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Wday, Dm. 1, 1967
Worldwide Briefs
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
International Bank tor Recon
struction and Development, the
•o-oalled World Bank, has given
Israel a loan erf $15 mdlilion, it
was announced here. It is the
financial institution’s second low
to Israel, the first having been
made in 1065, amounting to $20
million.
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Lt Gen.
Odd Bull, chief of the UN’s cease
fire observers in the Middle East,
left here tor Cairo to continue
discussions on implementing Sec
retary-General Thant’s proposals
tor strengthening the cease fire
observation machinery in the
Suez Canal area.
LONDON (TA)—Great Britain
and Egypt will resume diplomatic
relations during the first part of
next month, and an exchange of
ambassadors will follow as soon
afterwards as possible, it was an
nounced here. Relations with
Britain were severed by Egypt
on the issue of Rhodesia.
Wants U. S. Youth
To Visit Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA)— Tl*e
director of the B’nai B’rith Youth
Organization has suggested that
the best way to achieve large-
scale settlement of American
Jewish youth in Israel was to
provide them first with oppor
tunities to visit Israel fjtor a
variety of purposes and for varied
periods of time.”
Dr. Max F. Baer told the an
nual meeting of the B’nai B’rith
Young Commission, policy-mak
ing body of the B.B. Youth Or
ganization, that “the greater the
number of visiting youth, the
settlers.” He stressed, however,
that the young people selected tor
travel to Israel should be those
“with genuine influence among
their peers.”
Support of Israel
Urged by Priests
NEWARK, N. J. (JTA)—Two
priests, one of whom was closely
associated with Augustin Card
inal Bea in the work culminating
in the Ecumenical Council’s dec
laration on relations between the
Roman Catholic Church and the
Jews, issued a “statement of con
science” appealing to the Chris
tian world to support Israel in
this time of crisis.
The statement issued in the
name of the Institute of Judaeo-
Christian studies at Seton Hall
University, was signed by Msgr.
John M. Oesterreiaher, who
served as Cardinal Bea’s aide,
and Rev. Edward H. Flannery, a
leading Catholic advocate of rap
prochement with the Jews.
The statement called on Chris
tians, as Christians, to make their
voices heard in support of Is
rael.
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Rabbi
Pesach Z. Levovitz, president of
the Orthodox Rabbinical Coun
cil, took sharp issue here with
those of President Johnson’s
critics who say that the war in
Viet Nam jeopardizes the anti
poverty and Great Society pro
grams. “We have every confi
dence in the President’s asser
tion that the American economy
is strong enough to cope with
any commitments abroad as well
as on the home front,” he said.
Rabin Unsure
Six-Day War
Was the Last
LONDON (JTA) — Maj. Gen.
Yitzhak Rabin, chief of staff of
Israel’s armed forces, acknow
ledged here that he “could not
say with certainty’’ that last
June’s Six-Day War was the last.
He obberved that “you cannot
force a people to live in peace with
you, especially if a bigger coun
try is exploiting the situation.”
Gen. Rabin addressed a capac
ity audience of returning volun
teers tor Israel during the Six-
Day War, representatives of Zion
ist youth and student organiza
tions and others at the Youth
Center here. He disclosed that
an Israeli pilot was murdered
after bailing out over Jordan
when his plane was shot down
last week, but said that it was
not always in Israel’s interest to
publicize Arab atrocities.
He also denied flatly that Rus
sian prisoners had been captured
during the June war, despite phot
ographs that purported to be of
captured Russians. He said that
many Soviet advisors and tsch-
nicians cooperated with the Arabs
but there is no evidence that any
Russians took an active part in
the hostilities.
Referring to general security
matters, including a threat by the
new South Arabian authorities to
seal off the Perim Straits at the
mouth of the Red Sea to Israel
shipping, the chief of staff said
“we must hope for the best and
expect the worst.” He thanked all
those who had volunteered to aid
Israel in her hour of need, wheth
er they actually reached Israel or
not
War Still a Danger,
Dr. Goldmann Says
NEW YORK (JTA) — Dr.
Nahum Goldmann, president erf
the World Zionist Organization,
said lest week that Israel’s
leaders were aware that Israel’s
central problem was to reach a
system of co-existence with the
Arab states and that the Soviet
Union, by virtue of its status as
principal source of arms tor the
Airabs, had a crucial vote and
major influence in settling the
problems of the Middle East
He told a press conference here
that without Soviet acquiescence,
“it is hard to foresee any def
inite or even temporary settle
ment which will do away with
the danger of renewal of hostil
ities.” He warned theft in the
absence of a settlement, renew
ed hostilities could break out.
JNF Reelects Weisman
NEW YORK (JTA)— Herman
L. Weisman was elected to a sec
ond two-year term as president
of tiie Jewish National Fund of
America at the JNF biennial
meeting here.
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A LETTER FROM ISRAEL
Forward After
By ABBA RIMON
A Seven Arts Feature
have been started: urgent work
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The military victory of Israel
swept aside many threats and
many problems, and has pre
sented new challenges. Just as
the Keren Kayemeth play a
prominent role in the country’s
struggle—by development of its
wastelands and by settlement
along the borders— it is pre
paring formidable new develop
ment tasks.
The first thing the Jewish Na
tional Fund did after the Six
Day War was move into the plots
of ground in Israel territory to
which Jewish farmers and
Keren Kayemeth workers had
been denied access by Syrian
soldiers. Almost every year
since 1948, some tractorists and
workers had been killed at one
point or other along this border
by the Syrians, who were safely
and strategically implanted in
positions on the heights. To re
claim the soil here and prepare
the fields for sowing of crops
was a debt of honor to those who
had died for these lands.
Similarly, vital development
tasks in the demilitarized zones
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Capt. and Mrs. Allan Fox of
Webb Air Force Base, Big
Springs, Texas, announce the
birth of a son, Jeffrey Dennis,
on November 8. Mrs. Fox is
the former Ronna Taylor, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tay
lor of Quitman, Ga. Paternal
grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Fox of Fort Lee, N. J.
Mrs. Julius Solomon of Atlanta
and Mr. and Mrs. B. Taylor of
Quitman are the maternal great
grandparents.
SAVANNAH
MIZRACHI
WOMEN
The first meeting of the Sa
vannah Chapter erf the Mizrachi
Women's Organization was held
November 26 at the home of Mrs.
Mike Volpin, Mrs. Samuel Rabin
(president) presided.
Mrs. Leonard Rabhan, first
local chapter president, was pre
sented the Savannah Mizrachi
Organization, a certificate for 10
trees in memory of her late bro
ther James Sawilowsky. Mrs.
Rabhan described her recent
visit to the Mizrachi children’s
village in Israel.
Mrs. Beatus talked in Yiddish
about the portion of the week,
“The Life of Sarah.”
Mrs Samuel Rabin and Mrs.
Leonard Rabhan became life
members of the organization.
past because Israel did not want
to provoke unnecessary flare-
ups and subsequent loss of life.
In this category, about 25,000
dunams of soil are being re
claimed in the Latrun area,
north of the Jerusalem Corridor,
along the old Jerusalem-Tel
Aviv highway. Another five
thousand dunams of land are be
ing cleared and prepared for
cultivation at various new loca
tions along the Syrian border.
The intention is to establish con
ditions for the settlement of
three new settlements here—at
Hermon (Baniyas) Spring in the
north, site of one of the vital
headwaters of the Jordan River,
at Mateh Oz, overlooking the
strategic Benot Yaacov bridge
near Gadot, at Korazim Bet
north of Lake Kinneret.
The other big project in a
previously unapproachable de
militarized zone is the construc
tion of a 28 kilometer roadway
along the northeastern shore of
Lake Kinneret and beyond,
where the old border runs in
some places 30 feet from the
shore. Completion of a road
around the lake will make all of
it safe.
One of the tasks that the JNF
is eager to undertake in the
next year will no doubt be con
nected with the development of
unified Jerusalem. It has al
ready been approached to plant
a forest park to the south of the
old city on barren hills which
give a splendid panorama of the
Judean Hills and the ancient
sites.
At the same time, the various
development projects of the
Jewish National HHind that were
planned before June 1967 have
received a new urgency as a re
sult of recent events. The Cen
tral Galilee Development Project
will be implemented according
to plan, with new moshavim at
Hazon and Zar’it and Shetula,
and afforestation all over the
Galilee. Work on roadbuilding
and new outposts will be con
tinued in Adorayim and the
Negev. In the Negev itself, be
sides the construction of earth
dams to control and use flood
waters, it is intended to prepare
settlement sites in both the west
ern part at Dangur and at Besor,
and in the eastern part from
Yatir to the Arava Valley.
Among the incentives for this
intensive program is the need to
close up the various holes along
Israel’s line of defense settle
ments, to provide a strong agri
cultural backbone to the coun
try as a whole and to absorb the
expected new wave of immigra
tion. Not least among the incen-
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tives is the desire to give thou
sands of volunteers from abroad
a task worthy of their pioneering
urge.
In addition to the plan to ab
sorb 1,000 volunteers in various
Keren Kayemeth development
projects, the JNF will continue
to play a chief role in providing
work for thousands of unem
ployed. especially in afforesta
tion work. It cannot be certain
about the precise location of all
these new projects, but it can be
sure of Its readiness to respond
to the demands of the national
government and the local coun
cils. The jnany settlements that
have already been promised ad
ditional land will not be dis
appointed, nor will the affore
station of uncultivated waste
lands be put off.
The Jewish National Fund is
a part of the constant growth of
Israel. There is no doubt that
the near future will bring
many fresh demands for de
velopment work—be it in areas
within or beyond Israel’s pre
vious geographical scope. These
tasks will be of a size and urg
ency that are unprecedented in
Zionist history.
As a result of the Six Day
War and all the recent indica
tions of the magnificent desire
to help on the part of the Jews
of the world, the JNF believes
that it is on the threshold of a
new era of dynamic pioneering
and development
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