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The Southern
Israelite
VOL. LV1
The Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry
Our 56th Year
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, May % 19M
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Jerusalem Day
May 14, 1980
See page 8 for special
material on Jerusalem.
Roof collapses on
Beth Shalom house
by Rick Eisler
Twelve hundred square feet of
roofing on a section of the building
that Congregation Beth Shalom
had been renovating for its
permanent house of worship
collapsed April 25 in a pile of wood
Rabbi Peterman says the
congregation is ready to begin the
cleanup and rebuild as soon as they
get the necessary building
clearance. Insurance coverage, he
says, should be adequate, and since
the incident contributions
begun -pouring ftr* 1,1
The remaihder of the house was
intact the next morning but the
room that was to house the
sanctuary lay in rubble. A defect in
the structure’s main beam caused
the cave-in.
Major damage was avoided,
however, when contractor Bob
Fain, 'a member of the
congregation, noticed the
impending collapse and guided
the roof down using heavy
equipment. Rabbi Donald
Peterman was “devastated” about
the destruction, but said, “I’m
certainly joyful no one was hurt."
The house, which was donated
by Mickey Benamy of Temple
Sinai, was moved to the
congregation’s newly purchased
land on Chamblee-Tucker Road
earlier this year. Atlanta's winter
rains and mud hampered
renovation for many weeks, and
work was to begin in earnest—then
the roof fell in.
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two SI000 checks but still i
needed.
“It’s gratifying to see the energy
of both the Jewish anil non-Jewish
community,’’ says Rabbi
Peterman. Much of the money
received has been from non-Jewish
contributors in the neighborhood
whose interest in the congregation
has grown from the day the
building was towed to the five-acre
wooded site.
Though “not out of the woods
yet," Rabbi Peterman expects it
will take from two to three days to
clear the rubble and then a
maximum of five days to put up
the walls and the roof. The floor
and foundation need only minor
repairs.
Rabbi Peterman is philosophical
about the setback. “It’s just one of
the realities of construction," he
says, “the congregation certainly
isn’t down and out because of it."
by Gil Sedan
and
Yitzhak Shargil
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Rein
forcements of Israeli police and
troops in full battle gear poured
into the West Bank last weekend in
the aftermath of the terrorist
ambush in Hebron last Friday
evening which left six Israeli
youths dead—all of them yeshiva
students—and 17 wounded,
including six young women.
Three of the murdered yeshiva
students have been identified as
originally coming from the United
States and Canada. They were Zvi
Menachcm Glatt, 21, of New
York; Eli Hazeev (Wolf), 32,
k to he from Chicago; and
—
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The Israeli Embassy informed the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency Wednesday that Israeli Ambassador
Ephraim Evron had expressed “deep disappointment" to the State
Department on its comment criticizing Israel for expelling the
mayors of two communities and a Moslem religious leader from
the West Bank into Lebanon following the ambush and murder of
six Jewish religious students at Hebron last Friday.
The State Department said on Tuesday that the three deported
Arabs had no connection with the ambush and that they were
denied procedures “normally available under prevailing law” and
that the deportations were “in any case prohibited by the Fourth
Geneva Convention, regardless of motive."
Evron told Harold Saunders, assistant secretary of state for
Middle Eastern affairs, that he regretted that the United States*
statement did not mention the reason for the expulsion. An
embassy spokesman said that Evron told Saunders, “These three
personalities have a long record of incitement against Israel and
have often expressed their support of terrorism and have called for
dismantling of the Jewish State." Evron also told Saunders that the
■HI 'itii ik>Hiihr HIM If helped create the atmosphere which made
claimed its sixth fatality Monday
night when Hanan Kroitheimer,
20, died of his wounds at Hadassah
Hospital.
According to a hospital bulletin,
the condition of Aharon Pni’el is
still serious but the other victims
wounded in the terrorist outrage
show slight improvement.
Four injured women were
released Saturday night. They are
Kineret Levinger, the 17-year-old
daughter of Kiryat Arba leader
Rabbi Moshe Levinger, who is one
of the women who has been living
at the old clinic building in Hebron
for more than a year; Meira Yahn-
Daniela, 20, of Kiryat Arba; and
Gila Mintzer, 17, and Dafna
Vantura, 20, both of Bnei Brak.
Also injured was Eytan Arbel.
The weekly visits by the young
worshippers after prayers were
apparently noted by the terrorists
who planned the ambush. They
concealed themselves with their
weapons on the roofs of a line of
one-story shops opposite the clinic
and waited for the victims. When
the group passed beneath them,
they opened fire with Karl Gustav
submachineguns and Kalachnikov
rifles. They threw at least six hand
grenades and home-made bombs.
The latter failed to explode and
were picked up later by Israeli
sappers for investigation.
The terrorists are believed by
security authorities to be local
people rather than infiltrators. A
search of the ambush site yielded
cigarette butts of a locally-made
brand and discarded packs bearing
the local excise tax stamp. The
Palestine Liberation Organization
in Beirut claimed responsibility for
the outrage.
Jewish settlers from the West
Bank, enraged by the terrorist
ambush killings, staged
demonstrations Saturday and
Sunday demanding the ouster of
Defense Minister Ezer Weizman.
The Hebron outrage over
shadowed the weekly Cabinet
meeting Sunday. As a body, the
Cabinet rejected criticism of
Defense Minister Ezer Weizman
and the defense establishment as a
whole for not preventing the
terrorist attack but some ministers
individually expressed strong
dissatisfaction with the security
policies adopted in the occupied
territories until now.
Prime Minister Menachcm
See Outrage, page 25
Josip Broz Tito /
Yiiooclavia'c Incirt Rruz ™
by Joseph Polakoff
(Joseph Polakoff served as the
_ Information Officer at the U.S.
Embassy in Yugoslavia in 1955-56.
In that period, his wife, Dorothy,
was the American Joint
Distribution Committee's
representative in that country.—
Editor)
WASHINGTON , (JTA)—The
long and extraordinary career of
Yugoslavia’s President Josip Broz
Tito, who died Shnday at the age
of 87 in Ljubljana, is paralleled by
his checkered relationship with
Zionism and Israel but he was
never known to harbor anti-
Semitism in a country where anti-
Semitism at times was the most
venomous in history. On the
contrary his record over 40 years
reflects support for Jewry and
hostility toward anti-Semitism.
Jews are known to have lived in
what is now Yugoslavia for some
'...his record over 40 years reflects support
for Jewry and hostility toward anti-Semitism.’
2000 years—ruins of synagogues
attest to that—but they did not
reach the zenith in the country’s
governmental, military and
professional life or in popular
acclaim until Marshal Tito's
partisans took power with the
close of World War 11.
Three political forces warred for
control of Yugoslavia when the
war broke out—Tito’s Communist-
led partisans, the Monarchists
headed by Gen. Mikhailovich and
the fascist Ustashis allied with the
invading Nazis. Yugoslavia's anti-
Semites, numerous and never
dormant, spewed increasing
venom with the rise of Hitlerism,
especially in Croatia, which had a
large Jewish community in
Zagreb, and in Slovenia which had
few, if any Jews, but intense anti-
Semitism.
Yugoslavia's Jewish population
totaled about 85,000 on the eve of
World War II. Almost the whole
community was destroyed by 1941
in the Nazi invasion. The Ustashis
wantonly killed thousands of
them. Hunted by the Ustashis and
Nazis and scorned by the
Monarchists, Jews naturally were
inclined toward the partisans.
Many joined the partisan forces
and became among the most
daring of the Lighters against Tito's
enemies.
When the war ended,' about
See Tito, page 24
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