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Israel To Delay
Palestinian Revenue
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel
will delay the transfer of tax pro-
ceeds collected for the Palestinian
Authority pending proof that the
money will not
go to the terrorist
Hamas organiza-
tion.
Israeli Finance
Minister Yuval
Steinitz said
Sunday that a
routine transfer of
Yuval Steinitz
$88 million will be
delayed and that
meetings scheduled for this week
between his ministry and P.A. offi-
cials will not take place, according to
reports.
The action is in response to last
week's announcement that the rul-
ing Fatah Party of P.A. President
Mahmoud Abbas, which controls the
West Bank, and Hamas, which con-
trols Gaza, had reconciled and would
form a unity government.
"The burden of proof lies with
the Palestinian Authority to show
that not even one shekel is given to
Hamas and funds terror:' Steinitz
told Army Radio. "Is it certain that
none of the money will be trans-
ferred to a terror organization to
purchase missiles and rockets?"
Israel collects taxes for the
Palestinian Authority as part of
the 1993 Oslo Accord. Tax revenues
transfered to the PA from Israel
amount to $1 billion to $1.4 billion
annually.
Reform Rift Over
Jacobs' Credentials
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — Ads
questioning the Zionist creden-
tials of the leader-designate of the
Reform movement, Rabbi Richard
Jacobs, are a distortion, Reform
leaders said.
The ad attack-
ing Jacobs for
not being suffi-
ciently pro-Israel
appeared in a
number of Jewish
newspapers last
ad f ak
week.
It was
Rabbi Jacobs
placed by a group
of Reform Jews
calling themselves Jews Against
Divisive Leadership.
It notes that Jacobs, the nomi-
nee to be the next president of the
Union for Reform Judaism, is on
the rabbinic cabinet of J Street and
the board of the New Israel Fund,
two left-leaning organizations on
Israel issues.
Three dozen members of U.S.
Reform congregations signed the
ad, which declares that Jacobs
"does not represent the pro-Israel
policies cherished by Reform Jews"
and therefore "does not represent
us.
The ad calls upon the URJ to
reconsider Jacobs' appointment or
risk driving "mainstream Zionists"
out of the Reform movement. The
URJ's board is due to meet in June
to vote on Jacobs' nomination.
Responding in an Op-Ed in the
L.A. Jewish Journal, three Reform
leaders blasted what they call
the ad's "distorted caricature" of
Jacobs. They suggested the "hand-
ful" of signatories are out of touch
with current Zionist norms and
are playing into the hands of right-
wing critics of Jacobs' Zionist cre-
dentials.
Israel Marks
The Holocaust
JERUSALEM (JTA) — "Israel is
the historical commemoration
to the victims of the Holocaust:'
President Shimon
Peres said at a
Yad Vashem cer-
emony marking
Yom Hashoah.
Holocaust
Martyrs'
and Heroes'
Remembrance
Shimon Peres
Day, or Yom
Hashoah, began
Sunday night in Israel with the
national ceremony, where survi-
vors lit six torches representing
the 6 million Jews killed in the
Holocaust.
Among the other rites to com-
memorate the day will be one
remembering Jews who rescued
other Jews from the Nazis.
"The Shoah finally established
that there is no substitute for
a homeland of our own. There
is no replacement for the Israel
Defense Forces," Peres said at the
Yad Vashem ceremony, which was
broadcast on every television
channel in Israel.
Some 208,000 Holocaust sur-
vivors are living in Israel, and
about 35 die each day, according to
the Foundation for the Benefit of
Holocaust Victims in Israel.
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