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Vol. XLII
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry —
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, October 27, 1967 ./ 1 Qg2S^
New Mideast
In New York
JTA Will Observe
50th Anniversary Soviet
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Leaders
of the American Jewish com
munity and representatives of
the American and foreign press
will join in a quiet observance
here of the fiftieth anniversary
of the establishment of the Jew
ish Telegraphic Agency, the, ojjly
world-wide news service devoted
exclusively to coverage of de
velopments affecting the Jewish
people around the world. The oc
casion will be luncheon at the
Americana Hotel, New York, on
November 2.
Spokesmen for the commun
ity will assess the role of JTA
over the past half-century as the
prime reporter of news concern
ing the Jewish people and will
appraise its role as an interpre
ter of Jewish life, reporter of
events affecting the Jewish com
munity and as a bond linking the
American, Israeli and other Jew
ish communities in all parts of
the world.
Robert H. Amow, president of
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
will preside and will describe
plans for development of the
service as it enters its secoijd
half-century. There will be no
fund-raising. Reservations for
the luncheon oan be made at the
JTA office in New York.
Mr. Amow announced the
am
election of Hermann Merkin and
Rabbi Edward T. Sandrow to the
board at directors of the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency. Mr. Merkin
is president of Merkin & Co.,
members of the New York and
American Stock Exchanges. He
l5 president of fcbe Fifth Avenue
Synagogue and a member of the
board of the Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations. Rabbi San
drow is rabbi of Temple Beth El,
Cedarburst, L. I., and is president
at the New York Board of Rab
bis.
TSI'8 Rosenberg
To Give Presidential
Award to JTA
The Southern Israelite’s
Adolph Rosenberg will repre
sent the American Jewish
Press Association on the pro
gram marking JTA’a fiftieth
anniversary.
As the national president of
America^ Jewish weekly and
bi-weekly newspapers, he will
make a “Presidential Award
to JTA for Distinguished Ser
vice to American Jewish
Journalism.”
Mr. Rosenberg will preside
at the fall meeting of the As
sociation in New York next
week.
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Egypt’s Attack on Destroyer
Cost Many Israeli Lives
JERUSALEM (JTA)— Israelis
reacted with shock and bitterness
to the news of the sinking of one
of Israel’s three destroyers last
Saturday night by Soviet-made
missiles fired from Egyptian
naval units near Port Said.
The initial casualty figures on
the disaster were given as 15
crewmen dead, 36 missing and
151 men rescued in a sweeping
sea-and-air rescue mission, in
cluding 48 injured. The Elath,
one of two sister destroyers sold
to Israel by Britain, was hit by
three missiles in a brief action off
the Sinai Mediterranean coast.
Captain Shlotno Harel, com
mander of the Israeli Navy,
charged at a press conference that
Egypt had made an unwarranted
attack despite the Egyptian-Is-
raeli cease-fire agreement and
despite the fact that the destroyer
was on the high seas beyond the
Egyptian-claimed 12-mile terri
torial waters.
Premier Levi Eshkol said that
Israel would not forget “this wan
ton act by Israel’s worst foe.” He .
made the comment at a ceremony
at President Shazar’s residence
held to mark the start of Israel’s
20th anniversary. He said it was
painful that “even this occasion
must be tinged with sadness. We
mourn some of our best sons, and
their memory will be engraved
on the scroll of Israel’s resurrec
tion.”
(Foreign Minister Abba Eban
described the attack in London,
as he prepared to depart for New
York and a possible United Na
tions Security Council session on
the Middle East, as “unprovoked
aggression and a violation of the
cease fire.”
(At the United Nations, Israel
Ambassador Gideon Rafael sent
an urgent letter to the President
of the Security Council on the at
tack, calling it a “deliberate fla
grant act at belligerence on the
high seas,” calling the action **•
matter of utmost gravity." He
said the attack followed a aerie*
of violations of obligations con
tracted by Egypt by accepting
Security Council cease-fire res
olutions. He did not ask for a Se
curity Council meeting.)
Believes U. S.
Will Live Up
To Arms Deal
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Prime Min
ister Levi Eshkol has said that
he had “every reason to believe”
that the United States would live
up to it signed agreements on
provision of weapons to Israel. He
also expressed the hope that
France would fulfill the commit
ments on arms deliveries to Is
rael it had made before the out
break of the Six-Day War. France
has embargoed all arms ship
ments to the Middle East since
last June.
Mr. Eshkol, in an interview
with the Tel Aviv daily, Yediot
Achonot. did not specify what
weapons were expected from the
United States but it was assumed
he was referring to the two
squadrons of Douglas A-4 Sky-
hawk jet bombers Israel ordered
last year for delivery this autumn.
State Department officials assert
ed in Washingon that consulta-
ions with Congressional leader*
would have to precede any de
cision on provision of weapons
to the Middle East
Cairo dispatches quoted Vice-
President Aly Satory of Egypt,
visiting Egyptian towns on the
west bank of the Suez Canal, as
warning the inhabitant# there to
prepare for all eventualities “In
cluding renewal of fighting as
ferocious as the political battle
presently going on.” Some Lon
don observers saw in this an. In
timation that Egypt was prepar-
ing to step up military aotivity
along the canal, toe east bank of
which is under Israeli occupa
tion.
Heavy war clouds — from
which lightning was already
striking—hung over the Middle
East this week, as the months-
old cease-fire agreements be
tween Israel end the Arabs dim
inished more and more in mean
ing.
Subtle hints were spread that
the conflict might be widened
from its present confinement
within Mideast boundaries—as re
ports told of three Soviet war
vessels steaming toward Qgyp-
tian watem on a “good will mis
sion,” and Arab leaders sought
to place responsibility for new
outbreaks on “encouragement of
Israel by the United States.”
New violence erupted first last
Saturday when Soviet-made mis
siles were used by the Egyptians
to sink the Israeli destroyer Hath
in the Mediterranean sea, with a
consequent heavy loss of life to
Israeli Navy personnel.
It was three days later, on last
Tuesday, thait Israeli shells—dur
ing an artillery exchange with
Egypt — set fire to two big oil
refineries in Port Suez at the
southern extremity of the Suez
Canal. Huge columns of fire and
smoke shot skyward from the
blasted petroleum supplies of
Egypt and officials of the latter
country called toe fuel loss “ex
tremely aeriout." ’*» - - - ♦
It was at this juncture that toe
Soviet announcement of warships
enroute to Egyptian waters was
made. They were expected to ar
rive on Thursday or Friday.
By Wednesday, toe interchange
of hostilities had moderated to
some extent, but great concern for
the future was felt in Jerusalem
and Cairo, as well as among
United Nations diplomats in New
Drive to Assist
Moroccan Refugees
PARIS (JTA)—An appeal for
aid on behalf of more than 10,-
000 recently arrived Jews from
Tunisia ana Morocco was issued
here by Grand Rabbi Jacob Kap
lan. Many of the newcomers left
their homes in fear of Arab rep
risals following the Six-Day
War. Rabbi Kaplan called on the
French Jewsh Community to re
spond to ;he needs of these fel
low Jews.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, presi
dent of the World Jewish Con
gress said on his arrival in Jer-
salem from Zurich that the WJC
was maintaining constant contact
with governments which had
some influence in Arab capitals
on behalf of Jews living in Arab
countries. Special attention is
being given to the plight of Jews
in Europe, Dr. Goldman said.
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AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The
tiny Dutch Jewish community
here is expected to raise more
than $5 milli™ for the Israel
Emergency Fund by the time the
campaign ends November 5 when
American comedian Danny Kaye
will lead toe Gadna, a 100-mem
ber Israeli military youth band,
in a concert. Kaye ia contributing
his service*.
Egyptians Repatriated
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
group of 880 Egyptian civilians
ware repatriated last week. They
ware taken by bus and truck
from El Artoh to Kantara where
they made the Sues Canal cross
ing by boat
York and elsewhere.
There also was sporadic fight
ing on the northern fronts of the
cease-fire Hues and along the ’
banks of toe Jordan River.
In an attempt to absolve Egypt
from blame in the last-Saturday
attack on toe Israeli destroyer, the
Egyptian press labelled toe Hath
Rothberg School
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Is Dedicated
(Special to The Southern torments)
RAMAT HASHARON, Israel — Hearty half the population of
this immigrant development town of 14,000 near Tel Aviv turned
out early this week to honor Samuel Rothberg of Atlanta lor making
possible the towri’s first high school.
A substantial contribution by Mr. Rothberg to the Iaraal Me
cation Fund of the United Jewish Appeal baa financed construction
of the Kalman and Mbahto Rothberg vocational high ychool named
in memory of his parents, .fy.f
The 18-room building will be completed in 18 mouth* Stir a
planned enrollment of 700. Mr. Rothberg, still an active Atlanta
realtor and civic and charitable leader at age 81, was tendered a
founders’ reception by the local town council and hailed by official*
of the Israel Ministry of Education, the Jewish Agency and the
UJA Israel Education Fund. The Rothberg school is one of SB
established by the fund in thfne yepai Of operation.
Brave Jewish Policeman
Saves Lives In Jerusalem