Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1972 — Page 49

Friday, March 31, 1972

THE JEWISH POST AND OPINION

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25-Year-Old Who Protested By Setting Fire To Himself By ARIELA REUBENI person, tending to be intro- in search of friends who had Iliya Ripps, the 25-year-old verted. I met him at the Haifa preceded him to Israel by some student from Riga who set him- Absorption Center only a few days. What surprised me was self ablaze some three years hours after his arrival in Israel, that this shy student who someagQ at the foot of the Statue His parents were busy unpack- how gives an impression of helpof Liberty in the central square ing their personal belongings in lessness, felt entirely at home ©f that city, in protest against the two-room flat put at their in his new and entirely strange Russia’s invasion of Czechoslo- disposal, while Iliya was run- surroundings to which he had vakia, is a quiet, unassuming ning about from room to room come only a few hours before.

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‘TM JUST an ordinary person, although people tend to think that whoever sets fire to himself is by no means ordinary. In the special circumstances in my country of birth three years ago, that was the way I chose of protesting against actions that had shaken me to the quick and that I could not very well swallow. There’s nothing extraordinary in me to justify a press interview,” he said. Iliya weighed carefully every word that he uttered. His replies are laconic like that o f mathematicians speaking to the uninitiated. We conversed alternatingly in Hebrew, English and German. He had studied Hebrew in the hospital to which he had been admitted after setting fire to himself. **A friend gave me a dictionary and a children's primer. That’s how I was able to pick up a little Hebrew. I still have to do a lot of studying. I hope (Continued on Next Page)

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