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No Surprise At Replacing
Of Israeli Ambassador
JAMES D. BESSER
Washington Correspondent
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FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1990
he announcement that
Moshe Arad was being
replaced as Israel's
ambassador to this country
came as no surprise in
Washington.
Since his arrival in 1987,
Arad has been dogged by
stories of internal conflict at
the embassy and by sugges-
tions that, because of the
divided government in
Jerusalem, the embassy in
Washington had become
more of a political
battleground than a diplo-
matic mission.
In recent months, there
were more and more reports
of an embassy locked in fero-
cious internal warfare bet-
ween key officials.
And increasingly,
U.S.-Israeli diplomacy is
bypassing the Israeli em-
bassy here. The Israel
government, according to
several observers, regards
the embassy in Washington
primarily as a public rela-
tions outpost and as the
pivot point for relations bet-
ween American Jews and
the Israeli government.
In recent years, the
primary conduits for diplo-
matic activity between the
U.S. and Israel have been
the American embassy in
Tel Aviv and direct com-
munication between ad-
ministration officials here
and Israeli leaders; the em-
bassy here has taken on a
secondary role.
The appointment of
Zalman Shoval, an experi-
enced diplomat with a
reputation for working effec-
tively with the media, was
seen as an attempt to shore
up the role of the embassy
now that Israel has aban-
doned its "national unity"
government.
Shoval, unlike his
predecessor, may have
reliable access to top foreign
policy officials in Jerusalem,
several Jewish activists here
suggested. But these same
sources pointed out that
Shoval, despite his Herut
credentials, is not a close
confidant of Foreign Min-
ister David Levy.
"They could have ac-
knowledged the problems in
the embassy here and sear-
ched for a diplomat who
might be able to set things in
order," said an official with
a major Jewish organization
here. "That is apparently
not what they did. The
challenge for Shoval will be
to see if he can establish the
embassy here as a signifi-
cant address in the conduct
of U.S.-Israeli relations —
and whether he can estab-
lish better control over the
embassy to set aside differ-
ences."
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Ethiopian Jew:
Israel Neglectful
Tel Aviv (JTA) — A leader
of the Ethiopian Jewish
community has complained
that Ethiopian immigrants
are getting short shrift from
the Israeli authorities com-
pared to the attention given
immigrants from the Soviet
Union.
Avraham Yadgai, who
heads an organization of E-
thiopian Jews, was quoted
by Ma'ariv as charging that
the government is not doing
enough to bring to Israel the
thousands of Jews remain-
ing in Ethiopia.
He said that since Israel
and Ethiopia re-established
diplomatic relations last
year, Israel has not, in his
opinion, made sufficient
efforts to establish direct
flights between the two
countries.
City Rescinds
Hitler's Status
Bonn (JTA) — The East
German city of Rostock
finally got around to remov-
ing the name of Adolf Hitler
from its list of honorary
citizens July 5.
Hitler was given the
"freedom of the harbor" by
the Baltic Sea port and ship-
building center in 1933,
shortly after his Nazi party
was voted into power.
Christoph Krummacher, a
member of the Rostock City
Council, said it was
"grotesque and shameful"
that the honor to Hitler was
not rescinded until 45 years
after the collapse of the
Third Reich.
Rabbi Injured
In Fall At Home
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Rabbi
Eliezer Schach, aging men-
tor of the Shas and Degel
HaTorah parties, suffered a
deep head wound from a fall
in his Bnei Brak home Fri-
day night.
He was reported resting
comfortably Sunday, after
being treated at home by two
Israeli Arab doctors.
The doctors, who maintain
a special "Shabbos goy"
medical service for the ultra-
Orthodox community, were
summoned by family mem-
bers.