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Settlers Force Out
Russian Olim

Jerusalem (JTA) — Two
"Despite their promises,
immigrant families from
they do not intend to con-
Russia, currently living in
vert," Ms. Kahane said. "We
the West Bank settlement of
cannot accept people who are
Beit El, are being forced out
not Jewish in our set-
of their homes because the
tlement."
women are not Jewish, ac-
And Rabbi Shlomo Aviner
cording to an Israeli news-
of
Beit El explained: "The
paper report.
settlement has absorption
The local absorption com-
criteria just like kibbutzim
mittee informed one of the
and moshavim have always
families that as it was
had their own criteria. A
"unlikely that the woman
man
must fit his social envi-
could undergo halachic con-
ronment."
version procedure in the
Knesset member Benny
near future, you will have to
Temkin of the secularist
find a housing settlement
Meretz bloc sent cables
out of Beit El," the Yediot
demanding that the
Achronot newspaper re-
government look into the
ported.
issue to Attorney General
The letter, addressed to
Yosef Harish, Immigrant
Edward and Svetlana
Absorption Minister Yair
Grushko, added: "If Mrs.
Tsaban, Interior Minister
Grushko will eventually
Aryeh Deri and Housing
undergo conversion accor-
Minister Binyamin Ben-
ding to Halachah," or re-
Eliezer.
ligious law, "we will be
happy to receive her back at
the settlement."
A similar letter was sent to
i Anatoly and Larisa
Manievitch. Although
,- Larisa is not Jewish, her el-
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel's
dest son is scheduled to enter
garbage disposal system is to
the Israeli army on active
be overhauled, with most of
duty in two weeks.
the country's 400 dumps
The Grushkos made aliyah
proposed to be shut down
-_, in November 1990 and set-
within the coming year and
tled in Beit El.
replaced by major landfill
In August of 1991 they
sites supervised by the Envi-
were summoned to the set-
ronment Ministry.
tlement's absorption com-
The reorganization was
mittee and were told that
approved in principle by the
' unless Svetlana was con-
Cabinet.
verted according to
Many of the present
Halachah and Edward
dumps, operated by
underwent circumcision,
municipal and local councils,
they would have to leave the
are technically illegal since
settlement.
they were not sited by offi-
According to their lawyer,
cial planning commissions.
Shaul Volkov, Edward
All toxic wastes will con-
underwent circumcision and
tinue to be trucked to the
Svetlana began the conver-
Ramat Hovav dump in the
sion procedure.
Negev. The country's largest
However, these steps did
rubbish site today, the
not satisfy the local set-
Hiriya dump, which serves
tlement authorities, who
the entire Tel Aviv and
demanded the families leave
Gush Dan area, will not be
within half a year.
closed until 1995.
"When I received Israeli
Urgent calls to close the
citizenship," said Svetlana,
Hiriya dump immediately
"I did not imagine in my
have been made during the
worst dreams that I would
past few years.
become a second- class
They were prompted both
citizen."
by its smell and un-
Rivka Kahane, a member
sightliness to passengers
-,,f the absorption committee,
traveling back and forth
told Yediot Achronot that
between Ben-Gurion Airport
she saw nothing wrong with
and Tel Aviv and by the
the way the settlement had
dangers to arriving and
dealt with the issue.
departing aircraft from the
"We usually absorb Jews
thousands of birds which
in our settlement. Both wo-
live on the mountain of gar-
men are not Jewish," she
bage
not far from the run-
said.
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