The Jewish Home For Aged's Board and Staff
announce the grand opening of its first
Alzheimer's Specialty Care Unit
for persons with mild to moderate
stages of dementia

Israel Lifts Ban
On Gaza Workers

THE JEWISH HOME FOR AGED
CONTINUES TO RESPOND
TO OUR COMMUNITY'S NEEDS
SO THAT A PERSON DIAGNOSED WITH
ALZHEIMER'S DOESN'T HAVE TO BE
ALONE ANYMORE

Jerusalem (JTA) — A 14-
day ban on the entry into
Israel of Arab workers from
the Gaza Strip was lifted,
but with such severe restric-
tions that it could cause se-
rious disturbances in the
territory, critics said.
The strongest objections
came from the security ser-
vices, which warned that the
territory is a powderkeg that
could blow at any time if the
inhabitants are prevented
from entering Israel, their
only source of employment.
Normally, about 40,000
Palestinians from Gaza cross
into Israel daily to work or to
seek employment. But fewer
than 100 trickled through
the barriers at the Erez
checkpoint.
Their Israeli employers
were required to collect
them and return them there
at the end of the work day.
The ban was imposed after
the fatal stabbing May 24 of
15- year-old Helena Rapp, an
Israeli schoolgirl in Bat
Yam, south of Tel Aviv. Her
assailant, who was swiftly
captured, was a young
unemployed Palestinian
from the Nuseirat refugee
camp in the Gaza Strip.
The killing triggered anti-
Arab rioting by Jewish mobs
in the Greater Tel Aviv area.
The Israeli authorities seal-
ed off the territory for the
protection of its inhabitants,
they said.
Originally, the ban was to
have lasted a week. But it
was extended because anti-
Arab passions continued to
run high in Israel, especially
after a second Jew, Rabbi
Shimon Biran, was fatally
stabbed by an Arab on May

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• 24-bed self-contained unit
• Located in Borman Hall's Fleischman Pavilion
• Private Dining Room serving Kosher meals
• Specially designed therapeutic activities
• 24-hour licensed nursing staff
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• Family support groups
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OUR GRATITUDE TO ALL OF OUR FRIENDS IN THE COMMUNITY
WHO SUPPORI'ED THIS COMMITMENT AND TO:

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Benefactors/Jewish Home For Aged
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For more information, please contact

Director of Admissions, Jerri Litt
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1992

85 Years of Caring

27, this time inside the Gaza
Strip, where Rabbi Biran
was a settler.
The ban was only partially
lifted. Entry to Israel was
limited to Arab workers over
28 who hold permanent
work permits and are
employed in places that
employ at least 10 other Pa-
lestinians with permanent
work permits.
Workers who meet those
requirements were issued
special passes. But all
residents of the Nuseirat
camp were excluded.
Arabs were not the only
critics. Unnamed military
sources and the Shin Bet, or 4 ,4
General Security Services,
warned that keeping some
700,000 Gaza Strip residents
bottled up was asking for
trouble.
a
The Israeli daily Yediot
Achronot quoted a warning
by an Israel Defense Force
officer Monday that the
Gaza Strip was about to
011
"burn."
IDF sources demanded
that the ban be lifted in toto.
Otherwise, they said, serious d
unrest is unavoidable with
tens of thousands of workers _a
forced to stay home while
their economic burdens in-
creased.
But Police Minister Ronni 4110
Milo insisted that the deci-
sion to maintain limited
access was taken by the
police in consultation with
the defense minister and
prime minister and reflected
their views.
Militant Jewish settlers,
meanwhile, protested any
relaxing of the ban unless
hundreds of intifada ac-
tivists are deported.

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Sex-Change Patient
Tries To Kill Doctor

Tel Aviv (JTA) — A man
who became a woman
through a sex-change opera-
tion five years ago tried un-
successfully this week to
murder the surgeon she
claims botched the job.
The former patient shot
and wounded the doctor,
Aharon Moskona of the
plastic surgery department
at Haifa's Rambam
Hospital, as he was leaving
his private clinic.
Dr. Moskona was reported
in satisfactory condition at
Rambam Hospital after
undergoing surgery. Police
were searching wooded
areas and the seashore

around Haifa for the suspect,
whose description is known.
Her name was not immedi-
ately disclosed.
According to Israel Radio,
the transsexual sued Dr.
Moskona for malpractice
about five years ago, alleg-
in g that his faulty
reconstruction of her
genitals deprived her of the
ability to reach orgasm. But
the lawsuit was unsuc-
cessful.
According to police, Dr.
Moskona was accosted by his
former patient as he left an
elevator accompanied by his
wife to attend a conference
on Women's Health Day.

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