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WERE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE
to all my relatives
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your cards, gifts,
tributes and support
during my recent
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ARTHUR SMITH
Chaim Chessler
with the daunting task of coordi-
nating the shlichim who repre-
sent the departments of the
Jewish Agency and Zionist Move-
ment.
As head of the first Jewish
Agency delegation to the Com-
monwealth of Independent
States (CIS), he soon discovered
that the vast differences between
communities and poor infra-
structure were not going to make
his job any easier.
In his 1994 report on Jewish
Agency activities in the former
Soviet Union, Mr. Chessler
praised the shlichim, who consist
of youth workers, educators and
aliyah consultants, and their all-
out efforts to encourage aliyah,
counsel potential immigrants,
arrange flights and the transfer
of personal effects. The shlichim,
who put youth and students at
the top of the agenda, also refer
unaccompanied teen-agers to
boarding schools in Israel (2,000
in 1994) through the Na'aleh 16
program and run summer'
schools and winter camps
throughout the CIS for over
20,000 Jewish youngsters annu-
ally.
With the help of 18 shlichim,
teachers by profession, some 130
ulpanim have been set up
throughout the CIS, which are
run by 600 local Hebrew teach-
ers. Two teacher training centers
were also set up. Shlichim in the
CIS, Mr. Chessler notes, require
great dedication, energy and de-
termination. They have no choice
but to buckle down and adapt de-
spite often highly unstable polit-
ical, economic and social
conditions which often lead to
rampant crime and the lack of
simple everyday necessities such
as water and heat.
But this instability has its
pluses, at least in terms of aliyah.
In the Ukraine and Moldavia, for
example, the deteriorating eco-
nomic situation, the lack of law
and order, and the rise of Ukrain-
ian nationalism have resulted in
a dramatic increase in aliyah.
Said Mr. Chessler, "I was priv-
ileged to be involved during the
climax of the struggle for the free-
dom of Soviet Jewry, and I am
again privileged to be part of the
new climax of Jews arriving in
Israel." H