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Pay Raise Waived
Jerusalem/5A — Due to the difficult
economic times, Israel's Knesset
members will waive a 2009 pay
raise. The Knesset House committee
decided Dec. 23 that lawmakers would
give up an automatic 3-percent pay
raise in January, according to reports.
Knesset members earn about $8,300
a month and receive raises tied to the
retail price index four times a year.
They also get the use of a car.
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Aliyah Down
Jerusalem/JTA — Some 16,500 Jews
from around the world have made
aliyah in 2008, a 16 percent drop from
the previous year. The 6,100 immi-
grants from the former Soviet Union
accounts for 35 percent of the olim.
Some 3,250 of the immigrants came
from Western Europe, or 20 percent,
with 3,150 from the United States and
Canada, or 19 percent.
The number of Ethiopian immi-
grants fell to 1,700 from 3,600
because of Israel's decision to halt the
immigration of Falash Mura. French
aliyah dropped as well because of the
Jewish community's comfort with
President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Immigration from South Africa
nearly doubled to 350 from the previ-
ous year.
Small numbers of new immigrants
in 2008 also came from far-flung
countries such as China, El Salvador,
Uganda, Angola, Martinique, Andorra
and Gibraltar.
There have been 3,041,714 immi-
grants to Israel since the founding of
the state in 1948.
Ancient Gold Coins
Jerusalem/JTA — A cache of ancient
gold coins was discovered at a
Jerusalem archeological site. More
than 250 coins, thought to be 1,300
years old, were found Dec. 21 in the
excavations at the Givati car park
in the City of David. Archeological
excavations under the auspices of the
Israel Antiquities Authority began in
the area two years ago.
The coins were discovered on the
site of a large seventh-century C.E.
building that is being uncovered.
Since no other pottery vessels were
discovered near the hoard, it is sus-
pected that the coins were hidden
inside a niche in the building's wall,
according to Dr. Doron Ben-Ami and
Yana Tchekhanovets, the directors of
the excavation at the site on behalf of
the Antiquities Authority.
Abbas Lauds Bush
Washington/JTA — Mahmoud Abbas
praised President Bush for laying the
foundations for Israeli-Palestinian
peace.
"Together we put the fundamental,
basic things needed for the peace pro-
cess:' the Palestinian Authority presi-
dent said Dec. 19, addressing Bush
at a White House meeting, their last
before Bush leaves office. "There is
no doubt that we will continue these
efforts and the peace negotiations.
But everything will be based on the
foundation, and that foundation was
laid by you during your time in office."
Talks between Israel and the
Palestinians were renewed a year ago
in Annapolis, Md., under U.S. aus-
pices.
Bush's administration shepherded
the codification of the Annapolis
pledge of Palestinian statehood
through the U.N. Security Council,
essentially underpinning the goal
with international law.
"I was pleased to note that the U.N.
Secretary Council passed a resolu-
tion which confirms that the bilateral
negotiation process is irreversible,
and it's a path to a Palestinian state
and a path to peace in the Middle
East," Bush told Abbas.
Nonprofits Hurt By Madoff
New York/JTA — The Jewish Funders
Network is developing a comprehen-
sive plan to help nonprofits hit hard by
Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme that
includes bridge funding.
JFN President Mark Charendoff told
JTA of the plan after convening a Dec.
23 meeting in New York of 35 of the
country's largest Jewish foundations.
By its estimates the JFN, which has
some 900 members who are major
funders of Jewish causes, counts some
$2.5 billion in philanthropic funds as
erased by Madoff's scam, Charendoff
told JTA's philanthropy blog, the
Fundermentalist.
The foundations involved with JFN
will create a pro-bono human resources
bank through which foundations and
nonprofits can share costs for legal
resources, accounting, grant writing and
development needs.
The foundations also decided to
create a mechanism to create bridge
financing for organizations directly hit
by Madoff. That mechanism would pro-
vide a vehicle for emergency loans from
philanthropists to nonprofits in trouble.
The JFN has pledges for "millions" of
dollars in loans, Charendoff said.