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Russia Supports
Palestinian State
Moscow (JTA) — Russia is supportive
of Palestinian statehood, but would like
to see it emerge as a result of negotia-
tions with Israel, President Boris Yeltsin
told visiting Palestinian Authority
Chairman Yasser Arafat on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign
Minister Igor Ivanov is planning to
visit the Middle East next week as part
of Moscow's ongoing efforts to play a
larger role in regional peacemaking. His
trip includes a stopover in Israel.
Poll: Israelis
Back Statehood
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Jerusalem (JTA) — Some 55 percent
of Israeli Jews polled believe that the
Palestinians deserve an independent
state, according to the annual "peace
index" survey conducted by Tel Aviv
University's Tami Steinmetz Center.
The poll also found a strong major-
ity oppose giving any portion of
Jerusalem over to Palestinian rule. For
the first time since the poll was con-
ducted four years ago, a majority of
Israeli Jews do not believe the
Palestinians are seeking the destruc-
tion of Israel.
Yugoslav Jews
Consider Israel
Budapest (JTA) — Forty-five Yugoslav
Jews who arrived here during the
ongoing NATO air strikes against
their country have registered for a
pilot trip to Israel, according to the
Jewish Agency for Israel.
The Jews, aged 18-32, were expect-
ed to arrive this week in Israel, where
they will be exposed to life in the
Jewish state. Last week, seven Yugoslav
Jews who decided to make aliyah were
the guests of Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu at his family seder.
Link Suspected
in Bombing
Moscow (JTA) — A powerful blast
Sunday outside a downtown Moscow
office of Russia's Federal Security
Service may have been the work of the
same perpetrators who bombed a
Moscow synagogue last May.
Sources in the Federal Security
Service, the successor to the Soviet-era
KGB, said the bomb that injured
three people and shattered dozens of
windows was identical to the device
used in the bombing of the Marina
Roscha Synagogue.
Security service officials also said
that both bombs had been planted in
a similar manner.
Violinist Stern
Sees Germany
Germany (JTA) — Violinist Isaac
Stern is visiting Germany, which he had
once vowed never to visit out of respect
for the victims of the Holocaust. Stern
said he changed his mind because he
felt it was time to see the country of
Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
Stern, who was born in Russia but
moved to the United States with his
parents when he was 10 months old,
lost many relatives in the Shoah.
Envoy Hosts
Russian Seder
Moscow (JTA) — The U.S. ambas-
sador to Russia hosted a first-night
Passover seder at his Moscow residence.
Leaders of Russian Jewry, including
Russian Jewish Congress President
Vladimir Goussinsky, and Jewish
Americans working in the Russian
capital attended the March 31 event.
The seder hosted by Ambassador
James Collins reinstated a tradition
maintained by American diplomats
during the Soviet era.
A lone worshipper is sur-
rounded by Jewish members
of the priestly caste
(Cohanim), who have cov-
ered their heads with prayer
shawls as they perform a
blessing ceremony at the
Western Wall in Jerusalem
last Sunday. The Cohanim,
descendants of priests who
served God in the Jewish
Temple before it was
destroyed, perfbrm a blessing
ceremony of the Jewish people
three times a year during the
festivals of Passover, Sukkot
and Shavuot.