NEWS Primo Levi's Pro-Israel Sentiments Revealed November and December are filled with excitement at Crosswinds Mall. A preview of coming events. ANTIQUE SHOW HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA November 29th - December 2nd Come browse amidst treasures from yesteryear 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." Beautiful gifts for the holidays HOLIDAY FIESTA FANTASY December 7th from 7 p.m. until the Margaritas run out! 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Bloomfield 56 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.