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The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, May,19, 1983 - Page 5
World-National
Charles Bronfiiian
MONTREAL^
Charies Brohfiman will receive the Golda Mefa* Leadership Award at a State; " of Israel Bonds national tribute dinner in his honor, next Tuesday, May 24, at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel.
The award, to be presented by Israel's ambassador to Canada, Yeshayahu Anug, is given annually to a Jew-ishleadler who has made major contributions to the promotion of Israel's economic and social progress.
Dr. Henry Kissinger, former U.S. secretary of
state, will be the guest speaker at the dinner, which is expected to draw 1,000 Jewish community leaders from across Canada.
Among these will be: Thomas Hecht, national president of - Israel. Bonds; Sam Rothberg of Peoria, 111., chairman of the executive committee, of Development Corporation for Israel; and Simcha Dinjtz, former Israeli ambassador to the United States. Leo Kol-ber will be the dinner chairman.
Bronfman, deputy chairman and chairman
of the executive committee of the Seagram Company Ltd., has a long and distinguished record of public service as a lead^ ingsupporter of a variety of charitable, cultural and community causes. He will be the first Canadian to win the award, a bronze bust of the late Prime Minister, done by Israeli sculptor Galia Perach Davidson.
Previous recipients were Sam Rothberg in 1979, JackWeilerofNew York in 1980, Ira Guilden of New York in 1981 and William Belzberg of Los Angeles in 1982.
Herzog stresses advance of peace process
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JERUSALEM [JTA] — Chaim Herzog was sworn in May 5 as the sixth President of Israel in a colorful ceremony.
Precisely at dusk he donned a large, black yarmulke, placed his hand on a Bible and took the oath of office. Knesset Speaker Menachem Savidor, who swore in the new President, called out: "Long live the President of the State of Israel."
The Knesset members responded: "Yehi [live], Yehi, Yehi."
Herzog and the outgoing President, Yitzhak Navon, riding in sepa-
rate limousines, were escorted to the Knesset prior to the swearing in by motorcycle police and mounted police on white chargers bearing blue pennants.
Herzog reviewed an honor guard representing all of Israel's armed services before entering the Knesset chamber to the sound of a shofar.
In his farewell address, Navon said Israel's various ethnic, religious and national groups lived "with each other but not among each other." They are ignorant of each other's ideas and thoughts and this ignorance breeds
intolerance, he warned.
Herzog, in his inaugural address used the same theme as his predecessor, warning against intolerance. "The enemy within," he said, "is more dangerous to Israel's survival than any external foe."
Herzog began his address by reciting the cantor's Yom Kippur prayer, "Hineni Heani Mimaas" (Behold, I, poor in deeds, stand frightened and awestruck before the God of Israel . . .").
He spoke at length of his early days in a home he said was steeped in Judaism and devoted to
expected by June 1
By
TAMMY KAROL
TORONTO Alleged
Nazi war criminal Helmut Albert Rauca has abandpned an appeal to the Supreme (Court of Canada to avoid extradition to West Gennany. '■
Neither Rauca, the first accused Nazi war criminal to be o^rdered extradited firom Canada nor his lawyers, William Parker and William Horkins gave a reason fair giving up on the appeal.
Rauca's notice of abandonment was filed on May 11 in the registry of the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa, and was signed by the OtT tawa agents, for Parker and Horkins.
West German officials, notified of Rauca's decision last week, will come to Canada and take Rauca back to his homeland. His transfer to
hearing on his motion to appeal on June 20.
Rauca, a Canadian citizen since 1956, is accused of murdering ^ 11,584 Lithuanian Jews
Germany is expected by during World War II. June 1.
When back in Ger-
It is not likely that Rauca will appeal to Justice Minister Mark MacGuigan for permission to stay in Canada on humanitarian grounds.
On April 12, the Ontario Court of Appeal
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many, Rauca will be tried in Frankfurt's criminal court before a panel of three judges and two citizens, each casting one vote. He faces life imprisonment if convicted of murder. West
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November by Chief Justice Gregory Evans of the Q n t a r i o Su pre me Court's trial division. Rauca lodged an appeal of the April 12 ruling with the Supreme Court of Canada and was scheduled to have a
the ideals of service.
He recalled his late father, who had been Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his mother, the late Sarah Herzog, a personality in her own right, and his late brother, Yaacov, who had been one of the most brilliant of Israel's first generation of diplomats.
Herzog, who became Israel's leading military affairs commentator after his retirement £rom the army With the rank of general, also recalled that he was one of the founders of Israel's Defence Force. The IDF is the foundation and protector of Israel's strength, he said. But he stressed the advance of the peace process, which he said was gradual but inexorable.
Most Arab states no longer debate whether to negotiate with Israel but how to negotiate, Herzog declared, and this was the measure of the Jewish state's gradual ac^ ceptance into the region.'
The hour-long inaugural ceremony was followed by a lavish reception for the new President and his predecessor. Knesset members, diplomats and hundreds of invited guests gathered in the Knesset's Chagall Hall. Among them were U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Jewish leaders from the U.S. and Europe who came here to attend the inauguration.
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Reunion
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of Soldiers in the Allied Armies Resistance Fighters and Survivors
During mrld War II
3rusalem, October 2-6; 1
Under the Patronage of Prime Minister Menachem Begin
This October, the Jewish soldiers,, fighters and survivors from World War II are gathering in Jerusalem. The men and women who fought the Nazis and their cohorts in the ghettos and sewers of Europe, in the marshes and forests, and inside the very death camps ... who did battle from the ranks of the Allied armies; fought alongside the partisans, arid clawed at the oppressors from isolated and terrorized underground. cells .;. who emerged together from the era of darkness ... will gather this autumn from all over the world as free people.
In 1983, the year of Heroism, the men and women who fought for human survival and national dignity four decades ago, will be meeting in the reborn Jewish State, which epitomizes the values for which they fought. ■ ' ■ ';:?;'■".■'■-.■■
They will: transmit their message of Resistance, Hope and Peace for the future • celebrate the sur-.vival of their nation • serve notice to the world that they will allow the Holocaust to be neither forgotten
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escorted Rabbi W.
Gunther Plaut
Ki# DnUl^i \A/ nor repeated • remember those who died • reaffirm. Oy IXUDDI VV. the continuity of the Jewish people with Israel as its
heart • sound a warning of the dangers of complacency and indifference.- .. Fifty years after the rise of Hitler and 40 years after the revolt of the Warsaw Ghetto, those who fought and survived will meet to commemorate^ share and celebrate. Together, they shall remind, remember and reaffirm their vow of "Never again." ^ vW.e invite Jews and non-Jews'alike to join us. Come, if at all possible, and come with your family. - ■ ■ - ■
Rabbi WTXTunther Plaut, OX., Chairman, Canadian Delegation
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