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The Social Action Committee Council
Announces:

Firm Finances
Olims' Ideas

The Helping Hand Drive
For New Arrivals

Can you imagine trying to pack your life into two suitcases?
Russian families arrive in our community with 2 pieces of luggage per person.

You can help provide our new Americans with basic living needs —
join the Social Action Committee of your synagogue or temple.

From February through June, the Helping Hand Drive For New
Arrivals will be collecting items for the new Americans. To make it
even easier for you to help, each participating synagogue and temple
will be a collection point for donated items.

February Donation Needs:

Small Appliances

(in working condition)
• Hair Dryers
• Irons
• Vacuum Cleaners • Dust Busters
• Lamps

EXTEND YOUR HELPING HAND To OUR NEW AMERICANS!

For drop-off point locations, call

642-5393

PARTICIPATING CONGREGATIONS

Adat Shalom Synagogue, Birmingham Temple, Congregation Beit Kodesh,
Congregation Beth Abraham Hillel Moses, Congregation Beth Achim,
Congregation Beth Isaac, Congregation Beth Shalom, Congregation B'nai David,
Congregation B'nai Moshe, Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Congregation Shir
Tikvah, Congregation T'Chiyah, Temple Beth El, Temple Emanu-El, Temple Israel
Temple Kol Ami, Temple Shir Shalom

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1992

Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel
Aircraft Industries has an-
nounced establishment of a
$5 million research and de-
velopment fund to tap in-
novative ideas by scientists
and engineers among Soviet
immigrants.
With matching funds of
another $5 million from the
Ministry of Commerce and
Industry for new business
incentives over a period of
three years, available funds
over the next three years
could total $10 million, the
ministry's chief scientist,
Yigael Erlich, told the Jew-
ish Telegraphic Agency.
Listed among IAI's pre-
ferred fields are civil, space,
aircraft and airborne
systems, radars and com-
munications, navigation, ar-
tificial intelligence, solar
and wind energy, medical
equipment and ecological
systems.
"Dozens of proposals have
been received and more are
flowing in," said IAI
spokesman Philip Hermann.
"We are carefully screening
them for technical feasibility
and commercial viability,
and individuals whose ideas
successfully pass the screen-
ing will be hired for specific
periods in order to develop
the selected products," he
said.
Welcoming the IAI in-
itiative, Soviet Jewry
Zionist Forum spokeswoman
Deborah Lipson, said: "I
hope the fund will not be a
fly-by-night affair, but will
grow to become a permanent
financial resource to tap and
commercialize the many
excellent ideas brought to
Israel by Soviet scientists
and patent innovators."
Herb Ostrov, managing
editor of the English-
language weekly Israel
Business Today, said, "More
than 10 government and
private organizations are
funding professional job
creation in Israeli industry.
However, this is the first
time a major Israeli industry
has initiated such a fund."
"At long last, Israeli in-
dustry is beginning to accept
financial responsibility."
The director of Israel
Business Forum, Meir
Dayan, said that since May,
128 small-business ventures
initiated by Soviet olim have
been matched with foreign
investors.
Some 200 overseas and 200
Israeli businesses are
scheduled to participate in
the Third Israel Business
Forum conference to be held
in Jerusalem.