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Clinton Makes
Peace A Priority

Washington (JTA) — Presi-
dent-elect Bill Clinton's top
national security adviser
has met with the Israeli and
Egyptian ambassadors here
to reassure them that the
Middle East peace process
will remain a high priority
of the U.S. government
under Mr. Clinton's leader-
ship.
Samuel Berger said he
conveyed to Israeli Ambas-
sador Zalman Shoval and
Egyptian Ambassador Ahm-
ed Maher el-Sayed that
"Clinton is deeply com-
mitted to the peace process"
and that "we want to main-
tain continuity."
Mr. Shoval will actually be
stepping down from his post
Feb. 5, shortly after Mr.
Clinton officially takes of-
fice. He will be succeeded by
Itamar Rabinovich, the head
of the Israeli team negotia-
ting with Syria in the
bilateral peace talks here.
Mr. Berger said the
meetings with the two en-
voys went little beyond the
basics, in recognition that
"Bush is president until Jan.
20" and "we don't yet have a
secretary of state."
He said he explained "we
are in the early stages of the
transition" and "our first
priority is getting the team
organized, and there is an
tmderstanding of that."
Mr. Berger is heading the
transition team responsible
for picking the players and
determining the strategies
that will shape the Clinton
administration's foreign
policy.
Israeli Embassy spokes-
woman Ruth Yaron said Mr.
Shoval spent much of the
hoar-long meeting briefing
Berger about the peace pro-
cess and about U.S.-Israeli
bilateral relations. She said
it was the first in a series of
such meetings planned by
Mr. Shoval and Mr. Berger.
Mr. Clinton himself told
Israeli Prime Minister Yit-
zhak Rabin immediately
after his election that he
would assign high priority to
the peace process.
But all the parties to that
process appear eager for
signals about how the re-
gional talks will be handled
by the Clinton team, which
has stressed domestic
priorities over foreign ones.
The last round of the
bilateral talks, which con-
cluded two weeks ago, pro-
duced little progress, as the

parties accused each other of
stalling until they had a
chance to size up the in .
coming administration.
Particularly concerned are
the Arab parties, which
seem to feel that Mr. Clinton>- 1
may tilt more toward Israel
than did President Bush and
his former secretary of state
James Baker.
Syrian President Hafez
Assad told Time magazine
last week that if Mr. Clinton
is as "enthusiastic" as Bush
and Baker were, "he will
receive the appreciation of
the people of this region. Ire
he is not so enthusiastic,
which we think is highly
improbable, then everything
will come to a standstill."
Ms. Yaron said she hoped
the delegations would "come
around and engage" in the'
next round of talks.

Prostitution
Legalized?

Jerusalem (JTA) — IsraelT
prostitutes may be able to
practice their profession in-
doors and above board, if a
bill supported by th
government passes the
Knesset.
Justice Minister Davi-
Libai said the spread of the
sexually transmitted virus
that causes AIDS lends
urgency to passage of a bill 1
that allows prostitutes to get
off the streets and conduct
business within the safer
confines of a home or hotel
room.
Mr. Libai heads a Cabinet
committee that endorsed a
private members' bill that
would also permit prosti-
tutes to advertise services
that now are published
under the guise of massage
parlors and escort services.
Skepticism over the bill's
chances of getting through
the Knesset over the opposi-
tion of the Orthodox was ex-
pressed by the leader of a
group of Knesset members
submitting the bill.
Avraham Poraz of the left-
wing Meretz bloc said he
feared the government
would ultimately surrender
to pressure from its fervent -
ly Orthodox coalition part-
ner, the Shas party, and
abandon the bill altogether.
Attempts to legalize pros-
titution have been unsuc-
cessful for 15 years.