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The .Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Establish^
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Vol. XL
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1965
NO. 29
News Developments Deep Emotion A
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WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Pres
ident Nasser of Egypt said
Sunday, in a taped television
interview broadcast by CBS,
that Egypt continues to renounce
the possibility of a peaceful
settlement with Israel, will
never accept the existence of
Israel, and “the only solution is
force.”
He said that a reckoning with
Israel might come in five years,
but noted that the Moslems wait
ed 70 years during the Crusade
to expel the Christians from
Palestine.
LONDON, (JTA) — Habib
Bourguiba, president of Tunisia,
has dropped his campaign for a
negotiated settlement of the
"Palestine problem.”
In an interview he gave in
Tunis to a correspondent of The
Observer here, he said: “My com
promise plan has failed; neither
the Arabs nor Israel want any
thing to do with it.”
"I don’t intend to take leader
ship of a movement to press for
a settlement” of the Arab-
Israeli issues, he told The Ob
server. He said he has “neither
the inclination nor the means
for such a drive. The problem
must be left to time.”
MUNICH, (JTA)—No German
scientist now holds a senior
position in the mlsile develop-
position in the missile develop-
Egypt, it was confirmed here by
Dr. Alfred Seidel, attorney for
the leader of the German teams
of scientists and technicians
working for Nasser since 1960.
Dr. Seidel confirmed earlier
reports that the top German
scientists among those who had
worked for Nasser, Prof. Wolf
gang Pilz, had refused to renew
his contract, had left Egypt, and
is now living “somewhere in
Germany.” It was ascertained
that Dr. Pilz, the last of the
senior scientists employed by
Nasser, left Cairo secretly more
than a month ago, and that other
German rocket experts still in
Egypt would come home soon.
Funeral of YIosi.e Sharett
RESCUE AT SEA
A seriously ill sailor, Marin us Boom,
21, is hoisted aboard the s/s shalom
in- mid-ocean after being transferred
faom the Dutch freighter “Alamak”
in one of the shalom’s motor life
boats on May 10th.
The Master of the shalom was con
gratulated by the U.S. Coast Guard
for this rescue at sea.
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Moshe
Sharett, first Foreign Minister
and second FTemier of the State
of Israel, chairman of the execu
tive of the Jewish Agency for
Israel and internationally re
nowned Zionist leader, was laid
to rest last weekend at the tiny
“Old Cemetery” here, close by
the Mediterranean Sea.
The funeral procession, led by
Israel’s spiritual, political and
military leaders, world Jewish
figures and high ranking foreign
diplomats, accompanied the be
loved Jewish statesman to his
final resting place from Jerusal
em, where he had died, at the
age of 70.
As his bier was lowered into
the ground, Mr. ISharett’s two
sons, Yaacov and Chaim, chant
ed the Kaddish. Premier Levi
Eshkol and Dr. Nahum Gold-
mann, president of the World
Zionist Organization, threw the
first spadefuls of earth into the
open grave.
The simplicity of the funeral
ceremony was in accordance with
Moshe Sharett’s wishes that no
eulogies be voiced or undue
pomp shown on the occasion of
his death. The deep emotion felt
by the thousands who lined the
funeral procession route was ar
ticulated at the cemetery by
David Hacohen, leading member
of Parliament and life-long
friend of Sharett, who. with tears
in his eyes, watched the coffin
being lowered and cried out:
“Shalom. Moshe. Shalom.”
Sharett’s grave lies between
the tombs of two old friends and
comrades in the struggle to find
the Jewish State, Dov Hoz and
Eliahu Golomb. Mr. Sharett had
requested that he be laid to rest
there in a will he signed in 1962.
The funeral cortege accom
panying the simple, open, black-
shrouded, army car, bearing Mr.
Sharett’s coffin draped with
the blue-white Israel flag and a
talith, included veterans of the
Haganah, the Jewish Brigade,
young soldiers, kibbutz members,
students and members of the na
tion’s many ethnic communities,
attesting to the position of es
teem the fallen leader had held
in his countrymen’s hearts.
The cortege entered Tel Aviv
and proceeded along Herzl Street
to Beit Eliahu Golomb on Roth
schild Boulevard. There Dr. Ba
ruch Ben Yehuda, prominent Is
raeli educator and principal of
the famous Herzliya Secondary
School from which Sharett had
graduated with the first class in
1912, read an excerpt from one
of Sharett’s speeches. Mr. Shar
ett’s niece Hilda, an actress and
daughter of Sharett’s brother
Yehuda, recited a poem by Ye
huda Halevi. The cortege then
moved down AUenby Road and
stopped at the Great Synagogue
of Tel Aviv where the Army
Chief Chaplain, Major General-
Rabbi Shlomo Goren, offered
prayers. Following this the pro
cession arrived at the cemetery.
Before proceeding to Tel Aviv,
the cortege had assembled for a
brief outdoor ceremony at the
Jewish Agency Building in Jer
usalem. President Zalman Sha-
zar read the first Psalm instead
of delivering the customary eul
ogy. The procession then stopped
briefly in front of the Knesset,
Israel’s Parliament, where
Speaker Kaddish Luz read two
famous speeches by Mr. Sharett.
One was his address to the troops
of the Jewish Brigade to whom
he presented their official flag
as they mustered in a camp in
Italy prior to joining the Allies in
the fight against the Nazis; the
other was the speech Sharett
made before the General Assem
bly of the United Nations in 1949,
when Israel was admitted to full
membership in the world organ
ization.
NEW YORK (JTA)—Memorial
services for Moshe Sharett, chair
man of the executive of the Jew-
Jewish Demographic Experts Study
Savannah's Significant Changes
SAVANNAH, (JTA) — The
total Jewish population of
Savannah has grown during the
past 14 years but the age group
considered most productive—that
between 30 and 59 years of
age—has significantly decreased,
it was reported here by Irwin
B. Giffen, executive director of
the Jewish Educational Alliance.
At the same time, he announc
ed that a new community-wide
study had been undertaken with
the cooperation of all groups here
that serve Jewish youth. The
study, begun at the request of
the JEA, will be coordinated by
the Savannah Jewish Council as
the community’s social planning
body. Participating in the study
are the Council, the JEA, the
three local synagogues, Hadassah,
B’nai B’rith and th Bureau of
Jewish Education.
In his demographic report, Mr.
Giffen noted that comparison of
Savannah’s Jewish population in
1965 was possible with 1951,
when a self-study was made here
by the Jewish community.
In the 14-year period, the
Jewish population here increas
ed by 134 from 3,120 to 3,254, or
4.3 percent. But the figures
showed also over the period an
increase of 214 in the age group
of 18 and younger, and an in
crease of 324 in the number of
people over 60 years of age.
"Conversely,” Mr. Giffen report
ed, the most productive age of
our community, those who were
30 through 59, show a loss of
478.”
Analyzing the figures for the
group between birth and 18, Mr.
Giffen declared: “At first glance,
it seems encouraging that our
children’s population has in
creased. However, the birth rate
is not as rapid now. Fourteen
years ago there were 330 child
ren up to six years of age; now,
there are only 190. This means
that, in a few years, we will be
experiencing the difficulty once
again of programming for small
groups on elementary and high
school age levels.
“The number of children of
high school age has increased
240. However, we do not know
if they will remain in the com
munity. Of the high school grad
uates in the five-year period of
1950 to 1954, 41.4 percent re
mained in Savannah. In the next
five-year period, 1955 to 1959,
only 35.7 percent remained in
Savannah. . .It is yet too early to
tell what the 1960 to 1964 high
school graduates will do.”
The report then touched on the
question of intermarriage. In the
last four years, Mr. Giffen said,
of those Jewish young people
who moved out of town, slightly
more than 10 percent inter
married couples affiliated with
the Jewish community. However,
only time will tell whether this
will continue to hold true. The
statistics will have to be apprais
ed objectively. Our answer to
the problems and concerns which
confront us can be found
through study and planning.
The study on Jewish youth
undertaken here by the Jewish
Council intends to show what the
Jewish youth in Savannah wants
from facilities existing to serve
them, what the parents want in
that field, and what the commun
ity can and wishes to plan for
Jewish youth.
An interesting procedure of
the study will provide four levels
of opinions and facts. In addition
to information from parents and
teenagers, adult advisers and
leaders will also give their per
ceptions. The fourth level will
be from the organizations them
selves. How do they see their
purposes, program objectices,
etc?
In addition to attitudes and
program information, the study
will show sociological facts about
teenagers and parent-youth rela
tionships; and information on
where and in what pursuits
youths spends its leisure time
outside of the Jewish community.
The National Jewish Welfare
Boards, through its Community
Planning Division, is conducting
the study. Dr. Paul Deutsch-
berger, Professor of Social Work
and Research at the School of
Social Work, University of Geor
gia, is study consultant. Mr.
Giffen is study director. Mrs.
Basil Lukin is chairman of the
local study committee.
ish Agency for Israel and form
er Prime Minister of Israel, were
held in the auditorium of the
Jewish Agency here. The mem
orial tribute was held within a
few hours of the funeral services
and interment in Israel.
Representatives of leading
American Jewish organizations
and Israeli representatives in
the United States were among
those present. Michael Arnon,
Israel Consul General in New
York, represented the Govern
ment of Israel.
(Memorial services were also
held in Los Angeles at the Israel
Consulate-General, attended by
many leaders of the local Jew
ish community. Israel’s Ambassa
dor Avraham Harman, who hap
pened to be in that city, recited
the Kaddish.)
Chairman of the memorial tri
bute was Dr. Emanuel Neumann,
chairman of the Jewish Agency-
American Section. Others who
spoke were Dt. Joseph J.
Schwartz, vice-president of the
Israel Bond Organization, and
Pinchas Cruso, honorary presi
dent of the Labor Zionist Organ
ization of America, who repre
sented the Labor Zionist move
ment. Rabbi Mordecai Kirsh-
blum. a member of the executive
of the Jewish Agency, read
Psalm 90, “A Prayer for Moses
(Moshe.).” Cantor David Kous-
sevitzky, intoned the prayer for
the dead, El Maleh Rachaimim.
Dr. Neumann, calling the death
of Mr. Sharett “a shattering blow
and heavy loss to the Jewish peo
ple, to world Zionism and the
State of Israel,” eulogized Mr.
Sharett ‘as a pioneer and stu
dent, as a scholar and ideologist,
as a diplomat and statesman who
was the finest flower of modern
Israel.”
Court Of Appeals
Upholds Prayer Ban
In N. Y. Schools
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
United States Court of Appeals
here unanimously upheld the
city and state school authorities
in banning the recitation of
prayers in public schools. The
decision by the three-judge ap
peals court reversed an order by
Brooklyn Federal District Court
Judge Walter Bruchausen that
had granted a group of 15 Queens
parents of various faiths an in
junction against the prayer ban.
The parents, representing 21
children in a Whitestone, Queens
public school, obtained the in
junction against an order by the
school principal in 1962 to stop
the recitation of prayers follow
ing the U. S. Supreme Court de
cision against the New York
State Regents prayer. A non-de-
nominational brief Grace after
meals recited by kindergarten
pupils and a school-wide thanks
giving recitation ment i o n i n g
“God” were discontinued at that
time.
In ruling in favor of the prin
cipal, the Board of Education and
the State Regents Board, the ap
peals court said that the school
authorities were entitled to weigh
the wishes of those parents fav
oring prayers in the school
against the “likely desire of oth
er parents not to have their chil
dren present at such prayers,
either because the prayers were
too religious or not religious
enough and the wisdom of having
public educational institutions
stick to education and keep out
of religion wtih all the bickering
that intrusion in to the latter Is
likely to produce.”