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Friday, Dec. 13, 1968
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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Israel Under Pressure
Washington Begins Active New
Role in War-Peace Situation
Transplant Patient Improves,
Operation Has Halachic Angles
By DAVID HOROWITZ
UNITED NATIONS (WUP) —
With Gunnar Jarring in Moscow
waiting for the Arabs and the
Israelis to respond more positive
ly to his presumed proposals,
Washington last week became un
easy and took initial steps to
play a more active role in the
Middle East situation.
As fighting broke out on a
large scale between Israel and
Jordan, State Secretary Rusk
speedily summoned their respec
tive Ambassadors and handed
them a note urging restraint.
Simultaneously, the U.S. Mis
sion here and U Thant called in
the Ambassadors of the two
countries in support of Rusk’s
word of warning.
Strangely, despite the heavy
fighting which threatened to as
sume full dimensions, neither
party asked for an emergency
meeting of the Security Council.
From Jordan’s side the reason
might well have been that, in
the main, Iraqi troops had been
involved, and Amman did not
feel so bad about the fact that
the “unwelcome” Iraqis received
a good thrashing for a change.
Another interesting aspect to
the latest clashes involved
Egypt’s passivity and Soviet sil
ence. Cairo, apparently, was shy
of being drawn into a war not
of its own timing, and the Mos-
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SOL B E T O N
634-3463
Chile Police Investigate
Bombs in Santiago
SANTIAGO de Chile (JTA) —
Police are investigating two Mol-
tov cocktail bombings by anti-
Semitic terrorists here. One of
the explosives was hurled at
dawn last Sunday at the Jewish
Hungarian Club. Fire oaused
damage before it was extinguish-
cow press was quick to reaffirm
that the Soviet Union continued
to believe in the possibility of a
political rather than a military
solution. Perhaps! The Russians
are playing a dangerous game —
and they know it.
The danger lies in the stepped-
up U.S. — and NATO — inter
vention within the Mediterran
ean-Black Sea areas — and the
Russians have already learned
one lesson during the Cuban
missile crisis. Their greatest fear,
however, lies not so much in
what the U.S. and NATO may
do in the region militarily but in
what the Arabs may do in a
possible shift to the West — a
matter that is out of the question
at present. Czechoslovakia, how
ever, it is known, has put some
fear into several Arab leaders.
With Nixon’s envoy Scranton
probing the situation in the area,
it is doubtful, after he reports to
the President-Elect on his talks
with the Arab and Israeli leaders,
that the new Administration will
embark upon a new course as re
gards Middle East policy — a
policy, based upon expediency,
still not fully satisfactory to Is
rael.
Israel’s conception of “secure
and recognized” boundaries is not
the same held by the State De
partment, nor is that linked to
the establishment of a lasting
peace. Israel rightly insists on
“direct negotiations”; the U.S.
would be satisfied with the con
clusion of a single statement rela
tive to the obligations of each
country toward the other to be
signed by each Government but
not necessarily to be called a
peace treaty.
The U.S. has put forth several
proposals to the Egyptians in
what the State Department be
lieves to be in the spirit of a
compromise.” Nasser, however,
it was learned late last week,
has rejected them.
As for the Israeli position on
the question of Big Power inter
vention, Defense Minister Moshe
Dayan is reported to have stated
that a solution imposed by the
great powers might be worse for
Israel than a war.
ed. That night an automobile be-
longing to a member of the Bene Schenker Feted
Israel (Indian Jewish) commun
ity, with fire damage estimated
at $500. No one was hurt in
either incident.
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NEW YORK (JTA)—Avraham
Schenker, a member of the Jew
ish Agency Executive in Jerusa
lem, was feted along with his
wife on the eve of their emigra
tion to Israel. More than 500 per
sons prominent in Jewish life
honored Mr. Schenker on his
50th birthday and on the occas
ion of their imminent departure.
Mr. Schenker, who is head
of the Agency’s Executive Or
ganization and Information De-
partmenet, said that Zionism
the “struggle for Jewish national
liberation”—is part of the global
struggle of small peoples and na
tions for political survival and
cultural continuity. This struggle,
he said, was set against a back
ground of efforts by Great
owers to not only dominate but
to swallow up minorities.
In the presence of Ossie Davis,
movie celebrity and civil rights
leader, Mr. Schenker praised the
world’s black peoples, in Africa
and the United States, for their
“struggle for liberation.”
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TEL AVIV (JTA) — The out
look for Israel’s first heart trans
plant patient appeared slightly
improved on the third day since
surgery was performed by a
team headed by Dr. Morris Levi
at the Beilinson Hospital in
Petach Tikvah. Dr. Levi said he
was more “optimistic” than he
had been in the past 24 hours
although the patient, 41-year-old
Itzhak Sullam, was still uncon
scious.
Dr. Levi said there was no
sign that Mr. Sullam’s body was
rejecting the heart, that his
blood pressure and breathing
were normal and he did not re
quire the aid of artificial breath
ing mechanisms or even oxygen.
The patient’s wife was permitted
to see him through a window.
The Sullams have four children.
Mr. Sullam, an immigrant from
Algeria who settled in Israel in
1948 and was employed as an
elevator operator in the Bank
Leumi building in Jaffa, became
the world’s 99th heart transplant
patient Friday. He was reported
in satisfactory condition initially
but yesterday his condition was
reported to be critical as his
body apparently started to reject
the new heart. A special anti
rejection serum was flown here
from France but at noon Monday
it was reported that the patient’s
condition had deteriorated. To
day, however, a medical report
said the drug had been used only
as a precautionary measure.
The heart surgery performed
on Mr. Sullam appeared to have
complications other than medical
ones as a result of questions of
Jewish law involved. The Sep
hardic Chief Rabbi, Yitzhak Nis-
sim, expressed best wishes for
the patient’s recovery Friday
without taking a special position
on whether Jewish law permitt
ed such an operation. The Ashken
azic Chief Rabbi, Isser Unter-
man, also expressed good wishe*
but said that from the Halachic
(religious law) point of view
there are reservations and re
strictions that could make heart
transplant surgery unacceptable.
Rabbi Unterman said trans
plants are permitted on condition
that there is no shadow of a
doubt that the donor is dead
when his heart is extracted. Dis
cussing the matter several weeks
ago, the Chief Rabbi said a man
should be considered dead when
he stopped breathing. But the
question of the exact moment
when death occurs is one on
which all medical authorities
have not yet agreed. In Mr. Sul
lam’s case, the identity of the
donor has been a closely guarded
secret. Some reports said it was
a traffic accident victim. The
Chief Rabbinate is apparently
waiting for further details of the
circumstances before taking a
stand in the case. A spokesman
for the Chief Rabbinate told re
porters that unofficially Rabbi
Nissim would like a mixed team
of rabbis and doctors to decide
in each case if a donor is dead
according to all criteria.
Forty-two-year-old Dr. Levi
who performed the eight-hour
operation on Mr. Sullam was
born in Bulgaria and studied
medicine in Israel. He trained in
Tokyo and between 1961 and
1964 he studied at the Minnesota
Medical School in Minneapolis
where he was a classmate of
Dr. Christian Barnard of South
Africa, who performed the
world’s first heart transplant
operation in Cape Town a year
ago. Mr. Sullam had been suffer
ing from a severe heart ailment
for more than a year.
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