2 — THE BULLETIN - Thursday, August 23,1990
Levy, E;C. to meet over office
^BRUSSELS — Israeli for- handled by the B.C. mission in
esign Mnister David Levy will Tel Av headed by Ambas-^eivath the foreign mim^ Morgan. It
jti^s^ European rbgardsthe decision to open a
eommiim^^ countries here in special supervisory office as a Sefjfeiiibeiv f^^ by the Europeans to
that cbuld help shape E.C. grant the Territories a separ-
diplpmatic intervention in the ate political status.
Middle East.
The issue will be discussed with Levy, Belgian foreign minister Mark Eyskens said in an interview published m La Libre Belgique. »
He said Belgium has offered its consulate in East Jerusalem to serve aS headquarters of the special E.C. representative in the Territories. Eyskens also told the newspaper he had no objections to raising the status of the PLO office in Brussels. jta
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COMMERCIAL MESSAGE: Soviet Chamber of Commerce president Vladislav Malkevitch, on visit to Israel, shalces hands with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Malkevitch arrived to establish links wiih members of Israeli Chamber of Commerce. «
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y. ."iiiew strains developed
/- New strains have developed pyer.tHe EC's announcement in Jiii^^^^^^ it will open a permanent bffice~to—monitor-
Iraqi leader a hero to West Bank Arabs
relief operations that it pays for in the West Bank and Gaza
JERUSALEM — Iraqi   and, in fact, heads the secular president Saddam Hussein,   leftist Ba'ath party, hisexhor-ostracized by the Western   tations to an Islamic holy war powers;aindTnt>stof-the^rab—against the Western allies and_ world, has gained the fervent   Israel have elicited a powerful
and its allies which are deployed on Saudi soil,*' the cable read. "We hope that you will act to purify Jhe places
While Israel has no objection iri principle, it believes the iribriitbring tasks can be
WoukfShiamlr honored
TEL AVIV — Among those honored with 1990 jionorary 1^ at Bar-
i^n^ULhiV^sily's. ^^re^ mencement were Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and writer Herman Wouk.
support of Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Thousands Of theni took to the streets last week waving Iraqi and Palestinian Arab flags in demonstrations for the Iraqi leader, and against the Western nations arrayed against him with backing from most Arab League states.
Although Hussein is hardly known as a devout Moslem
response from Palestinian Arabs.
Sheikh Sa'ad al-Din al-Aiami, chairman of the Supreme Moslem Council in Jerusalem, was one of many religious leaders who sent Cables of support to the Iraqi president.
"From Al-Aksa Mosque in Jerusalem, on behalf of the Moslem world,: we strengthen your hands and call on you to get rid of the American army
sacred to Islam in Mecca^nd Medina from the foreign invaders," Alami added.
In Gaza, about 200 Arab youths burned tires and chanted pro-Iraqi slogans. "With spirit and with blood we shall redeem Saddam,''-they shouted. Slogans denouncing "crusading aggression" of the Western powers were painted on walls.
There were similar demonstrations in the West Bank, mainly in Tulkarm and the
OPERgnOlM
Pravda Predicts 300,000
New Immlgmnts
- Pravda the official newspaper of the Communist party reported that an estimated 300,000 Soviet Jews would leave for Israel in the coming year. The newspaper also admitted that "anti-Semitism is growing rapidly in the Soviet Uhiori:*^
Arabs Oppose Soviet Adiyah
• According to ai poll of 1,034 Israeli Arabs, 79.7 percent said they opposed Soviet Jewish immigration. The reasons ^they^gave^ere eithemational or economic. Another finding was that 44.8 percent opposed |i joint Arab-Jewish political list whereas 30.6 percent were in favor.
Back To School For Historians
A group of 30 Jewish histOT rians from the Soviet Union completed a unique, six-week course in Jewish history at the Hebrew University, arranged by the Ministry of Foreign Affalni, in conjunction with
the Jewish Agency. Course participants noted there is still a dearth of publications in Russian on Jewish history, but the situation is improving. A lot of material exists in Russian libraries and hopes are that this material can be uncovered, collated and be made available to the Soviet Jewish public.
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ULPAN in Rishon LeZion (Direct Absorption).
No Need To Pay Parking Tickets!
For the time being new immigrants in Tel Aviv need not pay parking tickets if they can prove theirtraffic offences resulted from incomprehension of the Hebrew language (signs, notice boards) and unfalniliarity with Israeli traffic rules. Tel Aviv municipality will embark upon a massive advertising campaign, in Russian, to explain existing traffic regulations to immigrant drivers. Once this is done, new immigrants will no longer be exempt from paying their tickets.
The special emergency campaign — Operation Exodus — Is being conducted by the Jewish Federation In conlunctlon with the Combined Jewish Appeal.
Israeli canGer fund gives $2jii|llion
f During the State of Israel's early days, many government officials were eager to seek status. One middle-management type was in a real rush.
> Seeing a well-dressed visitorat his office door, the bureaucrat iried to impress him by getting into an imaginary telephone Conversation as he arrived. \ : "Hello, Prime Ministier Ben-Gurion? Glad you could call!" he exclaimed into the phone. "Sorry, I can't come to your house for dinner tonight;- HoW about Thursday? Sounds fine? Great!
' After he hung up, he asked the stranger: "Howdo you do, sir? i don't believe we've met."
I "Oh, I'm from the phone company. I'm just here to install your new phone."
NEW YORK — Stars of science, stage and screen gathered recently to celebrate the Israel Cancer Research Fund, awarding over $2 million in grants to 97 Israeli scientists and doctors this year.
ICRF celebrity friends Joseph Papp, Robert Merrill and Howard Cosell joined Dr. Robert Gallo, the co-discoverer of the cause of AIDS, to mark the first time ICRF has granted over $2 million in a
single year. Since giving its first grants in 1976, ICRT has awarded 602 grants valued at $9.4 million in pursuit of the cure for Cancer.
Beginning in 1991, a fellowship named for producer; Joseph Papp will be granted^ every year to a young cancerl researcher beginning his op. her career in Israel. ICRF also announced plans for a special campaign to help newly arrived Soviet doctors and scientists. Jta
Nablus casbah. In both places, marchers carried large portraits of Hussein and PLO chairman Yasir Arafat.
Leaflets urging Arab leaders to support Hussein were distributed in the two towns. One leaflet noted that "Iraq's leader has shown consistency in his solid support for the Palestinians, both materially and financially."
Baghdad has, in fact, served as a centre for many PLO institutions, and Hussein has emerged recently as one of the strongest supporters of the Palestinian Arabs. The PLO's backing of him therefore came as no surprise to Israelis.
The East Jerusalem weekly Al'Nadwa reported that 60 percent of Israel's Arab citizens also support the Iraqi leader. Palestinian Arab demonstrators in the Territories explained that they consider him the new strongman of the Middle East who might upset the strategic balance in the region in favor of the Arabs against Israel. They fear if Hussein fails, it will mean another setback for the Palestinian Arab cause.
So far, only one Palestinian Arab leader has publicly warned that Hussein's aggression could backfire. Mayor Elias Freij of Bethlehem pointed out two weeks ago that the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait diverted attention and sympathy from the Palestinian Arabs and focused instead on oil. jta
African music - at Bar-llan!
TEL AVIV — A university with a religious-Zionist orientation is offering a course in -^African-dttimming^Ahoiit2(L students are learning complex African drumming and marimba techniques on the Bar-llan campus.
^hey are being taught by: Mark Yampolsky, an Israeli jazz drummer who immigrated in 1972 from Kiev and has spent timein Kenya; and a professional Ghanaian drummer known as Nana who has now settled in Israel. The African music classes are part of the music department's burgeoning ethnbmusicology program.
These two musicians are also the nucleus of an African performing group called Mijikenda that has performed widely in Israel. Between performing and teaching, Yampolsky and Nana are hoping to introduce as many Israelis as possible to African music.
Two cookis suspected-
JERUSALEM -Mukbal, 24, one of two cooks suspected in the May, 20 murder of Eiri Rerem restaurateur Ya'acov Shalom, 40, has been arrested. Ramallah resident Bassam Abu Sain-miye was still being sought.
Dark day for drivers
TEL AVIV — Traffic snarls locked up Tel Aviv's major intersections when a power outage caused the city's central traffic light computer to break down. Tel Aviv police received dozens of calls to help people stuck in elevators during the blackout.
Yugos fly to Israel
JERUSALEM — Israel will give landing rights to the Yugoslav national carrier J AT and to Adria, which has had Israeli flights for more than two years. J AT will start such flights after Yugoslavia and Israel begin diplomatic relations.
Neo-Nazis strong in East Germany?
AMSTERDAM — Neo-Nazism in East Germany is far more than a marginal phenomenon, according to a documentary broadcast on Dutch television.
The program, called Focus, maintained that neo-Nazis are much stronger in East Berlin today than in most parts of West Germany. They are very well organized, and require the full-time attention of the Criminal Investigation Division, which has assigned some 30 operatives to watch the movement, the documentary said.
Vatican casts eye on Jewish faith
ROME
'Particular
study ought to be given to Judaism," states a recently-issued Vatican document, to serve as the base for a worldwide synod of bishops here on the training of priests.
Judaism is the only non-Xluisiianiaitlrsingledtmt-for-special notice.
Lee movie judged mo' worse
NEW YORK - The portrayals of two Jewish jazz club owners in Spike Lee's new movie Afo' Better Blues were described by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith as "offensive and ste-reotypically anti-Semitic."
"Spike Lee's characterization of Moe and Josh Flat-bush as greedy and unscrupulous club owners dredges up an age-old and highly dangerous form of anti-Semitic stereotyping." said ADL national director Abraham Foxman.