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Jerusalem News-766
Jerusalem News-766
6 Iyar 5768, 11th May 2008
Contents:
1. Israeli Jews 91%:9% Good living in
Israel
2. Expelled Jews hold deeds on Arab lands
3. [Brit-Am Breaking News] Prince of Wales Opens Jewish Center in
Cracow,
Poland that he himself initiated and partly paid for
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1. Israeli Jews 91%:9% Good living in
Israel
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: Dahaf poll: Israeli Jews 91%:9% Good living in Israel 18% Things
will deterioriate
Dahaf poll: Israeli Jews 91%:9% Good living in Israel
Dr. Aaron Lerner 5 May 2008
Dahaf poll of 500 adult Israeli Jews conducted for Yediot Ahronot.and
published in Yediot Ahronot on 5 May 2008.
Date of survey not reported.
Statistical error +/- 4.5 percentage points.
Is it good living in Israel?
Very good 39% Considerably 52% Considerably bad 6% Very bad 3%
Are you embarrassed sometime being an Israeli?
Frequently 5% Sometimes 25% Never 70%
Of those embarrassed:
Embarrassed mostly by:
The quality of the politicians 32% Violence in society 20% Israeli drivers
15%
Racism in society 13% "Arsim" 8%
The "occupation" 5% Lousy TV 1%
If you had the possibility, would you move to live in another country?
10% Certain yes
12% Would consider it in a positive manner
13% Maybe
16% Probably not
48% Certainly not
What is the main thing that you would change in the State?
30% Relationship of the authorities to citizens
18% Relationship between religion and State
16% Israeli culture
15% Relations with our enemies
13% Israeli mentality
02% The weather
What is the main thing that could cause you to leave Israel?
32% Nothing
24% Loss of faith in the future of the State, concern for the fate of my
children
12% Bad security situation and fear of war
10% Fantastic job offer in another country
08% Religious coercion
05% Large economic crises
05% Government that is against my political beliefs
What was the biggest personal-national crises in your years in Israel?
23% Rabin murder
17% The Disengagement plan
14% Labor Party returns to power in 1992
13% Second Lebanon War
06% Yom Kippur War (1973)
05% Gulf War
05% Second intifada
05% Didn't feel a crises
03% A terror attack
01% The Austerity period
01% First Lebanon War (Pece in the Galilee)
What is the greatest achievement of the State of Israel during its
existence?
31% Six Day War
24% Peace agreement with Jordan and Egypt
23% Dimona nuclear reactor
12% Israeli satellite
03% European cup in basketball
01% Winning Eurovision Song Contest
01% Olympic medals
2. Expelled Jews hold deeds on Arab
lands
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2007/11/jewish-refugees-hold-deeds-to-former.html
Etgar Lefkovits , THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 16, 2007 The government needs to bring
up the issue of hundreds of thousands of Jews who left their homes in Arab
countries following the establishment of the State of Israel as part of any
future peace agreement with the Palestinians, the president of the World
Organization of Jews from Arab Countries said Thursday.
About 850,000 Jews fled Arab countries after Israel's founding in 1948, leaving
behind assets valued today at more than $300 billion, said Heskel M. Haddad.
He added that the New York-based organization has decades-old property deeds of
Jews from Arab countries on a total area of 100,000 sq.km. - which is five times
the size of the State of Israel.
Most of the properties are located in Iraq, Egypt and Morocco, Haddad said.
The Baghdad-born Haddad fled Iraq in 1951, and, after a brief stop in Israel,
made his way to the United States where he went on to become a prominent New
York optometrist.
In an interview, he said that it was imperative for Israel to bring up the issue
of the Jews who fled Arab countries at any future peace talks - including those
scheduled to take place in Annapolis in the coming weeks - since no Palestinian
leader would sign a peace treaty without resolving the issue of Palestinian
refugees.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians - with estimates ranging from 400,000 to
750,000 - left Israeli-controlled territory in 1948 and 1949, and they, along
with their millions of descendants, make up one of the prickliest issues to be
dealt with by Israeli and Palestinian negotiators as part of any resolution to
the conflict.
Haddad said that the key to resolving the issue rested with the Arab League,
which in the 1950s passed a resolution stating that no Arab government would
grant citizenship to Palestinian refugees, keeping them in limbo for over half a
century.
At the same time, the Arab League urged Arab governments to facilitate the exit
of Jews from Arab countries, a resolution which was carried out with a series of
punitive measures and discriminatory decrees making it untenable for the Jews to
stay in the countries.
"No Jews from Arab countries would give up their property and home and come to
Israel out of Zionism," Haddad said.
He said that the Israeli government was "myopic" not to utilize this
little-known information, which he said should be part of a package financial
solution to solving the issue of Palestinian refugees.
An Israeli ministerial committee on claims for Jewish property in Arab
countries, which is currently headed by the Pensioners Minister Rafi Eitan, has
been virtually dormant since it was established four years ago.
Herm Albright
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough
people to make it worth the effort.
3. [Brit-Am Breaking News] Prince of
Wales Opens Jewish Center in
Cracow, Poland
that he himself initiated and partly paid for
(a) Prince Charles Opens Jewish Center
7 May 2008
Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla Parker-Bowles opened a new Jewish
Community Center in Cracow on April 29.
http://www.warsawvoice.pl/view/17758
The ceremony was officiated by Poland's Chief Rabbi, Michael Schudrich, who
together with Prince Charles placed a mezuzah, a box with traditional parchment
inscribed with verses from the Torah, on the center's doorpost. The Cracow
center was built under Prince Charles' patronage by World Jewish Relief (WJR), a
London-based charity organization. The WJR's goal is to respond to the needs of
Jewish communities at risk or in crisis around the world. The new building, in
the heart of the city by the Tempel Synagogue, will host social, educational and
religious meetings for the Jewish community. It will also serve as an exhibition
gallery.
(b) The English-language version of the
Orthodox Jewish Israeli Newpaper
"HaModia"
reported that Prince Charles first
turned to the WJR
asking them to build the center after Jews in
Cracow
had spoken to him.
Prince Charles also contributed part of the cost of the center from his own
private funds.
It should be remembered that the biological grandmother of Prince Charles in
Greece hid a Jewish family from the Nazis.
See:
Prince Philip's experience of 'anti-Semitic frenzy'
http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2008/02/prince-philips.html
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