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Showing solidarity The State Capitol was the setting for presidents of Atlanta’s Jewish organizations who gathered last week during the Reagan-Gorbachev summit to express solidarity with Soviet Jewry. The cutting edge by Edwin Black We all know that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. But increasingly, we also see that the loud get louder. And here we speak of Meir Kahane, who sees himself as der Fuhrer of Eretz Yisrael. Israeli society is correctly shunning him. Indoors, this means leaving a room whenever he walks in one, especially if that room happens to be in the Knesset. Outside, throngs of decent people surround Kahane and shout him down whenever he tries to speak at one of his rallies. Nothing bothers a loudmouth more than not being heard. But Kahane now thinks he can foil his opposition. His answer: get a bigger loudspeaker. Kahane currently walks around with a standard bullhorn, but even that cannot be heard above the protests of the hundreds and often thousands who regularly drown him out. But Kahane located a firm in Jerusalem that specializes in public address systems, and they have one powerful enough to outhoot the hooters. The portable amplifier rents for $800 per day, which Kahane decided was too expensive for the regular use he plans. However, he can buy the thing outright for $4,000. Israelis aren't willing to cough up that money. So of course Kahane turned to gullible American Jews who sometimes think a checkbook is the best way to show love of Zion. A retired gentleman from Chicago was sought out. The gentleman enjoys a distinguished past as a supporter of Israeli defense in the pre-state days. Last September, A® Meir Kahane when Kahane learned this gentleman was in Jerusalem, he had a follower arrange a meeting at the bar in the Plaza hotel. Kahane and his wife both came. Kahane explained that “it was quite embarrassing to have the protesters always drowning him out,” recalls the gentleman from Chicago. “The amplifier Kahane prefers is made in Israel. If he bought an American one, there would be too much tax to pay, and it would take too long to ship it.” The retired gentleman agreed to bring back $4,000, even if he had to contribute it all himself. That wasn’t necessary. Kahane sympathizers in Boston and throughout the Midwest donated a total of five checks ranging from $100 to $500, with the Chicago gentleman providing the balance. All the money was funneled through the well-know tax-exempt conduit See Edge, page 24. Hijackers singled out Israeli women to die by Hugh Orgel TEL AVIV (JTA)—Two Israeli young women are in a Malta hospital undergoing treatment for wounds inflicted by the terrorist hijackers of Egyptair Flight 648. Nitzan Mendersson, 23, of Kibbutz Halata in Galilee is in an intensive care unit. She was shot in the head and her condition was reported critical Monday. Her companion, Tamar Artzi, 24, of Kibbutz Revivim in the Negev, was reported in stable condi tion with facial wounds. Their families flew to Valetta, the Maltese capital, accompanied by an Israeli surgeon. Dr. Mordechai Shalit of Hadassah Hospital. The Egyptian airliner was seized by hijackers shortly after it left Athens Saturday night for Cairo and was forced to land at Valetta where the hijackers demanded fuel and food. Of the 80 passengers and crew of 14 nationalities, 60 died, either shot by the terrorists before the plane was stormed by Egyptian commandos or killed by the terrorist when they pulled the pins from hand grenades and tossed them into the passenger area as the commandos stormed the plane at Valetta Airport Sunday. Mendersson and Artzi, the only Israelis iboard, were among the seven or eight passengers wounded. e Souther Israelite The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Je Vol. LXI 'Since 1925' Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, November 29, 1985 Spy revelation promi _ Knesset finger pointing Traveling together for a tour of the Far East, they left Israel for Athens and boarded the Egyptair flight there for Cairo from where they planned to fly to Bangkok. Both were on a one-year leave of absence from their kibbutzim. They met after Artzi placed an advertisement in a newspaper for a traveling companion. The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem has set up a special liaison unit to maintain contact with the Maltese and other authorities to help the families of the wounded women. An official of the Israel Embassy in Rome has gone to Valetta to represent Israeli interests there. Israel has no diplomatic relations with Malta. The hijackers, described by survi vors as “vicious killers”, may have been Palestinians. There were four or five of them who boarded at Athens—the exact number was not immediately known—and according to Arab passengers spoke Arabic with Palestinian accents. One may have been Syrian. An organization calling itself Egypt’s Revolution claimed credit for the outrage. It is opposed to the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty and is believed by Egyptian authori ties to be backed by Libya. It has been linked to the murder of an Israeli diplomat, Albert Atrakchi, in Cairo last August. The killing remains unsolved. by Gil Sedan JERUSALEM (JTA)—Knesset members are taking with a large grain of salt the insistence by govern ment leaders that if Jonathan Pollard, a civilian employee of the U.S. Naval Investigative Service, was indeed spying for Israel, they knew nothing whatever about it. Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir was confronted by angry members of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Security Committee—Likud as well as Labor—when he appeared Monday to assure them that the authorities have instituted a thorough investigation of the affair which has caused acute embarrassment to Israel. He promised to furnish details once the investigation is completed. Likud MK Pinhas Goldstein demanded that those responsible for the scandal be punished imme diately, including Cabinet ministers. He said the government handled the affair clumsily and too slowly. Pollard, 31, a resident of Washington, D.C., was arrested last Thursday near the Israel Embassy, charged with passing intelligence secrets to a foreign government, alleged to be Israel. He was being held without bail pending a hearing. It was only Sunday, however, that the Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying the government was shocked and concerned and The plot thickens WASHINGTON (POLAKOFF)—The Washington Post re ported that “unofficial Israeli sources have named a man who worked for then Prime Minister Menachem Begin as the Israeli intermediary who received documents from (Jonathan) Pollard.” The Post said, “Israeli censorship refused to allow” two Israeli newspapers to publish his name. The man “never served in the Israeli Embassy here,” the Post said. After the Post’s report, Israel Radio and Israeli newspapers Haaretz and Yediot Ahronot linked a former adviser on terrorism, Rafael Eitan, to Begin and his successor Yitzhak Shamir. This unconfirmed report, true or not, would cause repercussions with intense bitterness between the Likud and Labor parties in Israel and go much deeper than the ordinary tensions that exist. was investigating whether the long standing policy against spying in the U.S. had been violated. MK Yossi Sarid of the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) said the gravest implication was that the high political echelons, by their own admission, did not know what was going on and were lax in their supervision. He warned that this “mishap” will not be allowed to be whitewashed. The government’s position was that if Pollard was working for Israel, his employment and pay was arranged by low level officials who ignored specific directives against such activities. Several motions were placed on the Knesset agenda for a full-scale debate, introduced by the National Religious Party, Shinui, the CRM and the Progressive List for Peace. As far as the Knesset is concerned, there is little doubt Pollard was spying for Israel. Labor MK Rabbi Menachem Hacogen suggested that Israel apologize to the U.S. govern ment and make every effort to find the responsible parties. Sara Doron, chairperson of the Likud Knesset Caucus, expressed hope that no senior official was involved “in this very strange and bizarre story.” She challenged the authorities to take measures to ensure that such an incident would never happen again.