September 29, 2002
23 Tishrei, 5763
Jerusalem

TOMMOROW: 300 NEW IMMIGRANTS IN JERUSALEM WILL LEARN ABOUT POLICE OPERATIONS AND PROCEDURES AS PART OF JEWISH AGENCY PREPARATIONS FOR A POSSIBLE U.S. ATTACK ON IRAQ

Tomorrow (30 September) some 300 hundred recently-arrived immigrants residing in the Jewish Agency's Beit Canada Absorption Center will spend a day learning about Israel Police operations and procedures.

This event is conducted in the context of Agency Chairman Sallai Meridor's directive to Agency Director General Giora Romm to prepare for a possible U.S. attack on Iraq. Romm's preparations will encompass both information management and personal security. Approximately 10,000 new immigrants, who arrived in recent months, are currently residing in Jewish Agency absorption centers.

Tomorrow's event will improve the immigrants' understanding of security and strengthen their ties with the community in which they reside. Police officers will demonstrate security devices, such as bomb disposal squad vehicles, and the sappers' robot. In addition, the officers will present police canine and mounted units, and describe Civil Guard patrols.

The Jewish Agency's Jerusalem Region, together with Talpiot's Beit Lazarus community center and the Community and Civil Guard division of the Police, are organizing tomorrow's event. The Press is invited to cover this demonstration tomorrow (30 September) at 17:00 at 27 Raziel St., Talpiot Mizrach Jerusalem

Contact the Office of the Spokesman:
Michael Jankelowitz
Liaison to Foreign Press and Media
Jewish Agency for Israel
Tel: 972-2-6202780
Fax: 972-2-6202708
Mobile: 972-51-601706