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A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol, XU I
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, December 1,1967
No. 48
$25,000 Reward Spurs Search
For Bombers of Rabbi's Home
JACKSON, Miss. (JTA)—Gov.
ernor Paul B. Johnson of Mis
sissippi and Governor-elect John
Bell Williams denounced the
night bombing last week which
virtually wrecked the home of
Rabbi Perry E. Nussbaum of
Temple Beth Israel of Jackson
and nearly cost the rabbi hits
life.
Mayor Allen Thompson of
Jackson announced that the city
had increased its reward for the
arrest and conviction of the bom
bers from $5,000 to $25,000.
The explosion, which shattered
Rabbi Nussbaurn’te home shortly
after 11:00 p. m., was the second
act of violence in recent months
against the rabbi who has been
active in the civil rights move
ments. Last September 18, hit-
and-run bombers blasted Temple
Beth Israel.
American Jewish organizations
quickly demanded Federal pro
tection for the rabbi and for oth
ers whose lives and property were
threatened by racist violence. The
Union of American Hebrew Con
gregations in New York, congre
gational organization of Reform
Judaism, sent a telegram to Fed
eral officials asking them to take
firm action to end the “reign of
violence, terror and intimidation’’
Warning Sounded
On Growing Peril
Of Appeasement
WASHINGTON (JTA) _ The
former counsel to two American
presidents was charged that pres
sures for appeasement of the
Arabs were emerging in the
United States Government. Myer
Feldman, who served as Special
Counsel to Presidents Kennedy
and Johnson, said the argument
was being advanced that the
Arab states and their votes at
the United Nations were more
important to this country than
was Israel.
Speaking before the Washing
ton Committee of the Weizmann
Institute of Science, Mr. Feldman
stressed that “American policy in
the Middle East cannot be based
upon a belief that Israel will
always be strong enough to de
fend itself against the over
whelming men and materiel
poised along its borders.” He
urged the Administration to
prove to the Russians the futility
of arming the Arabs by sending
offsetting arms to Israel.
Archive Established
NEW YORK (JTA)—The es
tablishment of an American Jew
ish religious archive at the Jew
ish Theological Seminary of
Amerioa, which will be a source
for historians delving into the
background of Judaism’s devel
opment in the new world, was
announced by Dr. Louis Finkel-
stein, chancellor of the Seminary.
Arabs and Israelis
Sit at Same Table
UNITED NATIONS (WUP)— Al
though the Arabs have sworn that
they will never sit down at one
table with the Israelis in discus
sions over the Middle East, they
are compelled to do so here at
this headquarters.
During the current Security
Council meetings, the Syrian Am
bassador has been allotted e seat
at the horseshoe table right next
to Foreign Minister Abba Eban
or, in hia absence, to Ambassa
dor Gideon Rafael, in an elbow-
to-elbow position.
Rabbi Nussbaum, searching for
new living quarters, hit out
against the Ku Klux Klan and
the segregationist “Americans for
the Preservation of the White
Race.” He said that while he bad
no proof that either of these or
ganizations were implicated in the
bombings they had helped create
the kind of “climate” that per
mitted “this present reign of ter
ror." Governor Johnson urged all
Mississippians to cooperate with
law enforcement officials in ap
prehending “these depraved bom
bers.”
Gravest Thr
Is Aliyah F
By ADOLPH ROSENBERG
What is the gravest threat to
the Jewish State in the Middle
East?
Not the Arab countries, in the
opinion of Deputy Chaplain to
the Israeli Armed Faroes Mor-
deohai Firon, but th^ Jewish
people.
The threat, he delineated in
Atlanta Sunday before an Aliyah
Conference sponsored by the At
lanta Zionist Council, is that the
Jewish people of the world will
not respond with a vast wave of
- bays
Mideast Envoy Arrives at UN,
Confers with Israel’s Rafael
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA) — Gunnar Jarring, the
Swedish d i p 1 amat appointed
by Secretary-General Thant as
the United States special rep
resentative to the Middle East,
has arrived in New York and was
scheduled to hold a series of
“briefing” meetings with Mr.
Thant.
Mr. Jarring has been named in
accordance with a resolution
adopted unanimously by the Se
curity Council, for the purpose of
establishing and maintaining con
tact with Israel and the Arab
states “in order to promote agree
ment and assist efforts to achieve
Soviet Admits
Big Aid to Egypt
LONDON (JTA) — Members
of the Soviet Military mission in
Egypt admit that there are some
2,500 Russian instructors, engi
neers and technicians now work-
with Egyptian armed forces
whose morale has “improved
greatly” as a result of the new
weapons received from the
USSR, and new training meth
ods. This was reported by Clare
Hoilingworth, Daily Telegraph
correspondent in Cairo, who ob
served that Nasser has “regained
faith in himself” and believes
that he can continue to lead Egypt
and force an Israeli withdrawal
from Sinai.
Hoilingworth reported that
Russian experts have concluded
that it is impossible to train
Egypt’s illiterate peasantry in
the use of highly sophisticated
Soviet weapons and equipment.
As a result, all of the new wea
pons shipped by Russia to Egypt
since last June’s war are far
more simple to operate.
Sapir Plans
Resignation
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Finance
Minister Pinhas Sapir said last
week, in an interview with the
army weekly Bamachaneh, that
he intended to resign in 1969 at
the close of the current Parlia
ment. He said he had been a
Cabinet member for 12 years and
that he felt “this was enough.”
He also disclosed, in another
interview that the June war had
cost Israel about $750 million in
direct and indirect outlays. In
tensive fund-raising abroad at
the same time brought $350 mil
lion in addition to what Israel
would have received this year
if there had not been a war. He
said about two-thirds of this
money was raised in the United
States. The figure on the over
seas contributions was for the
first 10 months of this year.
a peaceful and accepted settle
ment” of the Mideast crisis as
provided for in the Council’s res
olution.
Israel’s chief envoy to the
United Nations, Ambassador Gid
eon Rafael, also is scheduled to
meet with Mr. Jarring. Mr. Ra
fael was to have left for Israel,
having completed his tour of duty
here, but was reportedly asked
by Mr. Thant to delay his de
parture so that he might meet
with the new Mideast emissary.
Mr. Thant, when informing the
parties an the appointment of the
Swedish diplomat, expressed bis
“earnest hope and confidence that
each of the governments cch-*
ceroed will extend to Ambassa
dor Jarring its full cooperation
and will affbrd him all facilities
necessary fp< the effective dis
charge at the important task en
trusted to him.”
»ewish
the greatest irony
faced by our people if Jews be
come a minority in Israel,” he
asserted.
Yet, with the large number of
new Arabs now added to the
country’s population through the
turn of the inadvertent Six-Day
War, Laeiutf.-tOok*iel Pijron said
Israel faces just this prospect.
“We cannot go on with your
money alone or your spiritual
support,” he continued. “We must
have your physical presence to
accomplish the prophetic vision
and if Jews in your wonderful
land do not respond, our cause
will ultimately be lost.
“It is now or never and if you
do not respond to the most won
derful challenge to our people in
thousands of years there is no
way out
“You have a chance to become
a part of this glorious adventure.
Come over and try it.”
Chaplain Piron, smart — even
dashing—in his Army uniform,
exhorted Americans to ootne with
their flair and dash for economic
and scientific development, with
their know-how.
Earlier in his talk be had told
about the change effected in the
intensity
spirit and depth of
among all Israelis.
“We shall never be the same,”
he declared, adding:
“Today, the state covers an
area five times greater than be
fore. For the first time in Jew
ish history, we have practically
reached the borders promised by
the Lord. There is a deeper,
spiritual change as well, he con
tinued. “We are speaking openly
about the miracles of the Six-
Day War.
“In his innermost heart, every
human being is a believer and
the events of the war have pro
duced a feeling of a metaphysical
nature.
“Providence has given us a
wonderful chance for the first
time to approach the messianic
realization.”
Another speaker was Israel
Navy Commander Schmuel
Yonai, now in charge of the
“Lamed L” development of North
Tel Aviv.
He delineated more specifically
ways and means for resettlement
in Israel. He referred to conces
sions in income tax, school fees,
housing faculties and other way*
in order to attract newcomer*
from the West.
New Highway
Bypasses Suez
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A new
highway that bypasses the Suez
Canal was recently used for the
first time to transport 250 tons
of freshly-oaught fish from a
trawler docked at Israel’s Gulf
of Akabe Port of Eilat to a Greek
cargo vessel at Israel’s Mediter
ranean Port of Ashdod. The fish,
from the trawler “Dolphin!,” was
transported by refrigerated trucks
over the Eilat-Ashdod highway
in the first practical test of the
land route that outs through the
Negev Desert.
Unemployment Reported
Cut in Half Since June War .
ing the neat five years, of which
half should oome from ftMCpa
sources rmd the remainder from
Israel's own economy.
“We are asking toe trade
unions of the free world to in
vest in our enterprises,” be de
clared, noting toot American
trade unions have Indicated toot
they will purchase $10 million
worth of Histadrut debentures
that will be repaid to them with
interest over a 20-year period.
The parley marked the open
ing of a drive to raise $6 million
in the United States end Canada
to aid Histadnrt’s health, educa
tion and welfare services in Is
rael. At the conclusion of the
convention, a roHcsll of toe del
egates showed that, of toe total
1968 goal, $1,242,000 has already
been pledged.
NEW YORK (JTA) — Unem
ployment in Israel hew been out
in half since the Six-Day War
last June, but it is still a serious
problem which can be overcome
only by increased capital invest
ment in export industries end
increased immigration of Jews to
Israel, Aharon Becker, secretary
general of Histadrut, said here at
the dosing session of toe 44th
annual convention of the National
Committee for Labor Israel.
Mr. Becker, who came to New
York following a tour of five
Latin American countries, said
that there are about 20,000 un
employed in Israel, which is half
of what it was at the beginning
of last June but still too large a
number. He said that an estimat
ed $1.5 billion oan be effectively
invested in Israel's economy dur-
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