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Mr. Rivlin made these re- marks in an impassioned formal address to roughly 150 delegates who were in Jerusalem last week for the World Conference of JNF Leaders. While JNF's budget for land reclamation and development has doubled in the past three years, from $64 million to nearly $130 million, donations dropped 11 percent from 1992 to 1993, he said. While "more people are realiz- ing that Keren Kayemeth is not just (planting) trees," he said, that realization is "not being trans- lated into donations." Keren Kayemeth is the Israeli name for JNF. The drop is, in part, a reflec- tion of profound changes in the world Jewish community, said Rivlin. The new generation of leadership, he said, increasingly views the State of Israel as "a nat- ural existing fact and not as a miracle of the Jewish people." This new leadership has turned increasingly inward to in- vest in Jewish education, he said. The younger generation "doesn't understand what Israel means" in terms of "Jewish re- sponsibility and security for every Jew in each community," he said. "And then people say they're con- cerned about Jewish continuityT' Mr. Rivlin said Jewish educa- tion is important but should not come at the expense of Israel. "I don't believe in education (on) Jewish continuity unless the country of the Bible and the lan- guage of the Bible is a central el- ement of that education," he said. The delegates to the JNF con- ference were occupied this year as much by questions of Jewish identity and Israel-Diaspora part- nership as by the finances and achievements of the agency, which has an annual budget this year of roughly $172 million. About 22 percent of the budget comes from worldwide contribu- tions. Paul Jeser, national campaign director ofJNF-America, was one of the delegates who said it is "im- perative" for JNF to sharpen its message and make an interna- tional "push" to invest in "younger, future leadership." The younger generation is sim- ply not involved in Israel "the Moshe Rivlin: 'We will remain relevant.' way my parents and grandpar- ents were," he said. In fact, Israel has been "divisive" for the chil- dren of many major JNF donors, he added. The Jewish Agency is also cur- rently under pressure to make dramatic changes following the stepping aside of its chairman, Simcha Dinitz, amid charges of financial misconduct. Mr. Rivlin told the delegates that JNF has not abandoned its original commitment to af- forestation and land reclamation for rural settlement and agricul- ture. But it has in the last few years also invested in preparing hous- ing sites and infrastructure for the recent immigrant wave, cleaning polluted rivers, devel- oping tourism and building reser- voirs to cope with Israel's chronic water shortage, he said. And it will work with the gov- ernment in its current efforts to solve the problem of affordable housing in the center of the coun- try, said Mr. Rivlin. Palestinians Fire On IDF Jerusalem (JTA) — Militant Palestinians fired on an Israel Defense Force vehicle and on a car belonging to the Shin Bet in- ternal security service in the West Bank town of Hebron. An Israeli soldier was slightly injured in the attack, which was launched by members of the Izz a-Din al-Kassam, the aimed wing of the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement. A curfew was clamped on the center of the town and a man- hunt was launched to capture the attackers. The incident took place at a time when Israeli authorities were initiating measures to ease tensions in Hebron.