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There will be a $420 million "bare-bones" special United Jewish Appeal cam- paign to resettle as many as 200,000 Soviet Jews in Israel, and more millions will be spent to resettle the 40,000 Soviet Jews expected to come to the United States this year. All of this is above and beyond regular fund- raising campaigns which fund domestic services and provide about $750 million annually to UJA for Israel and other overseas needs. A Detroit Jewish Welfare delegation, led by its presi- dent, Mark Schlussel, and executive vice-president, Robert Aronson, attended the meeting. The decision to share the cost of domestic resettlement — as opposed to leaving communities heavily im- pacted by the emigration wave to fend for themselves —was hailed as particularly historic by CJF officials. The federations "finally accepted that they would help other communities pay some costs," said Miriam Schneirov, president of the Federation of Jewish Agen- cies of Greater Philadelphia and a CJF vice president. The current wave of Soviet aliyah "is one of the most cataclysmic events in Jewish history," exclaimed Robert Tropp, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Pinellas County, Fla. But together with his ex- citement, Tropp said he has "concerns about the level of funding and whether it's achievable." On the other hand, the $600 million that Israel is requesting from world Jewry, including the $420 million from UJA, "is the bare-bones minimum," said Martin Stein, chairman of UJA's board of trustees. Many in the audience winced during parts of the presentation that laid out the number of immigrants Israel is expecting and the astronomical cost of their resettlement. Officials of the Jewish Agency for Israel reported in the presentation that for each of the more than 200,000 Soviet emigres expected to go to Israel in the next three years, transportation and absorption costs covering only their first year there will reach an estimated $5,000. The point most debated at the assembly regarded the exact formula by which each community's share of the fi- nancial burden would be calculated. There was no opposition to a proposal to base each community's share of the UJA Operation Exodus goal on its performance in the 1988 general fund-raising campaigns. For instance, if a community raised 3 percent of the total raised by all fed- erations in 1988, it will be responsible for the same percentage of the Operation Exodus goal. UJA will view the percen- tage to go to Operation Ex- odus as a "firm commit- ment." The national organ- ization is drawing a lesson from last year's Passage to Freedom campaign, which achieved only $50 million of its ambitious $75 million goal. "UJA is not making a re- quest for a best effort" from local federations, as it did with Passage to Freedom, said Marvin Lender, chair- man of Operation Exodus and national chairman-elect of UJA. This time, he said, "UJA wants a firm commitment for each community's fair share of $420 million." While the concept of what constitutes a fair share is relatively straightforward in the case of Operation Ex- odus, heated debate over the proposed formula for do- mestic resettlement was ex- pected Tuesday at the CJF special general assembly. According to the proposal, communities may fulfill their domestic responsibility either "in kind," by locally resettling their fair share of Soviet Jews, or by con- tributing $1,000 for each refugee they have not settled to a national pool. Heavily impacted corn- munities that settle more than their fair share of Soviet Jews will be able to draw money from the na- tional pool to cover their ex- penses. Federation leaders from a number of communities in- dicate they will be raising money for Operation Exodus.