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Ma'ariv, a Tel Aviv daily which was often sympathetic to the government in the past, commented on the austerity package: "Today is the day when tlie illusions of the Israeli economy are being shattered."
One more illnsion was broken yihen Yoram Aridor, tlie third finance minister in six years, resigned after liis plan to linl( the shelcel to the U.S. dollar was roondiy rejected.
Aridor, who had hoped to break the automatic linkage between workers' wages and inflation, proposed to replace the shekel with the dollar as legal tender.
Aridor's idea, which came to light in an exclusive newspaper story, might have chipped away  at the
inflation rate. But it would have contributed to higher unemployment and perhaps have undermined Israel's independence.
Shamir, mindful of the vulnerability of his creaky coalition, killed - Aridor's "dollarization" scheme by announcing: "I heard the idea in the last few days, I never regarded it as a plan, just food for thought . . . There was no intention of adopting it. It was not realistic. It could not be implemented."
By Monday, Oct. 17, Shamir had replaced Aridor, who set off a wave of wild consumer spending in 1981 when he cut import taxes.
Yigal Cohen-Orgad, 46, was named the Ulnid's fourth finance minister since 1977. Cohen-Orgad, a basi-nessman and Hemt MK who sat on the Knesset's
finance committee, and who holds an MA degree in economics, beat out the other leading candidate. Energy Mhiister Yitzhak Mo-daiM, for the post.
Shamir had reportedly offered it to Deputy Prime -Minister David Levy, but he was not interested. There had been speculation that Ezer Weizman, the former defence minister who resigned in 1980, would get the nod.
The Labor Party, which earlier spurned a suggestion by Shamir to join a national unity government, is now expected to introduce a motion of non-confidence in the government. It will probably be tabled this week.
With his slim majority in the Knesset, Shamir should have no trouble defeating the motion. Shamir, who has promised to continue Be-
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shifts in foreign policy over the years have been influenced by the fact that Canada has become an active trading partner with many Middle Eastern countries.
"Our hope is that Canadian policy will not merely be seen through economics," she added.
She believes however that this "lopsidedness" does not negate "the basic support and uri-derstanding that Canada shows for.Israel."
The CIC, originally sponsored by B'nai B'rith, Canadian Jewish Congress and Canadian Zionist Federation, has been expanded to a board of 34 members representing the larger Jewish communities across Canada and including certain individuals co-opted for their expertise in community relations.
The aC's mandate remains the same as when it was fonnd^: ^*to speak and act on behalf of the organized Jewish community on all matters related to Canada-Israel pablic affairs." It works with government, media, business groups, labor and reUgious and service organizations, supplying information on the Middle East^ both current and historical.
Gross plans to place a: good deal of emphasis on educational programs for  "the grassroots,"
that will allow Canadians, Jewish and non-Jewish, access to the facts on Israel. According to Gross, a survey, conducted by Martin Goldfarb earlier this year for the CIC on the Canadian public's attitude to the Arab-Israel conflict and Jews in Canada, revealed no disturbing surprise.
"All pur work should be an attempt to explain the vulnerability of Israel in a perspective Canadians understand. The word 'security' means little in Canada where there are thousands of miles of undefended borders," said Gross. Little sense can be found talking about the Lebanon war, for example, when an audience does not even have at its disposal such basic facts as Israel's geography, population or strategic position, she said.
This is the lesson learned from the summer of 1982, when reportage by the media of the war, "with certain exceptions, was characterized by unfairness, omissions and distortions."
Despite differences which may have emerged within the Jewish community on Israeli government policies or the kind of society Israel should be since the Lebanon war, "Canadian Je\yry remains united in its support of Israel, Gross said.
Ben Prossin, of Sack-ville, NS, succeeds Mrs. Gross as vice-chairman of the CIC.
Others on the board include: Harold Buch-wald, Phil Givens, Myer Bick, Mirial Small, Rabbi Benjamin Friedberg, Milton Harris, Ed Waitzer, B.J. Fine-stone, Sam Filer, Don Jubas, Alan Borden, Harry Bick, Charles Goldlust, JoeAin.
Also Phil Granovsky,/ Naomi Frankenberg, Charles Smith, Lois Sorokin, Lyle Smordin, Yitz Feldman, Charles Dalfen, Lloyd Newman, Rabbi Erwin Schild, Frank Diihant, Leon Kronitz, Alan Rose, Walter Hess, Aaron Pollock, Norman May, Rabbi Gunther Plant.
Mark Resnick is the national executive director.
gin's broad policies, has a majority because he accommodated himself to two minor parties.
To woo Tami, whose constituency is mostly North African Jews, lie pledged to trim some taxes.
To mollify the Ultra-religious Agudat Yis-rael, he, agreed to pass legislation this winter designed to satisfy the Orthodox, who comprises a minority of Israel's population.
According to reports, Shamir will back the Who is a Jew bill, specifying that conversions to Judaism must be done solely by Orthodox rabbis, and an archeology bill, which would restrict digs in areas where human remains are found.
In addition, Shamir has reportedly promised more funds for Orthodox religious schools and has undertaken to try to relocate a planned swimming pool in Jerusalem which has offended elements in the religious community.
Having secured his flanks by enlisting the support of several of the marginal parties, Shamir appears able to stave off the chorus of criticism which his economic measures haye triggered.
Last Sunday, within days of a scramble by Israelis to buy an estimated $1.2 biUion worth of U.S. dollars, the His^ tadrut — the main labor federation — called a 2-hour "warning strike" against the government.
About one million workers in schools, industry, banks and offices left their jobs, protesting a proposal to reduce cost-of-living increases.
Histadrut claims that 70% of the Israeli work force took part in the protest, which was not intended to disrupt pro-
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Yoram Aridor, IsraePs third finance minister in six years, resigned after tlie cabinet rejected iiis plan to link the shekel to the U.S. dollar. [IPPA photo]
duction. The objective was to serve notice on the government that labor would fight to block Shamir's efforts to lower the standard of living.
With the economy in a mess, relatively few Israelis were able to focus attention on another development: the introduction of an advanced Soviet surface-tb-surface mobile missile system to Syria.
The SS-21, which could hit targets in Israel and Lebanon, has a range of some 75 miles. President Ronald Reagan reacted by "wondering out loud" whether Syria — which has approximately 40,000 troops in Lebanon — is interested in a regional peace settlement.
• In Lebanon, two more American marines were killed, the victims of sniper bullets. This
brought to six the number of marines killed since last September.
• Four Israeli soldiers were wounded when a religious festival in the
Lebanese town of Naba-tiye grew riotous. The incident gave Israelis who want a pullout from Lebanon more ammunition for their argument.
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Prime Minister Bob Hawke has given assurances that the Australian government would require clear commitments from the Arab League that any office it may be permitted to establish in Australia would not engage hi any boycott activities against Israel or Australian citizens or firms trading with Israel.
Furthermore, Hawke said the activities of any such office would be carefully monitored and any breaches of this
commitment would lead to the office's closure.
These assurances were given by Hawke to a delegation of Jewish communal leaders who met with him in. Canberra. The delegation conveyed the community's profound concern at last week's Middle East policy statement by the government announcing it would consider allowing an Arab League office and permit unofficial contacts with the FLO at the ambassadorial level.
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