'VOLVO Drive Safely For Less. Live Imports 49lia 19 k1".4 workers legal and illegal — are New '96 850 GLT SEDAN Foreign increasingly becoming common in Israel.A jafi ;" NECHEMIA MEYERS SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS ;Iliad yfirrA 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 0 $3890per. • Leather • Moonroof • Side Impact Airbags • Cold Weather package • Traction Control month 36 month lease • 36 Mo. Closed-end Lease • 150 Per Mile Over 36,000 • 8425 Sec. Deposit CONVENIENT D W Y E R • $495 Acquisition Fee HOURS AND SONS • Purchase Option $20,785 • Total Obligation = Pymt. x36 11/01,011/0 Open '61 9 p.m. on Mondays & Thursdays; Maple Rd. 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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. Publicity Deadlines The normal deadline for local news and publicity items is noon Thurs- day, eight days prior to issue date. The deadline for birth announce- ments is 10 a.m. Monday, four days prior to issue date; out-of-town obit- uaries, 10 a.m. Tuesday, three days prior to issue date.