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About Red Tape Woes
Jerusalem (JTA) — The
Jewish Agency is planning
for the large-scale absorption
of Ethiopian Jews this year,
even though it is uncertain
that the Ethiopian govern-
ment will let them leave.
At the same time, the
World Zionist Organization
is sending more emissaries
to Argentina, where dire
economic conditions are ex-
pected to stimulate aliyah by
many of that country's
250,000 Jews.
Those developments were
reported to a visiting group
of New York fund-raisers by
Simcha Dinitz, chairman of
the WZO and Jewish Agency
Executives.
But even as Dinitz was
outlining these plans in
Jerusalem, some 300 angry
recent immigrants from the
Soviet Union demonstrated
last week outside the Ab-
sorption Ministry's office in
Netanya.
They complained bitterly
of their problems finding
jobs and affordable housing
and of the runaround they
say they are getting at the
hands of Israel's fabled bu-
reaucracy.
Robert Groisman, a 36-
year-old mechanical engi-
neer, arrived in Israel with
his wife and two young chil-
dren four months ago. He
has not yet found work, but
has to pay the equivalent of
$400 a month for rent.
Groisman, who speaks
only Russian, said he had
problems registering his son
at the local kindergarten. He
was sent from office to office
without finding anyone who
would enroll his boy.
He has met the same red
tape wherever he turns,
Groisman said with exas-
peration.
Robert Golan, chairman of
the Association of Soviet
New Immigrants in Israel,
told Israel Radio that
"whatever may have been
the bureaucratic problems
for Jews wishing to leave the
Soviet Union, they were
nothing compared to what
they find here when they
finally arrive home."
Employees of the absorp-
tion offices where the olim
go for information about jobs
and housing agree with
some of the complaints, but
attribute the bureaucratic
snarls to insufficient staff-
ing. They say they are de-
nied extra help to deal with
the flood of immigrants be-
cause of budgetary con-
straints.
Soviet Jews who have been
in Israel six months or
longer and have still not
found work expressed fear of
what will happen when the
Absorption Ministry cuts off
their rent subsidies after
their first 12 months in
Israel.
These are problems that
must address themselves to
the 1,000-member delega-
tion currently visiting Israel
on a mission sponsored by
the United Jewish Appeal-
Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies of New York.
It is the largest New York
group ever to visit Israel and
includes such prominent po-
litical figures as Manhattan
Borough President Ruth
Messinger, Suffolk County
Employees of the
absorption offices
where the olim go
for information
about jobs and
housing agree with
some of the
complaints, but
attribute the
bureaucratic
snarls to
insufficient
staffing.
Executive Patrick Halpin
and Andrew O'Rourke, the
Westchester County exec-
utive.
The funds New York UJA-
Federation raises provide
more than 15 percent of the
Jewish Agency's budget and
pay for the 10 emissaries
currently at work in the
Soviet Union.
Dinitz told the group that
more than 10,000 Soviet
Jewish immigrants arrived
in April, a new record.
Total aliyah from all coun-
tries last month was 11,475.
But while Jewish Agency
officials and the American
visitors are elated by the ris-
ing numbers, the average
Israeli is not as "patient and
compassionate toward new
immigrants as we would like
to believe," according to an
Israel Radio reporter who
did a "person-in-the-street"
interview.
The demonstration in
Netanya was a case in point.
There were sharp verbal
exchanges between the olim
and veteran Israelis, who
complained the newcomers
got subsidized housing, job
offers and other benefits not
available to longtime
residents.