen if
Gorbachev falls was
underlined this week by a
page one story in Yediot
Aharanot, Israel's largest
newspaper, that 250,000
Jews in Uzbekistan, along
the Iranian and Afghan
borders, are now being
directly threatened by
fanatic Moslem fundamen-
talists who are challenging
Moscow's authority.
Michael Kleiner, head of
the Knesset Committee on
Immigration and Absorp-
tion, reacting to the reports
from Uzbekistan, said it is
imperative to get the Jews
out as soon as possible.
"The Soviet military stays
out of that region and isn't
going to go in to save Jewish
lives. Therefore it's in the
mutual interest of Israel and
the USSR to fly them to
Israel," he said.
Leonid Kalbert, a recent
visitor to the Uzbek capital
of Tashkent, said that in ad-
dition to the Moslem fun-
damentalist threat to the
Uzbekistan Jews, crime is
going unchecked and Jewish
parents are afraid to send
their children to school.
Although direct flights
between major Russian
cities and Tel Aviv are in the
works, technical problems
between the two govern-
ments have stalled the El Al
and Aeroflot agreement.
Soviet Jewry activists are
urging quick action to ac-
commodate the flood of im-
migrants. The Soviet Jews
will come whether or not
they are welcomed by "se-
cond Israel," the Sephardi
Jews who are now the
majority in Israel.
Dr. Yuri Stern, a longtime
Soviet Jewry activist and
adviser to Kleiner's Knesset
committee, said: "We're not
asking for anything at the
expense of the impoverished
neighborhoods. Just the op-
posite. We want to start a

massive housing project that
will provide both for new
immigrants and Israelis who
need financial aid."
He added that new in-
dustries will have to be de-
veloped to accommodate tens
of thousands of highly train-
ed Russian professionals,
"and this activity will also
provide new jobs for
unemployed Israelis. This
huge aliyah will also help
transform the development
towns. We don't want special
privileges but a chance to
improve the society and the
economy for all Israelis."
But the old problems of
rivalry between the various
agencies involved, the in-
grained antipathy to new
immigrants, and Israel's
enormous security and
economic problems, are cer-
tain to hamper the-
mammoth effort that is
needed to meet this historic
challenge.
"The government is not
together with the Jewish
Agency or the ministries of
Housing and Absorption,"
said Marty Karp, who heads
the Los Angeles Jewish Fed-
eration office in Jerusalem.
He said that he would be
meeting this week with rep-
resentatives of other
American Jewish com-
munities in Israel to discuss
coordination of special pro-
jects for the mass immigra-
tion.
An example of the
government's lack of prepa-
ration for the flood is the fact
that no special body has
been created to coordinate
activities between the
various ministries' and the
Jewish Agency. It is still in
the discussion stage.
Yossi Ahimeir of the
Prime Minister's Office, said
Shamir "is considering es-
tablishing a committee of
ministers to handle the new
wave. We know that the Ab-
sorption Ministry cannot
handle it alone."
Asked what he thought
was behind some of the
hostility directed at the
Soviet Jews, Ahimeir said
that politics might be in-
volved. "Most of the
criticism comes from the left.
The new immigrants,
whether from Russia or the
Oriental countries, gen-
erally favor the right."
Many believe that it would
be a terrible blow to Israel
and the Jewish people if the
exodus of Soviet Jewry were
impeded for any reason.
It is widely believed here
that Russian Jewry is living
on a volcano, and that the
major priority now is to cut
through the red tape and get
them out quickly.

