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Plaque, exhibit mark Ukrainian home.

Kiev, Ukraine/JTA

A

plaque to mark the home of
the last Lubavitcher rebbe's
father was dedicated Sunday
in Ukraine.
The memo-
<fflioniallikt\
rial plaque, in
Ukrainian and
Hebrew, was affixed
to the wall of the
house where Rabbi
Levi-Yitzchak
Schneerson (1878-
1944) lived, in
Rabbi Levi-
what
is now the
Yitzchak
eastern
Ukrainian
Schneerson
industrial city of
Dnepropetrovsk. Schneerson was the
father of the seventh rebbe, Rabbi
Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
An exhibit devoted to the life and
activities of Levi-Yitzchak Schneerson
was dedicated in the hall of the
ground floor of the house where the
rabbi lived from 1934 to 1939.
"For the first time in the history of
Dnepropetrovsk, a memorial plaque
to a Jewish spiritual leader was affixed

and dedicated!" said Oleg Rostovtzev,
a spokesman for the Dnepropetrovsk
Jewish community. "This act rights
and restores the Jewish continuity of
generations."
The local Jewish community
expressed its thanks to the Stupeni
business center for its financial dona-
tion to cover the restoration, memorial
plaque and hall.
Schneerson lived in Nikolayev until
1909, when he was appointed to serve
as rabbi of Yekaterinoslav, which is
now Dnepropetrovsk. In 1939, he was
arrested by the Communist regime for
his stance against the party's efforts to
eradicate Jewish learning and practice
in the Soviet Union. After more than
a year of torture and interrogations
in Stalin's notorious prisons, he was
sentenced to exile to the interior of
Russia, where he died in 1944.
Schneerson was a distinguished
kabbalist. Most of his writings
were burned or confiscated by the
Soviet authorities and have yet to be
returned to the Chabad movement,
which has waged a long battle to
retrieve them. ❑

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E.U. won't bar Israeli airliners.

Ynet.com

T

he Israeli Transportation
Ministry's Civil Aviation
Authority (CAA) announced
Sunday that the European Union
Commission will not be downgrading
Israel's airlines safety rankings.
The announcement followed a
February memorandum by the
International Air Transport Association
(IATA) informing Israeli airlines that
they must upgrade their safety and
security measure or risk being turned
away from European Union airports.
IATA is an international trade body,
which represents some 230 airlines
comprising 93 percent of the world's
scheduled international air traffic.
According to Transportation Ministry
officials, who met with the head of the
EU's foreign airlines safety division, the
European Union will not be making
any changes to El Al, Arkia and Israir's
safety rankings.
The European Union, added a min-
istry source, is content with Israel's
efforts to improve aviation safety. Israel

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is now trying to restore its Category-1
safety status in the U.S., after the U.S.
Federal Aviation Administration down-
graded its aviation safety ranking in
late November.
Meanwhile, Israel's Israir Airlines
recently topped the IATA Operational
Safety Audit (IOSA) and was awarded
the organization's highest safety rank-
ing.
Israir has thus joined 350 interna-
tional airlines, including Israel's own El
Al, that have been awarded the presti-
gious safety ranking.
"We are pleased to be officially
inducted into the list of airlines which
qualify for the IOSA safety ranking':
Amir Porat, Israir's deputy director of
operations, told Ynet."Israir always
strives to improve its airline safety and
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