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Published on: 9/1/2000
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Israeli President Moshe Katsev has called upon Jews throughout the world to make aliyah, or emigrate to Israel, and criticized Israeli leaders for "legitimizing" Jewish life in other countries.
Speaking early in September at the president's residence in Jerusalem to launch a Bar-Ilan University conference on assimilation, Katsev said that Israel should end its policy of justifying living outside of the Jewish state and begin a serious call for aliyah.
He declared: "Israeli leaders gave a hechsher (kosher certification) to living in the Diaspora, because they used Diaspora Jews for their money and politics.
(Washington Jewish Week, Sept.14, 2000)