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facilitate large-scale immigration to
Israel if the need arises.
"It's important that they have the
two options open to them if they feel
they need to leave," said Leonard
Glickman, the HIAS executive director.
For most, the best option remains
Israel. And secondly, if they qualify for
the U.S. refugee program, it's important
that the pipeline remain open."
HIAS and other groups are accelerat-
ing efforts to make sure a backlog of
refugees seeking entry to the United
States is cleared up as soon as possible.
They are also beginning talks with
Israeli officials about making sure the
route to Israel is unimpeded.

"Instability has
always brought
out anti-Semitism
in Russia."

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The JewishAgency; which oversees
immigration from the former Soviet
Union for Israel, convened a meeting of
its emissaries there last week to evaluate
resources available to handle a sudden
influx.
But Jewish officials said that many
Jews will remain in Russia lis long as
possible — in part because of commu-
nity and family ties, in part because
they perceive a lack of good options.
A prominent Soviet Jewry movement
veteran put it in stark terms.
"The ones who remain in Russia
generally have an aversion to the idea of
moving to Israel," he said. "If they
leave, they'd want to come here, but it is
unlikely we could handle large num-
bers. So many are likely to remain in
what could be a very hazardous envi-
ronment."
Congress might approve a temporary
increase in refugee numbers, this source
said, but not for the kinds of numbers
that might be required by an all-out
breakdown in Russia.
And he pointed to another factor:
"American Jews would probably be •
willing to raise large amounts of extra
money to facilitate emigration to Israel.
But we have a very different situation
than we had in the 1970s and 1980s;
there probably wouldn't be tremendous
support for funds to move them here.
Too many communities had bad experi-
ences with Soviet immi gration; there's
too much bad blood." El