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Pennsylvania, Lansing • 517/394-8000 (CALL COLLECT) For a personal showing: Call 1-800-539-8748 OR 1-800-LEXUS-4-U The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection =!" i kettom 90:00#0. so ' ' ' ' ' '''''''''''''' San Francisco (JTA) — The im- migration of 25,000 Ethiopians to Israel three years ago provid- ed more than a boost to the Jew- ish population. It set the stage for Israeli doctors to say a "natural immunity" to AIDS exists. In analyzing the cases of Ethiopians who immigrated to Is- rael, Dr. Zvi Bentwich found that 50 percent had been exposed to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but tested negative for AIDS. It appears that their bodies devel- oped an immunity to the disease. "What this means is that we know how to improve the course of the disease and that the prospect of a vaccine is positive," Dr. Bentwich said. When Ethiopians first began arriving in Israel, 90 percent of them were infected with some sort of virus, with 2 percent test- ing positive for AIDS. Dr. Ben- twich tracked the health and treatment of all viral carriers from their first day in Israel. Besides finding that half the Ethiopian Jews were exposed to the virus but did not develop it, he noticed that the disease be- haved differently in Israel than in Africa. This suggests that en- vironmental factors may affect the course of the illness. In Africa, Ethiopians infected with HIV died two to three times more quickly than those infected in the West. In addition, the heightened prevalence of various infections in Africa yielded increased expo- sure to sickness and a greater likelihood of falling prey to the AIDS virus. However, the Ethiopians' im- mune systems responded by kick- ing into high gear or increased activity, Dr. Bentwich said. Three years later, with the help of medicine and a new envi- ronment free of African diseases, most non-AIDS viruses have been eradicated from the Ethiopian Israeli population. Their immune systems returned to normal and the progression of AIDS in those already infected slowed down. "What this suggests is that a change of environment affects the immune system and determines how the disease behaves," Dr. Bentwich said. In people with AIDS, "the infection increases the susceptibility to other diseases, which aggravate the AIDS virus" and shortens the time between infection and death. To date, about 1,600 Israelis officially have tested positive for AIDS. Dr. Bentwich estimates that the number is closer to 3,000. About 400 of those infected are Ethiopian immigrants, roughly about the same number as three years ago. These numbers, Dr. Bentwich said, affirm his suspicions that HIV was not lying dormant in the Ethiopians exposed to, but test- ing negative for, the AIDS virus. And it suggests, "the develop- ment of a natural immunity," he added. However, many doctors and professors are skeptical about the prospect of a natural immunity for AIDS. Although Dr. Bentwich said it is too early to discuss the possi- bility of a cure for AIDS, he said the findings in Israel point to "one day developing a vaccine." Israel To Close Orient House Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel has de- cided to adopt measures to bring to an end what it describes as il- legal Palestine Liberation Orga- nization activities in Jerusalem. The measures will include clos- ing down Orient House, the de facto Palestinian headquarters in eastern Jerusalem. The decision was made at a meeting of members of the Min- isterial Committee on Jerusalem — which includes Police Minis- ter Moshe Shahal and Justice Minister David Libai — who con- ferred with security and legal ad- visers and with Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert. The group agreed to meet again to plan a line of ac- tion. Mr. Shahal said he plans to is- sue warrants in the near future to close down Palestinian insti- tutions operating in eastern Jerusalem that are suspected of having illegal ties with the Pales- tinian Authority. The Israeli daily Ha'aretz re- ported that intelligence sources had recommended removing from Jerusalem the Waqf Islam- ic Trust, which administers the Temple Mount complex in Jerusalem and other Islamic holy sites. The paper reported that the measures were aimed at pre- venting the establishment of a shadow Palestinian municipali- ty in eastern Jerusalem. The report said that in recent months, the Palestinian Author- ity has had a deepening influence in eastern Jerusalem. One example given in the re- port was the sphere of education, where the Education Department of the Palestinian self-rule gov- ernment was controlling the cur- riculum of 50 percent of the students in private schools in eastern Jerusalem, a role previ- ously held by Jordan.