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Jerusalem (JTA) — Labor
Party leader Yitzhak Rabin
may have risked personal in-
jury when he toured
Jerusalem's Mahane
Yehuda market, a
stronghold of Likud sup-
porters.
His visit occasioned a
violent demonstration by
members of Koach, successor
to the late Meir Kahane's
anti-Arab Kach party.
But Mr. Rabin was
unscathed and, in fact, was
greeted cordially by, most
stall-holders, though others
flaunted their die-hard
allegiance to Likud.
Meanwhile, Rafael Eitan,
who resigned as agriculture
minister from the outgoing
Likud government, in-
dicated that he is not ruling
out joining a Labor-led coali-
tion government after the
June 23 elections.
Mr. Eitan, a former Israel
Defense Force chief of staff,
was re- elected leader of the
right-wing Tsomet faction,
which pulled out of the
Likud-led government a few
months ago.
He disclosed that an over-
ture had already been made
to him by "someone in the
Labor party."
Political observers noted
that most of Tsomet's sup-
port comes from moshavim
affiliated with the Labor
movement. Moreover, Mr.
Eitan has had a long friend-
ship with Mr. Rabin, who
also was a chief of staff as
well as defense minister and
prime minister.
In other pre-election de-
velopments, Rabbi Eliezer
Schach, spiritual leader of
the Orthodox Degel
HaTorah party, was re-
ported to be consulting with
his rabbinical allies this
week over whether to join
the Agudat Yisrael party in
a common election list.
Schach has demanded the
second and fourth slots on a
combined list. The Agudah
has offered the second and
fifth. Neither side seems to
consider the fifth spot elec-
table.
Wallenberg Mystery
May Be Solved
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FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1992
Brussels (JTA) — The 47-
year-old mystery of Raoul
Wallenberg may soon be
solved.
A positive response was
elicited from Russian For-
eign Minister Andrei
Kozyrev when the subject
was raised by European
Community officials here,
the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency has learned.
According to E.C. sources,
the European commissioner
for external relations, Franz
Andriessen, told Mr.
Kozyrev during a meeting in
Brussels last week that the
E.C. wanted the Wallenberg
case to "be solved once and
for all."
The Russian minister's
answer "seems to warrant a
certain optimism," an E.C.
Executive Commission
spokesthan said.
Mr. Wallenberg, a Swedish
diplomat posted to Budapest
during World War II, is
credited with saving the
lives of thousands of Jews
slated for deportation during
the final year of the war.
He disappeared when the
Red Army entered the
Hungarian capital in
January 1945 and was never
heard from again.
The Soviet Union first
disclaimed knowledge of Mr.
Wallenberg and then said he
died in a Moscow prison in
1947 of a heart attack.
But reports persisted that
Mr. Wallenberg was seen
alive by prisoners released
years later. With the demise
of the Soviet Union, the case
may now be unravelled by
its successor.
Mr. Kozyrev came to
Brussels to meet U.S. Secre-
tary of State James Baker
and Japanese officials for
the purpose of planning an
international center of
science and technology in
Moscow. Its purpose would
be to , induce former Soviet
nuclear experts to stay at
home.
New Holocaust
Claims Are Filed
New York (JTA) — Large-
scale Jewish emigration
from the former Soviet
Union has generated a new
wave of claims from victims
of Nazi persecution, the Con-
ference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany
reported.
More than 90,000 ap-
plicants in 29 countries had
received a one-time grant
from the Conference Hard-
ship Fund as of Dec. 31,
1991.