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like granting Yasser Arafat the gold
medal," Knesset member Eliezer
Sandberg said.
Sallai Meridor, chairman of the
executive of the Jewish Agency for
Israel, said the Games should go on
"to symbolize the solidarity of the
Jewish people these very days."
"It is a choice between two evils,"
said former basketball superstar Tad
Brody, who first came to Israel from the
United States as a Maccabiah athlete.
He said the choice was between post-
poning the Games altogether or hold-
ing them with very few participants.
As cancellations mounted, Maccabi
World Union President Jeanne Futeran
announced at a new conference this
week that there seemed to be no choice
but to postpone.
"If we hold the Maccabiah under
the present conditions, we could only
have a couple of hundred athletes,"
she said, which would be "an embar-
rassment. We need thousands."
UAHC Lashed
Meanwhile, the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations' decision to
cancel youth trips to Israel has come
under fire.
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, the Reform move-
ment's ,synagogue organization,
announced the decision last week.
Speaking to his board of trustees,
Rabbi Yoffie said he personally
believed in making solidarity trips to
Israel during difficult times.
"But what I do as an individual or
what we do as adult leaders of this
movement needs to be separated out
from what we do with children who
travel under our auspices," he said.
Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert
announced this week that he was sus-
pending ties with the movement to
protest the decision.
The outspoken leader of Israel's sec-
ularist Shinui Party, Yosef "Tommy"
Lapid, dashed off an angry letter to
Rabbi Yoffie. "This is a painful surren-
der to terror and the enemies of
Israel," Lapid wrote. "We cannot
expect more from American Jewry
than a solidarity demonstration at
Madison Square Garden, and I am
sure beautiful summer camps will take
place at the Catskill Mountains."
The Reform movement in Israel also
criticized the move, saying parents
should have been given a choice
whether to send their children.
"It's important to note that we are
not suspending all visits to Israel by all
Reform Jews," responded Emily Grotta, a
spokeswoman for Reform congregations
in the United States. "Many Reform Jews
will be in Israel."
Rabbi Melchior was one of the few
Israeli leaders to adopt a moderate tone.
"You have to know that condemnations
won't bring a single young person to
Israel," he said. "It will only distance
them. Relations with the diaspora must
be based on a constructive dialogue."
In any case, many Israelis appeared
indifferent to the cancellations.
"When so many Israelis are expressing
a desire to leave the country at this time
we can't really complain to our fellow
Jews," said Tamar Golan, a telemarket-
ing executive from Haifa. "If they want
to stay at home, let them do so."
Jewish Visitors
Since the outbreak of violence last
September, tourism to Israel has fallen
to new lows, with hotels throughout the
country reporting marginal occupancy.
Had it not been for Jewish tourists,
however, the blow would have been
much more severe.
According to Israel's Tourism
Ministry, the number of Jewish visitors
between October 2000 and April
2001 fell by 5 percent compared with
the same period a year before. The
number of non-Jewish tourists
dropped by 56 percent.
Since the violence began, some
major airlines- - including KLM,
Lufthansa, Air France and Swissair —
have changed their flight schedules so
that crew members would not have to
spend the night in Israel.
Jewish youth groups, who in the
past showed solidarity with Israel at
difficult times like the 1967 Six-Day
War and the 1973 Yom Kippur War,
are now preferring to stay home:
• About half the scheduled partici- •
pants — about 350 kids — canceled
their participation in an Israel-based
summer camp affiliated with the
Conservative youth movement.
• A summer camp under the aus-
pices of West Coast Jewish federations,
which was to be attended by some 600
youths, was canceled.
• The Orthodox movement, Young
Judaea and several North American
Jewish community centers — along
with Jewish organizations in Mexico,
Argentina, Venezuela and the United
Kingdom — also reported cancellations.
In one of the rare exceptions, the
Lubavitch-affiliated Ma'ayanot move-
ment announced that most of its
scheduled 1,100 youths would come
to Israel this summer. ❑