NEWS
Primo Levi's Pro-Israel
Sentiments Revealed
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Rome (JTA) — Primo Levi,
the internationally accla-
imed Italian Jewish author,
acknowledged a year before
his death that Israel is the
"life raft" of the Jewish peo-
ple, though he personally
never was a Zionist.
The views of the late
Auschwitz survivor on the
subject of Israel and himself
as an Italian were published
Nov. 1 in the newspaper La
Repubblica.
The newspaper excerpted
the transcript of a discussion
Mr. Levi had with high-
school students in the nor-
thern Adriatic coastal town
of Pesaro on May 5, 1986, 11
months before he committed
suicide.
"I returned from prison
together with other sur-
vivors who were not Italian
and they said to me, 'Come
with us, why are you going
back to Italy? You will find
your family scattered, your
house destroyed, your job
taken; come with us, let's go
build a new country,' " Mr.
Levi recalled.
"It was a proposal which —
I was very young at the time
— excited me, but first I
wanted to see what there
was, what I had left in Italy,
and in Italy I found my fami-
ly almost intact, the house
standing, and a job almost
immediately.
"From that moment, I con-
sidered Italy totally my
country, I felt myself an
Italian citizen," Mr. Levi
said.
But he acknowledged
"sentimental links" with
Israel, where he had many
friends and visited "as a
pilgrim more than as a
tourist."
He observed that while
"the Jews effectively have a
refuge; it is a precarious ref-
uge; it is a refuge that scor-
ches the fingers; it is a ref-
uge of continuous danger;
but their condition has
changed."
He spoke in that connec-
tion of "the state of mind of
Jews in all the world and es-
pecially in the countries
were they are still oppress-
ed."
"The presence, at least
potentially, of a refuge state,
of a lifeboat state, a life raft
where they can land is of ex-
treme importance and
changes their way of being,"
Mr. Levi said.
Israel "is in a way the
potential, if not actual,
homeland of all," he said.
Nevertheless, Mr. Levi de-
scribed himself as "95 per-
cent Italian and 5 percent
Jewish. I am not and never
have been a Zionist, nor
have I ever been tempted to
go and live permanently in
Israel."
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1990
Israel Reduces Number
Of Palestinian Workers
Jerusalem (JPFS) —
Security authorities have
decided to bar 2,400 more
West Bank Palestinians
from entering Israel. They
also said the intifada has
turned more violent and its
focus seems to have shifted
from the administered areas
to Jerusalem.'
The number of restricted
Gazans will remain at 5,000,
Shmuel Goren, the govern-
ment coordinator in the ter-
ritories, told a Nov. 11 press
briefing.
The total number of re-
stricted West Bankers will
rise from 3,400 to about
5,800. About 110,000 Pales-
tinians are now working in
Israel.
Mr. Goren pointed out that
no Gazan over 16 may enter
Israel without a magnetic
card, which he receives only
after a security clearance.
Defense sources conceded
that this concession to
Israelis' security fears was
slight.
"Stabbing has become the
thing to do, and it is spon-
taneous," the sources said,
adding: "Jerusalem, which
used to be the political head
of the intifada, has become
the violent edge as well."
Militant Islamic and
grassroots elements are also
setting the tone for the PLO
and the intifada leadership,
one source said.
Defense sources, however,
say that, short of closing the
territories completely for
several weeks, it would be
pointless to increase the
number of Palestinians
refused entry to Israel.
Such a move would only
aggravate the security
situation in the territories,
by combining unemploy-
ment with the economic
repercussions of the Gulf
crisis, without necessarily
improving security in Israel.