Attention Small Business
And Practice Owners:
Israel Visitor
Hears Of Woes
Mevasseret Zion, Israel
(JTA) — South African Pres-
ident F.W. De Klerk spent
most of his state visit to
Israel attending official
functions, unveiling plaques
and dedicating forests.
But on the fourth and final
day of his trip, he learned
some hard facts about Israel
at this absorption center for
new olim just west of
Jerusalem.
He listened intently as
Arnon Mantver, director
general of the Jewish Agen-
cy's Immigration Depart-
ment, briefed him on the
chief obstacle to successful
absorption: unemployment.
Up to 30 percent of Soviet
immigrants remain jobless
by the end of their first year
in the country, Mr. de Klerk
was told.
"Unemployment is a func-
tion of economic policy.
What is the government go-
ing to do about it?" the
South African visitor asked.
But Mr. Mantver had
nothing good to say about
the government's job poli-
cies, though he praised its
solutions to the housing
shortage.
The solution to
unemployment is tripling
private investments, he said.
But Mr. de Klerk, who is try-
ing to remodel his own coun-
try after years of interna-
tional isolation because of its
apartheid policies, could not
offer much help.
Only the day before, he
tried to encourage Israeli
business leaders to invest in
South Africa. He said that
because of its foreign cur-
rency problems, South
Africa could not lift present
restrictions on overseas
business investment.
Mevasseret Zion was Mr.
de Klerk's last stop, He was
welcomed by immigrant
children, most of them re-
cent arrivals from Ethiopia.
Mr. de Klerk's later agenda
was somewhat more typical
for a visiting head of state.
Joined by his wife, Marike,
he toured the South Africa
Forest in Lower Galilee, a
project of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund consisting of
some 25,000 acres of
previously barren hillsides
between Nazareth and
Tiberias.
Later, Mr. de Klerk
unveiled the plaque on the
wall of the giant Beth
Pretoria Home for the Aged,
a $12 million project of the
South African Jewish com-
munity and South African
olim, located in Herzliya, a
suburb of Tel Aviv.
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