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U.S. Vetoes UN Action- Scoring Israel Raids For only the 12th time in the 30 year history of the United Nations, the United States used its veto power Monday night, Dec. 8, to block Security Council action that would have condemned Israel for last week’s air strikes into Lebanon. Daniel P. Moynihan, the United States chief delegate, told the Council that the American action had been taken because the resolution was not balanced. Moynihan said the United States “strongly deplored” the Israeli action in Lebanon, but wanted the Council to also include violence that had been directed against Israel. ' Proclaim Liberty'' Theme Of Annual UJAConference Elie Wiesel, noted author and philosopher, was the recipient of the first annual United Jewish Appeal David Ben-Gurion Award, Frank R. Lautenberg, UJA General Chairman an nounced this week. The special award which is dedicated to the memory of the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel (David Ben-Gurion, 1886-1973), was presented to Mr. Wiesel on December 11, at the Inaugural Dinner of the 1976 UJA National Conference in New York. "It is most fitting,” said, Mr. Lautenberg, “that the first recipient of the UJA David Ben- Gurion Award is Elie Wiesel. His impact has been extremely profound, horizontally throughout the world, and ver tically in society from our oldest generation to our youngest . . . including academician and laborer, farmer and city dweller, rich and poor, young and old alike. Author, philosopher, teacher and teller of tales, and recognized voice of morality, justice, humanity and compas sion — he has continually and eloquently expressed the theme of Jewish survival in our time, in a world where the struggle for Jewish freedom goes on daily." The 1976 United Jewish Appeal National Conference, December 10-13, marks the end of a week designated by the UJA as a period for American Jewry to demonstrate their unity and strength on behalf of the world Jewish community. The theme of the Conference is “Proclaim Liberty,” the verse from Leviticus which is inscribed on the Liberty Bell — "Proclaim liberty thorughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." Attending the conference from Atlanta were Mr. and Mrs. Ely Freedman, Mr. and Mrs. Burton Epstein, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Frank, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Taratoot, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Siegel, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Zimmerman, and Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Gettinger. Shimon Peres, defense minister of the State of Israel will be the guest of honor at the Saturday night banquet. “In a world unconcerned with decency and respect for humanity," Mr. Lautenberg said, “our solidarity with the people of Israel is to bear witness to the eternity of the Jewish people. The UJA National Conference publicly in augurates the 1976 fundraising campaign of the American Jewish community and is the renewal of a very special process ... to share in the responsibility for the destiny of our people. “In 1976 as our nation celebrates its bicentennial, and its struggle for freedom, we are gathering to dedicate ourselves to achieving the best in Jewish life, and to making 1976 a renaissance of belief ... a renaissance of brotherhood ... a renaissance of faith and trust among all men.” In addition to Defense Minister Peres, guest speakers appearing at the conference in clude: Simcha Dinitz, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.; Chaim Herzog, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations; Leon Dulzin, acting chairman and treasurer of the Jewish Agency; and Moshe Rivlin, director gen eral of the Jewish Agency. Other highlights of the Conference included the Louis A. Pincus Memorial Lecture, delivered by Professor Moshe Davis, head, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University; a celebra tion of the 50th Anniversary of the United Israel Appeal; as well as numerous seminars and workshops. Hispanic Paper Urges Dialogue NEW YORK, (JTA) - El Diario-La Prensa, the leading Spanish language newspaper in New York, has expressed con cern in an editorial over the re cent clashes between Hispanics and religious Jews in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn and has announced its plans to “host a dialogue and purposeful exchange of ideas and opinions in order to heal the breach which currently exists between these two fine groups (Hispanics and Jews) who have so much to contribute to each other.” Borough Park, an area df one of the largest communities of Orthodox Jews in the world, has recently been the scene of several firebombings of syn agogues and Jewish schools. The violence has been blamed on Hispanic youths. The newspaper urged both groups to cooperate by un derstanding each other and working together to obtain im proved services for the entire community. ISRAELITE MWai-SarnMim A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry. Established 1925 VOL. LI One Section, 16 Pages Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, December 5, 1975 NO. 50 Beirut Jewish Quarter Empty bv EDWIN EYTAN PARIS, (JTA) - The Beirut Jewish quarter stands empty and practically deserted. Foreign travelers returning from Lebanon say the Jews fled the former lively business center last week when fighting reached their area. Most of the houses were damaged in the fighting, shops were looted and several in habitants wounded. These reports say one inhabi tant, an elderly Jew, was killed by a sniper’s bullet. According to these reports, the fighting reach ed the quarter last week only as the cease-fire was practically en.- forced throughout the rest of the city. Eye-witnesses say Phalange commandos entered the area after being chased out of their former strongpoints. Within hours, fighting broke out between them and Moslem units. The streets emptied within minutes and people on the quarter’s outskirts started fleeing. Those caught in the ac tual fighting could not leave the area and sought refuge in the synagogue building. The Lebanese paper, “A1 Howadees, reported that Chief Rabbi Shahur Sharim managed to contact Prime Minister Rashid Karame by phone and ask for his help. Karame ordered a Lebanese army unit com manded by a man identified by "Al Howadees” as “Capt. Aga" to enter the area and escort the people to safety. According to the Lebanese paper, the first to reach the synagogue were, however, members of the PLO, sent ‘‘on the personal instructions of Yasir Arafat.” The paper said Arafat wanted to show Lebanon and the world that the ‘‘Palestinians are not against the Jews — on the con trary.” According to this report, the PLO unit, accompanied by trucks with food and a medical unit, escorted the Jewish refugees from the synagogue to the Carlton Hotel which had been taken over for them by the Lebanese government emergency committee for refugees. Jewish organizations in Paris say they know of no PLO units sent to protect the refugees in Beirut synagogue but confirm that on November 3 the PLO sent a truckload of food and a medical assistant to the building. The PLO man in charge told the refugees if they need more supplies they can con tact the PLO office and even left a phone number to be called. Many of the former in habitants of the Jewish quarter have since fled abroad, others have sought refuge with Druze and Moslem friends in the coun tryside. Others are staying with Christian friends in Beirut itself or in the suburbs. Several hun dred former Beirut inhabitants are believed to have reached Western Europe: Paris, London and Geneva. Out of the city’s former 1700 Jewish inhabitants not more than a couple of hundred are left in Beirut proper. Most, of these, according to people in contact with them, also plan to leave Lebanon for good. Before the re cent fighting broke out, some 4000 Jews were believed to have remained in Lebanon, most of them in Beirut. Some 6000 Jews left the country after the Six- Day War in 1967 in spite of the Lebanese government efforts to convince them to remain. The Lebanese press reported at that time that Minister of Interior Kamal Jumblatt — a pro-Palestinian — visited the Beirut synagogue in the W'adi Abu Jamil area and met Jewish community leaders to try and convince them that Lebanon’s Jews have nothing to fear. Most of them emigrated, nonetheless. This exodus emptied entire streets, formerly inhabited by Jews, as, well as a number of social institutions. The formerly Jewish school “Salim Trab” clos ed for lack of pupils and has reportedly been converted into a welfare center and sports club run by the Lebanese authorities. Jewish organizations in Paris say that some of those who fled to France now plan to return to their homes as the Lebanese authorities are trying to reassure them as to thei/future. As for the Lp^anese assurances, these organizations recall that the Secretary General of the Beirut community, Albert Elias, who was kidnapped in downtown Beirut five years ago, is still missing and no one knows whether he is dead or alive. Elias was kidnapped on September 6, 1971, and was reportedly taken to Damascus, French Senate President Alain Poher and scores of other personalities and organizations have tried to ascertain his fate but it has all been in vain. In this Issue . . . AJWF Women’s Division Names Leadership — Page 6 Mrs. David Eisenberg Mrs. Ely Freedman CO-CHAIRWOMEN