121111 GREAT RATE OPPORTUNITIES 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 The unpublished list, which contains 33 names, is "fiction," Pe- I\ _ , ter Feldmayer, the president of Jerusalem (JTA) — The Knesset /- the Federation of Hungarian Jew- voted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. 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