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■ H
IZBO
LLAH
THR
EA
T L
ebanon's pro-lranian Hizbollah
group vowed its M
uslim m
ilitant fighters w
ould wage suicide raids
on Israeli targets worldw
ide. H
izbollah chief Sheikh N
asrallah told m
ilitants and supporters at a B
eirut mosque: "T
he Zionists are
beginning to understand that they are fighting a kind of people w
ho are not afraid of death."
■ E
INS
TEIN
T
he latest postal stamp show
ing A
lbert Einstein w
as issued this year by T
urkey, and it is the 50th portray-ing him
—in countries from
Aitutaki
to Zaire. T
he artists sometim
e give him
an exotic air—A
frican on the stam
ps from S
t. Thom
as and U
ganda, Asiatic on those from
China
and Vietnam
—and they adorn him
w
ith light beams, laboratory equip-
ment and the fam
ous E=
MC
2.
■ W
RITE
R A
TTAC
KE
D
A N
orwegian-born Jew
ish writer
slashed in an apparent anti-Sem
itic attack last year w
as beaten in her hom
e in Italy by three assailants.
Police are investigating w
hether the assault on M
aria Thaeilm
an G
eelmuyden-B
odil was religiously
motivated. S
he told authorities the attackers appeared to be neo-N
azi skinheads, w
ho harbor anti-Sem
itic and xenophobic view
s.
■ S
WA
STIK
A A
TTAC
K
Dutch police w
ere hunting for three m
en who reportedly branded a
swastika into the forehead of an
Iranian after he stopped to help them
push their stalled van.
"He w
as hit on the forehead with
something, w
e don't know w
hat," said H
aus Plat, police spokesm
an in Z
oetermeer, a w
estern Dutch city.
"He didn't discover the sw
astika until he looked in the m
irror at hom
e."
■ S
EN
TEN
CE
D
Three squad m
embers w
ho in 1993 attacked Jak K
amhi, a T
urkish busi-nessm
an and prominent figure in
the Jewish com
munity of Istanbul,
have been sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined 415 m
illion Turkish
pounds each. The squad fired rock-
ets at Kam
hi's car while he w
as driving to w
ork in Istanbul.
■ S
PY
HU
NT
Argentine P
resident Menem
, speak-ing to reporters on his return from
a visit to S
yria, said that a top A
rgentine spy is in Lebanon hunting
the perpetrators of the car-bomb
attack on the Jewish center in
Buenos A
ires last July. Menem
also said that he had sought help track-ing dow
n the terrorists in his discus-sions w
ith President H
afez-al-Assad.
■ S
TAM
P A
CT
A B
razilian Jewish institute has
been honored by the Post O
ffice.
For eight days last m
onth all the correspondence distributed by the C
entral Post Office in B
elo H
orizonte, capital of the Brazilian
state of Minas G
erais, carried a special cancellation on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Jew
ish Historical
Institute of Minas G
erais.
■ S
OA
RIN
G H
ATE
A
nti-Semitic attacks by neo-N
azis and other rightists in G
ermany
soared in the first nine months of
1994, according to government
figures.
937 attacks directed at Jews or
Jewish property w
ere recorded by federal police up to the en
d o
f Septem
ber, as compared w
ith 656 anti-Sem
itic recorded offenses during all of 1993.
U PR
OTEST
About 2,000 people have protested
in Sindelfingen, Germ
any, against a congress of the far-right R
epublican party, one of the country's largest right-w
ing groups.
The ow
ners of the convention center w
here the congress was being held
had at first refused to rent the hall to the R
epublicans, but a court had ruled that because the party w
as not banned, the ow
ners had to allow the
congress to go ahead.
■ C
ON
VIC
TIO
N
One of G
ermany's m
ost influential neo-N
azis and a driving force behind efforts to create a national neo-N
azi network has been jailed
by a Frankfurt court.
Christian W
orth, who has already
served time in jail for incitem
ent to violence and racial hatred, is credited w
ith masterm
inding the use of hi-tech electronic links and m
ailboxes to connect extrem
e right-wing groups
while keeping them
out of the reach of police and intelligence services.
■ H
ITLER SA
LUTE
Prosecutors in eastern G
ermany
have charged nine suspected right-w
ingers for giving the stiff-armed
Hitler salute and distributing
banned neo-Nazi propaganda.
The spokesw
oman for the prosecu-
tor's office in the eastern city of W
eimar said the nine w
ere believed to be m
embers of the far-right
Viking Y
outh. D
ate
line: W
orld
Jew
ry is issued by the Institute of the World Jew
ish Congress, the research and
publication arm of the W
JC, 501 M
adison Avenue, N
ew Y
ork, NY
10022, USA
.1 Evelyne K
ayess, Editor
9 ■ V
IKIN
GS
OU
T
The G
erman Federal M
inister of the Interior has announced that he outlaw
ed the right-wing extrem
ist organization V
iking Youth.
The group, the oldest right-w
ing extrem
ist youth organization in G
ermany, is estim
ated to have 400 m
embers, m
ostly over the age of 21.
■ FIR
EB
OM
B TR
IAL
Four Germ
an youths went on trial
accused of firebombing a synagogue
in Luebeck last M
arch. Court sources
said the defendants, aged between 15
and 20, were charged w
ith arson and five counts of attem
pted murder in
the attack.
■ C
RA
CK
DO
WN
G
erman police have cracked dow
n on far-rightists in S
axony-Anhalt,
raiding numerous hom
es and seizing w
eapons and neo-Nazi
propaganda.
The police operation w
as directed at 25 m
embers of a rightist group
calling itself the "Middle G
erman
Assistance," w
hich had renamed
itself "Wittenberg Fellow
ship" after a ban im
posed by state justices.
■ D
ES
EC
RA
TION
S
uspected neo-Naxis vandalized
a 160-year-old historic Jewish
cemetery in B
usenberg, in south-w
estern Germ
any. About 50 grave-
stones were toppled, and sw
astikas and slogans like "Jew
s should die" w
ere sprayed.
■ H
ATE
BA
N
The G
erman governm
ent plans to ban several far-right groups, according to a report in new
s m
agazine Der Speigel.
The report said that B
onn would
ask the courts to outlaw the groups,
which "ranted against Jew
ish capitalism
."
U.S
.A.
■ N
OW
YO
U S
EE
IT N
ew Y
ork State prison officials agreed to accept a com
puter image
of a clean-shaven Hasidic rabbi
instead of forcing the imprisoned
Orthodox Jew
to shave his beard and sideburns.
Rabbi Shlom
o Helbrans, 32, claim
ed shaving his facial hair to satisfy prison requirem
ents for photos of inm
ates violated his religious beliefs. A
fter reviewing com
puter im
ages in court, prison officials determ
ined the images could accu-
rately depict Helbran.s as he w
ould appear w
ithout his facial hair.
MI M
EN
OR
AH
S V
AN
DA
LIZ
ED
U
.S. authorities are investigating
the destruction of two public
menorahs at the Jew
ish Com
munity
Center and K
eneseth Beth Israel
in Richm
ond, Virginia. Police have
stated that they will consider this a
hate crime if th
ey find it "was done
in a malicious m
anner directed against a particular group."
E FA
KE
AD
A
full-page ad that ran for four days in the M
iami H
erald and solicited m
oney for a Jewish organi-
zation, called FL
AM
E, w
as a fraud, the new
spaper said. FL
AM
E (or
Facts and Logic A
bout the Middle
East) said that they knew
nothing about the ad.
E M
OV
ING
IN
Several m
ultinational firms have
announced they are setting up shop in Israel.
Am
ong them are D
el Monte F
oods International and healthcare giant Johnson and Johnson, w
hich are establishing Israel subsidiaries, and the N
ew Y
ork based international investm
ent firm M
errill Lynch,
which plans to set up an Israeli
office in 1995.
II MO
SA
IC D
OV
E
A rare color m
osaic has been dis-covered by the Israeli A
ntiquities A
uthority in a Byzantine church
dating between the fourth and
seventh centuries in the center of B
eersheba. The m
osaic depicts a dove w
ith an olive leaf in its beak.
■ R
ELIG
IOU
S R
IGH
TS
The Jordanian governm
ent has agreed to allow
worshippers and
students of Jewish religious schools
to make regular visits to Jew
ish sacred sites in Jordan.
The Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty,
signed on October 26, underlines
the right of Jews to visit all tourist
attractions in Jordan.
■ TO
P TO
MA
TO
The price of tom
atoes has sky-rocketed in Jordan after Israel started im
porting them from
the K
ingdom. In Israel, the price of
tomatoes had reached alm
ost $1.50 a pound, five tim
es their normal
price.
AR
OU
ND
&
AB
OU
T ■
HY
PN
OS
IS
Witnesses of the Panam
anian air-crash w
hich occurred one day after the bom
bing of the Jewish com
mu-
nity center in Buenos A
ires will be
hypnotized and questioned by U.S
. agents as part of the investigation. T
welve of the 21 victim
s of the crash w
ere Jewish and it has been sug-
gested that they may have been the
target of the bombing.
IN LEB
AN
ESE JEWS
A delegation of French Jew
s made
an appeal to the Lebanese govern-
ment to disclose the fate of seven
Lebanese Jew
s abducted between
1984 and 1986, during the civil war
in Lebanon (1975-90). T
he group, from
the Representative C
ouncil of Jew
ish Institutions in France, received a prom
ise from Foreign
Minister F
aris Bouez that he w
ould disclose any inform
ation that the governm
ent receives about the m
issing Jews.
■ S
YN
AG
OG
UE
FIRE
A
rson squad detectives in Australia
are investigating a fire which
severely damaged a M
elbourne synagogue early N
ew Y
ear's Day.
Senior Station Officer C
olin Bibby
of the fire brigade said investigators called in the arson squad after discovering broken w
indows and
accelerant in the altar area. Police are believed to b
e investigating links betw
een this fire and a fire attack on a library for religious books in N
ovember last year.
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• E
XC
EL
LE
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E
111 TRIA
L SET W
ith few exceptions, the 17 Jew
ish secondary schools in B
ritain have been highly placed in a 1994 governm
ent performance table.
=I
Am
ong the scorers were L
ondon's H
asmonean, w
hich was 10th in
comprehensive school placings
nationwide, M
anchester's King
David H
igh, which placed eighth,
and Liverpool's K
ing David H
igh, w
hich placed fifth.
TA
NK
FIN
D
During a search of the hom
es of suspected neo-N
azi extremists
Austrian anti-terrorist police
discovered a tank and an armored
personnel carrier. The discovery w
as m
ade on a farm in the village of
Goepfritz an der W
ild. The vehicles
were reportedly in good w
orking order, and large am
ounts of explo-sives and rifles w
ere also found.
11 HITLE
R'S
BIR
THP
LAC
E
Tow
n councilmen in A
dolf Hitler's
birthplace have rejected plans to nam
e a street and fountain after a key figure of A
ustria's anti-Nazi
resistance, Franz Jaegerstaetter, a
devout Rom
an Catholic w
ho was
executed in 1943. Jaegerstaetter becam
e a symbol of resistance to
the Nazis for refusing to serve in
Hitler's arm
y.
IN P
OP
E P
LA
NS
Israeli F
oreign Minister S
himon
Peres said that P
ope John Paul 11
plans to visit Israel before the end of the century, follow
ing a meeting
with him
in Vatican C
ity. Peres
also spoke about extending the C
hristian-Jewish dialogue to
include the Islamic w
orld in an effort to com
bat fundamentalism
.
Christian D
avid is to be tried before a P
aris court for premeditated m
ur-der follow
ing last year's shooting of R
ene Bousquet. B
ousquet was the
wartim
e chief of the French col-
laborationist Vichy police, and w
as accused of being responsible for a tw
o-day round-up of more than
12,000 Jews by French police in 1942.
HO
TLINE
B
ritain's National U
nion of Students
has opened a 24-hour hotline to com
bat far-right groups spreading propaganda against Jew
s, Blacks,
and gays on campuses. T
he union, w
hose campaign is supported by
the Union of Jew
ish Students and
the anti-fascist magazine S
ea
rchlig
ht,
believes groups such as the British
National P
arty are keen to create a student follow
ing to help sustain credibility.
El S
OC
IAL
IST
PL
ED
GE
T
he Chairw
oman of the S
ocialist G
roup of the European P
arliament,
Pauline G
reen, declared at a meet-
ing in Brussels that the G
roup "is opposed to those w
ho advocate the politics of hate" and that it w
ould fight to stem
the rise of fascism in
Europe, and Italy in particular, in
the coming years. M
rs. Green w
ent on to say that "T
he European U
nion w
as built on the ashes of fascism
and anti-Sem
itism, and let's not
forget that."
■ M
EM
OR
Y
The B
elgian Jewish com
munity,
which lacks archives of its history,
has created a "Foundation of
Contem
porary Mem
ory" to collect and establish w
ritten evidence of events of this century.
The foundation w
ill assemble oral
histories and documents from
the period, including the years of N
azi occupation of B
elgium.
SC
IEN
CE
&
TEC
H-
NO
LO
GY
H
EA
L THY
SE
LF R
esearchers at Israel's Technion in
Haifa have developed equipm
ent w
hich helps to close wounds in less
than an hour, utilizing the skin's capacity for self-healing.
The equipm
ent, which stretches
healthy skin from the outer edges of
a wound over the w
ound, is being m
arketed as "Sure-closure" by an
Am
erican firm.
IN SO
LAR
WA
TER
Israel's A
miad F
iltration & F
ertiliza-tion S
ystems has m
anufactured a w
ater filtration system that operates
on solar energy.
The device, w
hich is capable of filtering highly contam
inated water,
is especially useful for remote areas
not supplied by electric cables from
a central power source.
11 EY
E TR
Y
Researchers at Israel's W
eizmann
Institute of Science have developed
a new procedure for the treatm
ent of glaucom
a which avoids the
creation of scar tissue and post-surgical com
plications.
It is expected to take several years for the procedure to becom
e gener-ally available.
11
3-D
T
he Israeli firm H
olo-Or has
developed a new trifocal contact
lens.
The innovation w
ill aid people, m
ostly 45 years and up, who have
lost the eye's natural abilities to focus.
EAST
EURO EPRAN S
i AP
OL
OG
Y
Ukrainian P
resident Leonid
Kuchm
a, on a state visit to the U
nited States, paid tribute to H
olo-caust victim
s and expressed regret over U
krainians who collaborated
with the N
azi occupiers during the S
econd World W
ar. Kuchm
a met
with Jew
ish leaders in New
York
and Washington and also toured
the Holocaust M
useum, w
hich he presented w
ith a list of Ukrainians
credited with saving Jew
ish lives during the w
ar.
• C
ZE
CH
MA
TE
C
zech Jewish leaders have com
-plained that the governm
ent is delaying the return of property seized during the N
azi occupation and by the C
omm
unist rulers of form
er Czechoslovakia. T
he chair-m
an of the Czech R
epublic's Fed-
eration of Jewish C
omm
unities, Jiri D
anicek, said that the Jewish
side is "obliged to submit to all th
e quirks of bureaucracy and forced to hold endless talks w
ith an unclear prospect of success."
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ZHIR
INO
VS
KY
SU
IT T
he head of the Russian F
ederal C
ounter-Intelligence Service (F
SK
), S
ergei Stepashin, has brought a
case against ultra-nationalist V
ladimir Z
hirinovsky for allegedly calling him
"an agent of Mossad,"
the Israeli intelligence agency. S
tepashin sued Zhirinovsky as a
private person whose honor and
dignity had been publicly insulted, rather than in his position as head of the FSK
.
■ C
OO
RD
INA
TIO
N
Lithuanian P
resident Algirdas
Brazauskas has established a
special working group to coordi-
nate state policies dealing with
Jewish cultural heritage and the
issue of the Holocaust. A
mong
other objectives, the group also w
ants to expand relations between
Lithuania and Israel, as according
to the secretary of the working
group, Lithuania w
ill benefit from
establishing closer ties with Israel
and the world Jew
ish comm
unity.
■ C
HU
RC
H C
AL
L
A declaration has been issued by
the Hungarian C
atholic Bishops
and the Ecum
enical Council of
Hungarian C
hurches calling the H
olocaust "the biggest shame of
the 20th century." The statem
ent also asks forgiveness in the nam
e of the C
hristians who "failed to act
against the deportation, persecution and killing of 600,000 H
ungarian Jew
s during the Holocaust."
ISRAEL ■
II MIX
ED
RE
SU
LTS
A survey conducted by the Jew
ish A
gency has confirmed that w
hile Israelis love the idea of im
migra-
tion, they are not so keen on imm
i-grants them
selves.
Although 41.5%
of those polled said that im
migration had top priority as
being essential to the State of Israel,
53% said they could not, or w
ere unw
illing to help an imm
igrant fam
ily with its initial absorption,
and 25% w
ere against imm
igrants living in their buildings.
■ C
HIN
A C
OA
L
Follow
ing successful trials, the Israel N
ational Coal C
orporation is im
porting another two shipm
ents of coal from
China, w
here the coal quality has been found to be good. U
ntil recently, SouthA
frica has been the m
ajor exporter of coal to Israel, supplying 60%
of the country's needs.
■ TA
X TIM
E
The total 1994 Israeli tax burden
reached 41.2% com
pared with the
1993 taxation of 40% and 39.6%
in 1992.
Israel is ranked fourth in the world
in taxes behind Sw
itzerland, B
elgium and D
enmark.
III CO
MO
RO
KN
OT
Israel and the C
omoro Islands have
established diplomatic ties. W
ith a population of 400,000, the islands, halfw
ay between M
adagascar and M
ozambique, are the sm
allest m
ember state in the A
rab League.
II ME
DIC
AL
ET
HIC
S
For the first tim
e, a leading Arab
physician will join a Jew
ish Nobel
Prize w
inner in San F
rancisco at F
ebruary's sixth annual Interna-tional C
onference on Jewish
Medical E
thics.
Professor A
bdallah Daar, the senior
physician in the Sultanate of O
man,
will join N
obelist Dr. A
rthur Korn-
berg and participants from other
countries to discuss medicine in
the Bible and T
almud, organ trans-
plantation, the treatment of pain
in cancer patients, and other issues.
■ B
OO
K S
LAS
HE
R
Stephen L
. Wom
ack, 42, suspected of slashing thousands of books in libraries at H
arvard and Northeast-
ern Universities over a four-year
period, is being held on charges of m
aking anti-Sem
itic bomb threats
against Boston-area schools. P
ros-ecutors allege that W
omack threat-
ened to bomb the universities and
a bank unless they paid a ransom
and fired Jewish em
ployees.
III ELITE
STU
DY
A
study by Purdue U
niversity said that despite sm
all gains by Jews
and Catholics in the last years,
• m
ainline Protestants (less than 5%
of all A
mericans) still m
ake up far m
ore of Am
erica's social, economic
and political elites.
■ IN
DIC
TME
NT
A B
oston grand jury charged R
oy Frankhauser w
ith inducing w
itnesses to destroy or conceal evidence, including N
azi material,
in the investigation of a neo-Nazi
group called the New
Daw
n H
amm
erskins. Frankhauser alleg-
edly persuaded the mother of B
rian
Clayton, the founder of the w
hite suprem
acist group, to destroy a new
spaper clipping reporting the desecration of synagogues. C
layton pleaded guilty in O
ctober to advocating violence to drive out Jew
s and Blacks.
I AN
TI-S
EM
ITIS
M S
UIT
In D
enver, Colorado, M
itchell and C
andice Aronson have filed a
federal lawsuit claim
ing that neigh-bors launched an anti-S
emitic
campaign to drive them
from their
home. T
he Aronsons are accusing
their neighbors, the Quigleys,
of ethnic intimidation, slander,
interfering with civil and property
rights, assault, civil conspiracy and outrageous conduct.
■ N
AZ
I CH
AR
GE
T
he Justice Departm
ent has accused A
lgimantas D
ailide, presently living in C
leveland, of serving the N
azis during World W
ar II in a L
ithuanian security police force.
Officials said the case against
Dailide is based on records found
in the Lithuanian C
entral State
Archives. D
ailide faces revocation of his U
.S. citizenship and deporta-
tion, should he be found guilty.
EUR
OPE I
■ S
YN
AG
OG
UE
R
ES
TOR
ATIO
N
Cerem
onies were held this w
eek to m
ark the restoration of the M
iddelburg Synagogue, the oldest
synagogue in the Netherlands that
is still in use. The sm
all synagogue, m
easuring 33 by 30 feet, was built
in 1705 and now serves a com
mu-
nity of 31 Jews.