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The Son flier ii Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 19?^
XXXIV
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1959
Atlantan With 1960 Brotherhood Month Chairman
A. J. Weinberg, vice president
and treasurer of National Linen,
is seen with Actress Cornelia
Otis Skinner, newly appointed
chairman of the annual Brother
hood Month observance next
February, sponsored by the Na
tional Conference of Christians
and Jews.
Mr. Weinberg was in New
York November 11-12 for the
31st annual meeting of the NC
CJ board, along with Rev. Her-
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man L. Turner of Atlanta; An
drew J. Ryan Jr., solocitor gen
eral of the Eastern Judicial Cir
cuit of Georgia, Savannah, and
Miss Marjorie McLachlan, At
lanta, Georgia NCCJ director.
Mr. Weinberg, who has served
as a member of the Atlanta NC
CJ Executive Committee since
its founding in 1939 is currently
a co-chairman with Dr. Herman
L. Turner and Robert S. Lynch.
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Israel’s
new Parliament, elected last
week, will convene for the first
time on November 23 and Pre
mier David Ben-Gurion stepped
up, discussions this week on com
position of a coalition Cabinet
in order to enable him to pre
sent the new government to the
Knesset at its first session.
Mapai leaders continued to dis
cuss the coalition possibilities
open to them as a result of
Mapai’s great election victory in
preparation for talks with the
other political parties. Mapai is
expected to discuss possible coali
tion composition with all the
political parties except the Herut
and Communist. Meanwhile, the
General Zionist leaders, smart
ing from that party’s shattering
defeat in which it lost at least
five of its 13 seats in Parliament
and possibly also the mayoralty
of Tel Aviv, met and discussed
the conditions under which it
could enter a Mapai-led coali
tion.
Mrs. Golda Meir, Foreign Min
ister in the outgoing govern
ment, has repeatedly informed
Mr. Ben-Gurion that she does
not want to retain that post in
the new government but the
Premier is said to be insistent
and hopeful that he can per
suade his long-time associate to
retain that difficult post.
Former Ambassador Abba S*
Eban was expected to enter the
Cabinet as a minister without
portfolio if Mrs. Meir remained
in the Foreign Ministry. Zalman
Aranne, the Minister of Educa
tion, may drop out of the Cabi
net to accept election as Speaker
of the Knesset. In that case, the
education portfolio might go to
Mr. Eban.
Among other Mapai leaders
mentioned for Cabinet posts were
Gen. Moshe Dayan, Giora Jose-
phtal, secretary-general of Ma
pai, and Yosef Almogi, chairman
of the Haifa Labor Council, who
directed the Mapai victory cam
paign. Mr. Almogi, was being
mentioned for the post of secre
tary-general of the party in
succession to Mr. Josephtal. Mor-
dechai Namir, Minister of Labor,
is expected to drop out of the
Cabinet to take election as May
or of Tel Aviv. Kadish Luz,
Minister of Agriculture, wants
to retire. Both are Mapai mem
bers.
The special election committee
began tabulation of the ballots
which were cast by voters on
active duty with the Armed
Forces and until these tabula
tions are in, the exact composi
tion of the new 120-man Knesset
cannot be determined exactly.
The final tallies and the exact
distribution of seats may not be
available for two or three days.
The General Zionist control of
the Tel Aviv administration
hung in the balance and would
not be settled until the soldiers’
votes were in. In any case it
appeared that the single Pro
gressive Party member in the
new 31-man Muncipal Council
might have the • deciding vote.
If a Mapai-1 e d combination
takes over the municipal gov
ernment, then the General Zion
ists would like a Cabinet post
for their retiring mayor, Chaim
Levanon.
The completed count in the
Jerusalem municipal elections
showed that although Mapai ran
far ahead of all other parties
and won eight of the 21 seats
in the Muncipal Council, it will
be unable to form an administra
tion unless the unity of the reli
gious parties is broken. Mapai’s
only possible allies in the coun
cil are the Progressives and
Achdut Avodah, each of which
has one seat, and the combina
tion would still be short of a
majority.
The Herut Party won four
seats, the Mizrachi parties and
their Iraqi settlers affiliate, four,
and the Agudist parties, three.
If Jerusalem’s municipal poli
tics follow their customary
trend, the city administration
will be in the hands of a Religi
ous Bloc-Herut coalition.
Election procedure for the
twin posts of Chief Rabbi will
get underway next week with
the formation of an eight-man
committe to convene the 72-man
electoral body, it was reported
here. The current five-year term
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Southeast Zionists Meet This
Weekend in Savannah
Delegates representing the forty-two districts in the Southeast
Region of the Zionist Organization will meet this weekend in Savan
nah for their twenty-second annual convention.
President Harry Jaffe, Birmingham, has announced a brilliant
program of visiting speakers and events hosted by Savannah Zion-
Nov. 9-29th "Big Month for Bonds''
With Mike Kraft as Grand Marshall
At a luncheon meeting held
last November 6 at the Pro
gressive Club, 65 volunteer
workers and captains (above)
launched the annual “Big Month
for Israel Bonds” person-to-per
son campaign.
With Michael Kraft named
Grand Marshall of this extra-
ordinary sales plan which
reaches for house-to-house cov
erage, committees, group leaders
and volunteer workers were
quickly mobilized. Sales kits con
taining complete Israel Bond de
tails were distributed to each of
the workers, together with pros
pect cards totalling 2,500 names
of former Bond buyers and pros
pective purchasers.
Additional volunteers are be
ing sought to augment the “hard
core hundred” already enrolled
in this effort and they are di
rected to communicate with Is
rael Bond Headquarters at 795
Peachtree St.
The one-month door-bell-ring
ing drive will continue from
Monday, Nov. 9, through the 29
and will have as a goal, the soli
citation of Israel Bond pur
chases” in every Jewish house
hold in Atlanta.”
Another accelerating effort
was provided by the ZOA Rally
held Monday, Nov. 9, at A.J.C.C.,
when the first U S. Ambassador
to Israel, Dr. James G. McDonald
made a stirring appeal for an
intensified support of Israel’s
economy.
“Unless Israel has economic
strength she will not be able to
give essential consolation to the
Uris Hails Israel’s
Progress Since Sinai
Campaign in 1956
New York—Israel has plunged
ahead a decade in each of the
three years since the Sinai cam
paign of 1956, author Leon Uris
writes in the new issue of Look
Magazine.
Uris said the impact of the
country during a visit this year
was “even more overpowering”
than he had found in 1956 when
he collected material for his
best-selling novel, "Exodus.”
Jewish people of the world.
“The future lies within the
power of the Jewish people, not
Israel alone, to provide the se
cure economic base for Israel to
grow—and through Israel Bonds
mainly, will this be assured.”
Dr. Edward R e i s m a n and
Michael Kraft, president and
bond chairman of the Atlanta
District of the ZOA presided at
the meeting.
“Israel to me,” he wrote, “is a
symphony of progress. The sound
of building never stops. New
highways span the land, there
are wonderful traffic jams in
Tel-Aviv and the ugly shacks of
temporary immigrant housing
have all but vanished from the
landscape.”
Hailing the country as the
“firmest democracy in the Mid-'*
die East,” Uris noted that Asian
and African countries,” emerg
ing from centuries of darkness, <
are now thumbing their noses
at Nasserism and asking Israel
to help lead them into the
twentieth century.”
ists, Hadassah and other Savannah groups.
Among the convention dignitaries will be the following:
JACQUES CROLLET
Counsul General of France to
the Southern United States
HON. MOSHE ERELL
Counsellor of the Israel
Embassy in Washington
HARRY EHRENREICH
Savannah Leader, general
Conference Chairman
nit. MORTON J. ROBBINS
Nashua, New Hampshire,
national vice president of Z.O.A.