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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Established 1925
Vol. XLVII
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, April 21, 1972
Two Sections—12 Pages
No. 16
In Brief Rumania Believes i^gypt Wants
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Dr. Her
bert Stein, President Nixon’s
senior economic adviser, arrived
here last week on a private visit
carrying the President’s personal
Independence Day greetings to
Premier Golda Meir. Dr. Stein
was in Israel for six days. He
met with Mrs. Meir; Finance
Minister Pinhas Sapir; Minister
of Commerce and Industry Haim
Bariev; and Moshe Zanbar, Gov
ernor of the Bank of Israel
possible by a $55,000 grant from
the Jewish Community Federa
tion of the Jewish Federation-
Council. The additional $110,000
was initially raised by B’nai
B’rith members in the Southern
California area for the origi
nal University of Southern Cal
ifornia Hillel building. The
Los Angeles Hillel Council is a
local beneficiary of the JF-
Council.
Political Settlement With Israel
ATHENS (JTA)—Two Jewish
leaders met here recently with a
member of the Greek Cabinet
to voice concern over a stepped-
up series of anti-Semitic state
ments by senior prelates of the
Greek Orthodox Church.
Joseph Lovinger and Daniel
Alhantis, president and vice-
president of the Central Coun
cil of Greek Jewish Communi
ties, told Gerassimos Frangatos,
Minister for Education and Re
ligious Affairs, that the Jewish
community feels insufficiently
protected against such state
ments.
They referred especially to a
remark made early in March by
the Bishop of Chios in the pres
ence of prominent government
leaders. The Bishop referred t$>
the discredited “Protocols of the
Elders of Zion” in describing
Judaism and Zionism as “dang
ers to Greek youth and civiliza
tion.”
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
three-man State committee of
inquiry has cleared Mordechai
Friedman of all charges of mis
management and corruption
brought against him in his ca
pacity as managing director of
the government-owned Netivei
Neft Oil Co. drilling for oil in
the Sinai. Friedman was cleared
in a majority report signed by
Supreme Court Justice Albert
Vitkon, the committee chair
man, and one of its lay mem
bers, Abraham Kalir, an indus
trialist. The other lay member,
Reserve Maj. Gen. Meir Zorea,
dissented. The hearings lasted
over four months.
LOS ANGELES (JrA) — A
new Hillel building, presently
under construction, is expected
to be operative this fall. The
$165,000 facility has been made
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
National Council of Jewish
Women has expressed concern
over President Nixon’s pledge to
extend federal aid to non-public
schools. Nixon made the pledge
April 6 to the convention of the
National Catholic Education
Committee in Philadelphia. In
a letter to the President, Mrs.
Esfrl Marvin, NCJW president,
stated that the intent to give
aid to parochial schools runs
counter to a number of court
decisions.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Ru
mania, which maintains friendly
relations with both Israel and
the Arab states, believes that
Egypt wants a political settle
ment of its dispute with Israel,
though no one in the Israeli gov
ernment shares that view.
That was the gist of the re
port Foreign Minister Abba
Eban submitted this week to the
Cabinet following a visit by the
Rumanian Deputy Foreign Min
ister, Giorghiu Macovescu, who
conferred last Friday with Eban
and met for 30 minutes with
Premier Golda Meir.
Macovescu’s visit took place
two weeks after President Nico-
lae Ceausescu of Rumania con
ferred with Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat and with Pales-
Bids Nixon
Take-Up Plight
Of USSR Jewry
WASHINGTON (JTA)—By a
nearly unanimous vote, the
House of Representatives Mon
day passed a bill asking the
President and the State Depart
ment to make the plight of So
viet Jewry a priority issue in
the United Nations and to take
“immediate and determined
steps” to help Soviet Jews
achieve freedom of expression,
religion and emigration
tinian terrorist leaders in Cairo.
Eban reportedly said that Ru
mania gives credence to frequent
statements by Sadat that Egypt
seeks a political settlement. He
was reported to have told Mac-
ovescue that Israel would wel
come progress toward any kind
of settlement and that realistic
ally a partial agreement to re
open the Suez Canal has more
chance at the moment than an
pver-all settlement. Macovescu
left Israel yesterday.
According to unconfirmed re
ports one subject he discussed
with Mrs. Meir at a meeting at
which no aides or other persons
were present, was the possibility
of Rumania assuming a mediat
ing role between Israel and
Egypt for an interim Suez agree
ment. Such an agreement has
long been promoted by the US
without results.
Diplomatic circles here ex
pressed satisfaction that Ruman
ia’s position on the Middle East
has not changed since the Six-
Day War when Rumania alone
of the East European Commun
ist nations refused to break dip
lomatic relations with IsraeL
Israel’s 24th
Last year, during the 24th year of Israel’s
existence which comes to an end now, immi
gration to Israel reached a dramatic peak—the
arrival of thousands of Jews from Russia and
other countries from which Jewish immigration
was barred.
Only a small part of the Jews in Russia were
allowed to leave and join their brothers and
families in Israel—and the struggle for their
basic human rights, including the one to im
migrate should continue persistently.
During last year an average of 100 immi
grants came daily to Israel, including Jews from
Russia, Europe, Latin America, USA, and other
countries.
Despite the influx of immigrants, who had
to be provided with all necessary housing, social
services, employment, professional retraining,
and the burden it constitutes on the shoulders
of the economy, finances, and the citizens of Is
rael—Israel has succeeded with the help of its
supporters in the Jewish world, in keeping im
migration coming, maintaining full employment,
expanding its industrial and agricultural exports,
and speeding up the rate of construction of new
settlements, housing schemes, roads, networks of
transportation and communication, as well as,
attracting more than 675,000 tourists—42% of
which were non-Jewish and 120,000 Arab Mos
lems visiting Israel from all neighboring Arab
countries.
All this was done in a year which the Presi
dent of Egypt called “A Year of Decision”—
which he interpreted as one that would either
put Israel on its knees as a result of political
pressure and intimidation exercised by his force
ful friends in the Soviet block and elsewhere.
or become a year of renewed military attack
against IsraeL
Though the threats did not materialize so far,
the danger of a unilateral Arab Military act
still remains; Russian military, political, and eco
nomic involvement has intensified in Egypt,
Iraq, Syria, and other Arab countries which
constitutes a threat to all independent and free
dom-loving countries in the Middle East and the
whole world.
Israel wi(l have to carry on inexhaustibly
with its main challenge of developing the coun
try, absorbing even growing numbers of immi
grants, and keeping a watching eye on its
neighbors, being ready to face any possible at
tack or terrorist activities against its citizens
—responding if, unfortunately, necessary in a
way which will convince the enemies that no
such adventure pays and the only solution for
the countries of the Middle East is peace.
To accomplish these historical and meaningful
tasks and meet social, economic, and educational
and domestic needs—which resulted because
of a generation of uninterrupted dynamic growth
—- is very difficult and enormously burden
some to the limited resources of Israel. She
will no doubt be assisted, as in the past, by
Jewish individuals and the Jewish communities
throughout the world as well as by friendly na
tions and supporters, headed by the USA through
whose cooperation, understanding, friendship,
and partnership Israel’s accomplishments were
made possible and its pursuits of peace and
progress in the Middle East will be continued.
MOSHE GILBOA
Consul General To The Southeast
Weisberg Says Jewish Press
Insurance to Safe-Guard Rights
BOSTON (WUP)—“The Jewish press is the best insurance for
the safeguarding of Jewish rights and the implementation of worthy
Jewish goals.”
Thus declared Joseph G. Weisberg in his recent column, Views
of the News, appearing in the Jewish Advocate currently cele
brating its 70th year.
Editor Weisberg was discussing the January conference of the
World Federation of Jewish Journalists held in Jerusalem prior
to the opening of the 28th World Zionist Congress. Noting that the
“English-Jewish press has to survive and be strong if Jewish com
munities are to be concerned with Jewish values over and above
avid fund-raising,” Mr. Weisberg made it quite clear that Amer
ican Jewish community leaders have not cooperated sufficiently
with the Jewish publishers and editors.
“Since the U. S. is the most affluent country with the largest
Jewish population upon which the State of Israel, and, indeed, the
continuation of Judaism so heavily depend,” he emphasized, “it
would seem that the American Jewish press would be in the
strongest newspaper position. But,” he complained, “just the op
posite is true. It is here that the papers most precariously exist
and with a few notable exceptions practically live from hand to
mouth. Of the most successful journals, a handful are independent
ly owned, the rest are subsidized or operated by the Jewish fed
erations in the various citie#.”
The Jewish Advocate publisher-editor reported that there are
today some 854 Jewish newspapers in the world, 43 percent Yid
dish, 35 percent English, 6 French, 5 Spanish, 4 German and 7 per
cent in other languages Of the total number, 564 or 66 percent,
are published in the Diaspora, with 290 or 34 percent in Israel.
To Brief SE Business
Leaders on Israel Econom\
Eliczer Grunwald, deputy gen
eral director of the Israel In
vestment Authority, will be in
Atlanta on Tuesday, Apr. 25, to
brief a group of Southeastern
businessmen on an economic
conference toHoe held in Jeru
salem in May.
The noon luncheon meeting at
the Diplomat is being organized
by the office of Israel’s Regional
Consul for Economic Affairs
Abraham Sharir. Co-sponsors
are Nathan Lipson and Milton
Weinstein.
The Jerusalem conference is
scheduled to take place during
Israel’s 24th anniversary cele
bration. Recent achievements of
Israel’s industry will be exhibi
ted. Personal invitations from
the Prime Minister’s office are
to be sent to a select group of
business leaders throughout the
United States.
Mr. Grunwald, who previously
served his government in a na-
MR. GRUNWALD
tional post in this country, will
present the program for the
forthcoming Conference.