Avraham Katz, World Zionist Organization Youth Department head, expressed his concern yesterday over the future of Jewish communities in Latin America. Katz, a Likud MK, who returned recently from a three-week visit to that region, told a Jerusalem seminar on Latin American Jewry that the choice facing that community was to immigrate to Israel or cease to exist. He said he was disturbed because until now, Latin American Jews failed to conceive the scope of the danger they were facing as an alien minority.
According to Katz, present trends in Argentina and other Latin American countries do not allow for the future existence of any alien minorities. Therefore, even without expressions of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, the Jewish communities will eventually disappear, he contended.
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