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ur neighbors, the Segals,
are grateful that there is
unemployment in the
Philippines. For it brought
Linda to Rehovot, where she
takes care of Ilan Segal's 86-year-
old, severely crippled grand-
mother. This permits the elderly
lady to go on living in the famil-
iar surroundings of her own
apartment and also saves the Se-
gal's money; putting her into a
nursing home, the only viable al-
ternative, would have been twice
as expensive.
Linda, 28, is a qualified book-
keeper, but she couldn't get a job
in that field or any other back in
Manila. So like millions of other
Filipinos, she sought employment
as a domestic servant outside her
homeland.
She would have gone to work
almost anywhere in order to send
a few hundred dollars a month
back to her family, but, as a de-
vout Catholic, she was particu-
larly pleased to come to the Holy
Land.
This allows her to worship
with other Filipinos every Sun-
day at stately St. Anthony's
Church in Jaffa as well as to vis-
it holy sites in Jerusalem, Beth-
lehem, Nazareth and the Sea of
Galilee area.
There are some 4,000 legal
Lindas in this country, namely
men and women from the Phillip-
ines who have work permits from
Israel's Ministry of Labor. In ad-
dition, there are probably sever-
al times that many illegal Lindas,
most of whom came in as tourists
and simply remained. The latter
have no trouble finding work, as
affluent Israelis are eager to em-
ploy these unobtrusive, English-
speaking people, permits or not.
The government itself has now
decided to import hundreds of Fil-
ipinos to take care of geriatric pa-
tients in their own homes.
Thousands of them have been.
waiting for admission to geriatric
hospitals, but there are not
enough places in those institu-
tions for lack of government fund-
ing. So rather than put up more
hospitals, where it costs some
$2000 a month to treat a patient,
the government will bring in Fil-
ipino caretakers, the cost of
whom, including airfare, is $1200
a month.
Also easily finding employ-
ment are thousands of Africans
in the Tel Aviv area, very few of
whom are here legally. Some
come in as stowaways or are
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Nechemia Meyers writes from
Rehovot, Israel.
smuggled into the country by
Sinai Bedouin; others enter on
one pretext or another. For ex-
ample, a slick operator in Ghana
was recently able to convince the
Foreign Ministry that visas
should be issued to fifty of his
countrymen so that they could
learn advanced Israeli agricul-
tural techniques in preparation
for setting up an experimental
farm back home. The 50 showed
up in Israel, but not at the set-
tlement where they were to be
trained; they were eventually ap-
prehended and deported.
Many foreign workers from
Eastern Europe and the Far East
enter the country legally, large-
The government has
now decided to
import hundreds of
Filipinos to take
care of geriatric
patients.
ly to do construction and agri-
cultural work formerly done by
Palestinians and still shunned by
Israelis.
Visas have been issued to over
50,000 of them, and both con-
tractors and farmers are clamor-
ing for more to be issued.
As a result, most cities now
have large concentrations of
"guest workers," who become par-
ticularly visible on the weekends
when they congregate at certain
cafes, drink themselves into a
stupor and sometimes get into
brawls. It is not a pretty picture,
and it could get uglier still should
these men, here on their own,
lose control over their desire for
women.
In that respect, it was easier
working with Palestinians, who
went home to their wives and
families at the end of the day or
week.
But in the present atmosphere
of suspicion, it is hard to visual-
ize masses of Palestinians being
brought back and the Filipinos,
Ghanaians, Thais, Poles and Ru-
manians being sent home.
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