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Jews In Yemen
Want To Emigrate
Paris (JTA) — A French
Jew who visited the Jewish
community of Yemen says
the some 1,800 Jews still liv-
ing there suffer no discrim-
ination and enjoy complete
freedom of movement.
Still, a substantial number
want to leave to join
relatives abroad, said Roger
Pinto, who headed a delega-
tion to Yemen last week.
Mr. Pinto, who is vice pres-
ident of CRIF, the Repre-
sentative Council of French
Jewish Organizations, and
president of the Interna-
tional Committee for the
Defense of Jewish Com-
munities in the World, met
with representatives of the
Yemeni Jewish community
as well as ranking govern-
ment officials.
He emphasized that his
trip had been facilitated by
the French authorities.
Mr. Pinto told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that
Yemeni officials put no
obstacles in the way of Jews
leaving the country,
although they consider them
"a tremendous historical
asset" and wish they would
stay.
He and his group met with
the Yemeni foreign min-
ister, Abdel Karim al-
Ariani, who said he did not
oppose Jewish emigration,
provided their destination is
not Israel.
Yemeni Jews experience
no social ostracism, Mr. Pin-
to said. Nevertheless, they
are easily distinguishable
from the general Moslem
population.
He explained that "in
Yemen, every man carries a
traditional dagger in his
belt, a right denied to Jews.
Add to that that the Jews
wear sidelocks and you can
understand why anyone can
tell a Jew from a distance,"
Mr. Pinto said.
He ascribed their desire to
leave Yemen to economic
difficulties.
Mr. Pinto claimed there
are no restrictions on the
Jews' movement in Yemen.
Jewish representatives from
Ra'ada and Sa'ada, villages
in northern Yemen, "freely
visited" him at his hotel in
the capital, Sana'a, he said,
distances for them of 43 and
174 miles respectively.
He said he also met with
the American and Italian
ambassadors in Yemen, who
promised whatever help
Jews might need to leave.
Moslem Cooperation
Led To Ambush
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Close co-
operation between Moslem
fundamentalist guerrilla
factions was responsible for
the ambush that killed two
Israel Defense Force soldiers
and wounded five in the
southern Lebanon security
zone April 6, Israeli au-
thorities have determined.
Operational ties and
exchanges of intelligence
between the pro-Iranian
Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad
were in fact established for
this action, which employed
Palestinian gunmen, the
Israeli daily Ha'aretz re-
ported.
Hezbollah has an extreme-
ly well-organized infrastruc-
ture in southern Lebanon
and has assisted Islamic
Jihad more than once in
operations against Israeli
targets, Israeli sources say.
The three guerrillas slain
in the encounter originally
were believed to be Lebanese
Shi'ites associated with
Islamic Jihad. They have
since been identified as Pa-
lestinians recruited from
widely separated refugee
camps and from Iraq.
The three wore headbands
of the kind worn by the Ira-
nian Revolutionary Guard
fighters and Lebanese
Shi'ites. Small copies of the
Koran were found in their
pockets.
It is likely that Hezbollah
gave the Islamic Jihad the
intelligence necessary to set
up the ambush near Huleh
village, less than two miles
from the Israeli border,
Ha'aretz said.
But the vehicle used by the
guerrillas indicated the am-
bush was not exclusively a
Hezbollah operation. The
Palestinians are believed to
have been instigated by the
Shkaki faction of Islamic
Jihad.
The leader of the ambush
was identified as Adal
Kamel Zahar, 24, a resident
of the Ein Hilweh refugee
camp near Sidon, in
southern Lebanon.
The others were Khaled
Mohammed Hassan from the
Wahidat refugee camp in
Jordan and Nazzar Mahadur
from the Iraqi city of Basra.
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