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A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry . . . ' • t VOL. LI Established 1925 One Section, 16 Pages • OUR 50th YEAR ‘ --v ^ , Atlanta, Ga., June 20, 1975 NO. 25 Israel Closes Aliyah Office In Atlanta After 12 Years A July I closing of the Southeast Aliyah Center in Atlanta has been announced. Rami Dromi, in charge of the facility headquartered in Georgia for the past 12 years, said Atlanta was one of two of the fourteen American centers scheduled for immediate closing. The other, he noted, is in New Jersey. Under evaluation is the St. Louis Center, which may also be closed. Mr. Dromi will move to New York where he will be identified with the Aliyah headquarters there. The move, he observed, is part of a budgetary realignment the agency has had under consideration for a long period. Aaron Margalit created the Aliyah office in Atlanta. It was located at the time in the Exchange Place Building. Later it was removed to the 805 Peachtree Building. Abe Tooch was the next director, followed by Eran Shorer. Shorer died in Houston where he had undergone extensive surgery. Samuel Hard was Southeast director after Shorer. His successor was Rami Dromi, well known Israeli journalist. "Jteb" Shleme (S. J.) At 96; Businessman, Solomon Jacob (“S.J.") Gold died Tuesday, June 10, and with him a Jewish legend not likely ever to be reproduced in Atlanta. He operated a Jewish delicatessen in his community at a time when the current generation can hardly realize the close relationship of such a place to Judaism. A native of Lithuania, he and his wife moved to Atlanta at the turn of the century and soon opened his store. Housewives gladly paid the quarter or thirty cents a pound for corned beef, although the purchase was usually likely to be con siderably less than sixteen ounces. Such Jewish goodies as black olives, herring, lox, pumpernickte were available to tempt customers and on the shelves items tasty and exotic as well. People came, singly and in droves, to fill the store as they bought what meager times could prompt, or what parties required. They dreamed of the times when they could buy in larger and more effusive quantities. The person behind the counter was not always Mr. Gold himself. At least not Mr. Gold alone. His first wife, the former Kalie Freed man, who died in I94J, helped. So in turn did his beautiful family of TECHNION’S Haney Prize winners Dr. Goerge Klein (I) and Prof. Edward Teller. Dr. Klein, professor of tumor biology and head of the Institute for Tumor Biology at the Karolinska Institute Medical School in Stockholm, receives the Harvey Prize in Human Health for his discoveries in cancer immunology. Prof. Teller of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory of the University of California was chosen for the Science and Technology prize for his work toward the utilization of fission and fusion energy for peaceful purposes. The Haney Prizes, each of which carries a cash award of $35,000, are named for the late Leo M. Haney of Los Angeles, who was a prominent leader of the American Technion Society. Mr. Haney was founder and chairman of Haney Aluminum Co. who died in 1973 at the age of 87. A million dollar gift from the Lena P. Haney Foundation was used to es tablish the Haney Prize Fund in 1971. Rabin Still in Dark on JJ.S. Policy After Top Level Meet NEW YORK, (JT A) — Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel indicated here Saturday night that after two days of meetings in Washington with President Ford and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger he was still in the dark as to what U.S. policy will be in the Middle East. Addressing 2300 Jewish leaders from the United States and Can ada at a dinner given in his hon or by the Israel Bond Organiza tion at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Rabin said that he had explained Israel's position “very thoroughly” to President Ford but Gold Dies Talmudist sons and daughters, each assisting after school or during vacation as the years turned. “Gold's” became a byword in the community — for the Orthodox and others who beat a path to the store and returned home with the Jewish foods offered there. It was said that he did enough business on some Sundays to be closed the other days of the week. But in the broad service the place offered, the place was closed only on the Sabbath. The volume on Sunday was greatly increased by persons who came to Atlanta from dozens of smaller communities in Georgia where no such Jewish food place was available. Packages of edibles from Gold’s were brought back like treasures — on trains, in cars and perhaps during earlier times even by horse and buggy. Merchants who came to Atlanta to buy at the wholesale places did not dare return home without stop ping at Gold's and acquiring samples and staples for the family. The first thing in Albany, Ga., for instance, this writer ever heard about Atlanta was Gold’s. Always family travelers to Atlanta bought items there and brought them as special treats. It was from Gold’s too that Albanians and Jewish citizens in many another community ordered their Passover matzoh and the myriad of things needed for the passover table. Even Sedurim. His Pesach orders must have been monumental, mounting for weeks as Passover approached and then being crated and shipped in order to arrive at whatever loca tion on time. At one time his place was in one of the two stores located on the same Capitol Avenue property of — TURN TO PAGE 10 did not know if "all was accepted.” He said, “I am sure there was understanding to what I told Ford" but that he does not know ■ now what the U.S. government’s decision on the Middle East will be. “I explained to Ford that con ditions not accepted by Israel in March will not be accepted today," Rabin said, referring to Kissinger’s “shuttle" diplomacy which broke down last March. He rejected the contention that Israel is intransigent, emphasizing that “We do all for progress" but that Israel has the right to decide what is right and wrong when it comes to its future and security. He said Israel is ready to make concessions to the Arabs but cannot make any that would en danger its security. Describing his country’s relations with the U.S. as friendship deeply rooted in values and beliefs," Rabin said that Israel had demonstrated flexibility but was not prepared to accept Egyp tian dictates. “We said no, even when the U.S. was ready to accept Egyptian dictation," Rabin declared. He said that Israel was com mitted to do whatever was possible to achieve an interim agreement WASHINGTON — The State Department has blamed the killing of an Israeli woman, her husband and brother by Arab terrorists in the Israeli village of Kfar Yuval, as “clearly sparked by an act of wan ton terrorists.” Referring to the attack and the Israeli retaliation that followed against an Arab village in south Lebanon, the State Department statement said: “Our position on such incidents has been stated many times and it has not been changed. We deplore such in cidents of violence, which in this caseiwere clearly sparked by an act of wanton terrorism. We par ticularly deplore and regret very much the loss of innocent lives." • • • BONN — The chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Ger many, Werner Nachmann, 50, is off on four weeks military training. Nachmann, who was recently awarded West Germany's Order of Merit by President Walter Scheel, says his decision to do voluntary military training is to demonstrate the closeness of German Jews to the new West German State Under present laws, Jews are not obliged to do military service in the Bundcswehr. • • • JERUSALEM — Foreign Minister Yigal Alton called in the British Ambassador, Sir Bernard with Egypt but observed that if that is not achieved, there will be a need to move toward the negotia tion of an overall settlement. He did not mention the Geneva con ference. He emphasized however that if Egypt will be “forthcoming", Israel will be the same. He described the present situa tion in the Middle East as better than it was three months ago. He said the threat of war had diminished, the Suez Canal- is re opened, the mandate of the United Nations peace-keeping forces has been extended and Israel’s recent unilateral thinning out of its forces in Sinai has contributed to further relaxation. As to the future, he stressed that Israel is ready to negotiate for peace not for its right to exist. “Our existence as an independent Jewish State does not depend on their (Arab) recognition," Rabin asserted. He said he doubted that peace would be achieved m the Middle East as long as the Arab leaders refuse to reconcile themselves to Israel’s existence as an independent Jewish State. At present, he said, the gap between the Arabs and Israel “is too wide to breach." Ledwiedge to voice Israel’s con cern over reports of impending massive Britain-Egypt arms deals. The reports followed last week's visit to Britain by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy. They spoke of deals totalling near ly half a billion Pounds Sterling. British officials have termed the reports premature — but have not denied their substance. • • • NEW YORK — Jews across the Soviet Union were scheduled Saturday to begin hunger strikes in connection with the fifth anniver sary of the June 15, 1970 mass arrests which led to the Leningrad trials of 1970 and 1971, the Stu dent Struggle for Soviet Jewry said. The protests will draw atten tion both to the plight of prisoners of conscience in labor camp and to the Soviet government's harass ment of Jews seeking exit visas. • • • MONTICELLO, N Y — Bnai Zion, the national Zionist frater nal order, ended its 66th annual convention by adopting a un animous resolution urging tough legislation to curb the abuse of Arab boycotts of American firms in business relationships with Israel and to halt Arab-directed discrimination against Jewish in dividuals employed by government or business firms. JTA News Briefs