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Jerusalem News-733
Jerusalem News-733
6 Adar-1 5768, 12 February 2008
1. Jewish Agency Man Brought in 200
Non-Jews as Jews
2. Arab Terrorist Gets His Own, Others Still waiting
3. President Sarkozy:'France
will always be at Israel's side'
1. Jewish Agency Man Brought in 200
Non-Jews as Jews
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125247
by Hillel Fendel and Hana Levi Julian
Extracts:
(IsraelNN.com) A Jewish Agency emissary has been arrested and charged with
helping non-Jews pose as Jews so that they could immigrate to Israel. In
response, Likud party MK Yuli Edelstein says the Jewish Agency must find ways to
encourage Aliyah and support its emissaries other than the "quota" system that
currently exists.
The arrested man, a 68-year-old resident of Raanana who was the Jewish Agency's
representative in Venezuela, was taken into custody at Ben Gurion International
Airport by the Immigration Police. He is suspected of having brought some 200
people into Israel as new olim [immigrants] under the Automatic Citizenship for
Jews law - even though he knew that their conversion to Judaism was fictitious.
The police say he admitted to having done this in order to receive recognition
from the Jewish Agency as a "top employee."
MK Edelstein, who himself immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union,
criticized the Jewish Agency's policies for encouraging the sham. "The Jewish
Agency must find new ways to show appreciation to its emissaries," Edelstein
said, "without encouraging a certain 'quota' in finding and bringing Jews to
Israel. Aliyah is critical for Israel, but only inasmuch as it contributes to
the strengthening of Zionism - and that is why we cannot rely just on numbers
and quotas."
"We have been witness of late," Edelstein said, "to an increasing stream of new
immigrants who have no connection at all to Judaism and Zionism - and this hurts
the loyalty of the Jewish agency as well as the entire Zionist enterprise. We
must find new ways to encourage Aliyah."
The Jewish Agency oversaw the immigration of an estimated one million Jews from
the former Soviet Union to Israel in the 1990s, of whom an estimated 300,000
were not Jewish.
2. Arab Terrorist Gets His Own, Others
Still waiting
'Bin Laden of the 80s' dies in Damascus blast
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/39Bin-Laden-of-the-80s39.3776049.jp
Syria Blames Israel for Mughniyeh Assassination, 'Barak's Style'
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125242
http://www.debka.com/index.php
3. President
Sarkozy:'France
will always be at Israel's side'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202742151646&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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