Riding the Wave : The Jewish Agency's Role in

An account of the efforts by the Jewish Agency in the far corners of the world to bring the remnants of Jewry to their homeland, Israel. This work required a lot of ingenuity and unconventional thinking and often entailed risks. This book should be required reading for those influenced by the sometimes unfavorable reports by the media, but is good reading for anyone working in our Jewish communities, gathering exiles around the world.

Preface

7

(4)

A Changing of the Guard

11

(24)

Advise and Consent

15

(4)

Electing the Chairman of the Executive

19

(1)

Kaplan's First Year

20

(3)

Transfer of JAFI Immigrant Absorption Responsibilities to the Israeli Government

23

(4)

New Freedom in the USSR

27

(2)

``Passage to Freedom''

29

(2)

The No-Name Committee

31

(4)

The Floodgates Open

35

(31)

An Unexpected Beginning

36

(1)

Disappointing Developments

37

(6)

Quiet Diplomacy

43

(1)

The Threat of Arab Terror

44

(2)

The Transit Stations

46

(1)

The Liaison Bureau

47

(1)

Common Problems

48

(7)

The Bucharest Transit Station

55

(3)

The Budapest Transit Station

58

(3)

The Warsaw Transit Station

61

(3)

The End of an Era

64

(2)

A Presence in Once Forbidden Territories

66

(36)

JAFI Formulates an Innovative Policy

69

(2)

The First Emissary

71

(2)

A ``Plan of Action''

73

(5)

The First Year in the Soviet Union

78

(3)

1991: A Turning Point

81

(5)

Summer Camps

86

(5)

A Coup in Moscow

91

(1)

Youth Activity

92

(4)

A Revolution in Hebrew Teaching

96

(6)

The Changing Nature of Aliyah

102

(31)

The First Hurdles

102

(4)

Aeroflot and Transaero

106

(2)

Exit Stations

108

(2)

Intra-Organizational Problems

110

(4)

A Matter of Principle?

114

(1)

The Zionist Movement Gets Involved

115

(1)

Problems in the Field

116

(2)

Centralizing Activities

118

(2)

JAFI-Liaison Bureau Rivalry

120

(2)

After the Break-Up of the USSR

122

(4)

Exploring Siberia

126

(7)

Aliyah from Countries of Distress

133

(44)

Ethiopia

134

(1)

Operation Solomon

134

(5)

The Largest Jewish Day School

139

(2)

A New Strategy is Born

141

(3)

Contingency Plans

144

(1)

The Money Maneuver

145

(2)

A Trip to the Zoo

147

(3)

The Operation Collapses

150

(3)

Epilogue

153

(1)

The Homecoming

153

(3)

The Honeymoon Ends

156

(6)

Syria

162

(2)

Absorption in Israel

164

(1)

Yemen

165

(2)

Rescue Missions in the Former Communist Bloc

167

(1)

Rescue from Sukhumi: Part I

168

(4)

Rescue from Sukhumi: Part II

172

(5)

Financing the Mass Aliyah

177

(23)

Initial Policy

178

(2)

The Exodus Campaign

180

(4)

Budgetary Constraints within JAFI

184

(1)

Direct and Municipal Absorption

185

(2)

The Loan Guarantee Program

187

(1)

The Logistics of the Loan Program

188

(2)

Reducing Airfare and Cargo Costs

190

(2)

Transfer of Social Services to Government

192

(1)

Sales, Rentals, and Lay-Offs

193

(1)

The U.S. Refugee Resettlement Grant

194

(1)

The Crisis Ends

195

(5)

Changing the Structures of Governance

200

(77)

Zionists and Non-Zionists

201

(2)

The Reconstitution of the Jewish Agency

203

(3)

The Caesarea Process

206

(3)

Joint Authority for Jewish-Zionist Education

209

(6)

Formulating an Acceptable Structure

215

(2)

WZO Rejects the Joint Authority

217

(2)

The Joint Authority's Final Structure

219

(3)

Regional Councils in the Diaspora

222

(1)

A Half-Way House at Best

222

(1)

Postscript: 1999

223

(4)

The Committee of Six

227

(4)

Cleaning Up Shop

231

(1)

The Tiberias Retreat

232

(6)

Resolutions of the Committee of Six

238

(3)

A Boomerang Effect?

241

(1)

The Key to Success

242

(3)

Postscript: Termination of Jewish Agency Department Heads

245

(2)

Rural and Urban Development

247

(17)

The Changing Nature of Rural Settlement

248

(1)

External Factors of Consequence

249

(1)

The Amit and Ravid Committees

250

(1)

Project Renewal

251

(2)

Two Schools of Thought

253

(2)

The Merger

255

(4)

Pre-Merger Negotiations

259

(2)

New Year's 1993

261

(3)

A Stormy Ending

264

(21)

Historical Overview

264

(3)

JAFI's Official Response

267

(1)

Calls for a Police Investigation

268

(2)

The Gafni Report

270

(2)

Beginning the Advise and Consent Process

272

(2)

Avraham Burg Joins the Race

274

(3)

A New Chairman is Elected

277

(1)

Implications for World Jewry

278

(3)

Postscript 1999: Conclusion of the Dinitz Court Case

281

(4)

Interviewees

285

(2)

Index

287

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Riding the Wave : The Jewish Agency's Role in the Mass Aliyah of Soviet and Ethiopian Jewry to Israel, 1987-1995

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