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nary hearings will feature Edgar
Bronfman, chairman of the
World Jewish Congress and the
World Jewish Restitution Orga-
nization and Stuart Eizenstat,
the administration's special en-
voy on questions of Jewish resti-
tution.
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by Hans Baer, a Jewish banker.

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ecurity officials in Wash-
ington were reeling from
the overlapping visits of
Prime Minister Peres and
Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion leader Yassir Arafat.
Mr. Peres' visit was in the
works for months because of the
defense agreements signed at the
Pentagon and the policy confer-
ence of the American Israel Pub-
lic Affairs Committee, where the
Israeli leader was a featured
speaker. The PLO chairman's
swing through Washington was
a last-minute affair that pro-
duced bureaucratic chaos all over
town.
In fact, the PLO chairman had
Mr. Peres to thank for his first
solo visit to the White House.
For months, Mr. Arafat has
wanted an official Oval Office au-
dience to bolster his image as a
legitimate world leader — and,
not incidentally, to help open up
the checkbooks of potential in-
vestors in Gaza and the West
Bank.
The Clinton administration
had put him off because of con-

cerns about his willingness to
crack down on anti-Israel ter-
rorists and his foot-dragging on
promises to change parts of the
Palestine National Council char-
ter calling for Israel's destruction.
After the PNC vote on the
charter, the administration de-
cided that some rewards were in
order for the Palestinian leader.
And Mr. Peres put in a good
word for his peace process part-
ner with the State Department,
according to sources here — in-
put that was a major factor in the
administration's decision to roll
out the welcome mat for Mr.
Arafat.
A top item on Mr. Arafat's
agenda was the lagging effort to
stimulate investment in the new
Palestinian self-rule areas. He
addressed a group assembled by
the Center for Middle East Peace
and Economic Cooperation,
which includes a number of Jew-
ish business people.
He also was expected to meet
with selected congressional lead-
ers to discuss ongoing aid to the
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is seen as critical by Jewish or-
ganizations.
"Nothing else has made the
Swiss move," said WJC execu-
tive director
Elan Steinberg. "Swiss banks
do business in the United States;
these hearings provide a badly
needed lever.

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obody's counting — well,
almost nobody. But in
case you are, last week's
appointment of presiden-
tial pal Mickey Kantor as Sec-
retary of Commerce means that
there are now five Jews holding
cabinet-level positions in the
Clinton administration, an all-
time record.
Mr. Kantor's nomination did
not require congressional confir-
mation, since it was made dur-
ing a recess — and will be good
only through the end of the year,
when the first Clinton adminis-
tration comes to an end.
Technically, the appointment
doesn't really change the Jewish
presence in the cabinet; Mr. Kan-
tor, in his position as U.S. Trade
Representative, had been ele-
vated to cabinet status early in
the Clinton administration.
But symbolically, at least, the

appointment sent out a clear
message.
"Let's face it: the fact that there -/
are now four cabinet secretaries
and a CIA director who happen
to be Jewish tells a very impor-
tant story about this adminis-
tration's openness to Jewish
participation," said an official
with a major Jewish group here.
"The story isn't that President
Clinton favors Jews; the story is c/
that for the first time, there are
absolutely no whispered quotas
for restricting the number of
Jews in top positions."
Oddly, the abrasive, hard-dri-
ving Kantor may prove a less
popular speaker on the Jewish
circuit than Mr. Brown, an
African-American whose low-key. z-/
conciliatory approach made him
one of the administration's best
emissaries to the Jewish com-
munal world. 0