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Jewish Agency Opposes HIAS Office In Moscow Jerusalem (JTA) — The Jewish Agency for Israel has been actively seeking to keep the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) from opening an office in Moscow, according to Jewish Agency officials. They believe that a BIAS office in Moscow could trigger a renewed spurt of interest by Soviet Jews in immigration to the United States. Simcha Dinitz, Jewish Agency chairman, has ap- proached the Council of Jew- ish Federations and various other Jewish organizations in North America, in an effort to influence BIAS to forgo any plan to set up a Moscow operation. The United States had been the destination of choice for the vast majority of Soviet Jews prior to Oct. 1, when the administration changed its refugee policy. Since then, it has refused to consider Jews who leave the Soviet Union on Israeli visas. With an annual U.S. quota on Soviet refugees now set at 50,000, the re- quired American visas are hard to come by. Therefore, most Jews now leaving the Soviet Union are settling in Israel. In New York, Karl Zukerman, executive vice president of BIAS, strongly took exception to the Jewish Agency's position. BIAS is "not interested in encouraging anybody to come to the U.S.," he main- tained. Zukerman said he found it "interesting that the Jewish Agency Executive, which made this decision several weeks ago, has talked to all kinds of organizations in the U.S., but never to BIAS. "If they had, we could have explained to them exactly what was going on, and their concerns could have been al- leviated," he said. Zukerman said that the of- fice BIAS hopes to set up in Moscow would be designed in a way that could not possibly be construed as en- couraging Soviet Jews who might otherwise go to Israel to hold out hope that they would be permitted to em- migrate to the United States. The office, he said, would only assist Soviet Jews who had already overcome a major hurdle toward being granted refugee status and admission to the United States: winning an inter- view at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Such an office would not exclusively be occupied by BIAS, but would be shared by all voluntary organiza- tions that assist Soviets in their immigration to the United States. "The Department of State has asked HIAS to run an of- fice on behalf of all the vol- untary migratory agencies, to assist persons who have already applied to em- migrate to) the United States and have been scheduled for interviews," said Zukerman. In any case, Soviet au- thorities so far have been Jewish Agency officials contend that substantial funds should not be used for resettlement of Soviet Jews to the United States. opposed to the plan and are "holding strong in their refusals to allow any of the voluntary agencies into Moscow," said Phillip Saperia, assistant executive vice president of BIAS. Because the voluntary agencies are denied access to Moscow, the U.S. govern- ment and Jewish federations are spending more on do- mestic resettlement, Saperia said, since the agencies cannot provide U.S. com- munities with advance in- formation on refugees des- tined to arrive there. The Jewish Agency's stand against a BIAS presence in Moscow is taking place amid increasing Israeli resent- ment of the money from American Jewish philan- thropy that goes to HIAS. Jewish Agency officials have contended that substantial funds should not be used for the resettlement of Soviet Jews in the United States at a time when Israel is strapped for funds for its own resettlement effort. Tension in the Jewish Agency rose after reports reached Israel from both Washington and Moscow that various Jewish groups had begun lobbying the Bush administration and Congress to have the 50,000 ceiling raised.