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abandoned Lavi project seem
like “a drop in the bucket,"
according to senior military
sources. They believe that
Israel should not get involved
in another project that could
end in total f^ure and that
the defense establishment
must carry out thorough
checks before making a final
decision about participation in
the project.
Israel has been invited to
participate in the “Arrow”
anti-tactical ballistic missile
project, which is part of the
SDI program, known popular
ly as “Star Wars.”
According to administration
figures ba^ on Israeli esti
mates, the cost of the develop
ment stage of the project will
be some $420 million.
Jews in the Arab World
About 40,000 Jews now live
in the entire Arab world, com
pared to more than one million
before the State of Israel was
established in 1948. About
25,000 Jews live in Morocco,
where they enjoy “peace and
freedom,” 45,000 Jews live in-
Syria, where they are “op
pressed and their movement is
limited,” and the rest live in
small Jewish communities
throughout the Arab world.
The Jews in Syria are not
oppressed as before, but the
reality is that their freedom of
Vandals Strike Jewish Sites in Chicago and New York
(JTA)
Vandals struck Jewish sites
in two major metropolitan
areas on the 49th anniversary
of Kristallnacht, when hun
dreds of synagogues and
Jewish-owned businesses were
destroyed in Austria and
Germany.
Chicago police investigated
what appeared to be an organ
ized attack on Jewish-owned
shops along the 2900 block of
Devon St. and in the city’s
Albany Park neighborho^,
and on three synagogues in
the predominantly Jewish
West Rogers Park area.
The Chicago attack seemed
to represent a deliberate at
tempt to mimic Kristallnacht.
Storefront windows were
smashed and swastikas were
drawn on the walls of Con
gregation KINS and Temple
Beth El. Both synagogues also
had windows and glass doors
smashed. This was the first
act of anti-Jewish vandalism
recorded by the Chicago
chapter of ADL since the
Jim Dale Named
National Chairman
Sabra Society
Jim Dale, the Tony Award-
winning actor/singer now star
ring in the hit Broadway
musical, “Me and My Girl,”
will serve as 1988 National
Chairman of the Sabra Socie
ty, an honor society of the
Israel Bond Organization’s
New Leadership Division.
Previous National Chairmen
of the Sabra Society include
Robert Klein, Rita Moreno,
Liv Ullmann, Jane Alexander,
Elliott Gould, Marvin Ham-
lisch, Gabe Kaplan and Mike
Burstyn.
The Sabra Society is a na
tional organization of young
business and professional men
and women in Jewish commu
nities throughout the United
States and Canada who aid
Israel’s economic upbuilding
by purchasing $l,000-or-more
in Israel Bonds annuaUy.
Holocaust monument in
Skokie was defaced on June 1.
In Yonkers, N.Y. the Mid-
chester Jewish Community
Center was defaced. Swastikas
in gray spray paint and the
slogan “Heil Hitler” covered
the front, sides and entrance
of the building, including a
decorative menorah sculpture
adorning the front wall.
Office staff at Midchester, a
synagogue and community
center, said they could
remember no similar event
there. About 200 persons, in
cluding local priests and
pastors, attended an interfaith
service at the synagogue to
protest the anti-Semitic de
facement and show neighbor
hood solidarity.
'Skinhead’ Arrested
in Chicago Vandalism
A 22-year-old Chicago man
with links to at least two neo-
Nazi groups was arraigned
and charged with breaking
windows and painting swas
tikas on the w^ls of a Jewish
movement within the country
is still limited, and most im
portant, they are not allowed
to leave the country at all. For
all practical purposes there is
no Jewish community in Iraq
today. There are about 200 in
dividual Jews in all Iraq who
chose to stay there for per
sonal reasons, mainly inter
marriage. The Jewish commu
nity there was the oldest in the
world, with a tradition span
ning 2,600 years.
More Jews left and were ex
pelled from the Arab countries
than the 600,000 Palestinian
refugees who lost their homes
and fled from Israel in 1948.
What really happened in reali
ty is an exchange of popula-
meat market.
William G. Leinberger said
that he damaged the Jewish-
owned business on Chicago’s
north side during the night of
Nov. 9-10, the 39th anniver
sary of Kristallnacht. He is a
member of the Chicago-area
“skinheads,” youth gangs who
preach violence against Jews,
blacks and other minority
groups.
Despite Leinberger’s arrest,
police are actively continuing
their investigation of the
“Kristallnacht” vandalism.
Damage inflicted on 11 Jewish
and Korean-owned businesses
and three synagogues indi
cates that more than one per
son was involved.
According to an ADL report
issued in October, “Shaved for
Battle: Skinheads Target
America’s Youth,” the most
active of the white suprema
cist “skinhead” groups
operate in the Chicago area,
and are distinguished by their
shaved heads and punk rock
clothing.
tion between Jews of Arab
countries and Palestinian
refugees.
Egypt to Distance
Itseif from Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA) - The
Egyptian Foreign Ministry
has secretly instructed its em
bassies around the world not
to invite Israeli diplomats in
various countries to festive
Egyptian events, according to
Al-Mustaqbal, a Paris-based,
Arab-language weekly.
The development comes in
the aftermath of Egypt’s re
sumption of diplomatic rela
tions with nine Arab coun
tries.
The weekly also quoted Jor
danian Foreign Minister Taher
Al-Masri as saying that the
Arab summit decision permit
ting member countries to re
new relations with Egypt is
designed to cut Egypt off from
the Camp David accords with
Israel.
Pre-Historic
Human Bones Unearthed
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Human bones dating back
some 8,000 years were found
recently at the site of an an
cient submerged village on the
Mediterranean seabed off
shore from the town of Atlit.
The marine archaeologists
spotted the bones after a
storm that cleared away layers
of sand that had covered
them. They were reported in
an “excellent state of preser
vation.”
Examination of one of the
skeletons detected signs that
the person suffered from an
ear infection common among
sea divers. If this is proven
correct, it would be the first
evidence that human beings
dived for fish in pre-historic
times.
The village itself, under 46
feet of water, was discovered
four years ago. It is believed to
have met its fate at the end of
the last Ice Age, when rising
waters flood^ the coastal
plane.
Tid-Bits
BONN (JTA) — A court in
Oldenberg has banned the
“Horst-Wessel Lied,” a march
ing song of the Nazi SA
associated with violence
against Jews. The court over
ruled a lower court decision in
Lingen that idlowed the tune
to be performed with the origi
nal lyrics.
•
VIENNA (JTA) - Syrians
who served in the German ar
my during World War II have
demanded that the U.S. place
them on its “watch list” so
that they can demonstrate
their solidarity with Austrian
President Kurt Waldheim.
The Syrian branch of the
Oesterreichischer Kamerad-
schaftsbund, Austria’s largest
veterems organization, sent a
petition to the organization’s
headquarters in Vienna. It
said that since they had been
soldiers in the Wehrmacht,
like Waldheim, they want to
share his lot.
•
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Poland
and Czechoslovakia have
given permission to Israeli
commercial planes to fly
through their airspace, lifting
a ban imposed when those
countries broke diplomatic
relations with Israel during
the 1967 Six-Day War.
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