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tially compensate Hungarian
Jews for property that was con-
fiscated during World War II.
But that plan did not deal with
Hungarian Jewish deposits in
Swiss banks.
Budapest (JTA) — Hungarian
Jewish leaders are charging that
a Swiss list of unclaimed deposits
made by Hungarian Jews during
the Holocaust is incomplete.
The unpublished list, which
contains 33 names, is "fiction," Pe-
I\ _ , ter Feldmayer, the president of Jerusalem (JTA) — The Knesset
/- the Federation of Hungarian Jew- voted down a bill calling for El Al
ish Communities, said in an in- to fly on Shabbat and Jewish hol-
terview.
idays.
The total amount of the de-
The sponsor of the bill, Meretz
posits on the list Switzerland Knesset member Avraham Poraz,
turned over to the Hungarian au- had argued that Israel's national
thorities was 283,475 Swiss airline loses tens of millions of dol-
francs, Mr. Feldmayer said.
lars annually because of the cur-
He added that this amount was rent policy against Sabbath
lower than the sum Switzerland flights.
acknowledged holding when Bern
He said that it would be im-
and Budapest signed a secret possible to find an investor will-
agreement in 1973.
ing to buy the airline, which is in
In that agreement, Switzerland the process of privatization, with
said it held 325,000 Swiss francs, such losses.
worth some $3 million today, from
"No investor in his right mind
dormant accounts belonging to would do this," Mr. Poraz said.
Holocaust victims.
However, the chairman of the
The agreement allowed Knesset Finance Committee,
Switzerland to use that sum to- Avraham Ravitz of the Orthodox
ward paying off claims totaling party United Torah Judaism, said
`-.
/ 1.8 million Swiss francs for prop- there were other matters to con-
erty belonging to Swiss nationals sider.
that had been nationalized by the
Mr. Ravitz said the relatively
postwar Hungarian government. high patronage from religious
In mid-January, Bern turned Jews could stop if El Al began fly-
over to Polish officials a list of 53 ing on the Sabbath.
Polish Holocaust victims whose
Last year, Tower Air intro-
Swiss bank accounts were de- duced services on select flights,
clared own.erless and turned over including sections with no audio
to the Polish government after and video entertainment, to ac-
World War II.
commodate their fervently Or-
\-- Switzerland has recently come thodox passengers.
under increasing pressure from
El Al has tried to act similarly.
Jewish groups to determine how
Earlier, it was reported that the
much money was deposited in its airline was considering putting
banks by Holocaust victims from up a partition between the seat-
across Europe and to make resti- ing section for fervently Orthodox
tution for those sums to the vic- passengers and video screens in
tims or their heirs.
the plane.
But Switzerland may not be re-
The airline already has a com-
sponsible for restituting the mittee that edits out scenes from
325,000 Swiss francs to Hungar- in-flight movies, which it believes
ian Holocaust victims because of might offend the sensitivities of
the terms of the 1973 agreement. some of its clientele.
The agreement states that
Hungary would "recognize the
claims of rightful heirs" when and
if they press their claims.
While Hungary paid Switzer-
land 1.4 million Swiss francs,
worth about $7 million today, to Jerusalem (JTA) — Professor
pay the claims for nationalized Shimon Shamir, Israel's ambas-
Swiss property, it has not yet paid sador to Jordan, has announced
/- anything to members of the Hun- that he is leaving the post this
garian Jewish community who month.
made deposits in Swiss banks.
An embassy spokesman de-
Hungarian Foreign Minister nied rumors circulating in the
Laszlo Kovacs told Jewish lead- Jordanian capital of Amman that
ers that the Hungarian govern- Shamir's decision had anything
ment was going to attempt to to do with political differences be-
locate the 33 people, or their heirs, tween the ambassador and the
who were named on the Swiss list. current Israeli leadership.
The Hungarian Jewish com-
Mr. Shamir, 52, was appoint-
\_munity is entitled to any heirless ed Israel's first ambassador to
property, he added.
Jordan in March 1995 by the pre-
In a first step toward providing vious Labor-led government,
restitution, the Hungarian Par- which signed a peace treaty with
liament approved in October a the Hashemite kingdom in Octo-
government plan that would par- ber 1994.
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