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BULLETIN — Thursday, March 25.1993
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By JfpSEPH kOPEL
BRUSSEILS (JTA) — Despite recent lobbying here by the Syrian foi^ignminisr ter, the Europiean Parliament has narrowly blocked the release of a long-withheld financial aid package to Syria because of that country's poor human rights ; -record.:
The vote marked the third time ill a year that European Community financial aid to painascus was denied.
The European Parliament, based in Strasbourg, France, has the power to veto agreements between the E.C. Executive Commission and non-E.C. countries.
It voted 249^75 with 29 abstentions on the proposal to provide $184 million in financial aid to Syria. But since the motion failed to be supported by the requisite nurhber of 260 votes, the aid package was denied.
Of the European Parliament's 518 members, jiis| 353 were present during the vote.
During the debate on the ^ proposal, the E.C. commisr sioner in charge of external
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Anfar Asugan of Ethiopia won the Tel Aviv marathon in two hours, 21 niinutes and 23 seconds.
Asugan, who failed to set any records for the Israeli course, was followed a few minutes later by Jose da Silva of Brazil.
This year's marathon, the 13th, took place in cOol weather. It caused less traffic problems than in previous years because the : route had been altered to shift runners away from the central streets of the city.
The marathon. Organized by Histad rut's Happel sports club, is said to be the only major footrace worldwide held oh city streets on a normal workday.
Apart from the Olympid marathoh, all other marathons take place on weekends.
This year, following loud arid angry protests by motorists of the traffic snarls caused by the runners, some 1,000 runners took off from the sports stadiuni at Hadar Yosef on the north-em e4ge of Tel Aviy.
affairs, Hans van den Broek, stressed Syria's important role in the Middle East peace process, but also insisted that Syria must let its Jews leave the country if they wish to dp SO;
Jews had been permitted to leave Syria On travel visas since April 1992/ But last October, the steady flow came nearly to a halt and has remained at barely a trickle ever since.
The European Parliament also criticized Syria for harboring Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner since the 1950s.
Last month, Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa visited the E.C. headquarters in Brussels and lobbied European leaders to release financial aid to Damascus.
During Sharaa's visit, Nazi-hunter Beate Klarsfeld demonstrated here with the support of the Green bloc in Parliament and insisted that any aid to Syria be linked to the respect of human rights and Brunner's extradition, long sought by Germany and
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TEL AVIV — A military court formally charged Mohammed Salah, a Palestinian American, with fun-neling motiey to the Islamic furidamentalist organization Hamas. Salah, who appeared before a court in the West Bank city of Ramallah, is one of two Americans of Palestinian descent arrested in January for raisingfuhds for Hamas,
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SEVEN-Y^AR-OLD VOva Shiein and his brother Naftall, 13, whowere reunited at Ben-Gurlon Airport, were among 84 Jewish children flown to Israel by the Chabad Children of Chernobyl Project. The youngsters had been exposed to massive radiation doses following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. The latest airlift brought the number of children Chabad has rescued from the area to nearly 1,000, according to project director Rabbi YossleRaichlk. "We are determined to fulfill the requests of the parents to bring out children until the fast one is rescued," said Rabbi Yosef Aronov, director of the Chabad Youth Organization.
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Some 200 raced the full course and another 800 sped aloiig a mini-niarathon that is half the length of the official course.
Another 3,000 took part in a short "fun run** along a course of some 3.7 miles. It is billed for "the very young and the very old, and anyone between the two extremes.**
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"I bought the gun two years ago, at the time I started working in the Territories," he said, "but I didn't feel compelled to carry it at other times.
"These days, I wear the gun not so much for personal safety reasons — I dbn*t feel that much safer with it, to tell you the truth — but because I would never forgive myself if I encountered a terrorist and the guri was sitting in a drawer back home;."
Bergstein does not advocate issuing gun permits to all citizens, however. "While I trust that those jpeople who already have permits will use their guns responsibly, the idea that every home should have a gun smacks of vig-ilantism,** he said; "A gun permit isn't a right; it's a
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Guinness Book of World Records has made it official: 17 students at Hadassah Hotel Management College in Jerusalem have baked the world's largest haniantash.
Actually^ they put together 1,800 small hamanta-shen aiid cemented them together with a sugar, jam and crumb paste.
The triangular cookie weighed 550 pounds and included 198 pOunds of flour, 350 eggs, 17.6 pounds of poppy seed and 50.6 pounds of margarine. It was 4.5 feet long on each side and 3.5 feet high.
The hamantash was split in two, with half going to the children at Hadassah Children's Pavilion on Mount Scopus, and the rest given to Ethiopian stu-^ dents at a Hadassah preparatory course in Jerusalem.
Lawyers from the Guinness Book of World Records approved it as an entry for next year's edition.
The problem was not so much how to assemble it, but how to get it out the door, said Wendy Hirsch-born, spokesperson for.Hadassah in New York.
responsibility."
Electrician Gidi Yacoby maintains that he will never pack a gun, despite growing fears for his family's safety.
"Events over the past month have definitely Worried me," he admitted. "I'm not afraid for myself, but I'm scared to death that something will happen to my wife and 1-1 /2-yea!r-old son."; ■/■';
; Yacoby said his wife'scar was recently stoned in Abii Tor, an Arab-Jewish neighborhood where his son goes to prieschoOl. "They're constantly torching cars there, for Gkl's sake^' he lamented.
Still, he said, "I don't - carry a weapon. I'm too hot-tempered. I know that if I had a gun and I felt threatened, I would shoot first and ask questions later.
"Terrorism is frightening, but so is the thought of hotheaded people like me walking around with guns."
Despite recent terror incidents. Erica Farber, a tourist from Long Islaiid, said she feels "safer in Israel than I do in New York."
While she said she understands the concern of many Israelis, she does nOt share it.
"I've heard a lot about terror since I've been here," said the 19-year-old, "but I'm not at all afraid. I'm hot looking over my shoiilder."
In deference to her Israeli cousins, Farber does not hitchhike, and she informs her fanjily where she is
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Friedberg, who was found dead on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, immigrated from Montreal two years ago. He disappeared March 7 when he was en route to the Tel Hashomer army base, where he was scheduled tb take an exam^
Friedberg's friends and family have complained that the army delayed investigating his case for several days. They charged that despite their repeated calls beginning March 7, the army did • not begin a full search until four days later.
The army defended its actions, saying the military police were notified On the morning of March 8 that Friedberg had not showed up for his exam the day before. ■ .'y.::
Friedberg, also a yeshiva student, was due to be discharged frOni the army in two weeks.
in Montreal, the Canadian Jewish Congress extended its condolences to Friedberg's family.
arrested a fourth Palestinian American in the West Bank village of Ramallah for engaging in hostile anti-Israeli activities. Reports said the man, suspected of involvement with militant Islamic fundamentalist groups, was identified as Anwar Hamdah, 33, from Pennsylvania.
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Israeli government is against a private member's bill that would let ex-residents of two Arab villages in the Galilee rebuild homes from which they were evacuated by the army in 1949. The High Court of Justice upheld Ikrit and Bir'im villagers'demands to restore - the destroyed houses, but did not set a deadline.
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"Honestly, I feel very safe here," she said, "but I'm from New York, so every-
A rabbi was visiting a Jewish school, and in one of the classes thought he would question the pupils to determine the suitability of the teacher. ^ c V
"Who knocked down the walls of Jericho?" he asked one
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"It wasn't me. Sir," the boy replied. f ,
Turning to the embarrassed teacher, the rabbi said, "I
suppose that's how well you teach them." "Now rabbi,^ said the teacher, "Moishe's a good boy and
doesn*t tell lies. If he says he didn't do it, I believe him." Disgusted, the rabbi took the matter to the school board.
After considering the matter for some time, the board sent
the following message to the rabbi: "We see no point in making an issue of the matter. The
board will pay for the damage done to the wall, and chargeit
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Dr: Albert Sabin, a wOrld-renowned virologist who developed the oral polio vaccine, has died of congestive heart failure in Washington at 86.
Also a physician and microbiologisty Dr. Sabin delved into the possible role of viruses in human cancer. He developed the oral polio vaccine after researching a cure for the disease from 1931-1961. The vaccine jnade use of live altered polio jasjses. ^
Bormann died in Paraguay?
BUENOS AIRES —Nazi war criminal Martin Bor-mann died in Paraguay in 1959, according to files of the Paraguayan police that we re recently discove red and made public,
The finding, if accurate, challenges a widespread belief that BOrmann, who was one of Adolf Hitler's top aides, committed suicide in Berlin in 1945.
A report in the police files said Bormann succumbed to stomach cancerln Hohenau, an insular German-speaking colony i20 miles south of Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital.
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ALTHOUGH DESPERATELY MISSING his wife Jania and la-year-old son Grisha, Russian deputy education minister Alexahder Asmolov doesn't see himself as a candidate foraliyah. JanIa and Grishacame to Israel last June and now live in Jerusalem. Asmolov met them again at Ben-Gurlon Airport before attending an Internationa! symposium on educatioh.
in Bialystok, Russia in 1906, Dr. Sabin immigrated to the United States at age 14. He graduated from New York University Medical Schoolin 1931 and served as a medical officer in the U.S; Artny during the Second World War.
Dr. Sabin was president of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovbt, Israel from 1970-1972. He served on the institute's board of governors for more than 25 years. '.■)':■'
member of the 2,400 Reserve Police Force in Berlin has been the subjectof an investigation for political extreni-Jsm, violence against for-^ - eigners, mishandling children or other offenses^
The reserve force, known as the FPR, recently came under intense fire for having been infiltrated by neo-Nazis.
A spokesman for Berlin police, Gunter Waldow. said 38 members of the force have already been suspended, mostly because of membership in far-right organizations orderhonstra-tions of hatred against foreigners.