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Kndsset called^^ lor a
judicial inquiry into the fatal shooting by police of a resident^of the; Kfar Salemeh slum quarter of Tel Aviv on Dec. 24. Interior .Minister Yosef Buig appointed an examining judge.
The victim, Shimon Yeho-shua, a 29-yearrold Oriental Jew, allegedly opened fire first on police who were suih^ moned to the quarter to quell a disturbance there. The incident touched off a wave of vandalism and defacements against Ashkenazic Jews in Tel Aviv which spread in late December to Jerusalem.
The inquiry was supported
hy allc KiKlsset during thedebate^tlki^ accused the Labor Aligiiment of exploiting the incident for political reasons. The Labor-ites accused. Maybr Shlomo Lehat of Tel Aviv, a member of Likud, ot **selectivi^** in ^enforcing demolitiott ordersu
The trouble arose in Kfor Salameh when municipal workers were sent to demolish an exteiisioif to a dwelling occupied J>y a large fomily who allegedly added a room without the required permiL
Family members and their neighbors pelted the workeis with rocks and burned tires in the street. JTA.
Sabra baby alligator returned
TEL AVIV — Rishon Lezion, Israel's first (and so far only) Sabra alUgator, bom some three months ago to new immigrant pavents from Florida, was letumed home to his incubator at El Hamma alligator Jarm at: Hamat on the Golan Heights after being mysteriously stolen. The ICMnch long alligator was deposited at Acie railroad station.
Keepers at Israel's first alligator farm, where a score of the creatures have settled down after beingflown from Floi that Rishon had been alive and well in its incubator they came to look it over the next day they found a' plastic sheeting and the baby reptile missing. PpUoe had been searehiflig for somebody with a new pet which has a yellow stripe down its back and 40 small teeth. Farm owners had appeaiedcm radio for the *ilnder** to take special care of the baby, which still requires incubation and cats only chopped meatl JTA.
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WZC did not condemn settlements
NEW YORK » The 50th World Zionist Congress which met in late December in Jerusalem did not vote to condemn the settkment policies of Prime Minister Moiachem Begin*s government, contrary to *Yalse and misleading press reports" to that effect, Ivan Novick, president of the Zionist Orj^nization of America and a delegate to the Congress d^hued here.
Novick, |(diairnian of : the Congress* Committee ibn Political Affairs, Information and ExternaT Relations; said the Congress ended with a "heartening display of Jewish unity*^ and the adoption of a series of resolutions affirming the "inalienable right of the Jewish people to Eretz Israel.** It also resolved that "iio Arab state will be established west of the River Jordan.**
The dispute over B^gin's settlement policies arose when the Cbngress plenum approved a Labor Alignment resolution opposing continued settlement in the heavily Arab populated areas of the West Banliaild Gaza Strip. Th^ Congress Presidium refused to accept the vote and a^*go6d wiU^cbm^ consisliiig of repicsentatives of all political factions, was ^pointed to try to achieve a consensus. The lesiptting resolution conceded however that ^The Zionist Congr^ could not reach a consensus on the settlement issue.**
Novick acknowledged thatThere was wsill-to-wall agreement on every major political question except the issue of settlements.*^ ^
But **even on that issue, the Coi^gress reaffirmed that 'settlement constitutes a central expression of the Zionist idea;* - he poiirted out. He said the Congress subeonmnttixion political resolutions refused to consider a freeze or moratorium on settlements,*'but this was ignored by the media.**
Novick said he returned from Jerusalem encouraged and uplifted** by the consensus that emerged from the Congress and by ~the commitment to achieve agreement that Zionist groups from extreme left to exticme right inade manifest.** He noted that the nine resolutions presented to the Plenum irere unanimously adopted by the 651 del^t^'
**The World Zionist Congressdemonstrated once again that divernty^in the Zionist movement is not to be equated with disunhy;** the ZOA president said. "Evciy delegate supported the resolution reading: TheZionist movement and Jewish people support State of Israel in its goal irf'adiieviiigseciinty and peace. The Je:wish people wiO oontiniie to identify with the Jewish State, which fttUais f he yearnings of generations and the vision of natiopal re^ " JTA.
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Yosef Begiiii faces intense Soviet jpiressure
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New ycA Con-<m Soviet Jewry Desl> aad^llauii^^ on Soviet Jewry (NCSII, called imadBaslcr for :Jmet Jewyy.^ Figures rekss^sd b^ tActHpo groups shoiicMl that ^ nanber of JewSv. allowed^ tb enngi
2jfrmfltelondtsni agencies stnrted keeping . ieooii& 12 yean ago.^ JTA.
Israel Kmils selsrecMinl
By ZEEV BEN-SHLOMO
Refuseniks in the SovietUnion and Soviet Jews all over the world have expressed their anxiety over the fate of Dr. Yosef Begun, 50, a former matliematics lecturer who has twice been exiled to Siberia and who was arrested for the third time on November 7.
The Refuseniks stress that his detention not only reflects the Soviet authorities* determination to persecute Dr. Begun, but also represents a threat to any Soviet Jew concerned about Jewish culture. -
These sentiments have been echoed in the West by two former Sovnet^lewis^ ^rwho were closely assodated with Dr; Begun
untd their emigniticm to
From Israel, Professor $enjamin Fain, of Tel Aviv University, issued; a plea to Jewish brganizations all over the worid 'to put aside all-your other affairs, no matter how important th^ are,** and concentrate on efforts to save Dr. Begun from a third prison sentence.
»Dr. Chaim Margulis, who was taught Hebrew by Dr. Begun and was a close 'personal friend, toM me thatan urgent, worldwide campaign was needed to show the Soviet authorities that both Western Jewry and world public opinion are closely following the way in which they are bending or violating their own laws.
. Dr. Begun faces cbai;^ of ''anti-So^et agitation and propaganda," ^ for - which maximum punishment is seven years* jaiL'
A Soviet Jew was now bdng penalized for trying to exercise a ri^t granted to all national minorities in the Soviet Union ^ the right to study and teach XMie*s pwnjanguage. Professor Fain said.
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'^Now, before the trial has started^ theite is still a chance to prevent a calamity . . . Tomorrow might be too late." -**There h^ been no other case in which a man has been punished twice for his
commitment to bis people. Yosef is facing his third trial.** '
Lack of #orld-wide outrage again^ Dr.
Begiin*s first arrest followed the authoritiestd sentence him to two years* exile in the Majgadan region of Siberia — one-of the remot«>t —situated as it is some 6,000 nuks from M oscow, with temperatures plunguig to as low as minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit ii^ winter. JCNS.
Reform marriages a possibility
JfeBUSALEM ^ Supreme Court Justice Meir Shamgar recently proposed a compromise in connection with efforts by Reform rabbis to 9un equals status with the Orthodox ;rdigious estab-
lishmemt
Shaingar suggested that Reform rabbis be permitted to perform marriages in Israel whikjtiie Orthodox wou^ retain theii^prerpgative as registrars of all marriages:
The Orthodox isiveenjoytidl a govenunent-backed monop^ oly of religious functions in, Israel smoe the State nwi formed. Marriages and othor rites^ performed by. non^ Ortkodox rabbis are iwaOid,^
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tion in I9S1 pUsMd $6 billion mark foOowiqg a nation-wide cash ooikBctioncffoit In honor €i Sam Rothbeig, its general chairman, for his 4&ycars of ^iopvice'to IsracL
Bmillgovt uniler fire
BONN, The Bonn gov-emmenthasbeint the target of mounting: pressure^ from the Arab woild because of a perceiveid prorlsrael shiftt in its Middl;; East > poliqr. West l^f^rniiinbv^lomatic sources said ^i^iKecently. ' >The'pressure is being exerted now, they said, because Bonn will assume the rotating dhairmanship of the European Economic Community (EEQ Council of Ministers^ b^inning Januaiy I* im JTA.
'Meirer even nicif aJew'
GENEVA — An oigau-&ation%alkd "Zbmo**, set up in Pkrfaflii'to light against the Soii&ity movement, toM its rticnnb that Sirfidarity was creaud and maaipukited by Jews, acoordiiig to Fina Gi^idski. a Polish political refngtse living in Germany. Giqdski saki inan inteiview in
»Swiss newqwper that he had been a member of '^mo" and heard irf'the aUeged Jew«A connection with Sotid-
ailty.: dwNs; to pdf^VMimi if hebelieved 1^ he f^iid,-In my whote life I
liave never even met a Jew.**
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