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Back home in Israel, Detroit's former shaliach
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here are three phone num-
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finally answers in his car.
He sounds like he's in a
tunnel, where the wind is blowing. In
mid-sentence, the line goes dead. The
second call has a minute of fuzz, then
silence. After another half-hour, the
third call works. Finally, clarity.
"I was coming up from the Dead
Sea," the lowest point on earth, he
explained. Kaye's terrain has leveled
off.
The former Israeli shaliach to the

As shaliach, I was also a bridge, in
explaining Israel to the Detroit Jewish
community and the Detroit Jewish
community to Israel," Kaye said. "In_
Detroit, it was far more people orient-
ed, whereas here, it's more legal and
financial."
Kaye left Detroit last July after four
years as the shaliach, or emissary, to
the Detroit Jewish community.
Emissaries are provided to Diaspora
cities by the Jewish Agency, the World
Zionist Organization and the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
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Detroit community is sitting pretty in
the driver's seat, as director of the
Jerusalem office of the United Israel
Appeal (UIA). In Detroit, he built
bridges between Israel and the
Diaspora by helping Americans make
aliyah or planning Israel-related pro-
grams. Now, Kaye is moving money.
His new job includes overseeing
expenditures in Israel of funds raised
by the United Jewish Appeal in the
United States.
"The spirit of the job is the same.

Community Centers Association in
Jerusalem.
The 38-year-old made aliyah from
Glasgow, Scotland, when he was 21.
Kaye, his wife Devorah and their two
children, Eldan, 13, and Adi, 9, live
Jerusalem. He officially started with
the ULA in early March.
On a typical day, Kaye oversees the
allocation of about $200 million
raised by U.S. federations for spending
in Israel and $80 million in U.S. fed-
eral grant money for refugee resettle-