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Vol. XL
The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Establish"*
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1065
Bourguiba’s Call for Peace
Talks Disrupts Arab Unity
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NO. 18
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
statements issued by Tunisian
President Habib Bourguiba, call
ing for peace talks between the
Arab states and Israel, have
“disrupted the Arab summit at
mosphere,” the daily newspaper
El Hayat, of Beirut, declared.
Bourguiba’s peace proposals, said
the newspaper, “pose the ques
tion whether Lebanon can risk
the dangers inherent in the con
tinuation of the Jordan River
water diversion plans, while it is
left without Arab backing.”
While these fears were being
voiced openly in Beirut, however,
Lebanese tractors resumed their
water diversion work near Is
rael’s border. Earlier reports
from Lebanon claimed that the
tractors were being used for
building only an irrigation proj
ect. A report broadcast by Radio
Damascus stated that the Arab
League Water Diversion Board
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Passover Tourists
Crowd Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Passover
in Israel this year saw a record
number of tourists filling the na
tion’s hotels to capacity.
Over 15,000 visitors arrived by
air during the two weeks preced
ing the holiday. On Friday, hours
before the seder, 20 planes car
rying 3,000 tourists arrived at
Lydda Airport. At the same
time three shiploads of foreign
visitors docked at Haifa.
Inside the country, transporta
tion companies mobilized their
largest fleets to cope with the
nearly 1,000,000 persons traveling
for Passover to visit relatives.
The roads were also jammed with
Israeli families on outdoor ex
cursions to take advantage of the
perfect sunny weather.
Many tourists and over 50 for
eign diplomats, including the
Soviet Ambassador to Israel D.
Chuvakhin, attended sedorim in
kibbutzim.
Board has decided that work on
the diversion projects “be carried
out in accordance with the
schedule.”
Arab fears regarding the Bour-
guiba stand continued to be
voiced in the Cairo press, where
concern was indicated that Saudi
Arabia, Libya and Morocco may
be siding silently with the Tu
nisian president. A1 Goumhouria,
the influential Cairo daily, ask
ed pointedly, in a lengthy feature
article denouncing the proposals
by Bourguiba: “Does silence on
tho part of Morocco, Libya and
Saudi Arabia imply consent on
their part?”
Jewry Prepar <*> lebrate
Israel's 17th Anniversary
Jews in Israel and in many
’• lands are preparing for next
week’s observance of the seven
teenth anniversary of the Jewish
State.
In many communities, city
wide celebrations' will be con
ducted while in others the birth
day milestone will be marked in
material ways through participa
tion in campaigns for the United
Jewish Appeal or for Israel
Bonds.
As the occasion approaches, an
unwary atmosphere has been cre
ated as backdrop by the unex-
Readers Invited
Detroit’s Slomovitz Speaker
For TSI-THW Anniversary
Phil Slomovitz, distinguished
editor of the Jewish News of De
troit, will make the principal talk
at the anniversary dinner mark
ing the fortieth anniversary of
the Hebrew Watchman of Mem
phis and The Southern Israelite
of Atlanta.
His talk will highlight the pro
gram the evening of Thursday,
May 20. Dietary laws will be ob
served for the meal scheduled for
7 p. m. at the Atlanta Jewish
Commifrut^ Center.
Sharing the all-newspaperman
program with Leo Goldberger and
Adolph Rosenberg, editors of the
Watchman and The Southern Is
raelite, will be their colleagues
in the Jewish newspaper field, in
Atlanta for their 22nd annual
convention.
Reservations for the anniver
sary dinner can be made cat $5
a person through the invitation
—coupon elsewhere in this edi
tion. Reservations for the two
luncheons held during the con
vention and also open to any of
this paper’s family of readers can
be made at $3.50 a person by
calling TR. 6-8249.
pected talk about possible Israel-
Arab peace talks. Accustomed to
the constant strain of forbodings
from Arab danger, the sudden
change in Mid Eastern tensions
— no matter how these finally
resolve — promises to bring a
rare happiness to next week’s an
niversary simcha.
Several centers, such as At
lanta, were surprised last year
by the appearance at local an
niversary celebrations of Israeli
men in uniform from the Air
Forces,, gathering at central con
sulates to mark the occasion.
It is now known that they had
been in training for the flying
and maintenance of the mus
tangs which thd^ United States
furnished for Israel defense.
This year the Israel Air Force-
men will not be present at the
American celebrations because
the mustangs have ■‘Since been
delivered to Israel and are now
on guard against enemy attack.
In Atlanta, a special message
commemorating the seventeenth
anniversary, to be marked pub
licly next Thursday at the Pro
gressive Club, was issued by
Consul General Shimon Yallon.
It follows:
Greetings from Israel on it’s 17th Independence Day.
Seventeen years is a short span in the life of a nation.
Israel can safely say that it has made good use of every
day of these years. Jews all over the world who want to, or
have to, can come to Israel’s shores and be free and self-
respecting citizens. Since 1948 Israel has
quadrupled it’s population and still there is
a steady flow of immigrants.
A fine Army guarantees the security of
the country and the fast developing economy
points the way into a splendid future. Israel
science and arts have already found inter
national recognition.
Israel has become a center for Jewish
culture and the Bible has come alive again
in schools and daily life. Immigrants from
wherever they may come, know their Bible;
this is the basis from which they start their way to good,
democratic Israel citizenship.
Israel, together with its immigrants, has thus learned the
science of developing Human Resources. This knowwledge, so
urgently needed in a large part of the world, has enabled
Israel to give a helping hand to many of the younger nations
in solving their most pressing problems.
So whilst still in the middle of the process of developing,
Israel is a partner of the free world in helping with its own
brand of “Peace Corps” work in leading the world to true
democracy.
The i7th birthday of Israel should be a day of pride for
all who are near us and who will be with us in years to come
May this Independence Day be a day of rejoicing.
SHIMON YALLON,
Consul General of Israel
Tombstone-Monument to Six Million Martyrs Dedicated In Impressive Kites
While in downtown Atlanta I ester Maddox, the
Klansmen and the rabble-rousers who desecrate
decency and Democracy were marching in protest
over the implications of American civil rights,
around 650 members of the Jewish copimnnity
were gathered Sunday in a cemetery on the ont-
skirts of the city to bemoan the results of rabble-
rousing and to pick up what pieces were possible
and patch-work them into a modus vivandl for
current and future generations.
The men, women and children gathered at the
entrance of the Jewish section in Greenwood
Cemetery during the waning daylight Sunday
to dedicate a rather starkly majestic atone
tombstone monument to the memory of Six Mil
lion Jewish Mratyrs. With skies sullen and mom
entarily and appropriately threatening to rain, the
crowd heard representatives to Jewish groups, the
rabbinate and Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen note the
warning which the death of the Six Million holds
for free men who remain silent and do not speak
up for liberty. An unexpected part of the cere
mony was the reinterment of a small casket of
ashes of some—or several—unknown Martyr oer-
tified from remains at the infamous Dachas ex
termination ramp. These were symbolically bora
to a final resting place, through the monament
interior, by survivors identified from several of
the concentration camps. During the ceremonies
several persons broke into uncontrollable weep
ing. At least one present had lost 70 member! of
his families by the Nazi murders.—A.R.
Photo courtesy
Atlanta Constitution
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