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Some of the 9 Egyptian commandos killed after crossing the Suez Canal to attack an Israeli Command Post. One of the Aswan-Cairo highpower pulons destroyed during a retaliatory raid deep into Egypt by Israel planes. The Southern Israelite A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925 Vol. XLIV Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, July 25, 1969 No. 30 l ighting Breaks Out at Suez Following Clashes, Plane Losses ACID ATTACK Mattapan Rabbi Attacked; Victim Blames Race Tension TEI, AVIV (JTA) — Artillery duels broke out anew Monday along the Suez Canal following a four-hour ground and air bat tle that saw the first Israeli air attack on Egyptian ground in stallations in nearly two years. An artillery and tank battle near the Bitter Lakes, Firdan Bridge spanning the Canal and north of Qantara injured two Israelis, ac cording to a military spokesman. Egyptian authorities invited newsmen to see remnants of 19 Israeli planes which they claim ed were shot down in Sunday’s fighting near Port Suez buk can celled the tour at the last min ute, claiming that the area was under heavy shelling. An Israeli spokesman said there was no shelling In that area. A military spokesman said that Israel bombed and strafed Egyp tian ground-to-air missile bases, anti-aircraft positions and artil lery installations between Port Said and Qantara. The Israeli Air Force was reported to have lost two jets—two Sukhoi-7s, two MIG-17S and MIG-21s-all of which were said to have crashed in Egypt. Cairo Radio claimed that its pilots and anti aircraft artillery downed 19 Is raeli planes and that Egyptian aircraft struck a tank column, three radar installations, artillery emplacements, an ammunition dump and a Hawk missile site in the Israeli-occupied Sinai. Egypt reported one plane lost. The fighting began with an at tack by Israeli troops on Green Island, an Egyptian island strong hold at the southern outlet of the Suez Canal that serves as an anti-aircraft base. The Israelis occupied the fortress for about 50 minutes and left an estimated 25 killed and dozens wounded, destroyed an 85-millimeter anti aircraft battery, a radar post, sev eral smaller anti-aircraft guns, most of the island's machinegun nests and a number of build ings. An Israeli miltary spokesman said that the attack was the cost liest since military operations of this nature began Vast year. He rejected Egyptian claims that 39 Israelis were killed and a Mirage jet was shot down in the raid on the artificial island fortress constructed atop a submerged rock in shallow waters, some two miles sout of Port Tewfik. The fortified base safeguarded the southern entrance to the 100- mile-long Canal. It has long buildings and a wide courtyard and housed radar-controlled anti aircraft guns and other weapons. Egyptian artillery • continued pounding the island during and Continued on page 4 MATTAPAN, Mass. (JTAt — A 28-year-old rabbi who was se verely burned when two assail ants attacked him with an acid bomb in his home here last month said this week that the incident may have been related to the tensions between Jews and Negroes in his once predominant ly Jewish neighborhood. Rabbi Gerald B. Zelermyer of Temple Beth Hillel here was the victim of two black youths who rang the doorbell of his home, handed him a note and hurled an acid bomb In his face before fleeing. The note began “dear est rabbi,” contained obscene language and ordered him to get out of town, he said. Tempor arily blinded but since fully re covered, the rabbi said he was unable to identify his assailants. The note was destroyed by the acid, he said. The rabbi said his assailants obviously knew who he was and that they apparently had been watching his home, where he lives alone, for some time. He added this indicated that the attack was planned and not a random incident but he indi cated that he could think of no reason why he was singled out. He added he intended to remain, in Mattapan. The rabbi told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he tried to withhold news of the assault for fear of increasing neighbor hood tensions but the story was published in the Advocate, a Jewish weekly in Boston. It spurred the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston to join with rabbis in the Dor chester Mattapan section to alert city officials to the need for more protection and other help. A meeting was held with police officials who promised to provide adequate police protection for congregants, particularly the el derly. Robert Segal, JCC direc tor, urged residents to report all incidents to the JCC and to rely on police to provide safety. Rabbi Zelermyer said he con sidered the attack on him part of the spreading malaise affect ing most large cities where as piring blacks confronted estab lished whites. In Mattapan, he said, the whites happen to be Jews, those too old or too poor to have joined the white exodus to the suburbs. In Mattapan he told the JTA, black families are moving in as Jewish families depart. He said that real estate speculators, “block busters," both Negro and Jewish, were trying to panic Jewish families into selling their property. He reported that Negroes had sought to buy his synagogue’s quarters and that their inter mediary was a Jew. He asserted that the problems in Mattapan had nationwide sig nificance and were "as impor tant to Jews as the Six-Day War.” He said national Jewish agencies were neglecting “the needs of poor, urban Jewish comm uni tie*.” He added that such communities needed social workers and other facilities for the aged and the poor but that the Jewish agencies apparently felt they were “a poor invest ment.” The Advocate declared editorially that “the most shame ful reaction” by the community to the attack would be “simply to ignore this plethora of human problems.” In a statement in the Advocate, the rabbi said that the fault was not in the “black incursion” into Mattapan but with the community which had “sounded a requiem for our area through almost wholesale indif ference to our plight. The afflu ent have left. The less affluent, who need help, mostly remain.” New Israel Consul General Presents Credentials, Gets to Work Apollo Launching On Rosh Chodesh Av Moshe Gilboa, an elected mem ber of the executive council of the Zionist Movement, has as sumed his duties as Consul Gen eral of Israel for the Southeas tern Region of the United States. In presenting his credentials to Governor Maddox and to Mayor Ivan Allen. Mr. Gilboa discov ered a shared keen interest in Kenya with the Mayor. Mr. Gilboa, in 1961, served as assis tant director of the Division for International Cooperation and Fore'gn Liaison in the Ministry of Defense. In this capacity he was responsible for planning, negotiating and fulfillment of many projects of cooperation be tween Israel and 25 friendly countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Born in 1930, he graduated from Herzlia High School in Tel Aviv. During hjgh school he served as a platoon commander in the Haganah and later volun teered to serve in the Palmach, Haganah's Commando Unit. Af ter the War of Independence, Gilboa settled with his Palmach unit a new kibutz, Erez, on the Gaza Strip, where he lived for seven years. He was 1 elected to MOSHE GILBOA the Kibbutz Movement’s national executive. Educated at the Hebrew Uni versity and Cambridge Univer sity, Gilboa served during his stu dent years as president of the Na tional Union of Israeli Students and attended international con ferences in Europe and Africa. After graduation from Cam bridge, Gilboa was nominated spokesman of the majority party in Israel, ILP, and was a mem ber of its International Relations Committee. Called to join the Israeli Civil Service in 1959, he was appoin ted head of the office of Abba Eban. Then followed his position in international liaison. At the ISVS Conference in Washington, Mr. Gilboa was the last Israeli, in an official capacity, to see President Kennedy. Serving in London from 1965 to 1967, he was invited as guest lecturer on Israeli subjects to European Universities. He has served as a member of the pub lic council for Israeli National Theatre, Habimah, and was elec ted chairman of its international relations committee. In 1968 he was a delegate to the Zionist Congress in Jerusalem. As Consul General for the Southeastern Region, Gilboa will have jurisdiction over Georgia, Florida, N. Carolina, S. Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi. His wife, Ayala, is a former teacher with the Israel Theatre. They have two daughters who are with them in Atlanta. Bible Terms Moon The ‘Faithful Witness In The Sky’ NEW YORK (WUP) — Whether or not NASA officials were aware of it, the launching of Apollo 11 on Wednesday, July 16, on mankind’s maiden voyage to the moon happened to take place on Rash Chodesh Av — the first of the Hebrew month of Av, the 9th of which, falling out on Thursday, July 24, marks a sad day in Hebraic history: both Temples, on different intervals, were destroyed on that very day. The moon itself, on which there was a Mosaic ban as far as worship is concerned, plays a vital role in Jewish history. Each new moon, devout Jews throughout the world, offer special prayers to the celestial body to which the Jewish people are symbolized. “Like the moon, they reappeared after being eclipsed,” one sage has noted. The Bible itself refers to the Moon as a “Faithful Witness in the Sky.” The reference is made in connection with the oath which the Creator made to David that his throne would remain for ever. The passage, from Psalm 89, reads: "Surely, I will not be false unto David; His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me. It shall be estab lished forever as the Moon — that Faithful Witness in the Sky. (Verses 36-38) God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform. Who knows? The Apollo 11 launching on Rosh Chodesh Av may have much greater significance than all the ‘actors’ involved may realize, a significance for all mankind in connection with the passage cited.