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Delegate Says He Will
Fight for Israel's Rights
By DAVID HOROWITZ
UNITED NATIONS, (WUI’i
Ambassador M Frederic Guirma
of Upper Volta told this writer
in an exclusive, interview on the
eve of the Assembly recess that
he will continue to fight for Is
rael’s rights in the world organ
ization
Scoring the Arabs for their
uncompromising stand vis-a-vis
the Jewish State, Ambassador
Guirma revealed that, quite con
trary to the charges made by
Saudi Arabia’s Ahmad Shukairy
and other Arabs during the de
bate on the refugees, he and his
people in Upper Volta had fol
lowed quite closely the Jewish
struggle for independence long
before the UN adopted the Par
tition resolution in 1947 He had
reference to the Jewish Under
ground fighters against the Brit
ish.
Shukairy, in his several at
tacks on Guirma, termed him
and some of the other Africans,
sponsoring the 16-power resolu
tion calling for direct Israel-
Arab negotiations, inexperienced
late comers who were not well-
informed of the Palestine case
The Saudi-Arabian had even
accused them of being bribed by
the Jews.
"When we were a French
colony.” Ambassador Guirma
said during the interview, “we
were very well informed but
unable to do anything in aiding
the Jews in their struggle. But
now,” he added, “we are inde
pendent with the ability to ex
press opinions.”
Sitting through the debate on
the Arab refugees, the youthful
African delegate was shocked at
the attitude taken by Israel’s
close neighbors. “It was clear
to us.” Guirma said, “that Israel
was a sovereign state. After
listening to the Arabs we saw
that, according to them, Israel
does not exist. We just couldn’t
see how a member couldn’t ex
ist while sitting here among us
and voting and acting like all
other states.”
"Many of us from Africa
and the Latin states,” Guirma
continued, "in hearing the Arabs
repeat time and again that ‘the
only way to solve the problem
was to eliminate Israel; decided
to do something about this anti-
UN action, so we met and drafted
the resolution calling for nego
tiations.”
Asked how he felt about pro
fessionals like Shukairy, Quirma
replied: “My background is trade
unionism and the background of
my colleagues from the Ivory
Coast and Niger is parliament
ary Thus we know how to fight
at public meetings.” He added,
however, that “while Shukairy
is a great fighter and speaker,
the next time there will be a
confrontation he will be much
better aware of us and be more
courteous.”
As for the U.S. resolution
which based itself almost entire
ly on the one paragraph 11 of
the 1949 Partition resolution
calling for repatriation or com-
Immigrant Doctors
Quickly Integrated
hi Israeli Practice
JERUSALEM, (JTA ) More
than 66 percent of the 1,300 phy
sicians who came to Israel as im
migrants between January 1957
and October 1961 have been suc
cessfully integrated into medi
cal practice in the country.
Deputy Health Minister Yitzhak
Rafael disclosed here this week.
Mr Rafael, who was replying in
the Knesset, Israel's Parliament,
to a question on what the Gov
ernment did to facilitate the ab
sorption of immigrant doctors,
said that all but 180 of the im
migrant physicians were em
ployed by hospitals and clinics
or were engaged in private prac
tice.
Noting that the Health Minis
try had set up a special fund to
tide over immigrant doctors un
til they became integrated into
the profession in Israel, Mr
Rafael said that additional open
ings for physicians would be
available at new Government in
stitutions after next April.
Hitlel Rabbis
Endorse Teaching
Religion in Colleges
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—A na
tional staff conference of rabbi-
directors of B'nai B’rith Hillel
Foundations last week endorsed
the teaching of courses in religion
at state universities “when their
purpose is limited to promoting
knowledge and understanding
and does not seek to indoctrinate
or make converts.”
The Hillel rabbis, who super
vise the organization’s programs
on 75 major American and Cana
dian campuses, said that the tax-
supported university can proper
ly deal with the philosophy of
religion and the history, psychol
ogy and literature of the various
faiths. "But,” they said, "to ex
pect a state university to help
make students more religious is
to misconceive its purposes, vio
late the separation of church and
state principle, and impinge up
on the unique domain of the
church or synagogue.”
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pensation this, he said, was un
fan and one-sided, because it
had omitted the other para
graphs therein which speak of
negotiations
Amiable and very friendly.
the young Upper Volta Am
bassador—who had accompanied
his President to Israel when the
two states had concluded a
Friendship Treaty not so long
ago and who had managed to
pick up several Hebrew words
which lie spoke in pride—ex
pressed great hopes that what he
and his colleagues started here
m the direction of bringing
about some solution to the Arab-
IsraeU' problem will eventually
bear fi uit
Senior Voun^ Judaeans,
186 Strong, Hold ('one la re
Jekyll Island, Georgia took on
an Amet ican-Israeli atmosphere
December 24 through 28, as one
hundred eighty-six Senior Ju-
daeans and leaders gathered for
the 15th Annual Winter Con
clave of the Southern Region
Senior Young Judaea.
The theme of the Conclave -
"Whither Thou Goest — Future
of American Jewish Youth and
the Youth of Israel”— was ex
plored through emphasis on the
Israeli Youth prior to 1948 and
today, the image and attitude of
the American Jewish Youth, and
the need for understanding and
mutual projects between the two
groups As an added attraction,
the Southern Region had as its
guest an Israeli teenager — Miss
Simona Dover, daughter of Con
sul and Mrs. Zeev Dover, in At
lanta. ,
The planning and preparations
for the Conclave were under the
chairmanship of Miss Ethel Etz-
kin of New Orleans, regional vice
president Included in the four
days were discussion groups,
skill sessions, athletics, contests,
social and recreational events,
creative workshops, business ses
sions and a good time for all.
The highlight of the Conclave
took place at the final banquet
on Wednesday evening, Miss
Faye Kimerling of Birmingham,
regional president, presiding. In
addition to naming the new Mr
and Miss Southern Region, Miss
Gail Altman of Charleston and
Ronnie Berke of Chattanooga, the
following contest awards were
presented: oratory contest, Rich-
Rulgaria Converts
Remaining Shule In
Sofia Into Museum
VIENNA, (JTA)—The only re
maining synagogue in Sofia has
been converted into a museum,
it was reliably reported here
last week. The move was fore
shadowed earlier this year when
the Bulgarian Government asked
Chief Rabbi Asher Hananel to
petition the Government to close
the synagogue because of alleged
poor attendance at services.
Rabbi Hananel, who refused
the Government’s request, has
since been arrested for alleged
dealings in gold and foreign
currency and is in. a prison hos
pital suffering from diabetes. His
allged accomplice, a Sofia dent
ist, who was detained for mak
ing teeth from illegal gold sup
posedly provided by Rabbi Han
anel, has since been released.
A move is afoot, meanwhile,
to rally church leaders and dis
tinguished clerics to make repre
sentations to the Bulgarian Gov
ernment on behalf of the 65-
year-old Chief Rabbi who, for
the past four months, has been
d e t a i n e d incommunicado and
without trial or formal charges.
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ette Chapters of Charleston; song
contest. Devoted Daughters of
Torah Chapter of Chattanooga;
skit contest, T.E.L. Chapter of At
lanta; basketball tournament,
D.S I Chapter of Atlanta.
The Conclave was under the
direction of George Stern, direc
tor of the Southern Zionist Youth
Commission, and Uri Berger,
Shaliach-Tsofim of Israel.
Imist Youth My
Plans New York
Assembly Jan. 1114
A special program for train
ing young people to assume fu
ture leadership in the American
Jewish community will be de
veloped at the second National
Assembly of the American Zion
ist Youth Commission at the
Warwick Hotel, New York City,
on January 13 and 14
Key speakers at the Assembly
will include Rabbi Irving Miller,
chairman of the American Zion
ist Council and the Conference
of Presidents of Major Jewish
Organizations.
The two-day event will bring
together representatives of re
gional and local Zionist Youth
Commissions from the nineteen
commission regions stretching
from Boston to Chicago to Hous
ton and Miami.
Under the aegis of the Ameri
can Zionist Youth Commission,
Young Judaea is now in its 53rd
year of educating Jewish youth
towards an appreciation of their
Jewish and democratic heritage
and an identification with the
land and people of Israel. The
organization has witnessed mark
ed growth and expansion over
the past several years. Cutting
across community and synago
gue lines. Young Judaea has
clubs serving sixteen thousand
boys and girls from the ages of
nine to eighteen; three Israel
summer programs for teen
agers; two one-year work and
study programs in Israel; the
Young Judaea national teen-age
Camp Tel Yehudah, located in
Barryville, N.Y.; and other edu
cational summer camping pro
grams in California, Texas,
North Carolina, Wisconsin and
Now England
Southern BBYO
Members Elect
New Officers
ASHEVILLE —A capacity
■•group of 300 Jewish high school
youth representing the Southern
region of the B’nai B’rith Youth
Organization concluded a four-
day convention at the Battery
Park Hotel, here with the elec
tion of a new slate of officers.
Robert Krawcheck, Charleston,
SC., was elected president of
the three-state association for the
Aleph Zadik Aleph and Nancy
Gottlieb, Columbia, was elected
president of the B’nai B’rith
Girls. Both arc high school sen
iors.
Over one hundred members of
the BBYO attended from Atlan
ta accompanied by Bernard Spec-
tm, chairman of the Southerrf*
region B’nai B’rith Youth com
mittee.
Other officers for the AZA in
clude: William Waldman, Wins
ton-Salem, N.C., vice president:
Barry Sklar and Jon Wallas,
Charlotte, secretary and treas
urer respectively; and Ronnie
Addelstone, counsellor, Charles
ton
B'nai B’rith Girls elected Na
talie Kramer, Wilmington, N.C.,
and Bobbie Ballow, High Point,
N.C., vice presidents; Phyllis
Mayson, secretary-treasurer, and
Renee Michael, counsellor, both
from Atlanta
Outstanding chapter award
went to the Columbia AZA chap
ter which “won the Trieste
Award.
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