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Israel Trade With Gaza,
West Bank Falls Into Red
Jerusalem (JPFS) — The
long years of Israeli
surpluses in trade with the
West Bank and Gaza Strip
gave way to a deficit for the
first time ever in 1989.
In 1986, the Israeli trade
surplus in goods and services
was $243 million. But
within three years, this
surplus had plunged to a
deficit of $52 million, after
declining $175 million and
$43 million in 1987 and
1988, respectively.
These figures, released
last week by the Bank of
Israel, clearly show the
cumulative effect of the in-
tifada. The uprising has cut
the purchasing power of
workers from the territories,
while the boycott of Israeli
products declared by the
leaders of the uprising has
prevented them from spen-
ding much of what they have
on Israeli goods.
The volume of trade and
services, where services re-
fers mainly to Arabs from
the territories working in
Israel, also plunged by 20
per cent between 1987 and
1989. Last year, this figure
reached $1.7 million, some
4.6 per cent of Israel's total
trade in 1989, excluding
defense imports.
West Bank and Gaza Strip
trade with Israel was some
6.6 per cent of the total in
1987.
These figures clearly in-
dicate a gradual severing of
the two economies from one
another, but also reflect
their continuing integration.
The dependence of the ter-
ritories on Israel can be seen
mainly in a desire by the in-
habitants to continue work-
ing in Israel despite the po-
litical tension. In 1989,
workers from the West Bank
and Gaza Strip earned some
$659 million in Israel —
more than the $644 million
they earned in both 1987
and 1988.
Some 104,800 workers
from the territories worked
in Israel in 1989 —more
than in the pre-intifada
period of 1986-87, when the
average was 103,300. Many
of the Arabs counted as
working in Israel in 1988-89,
however, were absent for
long periods due to curfews
and riots.
Israeli export of goods to
the territories continued to
plunge last year. Exports
totalled $600 million, com-
pared with $650 million in
1988 and $928 million in
1987 — a drop of one-third in
two years. The import of
goods from the territories
dropped by the same ratio to
$200 million in 1989.
U.S. Jewish Women Ask
To Pray At Western Wall
Jerusalam (JPFS) — In
what is apparently the first
such move by Diaspora
Jews, two American Jewish
women are petitioning the
High Court of Justice for the
right to pray at the Western
Wall.
Representing the Interna-
tional Committee for Wo-
men of the Kotel, Susan
Alter and Rivka Haut arriv-
ed here last week to add
their petition to that of the
Jerusalem-based Women of
the Wall, asking that the Re-
ligious Affairs Ministry and
the Chief Rabbinate allow
them to pray with a Torah
scroll at the Western Wall.
The petition is to be sub-
mitted in conjunction with
the Women of the Wall, a
group of local women who
have for the past few years
attempted to pray together
at the Western Wall with a
Torah scroll and with prayer
shawls. In an interim
judgement, the High Court
ruled that the group could
pray at the Wall, but that in
line with the directives of
the Religious Affairs Min-
istry, they could not read
from the Torah, wear prayer
shawls or sing aloud there.
Alter, a New York City
councilwoman, said that to
her knowledge Jews from
abroad had never petitioned
the High Court on a re-
ligious issue. The women
from abroad felt that they
had a right to do so, she said,
because the Wall was a sym-
bol for the entire Jewish
people.
Stressing that she and her
colleagues were seeking to
act in a manner acceptable
to Halacha, Alter said the
women's groups based their
action upon a ruling by the
late Rabbi Moshe Feinstein,
as well as an unpublished
ruling by former Ashkenazi
Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren.
For their continued
guidance, they relied on
Rabbi Avi Weiss of New York
City.