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GoldmannSays Israel
11asNo 4 Jewish Policy’
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Dr. Na
hum Goldmann, World Zionist
Organization president, asserted
here this week that the Zionist
movement required the unlimit
ed support of the Israel Gov
ernment to forge a bond be
tween the Jews inside and out
side Israel.
Speaking at the current meet
ing of the World Zionist Actions
Committee, ruling body of World
Zionism between Zionist Con
gresses, he declared also that
“The Israel Government has no
Jewish policy whatever.” He
termed this a condition of “Ter
rible short-sightedness” which
could not go on “much longer.”
He added: “I say, with full re
sponsibility, that the State of
Israel today impairs efforts be
ing made to secure the unity of
the Jewish people.”
Earlier in the debate, he had
again urged the dissolution of
the present political party struc
ture of the movement, a pro
posal which was vigorsly criti
cized by other delegates. In ef
fect replying to such criticisms.
Dr Goldmann said that the
trouble waa that the movement
was built on parties and that
the question was whether the
parties were ready “to accept a
new image” Every movement
pursues supporters, he noted,
but he Zionist parties "are ferv
ently trying to find supporters
and see this as theiir principal
function.”
In his first remarks, Dr. Gold
mann asserted that the parties
were “dishabilitating” the move
ment and "hindering fulfilment
of the Zionist tasks.” These, he
said, included increasing immi
gration from the free countries,
strengthening Jewish and He
brew education and organizing
the Jewish people as a fighting
force to defend its right to ereate
a culture.
He also repeated a familiar
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol XXXVIII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1963
NO. 13
Focus on the UJA
MOKE AND MORE KEEP COMING Into Israel. To keep this
chain unbroken, and to give them all the full resettlement aid
they must have, are among the major aims of UJA’s 1963 drive.
UJA is the major beneficiary of campaigns now underway
throughout the South in such communities as Atlanta, Savan
nah, Charleston, Tampa, St. Petersburg and elsewhere.
Israel Prods Germany for Reply
On Halting Nuclear Work in Egypt
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Is
rael Cabinet this week discuss
ed the attitude of the West Ger
man Government permitting
German scientists to work on
nuclear missiles in Egypt to be
used against Israel. It was re
ported later that Israel expects
from the West German Govern
ment a formal reply on this is
sue, and does not regard as final
a statement made at a press con
ference in Bonn by a government
spokesman, Guenther von Hase,
that the German authorities could
not halt the work of German
■dentists In Egypt.
Israeli officials were surprised
by the Bonn Government’s re
quest to Switzerland, asking that
the Swiss extradite Joseph Ben-
Gal, an Israeli, and Prof, Otto
Jukelik, an Austrian. The two
are in jail at Basle, charged with
having “threatened” the daugh
ter of Dr. Jens Goerke, one of the
West German scientists employed
U. S. Gives High Priority
To Anti-Semitism in USSR
by the Egyptian Government.
The German request is based on
allegations that Ben-Gal and
Jukelik were involved not only
In trying to influence Dr. Goerke
to disassociate himself from the
Egyptian weapons program but
also in the abortive gun attack
Feb. 2 against another German
rocket expert, Prof. Hans Kleln-
wachter.
Informed sources here denied
that Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion plans to communicate
with West German Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer on this entire
subject. “So far, there Is no such
Intention,” It was stated. Mr. Ben-
Gurion is still on vacation, and
is not expected to return to his
office until Tuesday. He did not
participate in today’s meeting of
the Cabinet.
Bonn’s general attitude is
evoking misgivings In official
circles here, however. “We find it
impossible to understand how the
German Government can treat
lightly this matter, affecting Is
rael’s very existence, and how it
can be willing to plead helpless
ness in the face of work by Nazi-
oriented experts employed by
Egypt in Its plan to destroy Is
rael,” officials said.
policy of not delivering any arms
to countries where tensions exist.
This policy naturally means that
the Federal Government would
express disapproval If the tension
is being Intensified by the activ
ities of armament technicians.
However, the Federal Govern
ment has no possibility of pre
venting German citizens from
leaving the country, except when
such persona act against German
law or against the laws of the
countries which they visit.”
Facing a barrage of questions
at the 30-minute press confer
ence, the Federal official said he
wished to repeat a “moral ap
peal” which West Germany had
made to its citizens several times
in the past He said: "The Gov
ernment expects all German na
tionals staying abroad to act in a
way which does not harm the
Federal Republic of Germany.”
He indicated “acute tension in the
Middle East” between Israel and
the Arab Nations was a factor in
preventing West Germany from
making any overture now to es
tablish diplomatic relations with
Israel. He suggested this “might
heighten tension.”
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
State Department disclosed this
week that United States concern
over anti-Semitic developments
In Russia had been made known
at “the highest levels,” of the
Soviet Government
This was indicated in a letter
to the Jewish War Veterans from
State Department public services
official Edward A. Karnacki,
written on behalf of Secretary
of State Dean Rusk, in reply to
a request from the JWV for in
formation on State Dapartment
activity in the area and for De
partment action to ease the per
secution of Soviet Jews. The Sate
Department previously had taken
the position that it could not be
certain that there was persecu
tion of Jews as Jews and that it
was difficult for the U. S. Gov
ernment to do anything about the
problems of minorities in other
countries. The latter stand was
reiterated in Mr. Kamacki’s let
ter.
However, he also said the
problem was now getting "a high
priority of attention” from State
Department Soviet experts and
that it was dear that anti-relig
ious pressures were, in the case
of Soviet Jews, “such as to pre
vent the normal maintenance and
development of Jewish religious
and cultural life.”
He said that the Dapartment
had received reports “officially
and from private observers” that
anti-Semitism did in fact exist
“in many areas of the Soviet
Union” and that the Department
had become convinced that Gov
ernment pressures had virtually
London’s "Jewish Chronicle’
Building Bombed; No One Hurt
LONDON, (JTA)—A bomb blast shattered the front office of
the new building of the Jewish Chronicle this week as the weekly
newspaper was going to press. Some 40 persons were in the build
ing but no one was injured.
Firemen, police and detectives of the Special Branch rushed to
the scene. The consensus was that the blast was a professional job.
Police salvaged most of the metal fragments from the bomb con
tainer. The explosive, apparently, a time bomb, was left at the
building entrance. The blast shattered glass doors, smashed holes
in the marble facing on the walls and roof of the entrance walls,
as well as windows of can in the street nearby.
eliminated synagogues and train
ing oS future Jewish religious
leaders in Russia.
The Department continued to
have doubts about the authen
ticity of the charges against Rus
sian Jews in alleged economic
trials, the Department official
wrote, and he added that it ap
peared that Jews were receiving
“a disproportionate amount of
condemnation and victimization”
In the Soviet drive against pri
vate speculation in Russia.
“The highest levels of the Sov
iet Government have been told of
our concern over this problem
and efforts made to arrange
meetings with representatives of
American Jewish organizations,'
he added, noting that “unfortu
nately, these efforts have been of
little avail this far.”
He Yepeated earlier statements
that the Department felt that of
ficial United States intervention
on behalf of Soviet Jews could
give the Soviets a chance to em
phasize anti-Jewish charges, such
as frequent Soviet Government ac
cusations that Soviet Jews were
“under the supposedly sinister
influence of foreign governments,
including the United States.” This
was the reason, he added, that the
United States supported action
through the United Nations and
“stressed the Important role of
private organizations and Indi
viduals in bringing such persecu
tion to the notice of world opin
ion.”
BONN (JTA)—The West Ger
man Government has confirmed
here that it had requested Swit
zerland to extradite two alleged
"Israeli agents” — Joseph Ben-
Gal, an Israeli citizen, and Dr.
Otto Jukelik, an Austrian—who
had been detained in Basle on
charges of “threatening” the
daughter of a German rocket
scientist working in Cairo.
Reports from Switzerland said,
however, that sources close to
the Swiss Government Indicated
that they thought it unlikely that
the request of the West German
Government would be granted.
The request would probably not
be considered by the Swiss Cab
inet before Tuesday. At Laus
anne, George Brunschwig, attor
ney for Ben-Gal, announced that,
if the Swiss Cabinet approves the
request for sending Ben-Gal back
to Germany, he would appeal the
case to the Swiss Federal Court.
State Secretary Guenther von
Hase, speaking on behalf of the
Bonn Government at a press con
ference here, declared: “It cannot
be ascertained with certainty
whether the information is cor
rect that German technicians in
Egypt cooperate in producing and
developing rockets to be used for
aggression. At any rate, this Is
not done with the knowledge or
approval of the Federal Govern
ment.”
“It is known,” he continued,
“that, for a long time, the Fed
eral Government has pursued a
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Dr
Heinrich von Brentano, floor
leader of the Christian Demo
cratic Union in the German
Bundestag, and former Foreign
Minister, told the National Press
Club here Monday that, while he
personally disapproved of German
scientists working on nuclear
missiles in Egypt, there was no
legal basis for the German Gov
ernment to interfere with such
private overseas work by German
nationals.
“We know that some Germans
are working in Egypt on some
missile program,” he stated. “I
can only say that I disapprove of
such activities but I must also
say, and that is also the same
situation here in the United
States, that we have no legal
basis to prevent any German
from working abroad. The Ger
man Government will certainly
not support any such activities,
but we have in our Constitution
a provision for absolute freedom
of movement, and in that way
our hands are, of course, bound,
and there are limits beyond
which we cannot go.”
BONN (JTA) — Dr. Konrad
Adenauer, West German Oanfcr
ellor, today requested a Ma^b
report on the activities of
man scientists at workj
tian weapons pr _
his request to officials
his vacation place at’
Northern Italy,
inter-Ministerial
resenting various
strict, will meet an