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have been expelled from the
country over the past two
decades.
As illegal aliens, they are
not entitled to work permits,
social services, health
benefits or schooling.
They have lived on a sub-
sistence basis at an aban-
doned immigrant absorption
center, isolated to the point
of burying their dead secret-
ly in unauthorized burial
plots.
Residents of Dimona and
other Negev towns complain
frequently that the Black
Hebrews have a "negative
influence" on their children.
The United States has now
offered to renew the Black
Hebrews' U.S. citizenship
and issue them new pass-
ports. On that basis, the
Interior Ministry will grant
them official status in the
form of work permits for up
to two years.
More than 100 are re-
ported to have applied for
new U.S. passports. Interior
Ministry officials say no
decision has been made how
to deal with those who refuse
to accept the offer.
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Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel's
first race track opened Sat-
urday at Kibbutz Ga'ash,
north of Tel Aviv, much to
the dismay of Sabbath
observers, whose vociferous
protests were credited with
doubling the expected tur-
nout.
About 70 horses, a few
from abroad, competed in 10
races of five to 10 furlongs
for a $1,000 purse offered by
race promoter Rafi Rafaeli.
He charged $7.50 for ad-
mission to makeshift stands,
where the seats quickly fill-
ed, forcing thousands of fans
to sit on the ground under
the hot sun.
The races were purely a
spectators' sport as no ar-
rangements were made for
placing bets. Some observers
predicted the venture would
be doomed if limited to
horse-lovers who simply en-
joyed watching the animals
gallop along the dirt track.
Nevertheless, the event
drew more than 20,000 peo-
ple, causing massive traffic
jams on the Tel Aviv-Haifa
highway. Between 10,000
and 15,000 had been ex-
pected.
But it was the opponents of
the race who called public
attention to it.
A spokesman for the
Committee for the Sanctity
of the Sabbath went on
Israel Radio to complain
that "the secular kibbutzim
and moshavim have already
spoiled our sons and
daughters, and now they are
spoiling the horses by mak-
ing them run on Shabbat."
The religious community
persuaded the Labor Min-
istry to hire Druse
"inspectors" as "Shabbas
goyim" to monitor the track.
It was their duty to report
anyone working on the
Sabbath without a special
permit from the ministry.
Auschwitz Memorial
To Be Ready Next Year
Rome (JTA) — Work is
progressing on the interfaith
prayer and education center
under construction near the
site of the former Auschwitz
concentration camp, accor-
ding to a Jewish official who
recently visited there.
It should be ready next
year to house the Carmelite
nuns who presently occupy a
convent on the camp
grounds, according to
Stanislaw Krajewski, Polish
representative of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress.
"It is progressing, the
workers are there and the
foundations have been built.
It should be finished by next
year," he said in a telephone
interview from Warsaw.
The convent within the
perimeter of the death camp,
where nearly a million Jews
perished during World War
II, has been a source of deep
controversy between world
Jewry and the Catholic
Church for several years.
International Jewish
leaders reached an agree-
ment with European car-
dinals in February 1987 that
the convent would be
relocated within two years.
But the nuns balked at mov-
ing, and the church pro-
crastinated beyond the
deadline.
The long-delayed work on
the proposed interfaith
center began late last year.
Krajewski visited the site
studying how to reorganize
the Auschwitz museum. ❑