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Akiva Plans
Awards Banquet

Southfield —Yeshivat Akiva will honor
Edward and Gloria Meer with the Torah
Builder Award, and Sanford "Sandy"
Eisenberg with the Community Chesed
Award, at the 38th annual Akiva ban-
quet, Sunday, May 5, at 5 p.m. at
Burton Manor in Livonia.
The Meers, supporters of many facets
of Jewish life, are providing funding for
construction of Akiva's new gymnasium.
The school's nursery building was also a
gift of the Meer family.
Eisenberg, the father of three Akiva
alumni, has served in nearly all positions
on the school's board of directors. He
has also been president of Young Israel
of Greenfield, Young Israel of Southfield
and the Young Israel Council of
Metropolitan Detroit, and currently
serves as honorary vice president of the
National. Council of Young Israel.
For tickets or information about the
dinner, call the school at (248) 386-
1625, or visit the school's Web site:
info@alciva.org

Crisis Brewing
Over U.N. Panel

Tel Aviv/JTA —Israel is sending a team
to New York seeking to change the com-
position of a U.N. fact-finding team
going to the Jenin refugee camp.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on
Tuesday called for a delay in the arrival
of the panel, expressing concern that its
composition and mandate might have a
pro-Palestinian bias.
Following talks with Israel's ambassa-
dor to the United Nations, U.N.
Secretary-General- Kofi Annan indicated
a willingness to consider widening the
fact-finding commission. Israel's U.N.
ambassador, Yehuda Lancry, said he told
Annan that the panel should also look
into the Palestinian terror infrastructure
that existed in the refugee camp prior to
the Israeli military operation there, Israel
Radio reported.

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French Extremist
Places Second

Paris/JTA — A far-right politician
staged a huge upset in the first round of
France's presidential election.
According to media projections based
on exit polls, Jean-Marie Le Pen will
come in second behind President

Jacques Chirac, creating a contest
between the two when a runoff vote is
held May 5.
Confounding earlier predictions, Le
Pen beat out Prime Minister Lionel
Jospin, who is now expected to finish
third. Leading members of Jospin's
Socialist Party said they would vote for
Chirac in the runoff to ensure that Le
Pen does not win.
The 73-year-old Le Pen is founder
- and head of the extreme-right
National Front Party. He is notori-
ous for once describing the
Holocaust as a mere "detail" of his-
tory. "I am not perfect," he respond-
ed recently to a question about his
history of anti-Semitic remarks,
which he now refers to as "unfortu-
nate phrases."
Le Pen amassed 4.4 million votes,
nearly 15 percent of the French elec-
torate, in the first round of the 1988
presidential election.

Ari Fleischer
Pops Question

Washington/JTA — The White House
spokesman is now spoken for.
Ari Fleischer, White House press sec-
retary and one of the most visible
American Jews in politics, got engaged
last week.
Fleischer, 41, proposed to 26-year-
old Rebecca Davis, a staffer in the
White House Office of Management
and Budget. Details of the proposal
and the wedding date were deemed
classified by Fleischer.

Mubarak: Israeli
Acts 'Barbaric'

Cairo/JTA — Egypt's president called
Israel's military operation in the West
Bank "barbaric" and accused it of "state
terrorism."
Israel's operation "will only deepen
the feelings of hatred, resentment,
and the desire for revenge among
not only the Palestinian people, but
some 300 million Arabs," Hosni
Mubarak said Wednesday in a
nationwide broadcast marking the
2.0th anniversary of the day the
return of the Sinai peninsula was
completed under the terms of the
Camp David accords with Israel. In
the speech, Mubarak also said Egypt
would continue its "pioneering role"
in regional peacemaking.

