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Pro-Israel PAC Provides
People Instead Of Cash

JAMES D. BESSER

Washington Correspondent

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Washington political
consultant has come
up with a whole new
wrinkle on the concept of
pro-Israel political action
committees (PACs).
Robert H. Bassin, a fund-
raiser and consultant to
Democratic candidates
around the country, is the
new volunteer director of
ACTIONPAC.
But the new pro-Israel
group is not designed to fun-
nel money to candidates
with pro-Israel positions; in-
stead, ACTIONPAC will
provide candidates in House
and Senate elections with
talent.
"What we're doing is
taking young people who are
active in pro-Israel activity
on campus, training them —
and then giving their ser-
vices in kind to pro-Israel
candidates," Mr. Bassin
said.
The goal is twofold: to pro-
vide candidates, especially
those facing tough and ex-
pensive fights, with skilled
help, and to equip a whole
new generation of pro-Israel
activists with the skills
needed to work within • the
political system.
"We want to foster polit-

ical activity as a career," he
said, "and at the same time
to help elect pro-Israel can-
didates."
ACTIONPAC participants
will be trained by an im-
pressive array of Washing-
ton political pros. When the
participants go off to work
on campaigns, they will be
paid a stipend, while the
campaigns will pick up the
tab for housing.
"This kind of political ac-
tivity has tended to be con-
centrated among kids from
wealthy families, who can
afford to take time off to
work for campaigns," Mr.
Bassin said. "This program
will give kids who might not
otherwise be able a chance to
participate in politics."
In the 1992 election cycle,
ACTIONPAC hopes to train
and place 10 young people.
There will be an emphasis
on campaigns in which the
newly minted politicos will
be able to play a significant
role.
Along the way, ACTION-
PAC may divert somewhat
from the traditional PAC
bias in favor of incumbents.
"There might be more of a
tendency to support
challengers, because it's in
these kinds of campaigns
that young people can have
the greatest impact," Mr.
Bassin said. ❑

Jewish Boy
Stabbed In Hebron

Tel Aviv (JTA) — A Jewish
teen-ager from Kiryat Arba
was stabbed and badly
wounded while bicycling
through nearby Hebron, in
the West Bank.
Israeli security authorities
clamped a curfew on the
Arab town as they searched
for the masked assailant.
The knifing was the first
such incident in Hebron
since the intifada began over
three years ago.
The victim, Yossi Twito,
16, who was knifed in his
side, was reported in stable
condition and doing
reasonably well at Hadassah
Hospital in Jerusalem.
He was riding his bicycle
to Beth Hadassah, a
building occupied by Jewish
activists in the heart of the
Arab quarter, when he had a
flat tire and pulled into a
bicycle shop to have it
repaired.
He was attacked by a

masked person while stan-
ding in the doorway. The
shopkeeper and the owner of
a neighboring cafe who went
to the youth's aid pulled the
knife from his body. That is
contrary to medical pro-
cedure because it only in-
creases bleeding.
The youngster was rushed
by car to a nearby Arab
hospital. Doctors there were
preparing him for surgery
when an Israeli medical
team arrived and took the
youth by helicopter to the
hospital in Jerusalem.
Although tensions have
always run high between
Jews and Arabs in Hebron,
the Arab population has
been generally quiescent.
Until this incident, no Jew
was stabbed in Hebron,
although random stabbings
of Jews by Arabs have
become commonplace in the
administered territories and
Israel proper.

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