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FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1990

Jerusalem Post Foreign Service

Israel's Consumer Price
Index Continues Climb

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srael's higher-education
system, already
overloaded, is bracing
itself for the nearly 5,000
Russian immigrant students
expected to flood into Israeli
universities and other in-
stitutes of higher education
in the approaching academic
year.
No one is more anxiously
watching how the higher
education system meets the
challenge than present and
prospective students, whose
concerns range from the
availability of dormitory
rooms to the availability of
jobs.
In an effort to ease the
uncertainty of the students,
the slogan of higher edu-
cation leaders has become,
"absorb Russian students,
but not at the expense of
Israeli students."
Professor Yehudit Birk,
who coordinates Russian
student absorption at Heb-
rew University, summed up
the policy of Israel's univer-
sities in a speech earlier this
summer before the univer-
sity's board of governors:
"One of our major decisions
in coping with student im-
migration is that it will not
affect the admission . . .of
Israeli students to the
various faculties, which ab-
solutely means an increase
in the student body in the
coming year."
The Higher Education
Council, the decision-

making body that oversees
the nation's degree-granting
institutions, estimates 9,000
Russian olim from the ages
17 to 25 will enter the coun-
try this year, and of these
around 4,000 will choose to
study in degree programs.
The numbers of Russian
students who have already
enrolled in university pro-
grams is still far below the
council's estimates. But uni-
versity officials said that, as
the academic year ap-
proaches and young olim
complete ulpan courses,
there will be a significant
jump in the number of Rus-
sians applying to univer-
sities.
Some 70,000 students at-
tended universities and
other institutions of higher
education last year, accor-
ding to council statistics.
The student population over
the past 10 years has grown
around 2 percent annually,
and the Russian aliya will
cause that growth rate to
double this year.
Even without immigra-
tion, however, the higher
education system is already
overburdened. Thousands of
Israelis are rejected by uni-
versities each year because
of lack of space.
Domestic needs aside, the
higher education system will
be forced to expand and
create new academic pro-
grams in order to absorb the
immigrants, as well as build
new classrooms, laboratories,
and dormitories. ❑

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Jerusalem (JPFS) — The
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
rose by a hefty 1.6 per cent
in July, as housing prices
continued to climb through
the roof, the Central Bureau
of Statistics has reported.
During the past 12 mon-
ths, housing prices have
risen by a whopping 37.2 per
cent in nominal shekel
terms, or by 29.3 per cent in
dollar terms.
The July inflation rate —
the highest recorded for that
month in the past four years
— brought the total increase
in prices during the past 12
months to 17.5 per cent.
During the first seven mon-
ths of 1990, prices rose by 9.7
per cent.
The monthly cost of a

standard basket of goods and
services for an average ur-
ban family rose to 3,360
shekels ($1,680) last month,
up from 3,310 shekels
($1,655) for June. On the
1987 baseline of 100, the
July index was 164.4 points,
up from 161.8 points in
June.
Half of the increase in the
index can be attributed to
the jump in housing prices,
which rose by 4 per cent in
July, contributing 0.8 per
cent to the index, the bureau
spokesman noted. Another
good part can be attributed
to increases in government-
controlled prices.
Transportation and com-
munications prices rose by
2.9 percent last month.

