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Farmington Hills, MI ° 48018 Recent Olim Complain 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.