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STORE HOURS: Sunday 8:30-5:00 Monday - Thursday 9:00 - 6:00 Friday 9:30 - 3:00 Established 1920 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7th through FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12th 111 Advertising in The Jewish News Gets Results Place Your Ad Today, Call 354-6060 Israeli Envoy Here Builds New Bridges Los Angeles (JTA) — Avi Granot, an envoy from the Israeli Embassy in Wash- ington, is actively courting different communities in multicultural and predominantly Christian America. As the first Israeli to hold the title of liaison to ethnic and religious communities, Mr. Granot has an unusual vantage point for gauging shifting sentiments toward Israel. During a three-day visit to the Los Angeles area last week, he got the opportunity to put that vantage point to the fullest use. In a single day, Mr. Granot had breakfast with Latino leaders, lunch with Asians and attended an afternoon reception for Christian dig- nitaries. The evening before, he met with an African American delegation. Mr. Granot believes there has been a dramatic change in American attitudes toward Israel, especially among mainline Protestant churches, since the hand- shake between Yitzhak Rabin and Yassir Arafat. Indeed, at the breakfast with a half-dozen Latino leaders, there was not even a hint of the critical comments and questions common in past years. Still, Mr. Granot has occa- sional problems. At times, he has to defend his government's policy against evangelical Chris- tians, who believe as fervently as the most na- tionalistic Jew in the ter- ritorial inviolability of the Land of Israel and who ques- tion any step that might alter Israel's boundaries. Mr. Granot also has had to dampen his listeners' belief in the unlimited capability and clout of Israel and the American Jewish commun- ity — two entities often seen as interchangeable or synonymous. "The expectations of what Israel and the Jewish com- munity can do are unrealistically high," said Mr. Granot. "I generally urge them to stop expecting too much from us. It is better if we can teach them self- reliance." The belief in Israeli- Jewish competence was borne out at the breakfast and in subsequent conversa- tions with four women ac- tively involved in the Latino community. While all listened politely to Mr. Granot's animated opening remarks on the historic accord signed in Washington on Sept. 13, their concerns were closer to home. The uppermost preoccupa- tion was with what one of the women, Linda Griego, termed "immigrant bashing," directed foremost at undocumented workers from Mexico and Central America, but deeply felt by the established Latino com- munity as a whole. "Israel considers immi- grants as an advantage," said Tsuriel Raphael, the local Israeli deputy consul general, who also attended the meeting. Barbara Creme of the American Jewish Com- mittee, who organized the meeting, summed up the dif- There has been a dramatic change in American attitudes toward Israel. ference between Israel and the United States on this issue. "The Jewish community would like to help in chang- ing attitudes in Los Angeles," Ms. Creme said. "The difference is that Israel welcomes immigrants, while here we stand at the border with guns or accept them as a source of cheap labor," she said. With reluctance, the wo- men voiced some concerns about the Jewish commun- ity. "We have many Jewish owners on the East Side in the garment, food and fur- niture industries, and almost all their workers are Latinos," Ms. Griego said. "We see these men giving big money to Jewish causes, but none to the Latino com- munity." Rosa Martinez, a teacher and former mayor's aide, ex- pressed an apparently wide- spread perception that Jew- ish outreach toward minorities focuses on the African American commun- ity.