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...visiting U.S. rabbis that he "would not be surprised" if formal relations between Israel and the Soviet Union were to resume "in the near future," there was reason to believe that he was not prattling idly. At the same time, Western diplomats talked about a visit to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem earlier this month by a Soviet journalist who has served in the past as a kind of ambassador without portfolio for Moscow. The ostensible reason for his trip was medical treatment, but he arrived looking quite healthy and spent a week talking with Israeli officials about the ramifications...
Sending Signals. Israel is more than amenable to bringing a Soviet ambassador back to Tel Aviv.*The government, Eban said last week, is "ready for any proposal and willing to have these relations take any form the Russians suggest." Israel has been sending out other signals to indicate its receptiveness. The conviction of Soviet Jews in Leningrad and Riga on skyjacking charges brought vigorous protests from Israel; the trial of nine other Jews at Kishinev last week on similar charges was met with official silence. "We've been castrated and we do not know why," said one Israeli official...
Three Fronts. The Panthers have helped spark a long-overdue debate in Israel on the problems that bloom with peace. It was Police Minister Hillel, the Iraqi Jew who made good, who defined the danger most clearly. In Tel Aviv recently, he told a Labor Party rally: "Israel is faced with a struggle on three equally important fronts-security, economic and social. It cannot afford to lose any one of them...
...rich enough to provide development loans as does the U.S. -whose African aid program is 30 times as large as Israel's but not necessarily more effective-Israel asks aid recipients to share the cost: African trainees who fly to Tel Aviv usually pay their own fare and at least part of their living expenses...
...disputed borders as the Golan Heights and the Jordan River's West Bank. Since it is his first visit, suggested the Israelis, Rogers might better comprehend their concern over secure borders if he saw those borders himself. The U.S. rejected this idea. An American embassy spokesman in Tel Aviv explained that what Rogers really wanted to do was to talk...