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Friday April 16, 1999

30,000 Israelis rally at concert to aid refugees from Kosovo

JERUSALEM (JPS) -- More than 30,000 people gathered in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square Thursday of last week for a benefit concert to ai
The event was sponsored by Army Radio, the Tel Aviv Municipality and the Jewish Agency. Despite being billed as a nonpolitical e

Late last week, the Foreign Ministry began choosing the refugees who would be brought here. Working through Israeli representatives in Macedonia, and in conjunction with both the Macedonian authorities and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the ministry expects to bring several families from Skopja.

The Absorption Ministry will aid in the absorption of about 112 ethnic Albanians from Kosovo who arrived Monday, as well as an expected 40 to 60 Jewish refugees eligible under the Law of Return.

The refugees will be housed in the guest rooms of two field schools belonging to the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.

"This is a continuation of a tradition," said SPNI spokeswoman Orit Nevo. "In 1993, the SPNI hosted some 100 Bosnian refugees, survivors of the civil war in Yugoslavia."

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