Klarman Says Latin America No Longer Stable Continent for Jews; Situation Volcanic

Yosef Leib Klarman, head of the Jewish Agency’s Youth Aliyah Department, asserted today that “Latin America is no more a stable continent as far as its Jews are concerned.” Addressing the annual general meeting of the Children and Youth Aliyah Committee for Great Britain, the Israeli publicist said “Jews there sit on a volcano, whether the eruption will be red or black when it comes.” As an example, he said, “Chilean Jews have lost their social role and their economic standing” since the recent election of Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens, and there are already 72 Chilean Jewish children in Israeli aliyah villages with more on the way. In Argentina, Klarman said, many Jews live in extreme poverty and their children receive no proper education, in Uruguay, Jews are pleading for their youngsters to be accepted as Youth Aliyah wards; in Brazil, Jews see no future for their offspring. “From Russia or from Arab states, from the west or the Americas, we are trying to bring them up as well-adjusted, useful men and women,” Klarman declared. “In fact,” he said, “we are giving them a boarding-school education much superior to what they could have in the towns of Israel. Not all our children are orphans, but all are in need of care and education which they cannot find at home.”