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There's a consensus that seems
to be emerging in Israel."
The purpose of the Leader-
ship Mission to Israel was to en-
able community leaders to speak
to their own boards and to the
public with some authority
about the state of the State of Is-
rael. The participants, who paid
their own way, represented
groups as diverse as the Jewish
Federation, Hadassah, Nation-
al Council of Jewish Women,
American Jewish Committee
and the sisterhoods of various
synagogues.
Even though most of the trip's
participants have traveled in Is-
rael before, they returned with a
different sense of the country this
time around.
"My attitude toward Prime
Minister Netanyahu changed,"
Mr. Gad-Harf said. "I came
away feeling he was less rigid
than I expected. I saw him as
someone who has in the past

but trusts that Mr. Netanyal
knows what he is doing.
"I want the best for the E'r:"
of Israel, and I have confiders
Netanyahu wants the sarr
thing. I think he paid a h4
price; this was not an easy de
sion, but he did it because I
thinks he got what he needed
Mr. Traison recalled 4
group's meeting with Ziyad AI
Ziyad, an editor of a Palestini
newspaper, as a highlight
the trip, as well as its meet-i
with Ephraim Zuroff, a Jewie
leader in the West Bank town
Efrat.
Mr. Zuroff, he said, provided

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nine months grown in the job
and gone beyond the rhetoric
of his election campaign and re-
alized he needs to make some
basic decisions about Israel's fu-
ture. I guess I also appreciate
the difficult position he's in, hav-
ing to respond to conflicting pres-
sures from his own coalition and
other forces. My hope for the fu-
ture was strengthened."
Ms. Gould, a retired adminis-
trative assistant at Congrega-
tion Shaarey Zedek who has
been to Israel 20 times since
1958, said she didn't go with an
attitude. But she did come away
with an optimism that could best
be described as cautiously opti-
mistic.
"Israel is not just a Jewish
country. It's a country ready to
participate in the world of other
countries. It's very important for
Israel to be a part of the world
financial scene. I think Ne-
tanyahu understands this. I
think the boycott having been
lifted has given Israelis an op-
portunity to see their economy
in a new way," she said.
Ms. Gould takes little comfort
in the new step toward Pales-
tinian control of the West Bank,

perspective often absent in ME
dia accounts here of the settler
who have chosen to put dow
roots in the West Bank.
"Many people live there 1:4
cause housing is cheap. It's be,'
sically suburban Jerusaleri
People find it economically_ar'
pealing. The air is clean. They'l l
not driven by some territorie'
imperative," Mr. Traison said.
But his emphasis in Israel ha,
always been its economic devel
opment.
"The battle for security is go,
ing to be an economic battle a'
much as a military battle," h'
said.
Mr. Gad-Harf believes
mission particiliants all felt
lieved" after meeting with Mr
Ziyad, a man who believes peace
is more possible with a "hawk
ish" prime minister like Ne l,
tanyahu, "who can bring aloni
others."
Mr. Gad-Harf came back witi
the sense that "people are ref
signed to the possibility of som
kind of Palestinian entity. T'- -'
seem exhausted by the conffiC
and want to put it behind them,
she said. 0