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Sunday, Sept. 8, 1996
1 - 5 p.m.

Dedication

of the Herman and Barbara Frankel Wing
Grand opening of the
newly renovated social hall
at 2:00 p.m.

Bridal Fashion Show

presented by Jacobson's of Laurel Park
at 2:30 p.m.

Gala Wedding
Extravaganza

Enjoy a Contemporary, Garden, and
Victorian wedding.
View beautiful tables and dance to the music
of the area's hottest bands.
Taste the delicious pastries provided by the
Unique Restaurant Corporation.

Worn Welcome

Some 200,000 foreign workers solved the
Palestinian problem, but they have created
new headaches.

LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT

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sraeli travel brochures often
brag about the state's abun-
dant Jewish communities
and cultures. But these days,
some are recognizing that
chunks of the country's largest
city has an increasingly unwel-
come international flare to it.
Yesod Hama'alah Street, one
of the slummy sidestreets next
to the old Tel Aviv Central Bus
Station, is nicknamed "Bucharest
Street." It is populated mainly by
guest workers from Romania.
Construction workers by day,
they fill all the streets around the
bus station at night, sitting at
cafes, on stoops, on sidewalks,
getting drunk and then wander-
ing into nearby houses of ill re-
pute.
The next street over, Neve
Sha'anan, is the location of the

year policy to replace Palestin-
ian workers who continuously
missed coming to their jobs be-
cause of Israeli-ordered closures
of the territories or Palestinian-
ordered strikes.
The guest workers are sup-
posedly temporary, but they are
taking root. The government
puts the number of foreign
workers with work visas at
103,000. The estimated number
of illegals — those with expired
visas, working on tourist visas,
or simply "underground" — is
100,000. In Tel Aviv alone, legal
and illegal foreign workers num-
ber about 60,000 — roughly one-
sixth the city's population.
"There is a disturbing phe-
nomenon in the poor neighbor-
hoods of Tel Aviv — you go into
some of them and you think

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Evangelical Christian Assem- you're in Africa instead of the
blies House of Prayer. There, State of Israel," said Minister of
guest workers from Ghana go to Labor and Social Affairs Eli
Yishai, during a tour of
pray after days spent
the city's southside
cleaning Israeli homes.
Palest inian
On Saturday after- workers i n Israel neighborhoods, where
noons, a congregation of are quick ly being the foreign workers are
concentrated.
repla ced.
Ghanaians holds ser-
He recommended de-
vices in the Emmanuel
porting some 1,000 ille-
Lutheran Church in
Jaffa. Church administrators gal guest workers a month,
don't know their names; most of suggesting "transit camps" near
the Ghanaians are illegal and Ben-Gurion Airport to make the
keep their personal details pri- job easier. The government
promptly shot down the idea,
vate.
Thousands of guest workers which evoked images of Israeli
from Thailand, employed main- concentration camps and ex-
ly on farms, hold picnics in Is- tremely bad press.
"The foreign workers are hu-
raeli parks on Song Kran Day,
the Thai New Year's Day. man beings and must treated as
Phillipine guest workers, most- such," said Prime Minister Ne-
ly women working as live-in tanyahu. At the same time, Mr.
maids for rich Israelis, gathered Netanyahu called for "deter-
this summer at Tel Aviv's Dan mined efforts to find a solution."
The most popular one seems
Panorama Hotel for the annual
Miss Phillipines-Israel beauty to be deportation. The consen-
sus is that foreign workers,
pageant.
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