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*TII JOBIBI1N IIBAILIII
Friday, September IS, 1967
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Carl Alpert
Column Has A Guest
EAST JERUSALEM—My name
is Fuad. I am seventeen years
old, and now
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English.
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So I became
guide.
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I’ve worked as
a guide before but mostly with
the Christian pilgrims who used
to come here in large numbers.
These new tourists, the Israelis,
are a strange lot. They’re not in
terested in the same things that
interested the Christians along
the Via Dolorosa. The first place
they head for is the Wall. Every
body calls it the Kotel.
Next, they go bargain hunting.
Some of my neighbors say that
business has never been so good.
Lots of the junk that has ac
cumulated for years—and stuff
imported from Hong Kong or
elsewhere — sells like hotcakes.
The father of one of my friends
has made a fortune selling key
rings with Moussa Dayan’s pic
ture. The Israelis get a kick out
of that: buying a Moussa Dayan
picture from a Jerusalem Arab.
Of course my friend charges
Education Only
On Rothschild TV
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
Rothschild family has informed
the Israel Government that it
cannot agree to permit the tele
vision installations it donated to
enable Israel to introduce educa
tional television to be used for
general programs.
According to the newspaper
Maariv, Lord Victor Rothschild
pointed out to the Israeli author
ities that the British Govern
ment had permitted purchase of
the equipment free of tax on the
understanding that it was to be
used for educational purposes
only. He was, consequently, not
prepared to permit use of the
equipment for general, non-edu-
cational purposes. Without these
installations, Israel cannot put
into effect plans for a limited
schedule of general television
broadcasts.
Volunteers Want
To Stay in Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA) — At least
a third of the volunteers who
came to Israel from abroad dur
ing the pre-war emergency last
May and who have not yet left the
country are interested in making
a long stay here or in settling
permanently, the central com
mittee of Histadrut, the Israel
labor federation, was informed.
Abraham Bankover, chairman
of the organization’s volunteers
committee, reported that 6,000
volunteers still remained in the
country. Of these, 4,000 were
working in settlements around
the country. The remaining 2,000,
he said, were employed by the
Jewish National Fund on several
development projects or were
working at civilian occupations
in new border outposts.
Sapir Comes Here
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel’s
Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir
will attend the national mobili
zation conference for economic
development in Israel, to be con
vened in New York, September
15, by the Israel Bond Organiza
tion for launching a $500,000,000
Bond campaign.
Yeshiva U. to Train
High School Teachers
NEW YORK (JTA)—Yeshiva
University has announced it had
started the first educational pro
gram specifically designed to
prepare students for teaching at
the Jewish high school level.
The program, leading to a
master’s degree, has been de
veloped by the religious educa
tion department at Yeshiva Uni
versity’s Ferkauf graduate school
of humanities and social sciences.
Hebrew Day Schools’
Attendance Rising
NEW YORK (JTA) — A total
of 48,000 students, an increase of
nearly three percent, will attend
Hebrew Day Schools in the New
York Metropolitan area, which
includes all of the five boroughs
as well as Nassau and Westches
ter counties.
Dr. Joseph Keminetsky, na
tional director of Torah Umes-
orah, National Society for He
brew Day Schools, reported that
five new schools were established
during the past summer, bring
ing the number of schools in the
New York Metropolitan area to
159.
Czech Denies Change
In Celebration Plans
NEW YORK (JTA) — A top
official of the Czechoslovakia
tourist agency has denied charges
that his government had cancel
led plans to celebrate the 1,000th
anniversary of the Czech Jewish
community next year.
Josef Richter, executive vice-
president of Cedok, the official
tourist organization, said that
plans for the celebration rested
entirely in the hands of the
Czech Jewish community, and he
pledged the “unequivocal” sup
port of his agency to this effort.
“As business people,” he said, “it
is in our interest to encourage
the Jewish community to go for
ward with the millennium cele
bration; and we shall do all we
can to help them.”
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more for the Dayan key rings.
This is the El Aksa Mosque.
In here, on this platform sur
rounded by a railing, is the place
where King Abdullah was killed
in 1052. He wanted to make peace
with Israel. That’s why they kill
ed him. Many of the old-timers
who loved Abdullah still come
here to pray on this spot. The
murderer is still alive. He lives
somewhere in Jordan. They say
that if Hussein tries to make
peace he will be killed too.
I am a Muslim, but here in
Jerusalem Muslim and Christian
is all the same. We live togethr.
Yes, I have been to New Jer
usalem. Soon after the war I met
an Israeli boy who was visiting
here and we became friends. I
visit him in Rehavia every after
noon. Do you know? We can go
back and forth between the two
sections of the city freely—with
out passes, without check, with
out interference. It is like one
city. It is beautiful over there.
Some of my friends have al
ready been to Tel Aviv Mid Hai
fa. I want to go visit too. How
strange! They say we lost the
war, but we can now go any
where we want in enemy land—
excuse the expression.
What do we think about (he
Israel Government? I don’t know.
My father is afraid. He says Is
rael will not stay here, and the
UN will put the barbed wire
back, dividing the city again.
That’s why so many of my peo
ple don’t want to cooperate.
Some of your soldiers are also
bad. My brother was walking in
the street and Israeli soldiers
took away his money and his
watch. If he did not give them
up, they said they would kill him.
I don’t think Jordan soldiers
would have done that if they
had conquered Tel Aviv.
You Israelis are strange. You
are not—how do you say—con
sistent! When you first occupied
Jerusalem your Government in
sisted that everybody should
turn in their Jordanian money
for Israel pounds. You gave a
low rate of exchange and many
people refused. A few weeks later
you raised the exchange rate a
lot. Those who listened to you
the first time lost much money.
Do you think that brings con
fidence?
What’s more, you let anybody
talk against the Government and
criticize. I saw interviews in your
papers with some of our people,
and they were not afraid to be
critical. Under Hussein or Nasser
they would never dare talk like
that. But then the next day, if
you find a gun in somebody’s
house you blow up the house. If
a merchant closes hi3 store in
protest, you arrest him. Are you
hard—or soft—or can’t you make
up your minds? We Arabs don’t
understand you.
Did you enjoy your walk
around Jerusalem with me? Tell
your friends, too, to come to
Fuad. Shalom!
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