World Digest
Germans Propose
Holocaust Fund
Bonn (JTA )
Twelve major German
companies signed on to a proposed
fund to compensate victims of the
Holocaust.
German Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder said at a news conference
with industry leaders that the fund's
function is to counter lawsuits and "to
remove the basis of the campaign
being led against German industry
and our country.
Holocaust victims have launched a
series of lawsuits in recent months
against German companies that used
slave labor and took over Jewish assets.
Details of the fund have yet to be
determined.
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Peace Now Cites
Settlement Surge
Jerusalem (JTA) — The population of
the 10 largest Jewish settlements grew
nearly 6 percent in the first nine
months of the year, at three times the
natural growth rate, the Peace Now
group said this week.
Peace Nov said that a total of
92,584 people were living in the 10
largest settlements, which make up 50
percent of the settler population.
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Barak Is Proud
Of Dovish List
Jerusalem (JTA) — Political doves
secured top spots on the Labor Party's
Knesset list during internal primaries.
Among the first finishers were out-
spoken Knesset members Shlomo Ben
Ami and Yossi Beilin, former Israel
Defense Forces deputy chief Matan
Vilnai, Jewish Agency for Israel chair-
man Avraham Burg and MK Uzi
Baram.
Labor leader Ehud Barak said he
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was proud of the new lisr. ),
Injured Women
Sues Maccabiah
Jerusalem (JTA) — An Australian
woman filed the first civil lawsuit
against organizers of the 1997
Maccabiah Games in Israel for injuries
she suffered when a bridge collapsed at
the games' opening.
Sasha Elterman has had close to 30
operations since the collapse. A crimi-
nal trial and Israeli parliamentary
inquiry are also proceeding.
Cost Of Living
Marks Slowdown
Jerusalem (JTA)
Israel's cost of liv-
ing index fell by one-half percent in
January, a reflection of the economic
slowdown.
The figure was the sharpest drop
for January since 1986, when the
index fell by 1.3 percent. Last month's
index was based on the latest survey of
household spending.
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Anti-Semitic Acts
Were Up In 1998
Jerusalem (JTA) — Anti - Semitic vio-
lence and propaganda around the
world rose in 1998, according to an
annual report on global anti-Semitism
compiled by the Israeli government.
The report noted that a number of
attacks on Jewish targets occurred in
1998, compared to no registered inci-
dents the previous year.
The report pointed to a number of
major events that contributed to anti-
Semitic sentiment, the economic crisis
in Russia, the inquiry into Holocaust-
era Swiss bank accounts and other
restitution efforts, Israel's 50th jubilee
and the Persian Gulf crisis.
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Swiss Receive
A Million Names
Jerusalem (JTA)
Officials at the Yad
Vashem Holocaust Memorial in
Jerusalem provided Switzerland with a
list of more than 1 million Jews killed
during the Holocaust.
The move is designed to help
Swiss banks identify and repay dor-
mant accounts dating back to the
Holocaust era.
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Israel Diputes
P.A. Appointee
Jerusalem (JTA) — A dispute erupted
between Israel and the Palestinian
Authority over control of the Al Aksa
Mosque in Jerusalem.
The two sides disputed a new office
opened at the mosque by the
Jerusalem mufti, or chief Muslim cler-
ic, who was appointed by Palestinian
officials in 1994.
Israeli officials maintain that the
office violates Israeli-Palestinian
accords, which bar the Palestinian
Authority from operating in Jerusalem.
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