Page 4-THE NEWS-November, 1988
WORLD BEAT
edited by Marta Garelik
Portugal to Upgrade
Ties with Israel
PARIS (JTA) - Portugal
will soon upgrade its diplo
matic representation in Israel.
President Mario Soares of
Portugal told Israeli Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres here
that his country has decided
to appoint a resident ambassa
dor to Israel and will do so “in
a matter of months.”
Portugal presently has a
non-resident ambassador ac
credited to Israel. Israel main
tains a fuU diplomatic mission
in Lisbon, headed by a career
foreign service offici£d with
ambassadorial rank.
Israel and Czech Diplomats
Show Good Will
ROME (JTA) - An exhibi
tion titled “Marvels of the
Ghetto,” which opened in the
northern Italian town of Fer
rara, became the background
for an unexpected show of cor
diality and good will between
Israel and Czechoslovakia.
The opening of the exhibit,
devoted to Jewish culture smd
art, including a segment from
Czechoslovakia, was attended
by the deputy prime minister
of Czechoslovakia, Matei
Lucan. He and Israel’s ambas
sador to Italy, Mordechai
Drory, joined in a toast, in
Hebrew.
The exhibit, which was for
mally opened by President
Francesco Cossiga of Italy, is
devoted to Jewish art and
culture from the Emilia-
Romagna region of Italy.
One section features Jewish
treasures from Prague, which
were rescued from the Nazis.
These include 200 objects
from synagogues and muse
ums in Czechoslovakia, tex
tiles, engravings, furnishings,
silver and paintings.
Much of it was earmarked
by Hitler for “a museum of an
extinct race,” to be estab
lished after the Jews were
exterminated.
The exhibit will be open in
Ferrara until Jan. 15, after
which it will tour Europe.
Arabic to be Compulsory
Course in Israeli Schools
JERUSALEM (JTA) - The
study of Arabic is being made
compulsory in Israel’s public
education system, for the first
time since the state was founded
in 1948.
Education Minister Yitzhak
Navon established the policy
at the start of the current
school year. Until now, Arabic
was a required subject only in
the element£u-y grades. Over
the next six years, it will
become part of the general
curriculum.
Arabic language studies
have been hampered by a lack
of qualified teachers and hos
tility on the part of parents
and pupils. Nevertheless, the
study of Arabic has increased
by 30 percent in recent years.
The Education Ministry, cit
ing the need for Arabic-speak
ing soldiers in the Israel
Defense Force, has established
a new department devoted
solely to advancing instruc
tion in the Arabic language
and culture.
With instruction expanded,
it seems likely that Arabic will
replace French as the second
favorite foreign language
among Israelis, after English.
Ex-Nazis Stripped of
Naturalization Papers
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
Two Nazi war criminals living
in the United States, Stefan
Reger and Juris Kauls, were
ordered denaturalized by two
different judges.
Reger, 63, of Yardville, N.J.,
was denaturalized by U.S. Dis
trict Court Judge Clarkson
Fisher in Newark, N.J. on the
basis of his service as an SS
guard at the Auschwitz II
(Birkenau) concentration camp
between 1943 and 1945.
Kauls, 75, of Sun City, Ariz.,
was denaturalized by U.S. Dis
trict Court Judge Robert
Bloomfield in Phoenix by a
default judgment based on
Kauls’ failure to respond to
government charges that he
served at a Nazi concentration
camp in Latvia during World
War II, and concealed that
service from federal immigra
tion officials.
The two actions were among
the 29 cases pending before
U.S. courts brought by U.S.
district attorneys and the
Justice Department’s Office of
Special Investigations, which
searches out and tries to
prosecute accused Nazi war
criminals living in the U.S.
Polio Virus Surfaces Near
Lod and Hadera
(JTA) — The mass vaccina
tion of the entire 150,000
residents of the Hadera area
was begun after an outbreak
of poliomyelitis (infantile
pardysis) there was confirm
ed. The immunization pro-
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Residents of a sprawling
slum along the railroad tracks
between Lod and Ramla were
being given polio vaccinations,
following discovery of the
polio virus in sewage from the
area.
The Health Ministry was
reported to be considering vac
cination of the entire popula
tion of the Lod-Ramla region,
since the water samples, part
of a nationwide testing pro
gram, proved contaminated.
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Israeli health authorities ex
plained that some infants can
not absorb the Sabin vaccine,
which passes through their
system and winds up in sew
age. That may be one cause of
the appearance of polio in the
Hadera area, they said.
The ministry stressed that
there is no polio epidemic in
the country. Rather, an unex
pectedly high number of cases
have been diagnosed and the
cause is being investigated.
Israeli Satellite
Functioned Well
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Ofek
One, Israel’s first space
satellite, weighs 343 pounds.
The octagonal-shaped satel
lite, manufactured in Israel, is
circling the globe every 90
minutes.
Ofek — the word means
Horizon — was hurled into
space by an Israeli-made,
three-stage Shavit rocket. The
launching site was Palmachim
beach, just south of Tel Aviv.
According to foreign news
reports, the Shavit is based on
the Jericho III solid-fuel
rocket developed by Rafael,
Israel’s weapons development
authority.
The first stage plunged into
the sea. The other two stages
will continue in low orbit until
they are burned out by atmos
pheric friction.
Ofek is believed to be the on
ly space satellite traveling
from east to west. It was
launched in that direction to
make sure the first stage fell
into the sea and to avoid de
bris dropping on any neighbor
ing country.
But some have insisted it
was because Hebrew is written
from right to left, unlike most
alphabets.
The successful launch made
Israel the eighth country in
the world capable of sending
an object into orbit. The So
viet Union launched the first
satellite. Sputnik, in 1957,
followed by the United States
a year later.
Other members of the “Space
Club,” in order of entry, are
Japan, France, China, Britain
and India. Brazil is expected
to become the ninth member,
after Israel.
Jewish Groups Giving
Aid to Bangladesh
NEW YORK (JTA) - Jew
ish relief organizations have
stepped in to collect funds for
areas devastated by Hurricane
Gilbert and for Bangladesh,
which has been ravaged by
flooding.
The Boston-based American
Jewish World Service has
raised more than $18,000 on
behalf of Bangladesh, where
flooding that began in late
August killed more than 500
and dislocated hundreds of
thousands.
The AJWS also will focus on
reconstruction programs in
Jamaica, where Hurricane Gil
bert left 500,000 homeless,
and in Mexico, where the des
truction was even worse.
Earmarked contributions to
either Bangladesh or the
Caribbean can be sent to
American Jewish World Ser
vice, 729 Boylston Street,
Boston, Mass. 02116; or to
American Jewish Joint Distri
bution Committee, 711 Third
Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017.
Tid-Bits
BONN (JTA) - Neo-Nazi
activist Karl-Heinz Hoffmann
lost his appeal against a nine-
and-a-half-year jail sentence.
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