The Jewish Agency For Israel in The World Press

JDC Nearly Doubles Aid to Argentinean Jews
JERUSALEM, August 28, 2002, The Jerusalem Post -- As Argentina's economic meltdown hits the nine-month mark, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is increasing assistance programs for the country's once prosperous Jewish community to $16 million for 2003, up from $8.7 million this year.

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Israeli Delegates Preparing for Palestinian Mega-Protest at Johannesburg Summit
JERUSALEM, August 28, 2002, The Jerusalem Post -- The heads of Israel's delegation to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg were up late Tuesday night preparing for what Palestinians at the summit promise will be a "mega-protest."

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Meridor Opposes Change in Law of Return
JERUSALEM, August 28, 2002, The Jerusalem Post -- Jewish Agency Chairman Sallai Meridor Tuesday said he opposes any change in the Law of Return, and has spoken with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on the matter.

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Little Blue Boxes for Apartheid?
So Say Johannesburg Protesters
JOHANNESBURG, August 28, 2002, JTA -- A little bit of Durban has come to Johannesburg.

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PO-Israël-immigration, PREV Malgré un déclin, les Juifs continuent de s'installer en Israël
JERUSALEM, August 27, 2002, AFP -- Ils sont Ukrainiens, Russes, Argentins, Français, Iraniens ou Américains.

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Jewish Groups Coordinate Efforts
To Help Students "Take Back Campus"
NEW YORK, August 27, 2002, JTA -- With pro-Palestinian activists heating up college campuses around the country, nearly every Jewish organization, it seems, is going back to school.

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It's Not Durban, But Protests Mar
U.N. Conference in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, August 27, 2002, JTA -- If pro-Israel activists hoped that the U.N. conference on sustainable development would pass without the anti-Israel attacks that characterized last year's U.N. summit against racism, they have been proven wrong.

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Russian Kids Go To Israeli Camp
JERUSALEM, August 27, 2002, JTA -- Some 100 Jewish high school students from Ukraine and Moldova are attending a summer camp in Israel.

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Ethiopians Celebrate Bar, Bat Mitzvah
JERUSALEM, August 24, 2002, JTA -- Sixty Ethiopian immigrants to Israel celebrated a group Bar and Bat Mitzvah.

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'It's Our Home Now'
NEVE DANIEL, August 11, 2002, Sun-Sentinel -- From his neighborhood on a rocky hilltop just south of Jerusalem, Lawrence Welch can look down on the valley where David slew Goliath.

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Jewish Students Being Trained to
Take Back Their Universities
JERUSALEM, August 8, 2002, The Jerusalem Post -- The resurgence of anti-Israel activity on US college campuses has left pro-Israel students dazed and unprepared. Jewish organizations are now mobilizing to educate young people how to make Israel's case.

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How 90 Peruvians Became The Latest Jewish Settlers
JERUSALEM, August 7, 2002, Guardian Unlimited -- When a delegation of rabbis travelled to Lima to convert a group of South American Indians to Judaism, they added just one condition: come and live with us in Israel.

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Jewish Groups Gearing Up,
Hoping to Avoid Another Durban
NEW YORK, August 6, 2002, JTA -- If Sept. 11 was a wake-up call for America, then Durban, South Africa, was a wake-up call for Jews.

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Jerusalem; There's Nowhere Else I'd Rather Be.
JERUSALEM, August 6, 2002, The Wall Street Journal -- I've been living in Israel for over a year and a half now, and my favorite thing to do here is go to the grocery store.

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For Young Victim of Terror attack,
Summer Camp Helps Heals Wounds
JERUSALEM, August 5, 2002, JTA -- More than a year has passed since 8-year-old Yaniv Amousha was wounded in a suicide bombing at the central bus station in his hometown Hadera.

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Over 700 Olim Coming to Israel
JERUSALEM, July 30, 2002, JTA -- More than 700 immigrants are arriving in Israel this week, according to the Jewish Agency for Israel.

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Israel's Global Appeal
KARMEI TSUR, July 24, 2002, The Washington Times -- Just two months ago, Mariano Perez, a Peruvian Indian, was living a quiet life as a construction worker on the Pacific coast of his homeland. He had never been to Israel, spoke no Hebrew and until late last year, wasn't considered Jewish.

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Restitution Shake-Up Proposed As Debate Over Funds Drags On
LUXEMBOURG, July 24, 2002, JTA -- The leader of international Holocaust restitution efforts is proposing a major organizational shake-up that could affect the distribution of hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Israel 'Aliyah' Tax Seen Likely
JERUSALEM, July 19, 2002, The Jewish Week -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's goal of attracting another 1 million Jewish immigrants in the next 10 years will suffer a setback if pending legislation to tax foreign investment income and pensions of immigrants is approved by the Knesset in the next two weeks, according to Yuli Edelstein, deputy minister of immigrant absorption.

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Israel Backs Off Bill to Curb Arab Home Buying
JERUSALEM, July 14, 2002, New York Times -- The Israeli cabinet, under fire from critics who accused it of supporting racist legislation, backed off today from its endorsement of a bill that would have barred Israeli Arabs from buying homes in communities built on state land.

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Israeli Camp Children Reap Fruits of UJC Emergency Campaign
JERUSALEM, July 11, 2002, JTA -- Twenty squirming 6- and 7-year-olds pile into the center of the classroom, listening attentively to their day camp counselor as she explains how to make a recycled newspaper art project.

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Hundreds Of North American Olim Arrive
JERUSALEM, July 10, 2002, Arutz Sheva -- "This is the most exciting thing in the world," said one woman witnessing the deplaning of almost 400 new immigrants (olim) from North America in Ben Gurion International Airport this morning. She was among hundreds of people who came to greet a special El Al flight carrying the olim from North America.

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North Americans Arrive in Israel
JERUSALEM, July 10, 2002, JTA -- A plane carrying some 400 North American immigrants landed at Ben-Gurion Airport on Tuesday.

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New Immigrants See Aliyah
As 'Best Way' to Fight Terrorism
JERUSALEM, July 9, 2002, JTA -- Howard and Dora Green were inside Jerusalem's packed Sbarro pizzeria last August when a suicide bomber blew himself and more than a dozen others to bits.

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Plan to Keep Israeli Arabs Off Some Land Is Backed
JERUSALEM, July 8, 2002, New York Times -- A cabinet vote endorsing a bill that would bar Israeli Arabs from buying homes in Jewish communities built on state land caused an uproar here today, with critics in and outside the government calling it racist.

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American Aliyah En Masse
JERUSALEM, July 7, 2002, JTA -- Nearly 400 people will be immigrating to Israel next week. The largest-ever American group making aliyah to Israel will fill an EL AL jumbo jet Monday as they leave New York.

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Cabinet Won't Change Law of Return

JERUSALEM, July 1, 2002, The Jerusalem Post -- The cabinet yesterday rejected a proposal to amend the Law of Return to end granting automatic citizenship to Jewish immigrants up to the third generation, because it believes now is not the time to raise the question of 'Who is a Jew,' Construction and Housing Minister Natan Sharansky said.

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ZOA to Post 'Wanted' Posters
JERUSALEM, June 30, 2002, JTA -- The Zionist Organization of America will post "Wanted" posters of Palestinians who killed Americans in Israel.

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Real World Comes To Camp
JERUSALEM, June 28, 2002, The Jewish Week -- New counselors got to know each other, learning their way around the peaceful, rustic facilities.

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Advice and Dissent
JERUSALEM, June 28, 2002, Forward -- The executive committee of the Jewish Agency for Israel made an error of judgment and procedure in deciding this week to unseat Chaim Chesler, the agency's treasurer.

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In Rare Move, Fundraisers Oust Treasurer of Jewish Agency
JERUSALEM, June 28, 2002, Forward -- In an unprecedented move, the treasurer of the Jewish Agency for Israel was ousted by a committee of Diaspora fund raisers this week, just days after being reelected by the World Zionist Congress.

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Jewish Agency Treasurer Ousted
Following Controversial Comments
JERUSALEM, June 25, 2002, JTA -- It was intended to emphasize the solidarity of the Jewish people at a time of increasing violence.

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Fisher Prizes for Jewish Education in Former Soviet Union

JERUSALEM, June 24, 2002, The Jerusalem Post -- Eugenia Lvova of Petersburg, Russia and Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki of Dniepropetrovsk, Ukraine, were the recipients this week of The Max M. Fisher Prize for Jewish Education in the Diaspora for the year 2002.

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Narrowing of Law of Return Passes Knesset Committee

JERUSALEM, June 24, 2002, The Jerusalem Post -- A proposed amendment to the Law of Return which would eliminate the grandfather clause was passed yesterday by the Knesset Law Committee after being proposed by Herut MK Michael Kleiner.

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A Ground-Breaking Settlement

JERUSALEM, June 23, 2002, The Jerusalem Post -- In the Gilboa hills, a new kind of ecologically-aware Jewish settlement is being set up within the Green Line.

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Thunder on Right As Zionists Fight For Their Future
JERUSALEM, June 21, 2002, Forward -- The opening plenary session of the 34th World Zionist Congress turned into what some observers called a "semi-riot" Tuesday when a group of Orthodox delegates rushed the stage to protest a speech by the treasurer of the World Zionist Organization, Haim Chessler.

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Mostly Quiet On The Left
JERUSALEM, June 21, 2002, The Jewish Week -- The Jewish federation system's decision last week to provide humanitarian assistance to Jews living in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza is sparking some reservations, but little outcry, from American Jewish leftists - another sign that 20 months of Palestinian-initiated violence has moved American Jewry rightward.

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Come Now, Pay Later

JERUSALEM, June 20, 2002, The Jerusalem Post -- Under the government's proposed tax reforms, immigrant Israelis will have to pay more on money they get or keep abroad. Leora Eren Frucht hears why these changes may deter thousands of potential olim from the West.

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Hiding Behind The Law
JERUSALEM, June 20, 2002, The Jewish Week -- An editorial last week in the Boston Phoenix, an alternative weekly, cited the First Amendment in justifying its decision to provide an Internet link from its own site to one that features a gruesome video made by the terrorist murderers of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter.

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Terror Helps Bring Together
Delegates at Zionist Congress
JERUSALEM, June 19, 2002, JTA -- It was Adam Deutsch's first time giving blood, and the national president of the Young Judaea youth group was happy that his first donation was to Magen David Adom, the Israeli relief service.

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Terror Attack, Controversial Remarks
Disrupt Gathering of Zionist Congress
JERUSALEM, June 18, 2002, JTA -- The opening of the 34th World Zionist Congress didn't turn out exactly as expected this week, as elections for officers and debates regarding Israel as a Jewish and democratic state were put on hold when a bomb exploded on a crowded Jerusalem bus.

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UJC Approves Funding Over Green Line
JERUSALEM, June 14, 2002, The Jewish Week -- After 35 years of confining its Israel-designated funds to within the Green Line, the primary fund-raising arm for the American Jewish community has changed its policy.

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World Zionist Congress to Tackle
Difficult Issue of Defining Israel
NEW YORK, June 11, 2002, JTA -- When Jews from around the world gather in Jerusalem next week for the 34th World Zionist Congress, their presence will be seen as an expression of unity and solidarity with the embattled Jewish state.

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Jewish Agency Downplays Report
JERUSALEM, June 10, 2002, JTA -- The Jewish Agency for Israel denied reports that the organization is trying to settle whole communities in the West Bank.

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Group of New York Jews Weighs Move to Ramallah Area
JERUSALEM, June 10, 2002, The Jerusalem Post -- The World Zionist Organization has launched a program to encourage immigration to Israel, and is assisting Jews who choose to do so to move to communities in the West Bank, a statement says.

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We Are All in This Together
JERUSALEM, June 6, 2002, Hillel -- I have just returned from Hillel's 2002 Israel Advocacy Mission. What a remarkable and uplifting experience it was, from the inauguration of the Hillel Jewish National Fund Forest on the first day of our trip to the sunset barbecue at U.S. Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer's residence on the last.

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