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Page 2 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE November 14, 1986
Upcoming bone marrow surgery
i’s only chance for survival
by Hugh Orgel
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Michael
Shirman, who has terminal leu
kemia, was to undergo a bone-
marrow transplant at Hadassah
Hospital in Jerusalem this week
if tests show that the tissues of his
sister, Inessa Flerov, are com
patible. The transplant is his only
chance to live.
His hopes were raised last
Wednesday when Inessa, the only
possible donor, arrived in Israel
with her husband, Viktor Flerov,
and their children, Dariya, 7, and
Mariana, 5. The entire family
was granted exit visas by the
Soviet authorities late last month
after an agonizing and desperate
campaign, joined by leading
physicians, Soviet Jewry activists
and humanitarians all over the
world.
Shirman, 31, a biologist, had
not seen his sister for six years,
since he and their mother immi
grated to Israel. “Thank God we
are in Israel and united with my
Leukemia victim Michael Shirman, right, greets his sister Inessa
Flerov upon her arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport.
brother.
Shirman said he was convinced
the Soviets relented because of
his presence, with an attending
physician, at thesummit meeting
between President Reagan and
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
in Reykjavik, Iceland. Oct. 11-12.
Complications cause death
after landmark transplant
by David Landau
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Mira
Schichmanter, Israel’s first liver
transplant patient, died shortly
before dawn Saturday of com
plications that followed surgery
17 days ago at Rambam Hospital
in Haifa.
A mother of two from Kfar
Saba, she had her 40th birthday
in her hospital bed last week, sur
rounded by her family who were
with her at the time of death.
Doctors said her death was not
caused by the operation, which
was successful, but by massive
internal hemorrhaging related to
the liver ailment she had suffered
for years, which had made the
transplant necessary.
She had been recovering up to
five days after surgery and was
about to be released from the
intensive care unit when she began
to bleed and a second operation
was performed.
A Rambam Hospital spokes
man said Sunday it would con
tinue with liver transplants ap
proved by the Health Ministry
and was not discouraged.
Doctors noted that the first
liver transplants in the U.S., where
the technique was developed, had
a high mortality rate initially, but
chances for recovery now are
much improved.
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Later Shirman came to the
United States where he told a
press conference on Capitol Hill
that he was given about a month
to live unless he receives a bone-
marrow transplant. “They (the
Soviets) apparently finally deci
ded it was simpler to let the fam
ily out than for the campaign on
our behalf to continue,” Shirman
said.
The campaign began nearly a
year ago w'hen the Soviet author
ities, after refusing Inessa per
mission to leave, told her she
could go to Israel, but without
her husband and children. Later
they said she could take her chil
dren but her husband, a physi
cist, must stay behind because his
estranged father refused to sign
documents releasing him from
possible financial obligations—a
requirement of Soviet law.
Shirman said that his personal
problem may have been solved,
but the major problem of Soviet
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First U.S. Iraqi shul consecrated
QUEENS, N.Y. (JTA)—The newly formed first American-
Iraqi synagogue consecrated its ark and five Torah scrolls
presented by some of its 300 members at Simhat Torah services
last month. The American Sephardi Federation noted that
Congregation Bene Naharayim’s consecration ceremony in
cluded three Israeli officials of Iraqi origin and the president
of the 53-year-old American-Iraqi Jewish Community Society.
U.S.-lsrael trade at new level
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Trade between Israel and the Unit
ed States was balanced in Israel’s favor last year, for the first
time since the two countries have been trading, according to the
latest edition of the Statistics Year Book published last week.
The figures cover only civilian trade.
Excluding military imports from the United States, which
amounted to $1.8 billion in 1985, Israel exported $460 million
more to the United States than it imported.
That was a sharp reversal from the two previous years. The
trade gap in 1984 was $111 million in America’s favor, and in
1983 it was $386 million.
According to the Year Book, Israel’s exports to the United
States increased by 30 percent last year, while non-military
imports dropped 5 percent. The positive trade balance con
tinued for the first nine months of 1986.
Jewish studies chair sought
ITHACA, N.Y. (JTA)—In the 112 years since Cornell Uni
versity endowed its first professorship in Hebrew and Oriental
literature, other Ivy League institutions such as Columbia,
Harvard and Yale have endowed chairs in Jewish studies.
But Cornell, notes Near Eastern Studies Department
chairman Steven T. Katz, has not.
Official endorsement finally came last spring. In June, Pro
fessor Emeritus Milton Konvitz wrote to about 150 prominent
Jewish alumni asking not for money but to indicate “the range
in which their support might fall.”
Katz said he expects the university to reach a decision on
endowment of Jewish chairs within a year.
Full U.N. peace force in Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA)—U.S. military aircraft will land 800
American soldiers in Israel later this month to bring the Ameri
can contingent of the United Nations peace observer force in
Sinai up to full strength.
Military transports are being used for the first time because
of the crash of a chartered civilian plane over Newfoundland
last December which killed 248 Marines on their way home
from duty in Sinai.
Shcharanskys name baby
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The daughter born to Avital and
Natan Shcharansky here last Thursday was named Rahel dur
ing Sabbath services at a Jerusalem synagogue.
She was named for a sister of her paternal grandmother, Ida
Milgrom. She is the couple’s first child.
Michigan honors Prisoner of Zion
DETROIT (JTA)—The state of Michigan has conferred
honorary residency upon Prisoner of Zion Leonid (Ari) Vol
vovsky and the city of Oak Park, Mich., declared Oct. 25
eonid Volvovsky Day,” the Jewish News reports.
Volvovsky, 44, a computer engineer, applied to leave the
oviet Union for Israel in 1975. He and his wife Ludmilla
su sequently were fired from their jobs. He was sentenced to
ree years in a labor camp in 1985 for slandering the state.
Israel wins Korach cup
(JTA)—Israel’s HapoelTel Aviv basketball team
aueated the Greek team of Apolon Patra 88-71 recently to win
ne Korach Cup. Playing before 1,500 spectators, the Israeli
r • " eve , r was real, y threatened. The Greek team included no
. f r P M y ^ S ’ while Hapoel Tel Aviv, like all top Israeli
teams, fielded two Americans.
Africa(JTA)—About 200 Israelis living in South
number is exnprt°H ? rael overthe P ast few months and a largei
Ministrv rpnl i f? t, return ‘ n the near future, the Absorption
South Afrira r ^ Thursday. About 15,000 Israelis live in
Town and I ^ Ministry has sent representatives to Cape
of Tic i /is vui ,; nnesb J ur 8 to encourage them to return. Ministry
lence in Smith f/ or ^ lm are motivated by the increasing vio-
Israel Africn and better employment opportunities in