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Jews Are Evacuated
From Sarajevo
Rome (JTA) — More than
300 Jews have been safely
evacuated during the past
three weeks from Sarajevo,
capital of the embattled re-
public of Bosnia-
Herzegovina.
They were brought to
Belgrade, the Yugoslav capi-
tal, on two airlifts, according
to Srdjan Matic, executive
vice president of the Croa-
tian Jewish community, who
spoke to the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency by telephone
from Zagreb.
Sarajevo has been the
scene of heavy fighting in
recent days between the
Serbian-led Yugoslav army
and the local militia of
Bosnia-Herzegovina, which
declared independence from
Yugoslavia earlier this year.
But all the Jews "who
wanted to get out got out,"
Mr. Matic said. "I don't
know how many Jews are
left in Sarajevo. Before,
there were more than
1,000."
He said some of the
evacuees went to Budapest,
Hungary. One group of chil-
dren went to Sofia, Bulgaria.
Others went to Slovenia and
Croatia, two other former
Yugoslav republics that
have since declared in-
dependence.
Very few had plans to go to
Israel, Mr. Matic said. He
discounted a Jewish Agency
proposal to airlift
Yugoslavia's estimated
5,000 to 6,000 Jews all at
once to Israel.
"There are no grounds for
something like that. Most
Jews want peace and then to
return home," he said.
Most of the Jews who fled
Croatia during the fighting
there last summer have
returned, Mr. Matic re-
ported. Jewish life in Zagreb
is getting back to normal.
"Everyone who left came
back."
He said plans were well
under way to reconstruct the
Jewish Community Center
in downtown Zagreb, which
was severely damaged by a
terrorist bomb last summer.
"The masonry work is al-
ready finished. People see
the work going on and that
makes them feel good," the
community leader said.
The center will be
rededicated at gala
-ceremonies planned for Sept.
21 through 23.
Passover observances were
another sign of the return to
normalcy, Mr. Matic said.
He said the community
organized two seders. One is
an annual event at the Jew-
ish old-age home. The other,
held in a hall, drew 130 peo-
ple.
"It was much easier to get
matzah this year than before
because import formalities
for items for religious obser-
vances have been
simplified," Mr. Matic said.
He added that the Jewish
community felt stronger
since Israel recognized
Croatia as an independent
state earlier this month.
Jewish Settlers
March In West Bank
Jerusalem (JTA) — About
5,000 settlement activists
participated in the annual
march through Samaria last
week, vowing that the West
Bank will always be part of
"Eretz Yisrael," or Greater
Israel.
They inaugurated a new
neighborhood in Karnei
Shomron named Neve
Menachem, in memory of
the late Prime Minister
Menachem Begin, the Likud
leader who died last month.
Addressing the throng,
Police Minister Ronni Milo
said it was Mr. Begin's will
to establish multitudes of
Jewish neighborhoods in
"our Eretz Yisrael."
Mr. Milo observed that
120,000 Jews now live in
some 100 settlements, "and
they will never leave."
But rousing rhetoric
preached to the faithful has
less influence on the fate of
the territories than the
relentless housing drive now
under way, aimed at attrac-
ting as many Jewish
residents as possible,
regardless of ideology.
More than 2,000 apart-
ments in the territories are
ready or almost ready.
Although housing in Israel
proper remains expensive
and in short supply, roomy
72-square-yard apartments
are being offered in the West
Bank, just a half hour's
drive from Jerusalem, for as
little as $36,400.
Moreover, the government
eagerly grants potential set-
tlers $20,000 loans, half of
which is forgiven.
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