N EWS I World Leaders Visit Israel To Show Solidarity No matter how you turn the globe The Jewish News keeps you posted on Jewish happenings everywhere! Call 354-6060 TODAY and order your subscription. 1. 0 •••::••••• BAUME & MERCIER GENEVE MAITRES HORLOGERS DEPUIS 1830 The Finest in Women's Fashions Only At •• • • • • • • • • • • • RANDEE'S • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • Franklin Savings Centre Bldg. 26400 W. 12 Mile Road Southfield, Mich. 354-6070 COATS— UNLIMITED From the Riviera Collection for men and women. Available in stainless steel, 18K gold and stainless steel or all 18K gold. Water-resistant to 99 feet. BEYOND PERFECTION. JEWELRY DESIGN & MFG. LTD. Applegate Square • 29847 Northwestern Hwy. Southfield, Michigan 48034 • (313) 356-7007 90 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1991 Sterling Heights Sterling Place 37680 Van Dyke at 16 1/2 Mile 939-0700 Oak Park Lincoln Center, Greenfield at 10,4 Mile 968-2060 West Bloomfield Orchard Mall, Orchard Lake at Maple (15 Mile) • 855-9955 Jerusalem (JTA) — Despite the ongoing Iraqi missile threat, Jewish leaders and non-Jewish poli- ticians have been arriving here in recent days to dem- onstrate solidarity with Israel. President Chaim Herzog met here Feb. 3 with a dele- gation of 1,300 French Jews who arrived here Jan. 31 on five flights from Paris and Nice. They were by far the largest group from any coun- try to arrive here since Israel came under Scud mis- sile attack two weeks ago, but they were by no means the only group. Mr. Herzog also met Feb. 3 with Mayor David Dinkins of New York, who flew to Israel on a personal mission of good will and solidarity. A number of Jewish groups have been arriving regularly for meetings with Israeli leaders and tours of missile damage sites. A 42-member Hadassah delegation, led by Carmela Kalmanson, president of the women's Zionist organiza- tion, would up a four-day visit over the weekend of Feb. 3. Hadassah held its midwinter board meeting in Jerusalem instead of Wash- ington, where it had been scheduled originally. The group met with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Simcha Dinitz, chair- man of the World Zionist Organization Executive. Kent Schiner, president of B'nai B'rith International, arrived in Israel after leading a B'nai B'rith dele- gation on a 17-day tour of Eastern European capitals. His visit here is to demon- strate solidarity and to re- view Israel's preparations to absorb large waves of immi- grants. A delegation of nine public figures from Czechoslovakia arrived Feb. 3 on a solidarity visit. It included members of Parliament, the chancellor of Prague University, the president of the Writers Association and several members of the clergy. Their trip was arranged by the WZO's Foreign Rela- tions Department at the in- itiative of Kalman Sultanik, a member of the WZO Exec- utive. An international group of 30 rabbis from nearly a dozen countries was ex- pected Feb.4 on a visit organized by the WZO's Bu- reau for Spiritual Services. Among them are the chief rabbis of communities in Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Colombia, Britain, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Greece, Turkey and South Africa. The mass delegation of French Jews has experi- enced three air raid alerts since its arrival on a five-day visit. The group is led by the chief rabbi of France, Joseph Sitruk, and Paris Chief Rabbi Alain Goldmann. A week earlier, Jean Kahn, president of CRlF, the representative body of Fren- ch Jewish organizations, led a group of French political figures on a goodwill visit to Israel. Another solidarity visit was made by a group of French Socialists, led by former Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy, who met in Tel Aviv last week with Shimon Peres, chairman of the opposition Labor Party. Their reception dinner at a hotel was interrupted by an air raid alert. Top Anglo-Jewish fund- raisers and religious leaders were in Israel last week on a five-day solidarity mission led by Sir Trevor Chinn, president of the Joint Israel Appeal and member of the Jewish Agency Board of Governors. No Monkey Business In Israel Acre (JPFS) — Nature Re- serves Authority wardens have confiscated a monkey from a 30-year-old resident of this port city who had advertised that the animal was for sale. The wardens, posing as potential customers, had an- swered the man's ad in a na- tional newspaper, in which he offered to sell the monkey for $4,500. Authority spokesman Ofer Greenstein said the import and sale of monkeys was for- bidden by international law (the Washington Covenant), for fear that monkeys im- ported from Africa could be infected with AIDS. He said there were reports of sailors trying to smuggle monkeys into the country and offering to sell them for as much as $15,000. Early this week, the Acre Magistrates' Court au- thorized the Authority to confiscate the animal.