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ByBEVERLEYSTERN
A two-hour exchange of views between Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and three aides and Canadian Jewish Congress President Irwin' Cotler and a six-person Congress delegation wais "an excellent meeting both in tone and substance." says Cotler;
the luncheon meeting, took place at the prime minister's residence at 24 Sussex Drive. .
The meeting is thought to be the first between the prime minister and an official dele-gation" of Canadian Jewry in at least five years, said Cotler, who spoke to The CJN by phone from Montreal.
Prime Minister Trudeau While remariis niade by Tradeaa and fails aides are to be kept oCf-the-record, Cotler described the meeting as '*open and candid, definitely not cosmetic.'* He said
By JANICE ARNOLD
MONTREAL —
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Trntlean was a careful listener, ready to challenge, but ready to concede.
While not prepared to say what, If ady, concrete results came out of the meeting, Cotler emphasized that the significance of the meetfng lay in such intangibles as "being able to communkato our concerns and priorities in a human and feeling con-
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"We conveyed a sense of our own angst as well as specific issues and established a rajpport on a personal level," Cotler said.
At the meeting were: John Roberts, secretary of state for science and technology; -Robert Caplan, solicitor general; Jeff Goodnian, a ministerial assistant in the Prime Minister's Office; Ben Pros-sin, national CJC vice-presi-: dent from the Atlantic region; Dorothy Reitman, national CJC vice-president from Quebec; Sam Filer from Toronto^ CJC national chairinan; Saul Kanee, chairman of the CJC board of governors from Winnipeg; and Iry Epstein, chairman of the Pacific region from Vancouver.
The agreedrupon agenda involved discussion of four matters: (1) Canadian foreign policy in the Middle East; (2) human rights and , anti-semitism; (3) oppressed Jewty, in particular; Soviet Jewry ,/iEthiopian Jewry; and .' Jewish immunities in: .some Arab lands: {md(4ii,;Hotp(^u^^ reihiembrancelMd'ifie^^p^ cutioH; of Nazi war criminals in Canada. . S
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Another "Jewish: bank," Bank Leumi; operating: under a Canadian charter, opened its first branch in Canada in a new building at Bathurst and Stormont last week. The bank's head office in No. 2 First Canadian Place has been doing business since December.
Openings of Israeli banks chartered in Canada are becoming a regular feature of Jewish community life. Bank Hapoalim opened here a few weeks ago and an opening is planned soon for the Israel Discount Bank, in the Bloor-Avenue Rd. area.
President of Bank Leumi le-lsrael [Canada] -r the official name — Is Moshe Rosen, one of the founders of
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Kibbutz Dvir, hi the Negev, who Jollied the himk in Israel : in 1964 and moved up, the corporate ladder qiolckly to the top position In Canada.
Chief executive officer and chairman of the Board of the. entire Bank Leumi organization, is Ernest I. Japhet, of, Israel, whose family operated a bank in Israel, with which he' was associated for a number of years before joining Bank Leumi in 1963.
With assets of more than $24 billion. Bank Leumi is rated as Israel's largest banking group and is one of the top 100 banks in the world. It operates in Israel, the U.S., Europe. Latin. America, South Africa, Hong Kong and Canada.
According to Moshe Rosen, the Canadian operation will concentrate on the retail end of the bushiess, as well. as on commercial accounts — something few foreign banks do In Canada. By "retail" he means that the bank will offer all the services offered by the other Canadian chartered banks.
"We'll be competitive with the other banks," he said, "and the interest rates we pay will compare more than favorably. We plan to focus on the personal touch and.
because the Canadian operation will be a fairly small one .atfirst, we'll be able to adjust quickly to specific conditions and needs." .
Rosen said the bank hopes to be able to serve the Jewish community specifically, but;
• as in tlie U.S. and elsewhere,, will be providing service to the general public. " The bank will be getting actively involved with community life, said Rosen. It has provided flowers for the bimah to a number of synagogues and supplied T-shirts
: to many of the participants in last week's United Jewish Appeal walkathon.
A variety of checking and savings accounts is available, plus loans and term deposits and various size safety deposit boxes. One of the loan
. services is the "In-Fund," which provides a line of credit up to $2,000 for individuals.
Rosen said the bank has hired an experienced staff of mainly Canadian bankers, totaling about 35 "as a start,'' Both the First Canadian Place and Bathurst St. operations will handle retail trade and the representative office, which has been in business for several years here, will also be located at First Canadian Place. ..
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Pakistan has banned Gerard Israe|, 53; the deputy secretary-general of the AJIiahce Israelite Universelle and a member of the'-JEuropean Parliament, from entering the cbuntryl and has declared him "undesirable." :. ?
Israel planned to visit Pakistan ias a meinber of a three-man European parliament fact-finding mission to assess the use of Europeai-Economic Community ifundsJn the Afghan refugee camps • there. - ' ■ ■ ■ V ■ ■■.id;'.',-
Algerian-bom Israel is a French member of the European Progressive Democrat Part^) Among his inany positions, he is a council. m6r.?ber of the International Institute of Human Kj^b^^^
Plet Dankert, the president «fthci^jEnropean Parliament, s^ tliat IP^idCTit ZUi^ttl-Haq of Pakistan haid informed hiiii thnragh a J^^presenta-tive that the mission would not have been welcome because it would be led by Isnuil.: .
Dnkert said that when he received a cable from Islamabad confirming this, "1 could not believe my eyes."
Lord Bethell, MEPfor London NorthiWest, had been due to accompany Israel to Pakistan, but withdrew on hearing of the Pakistani government's objection to his Jewfish colleague;.
SpeaJcing in the. European ParUam^nt shortly after the ban becanielaibwni L^^ said that he had been forcedJto cpncjude thit^akistan. which had "strong historical cbni Britain, "is now .:ruled by jcag^ government." ^ r
He said that the Pakiistani it clear that it was ''hpt the ppl: that have caused hiihti) be ......
"It is not his position [oB^^j&k dlspnteor anything heliasdoiie;j|.'^~'' name Slid his origin, and ttese ' commanlcatlons: between Is Bmsseb," Lord BetfaeU added. '
"TTie name and origin aje qiio||d by the . Pakistani government as the reason refusal toacc^.bim di\ delegate from his Par) J anient to the' government. bf' Paliistah, and whiJ more; shameful pretext could be put forwardthan that?
"Let us be sure that it is not the Afghan refugees who have made this decision, although some may whisper that this is the case ... It is the. Pakistani government which has made this decision, and has made it in forma! comrnunicai-tions."   ■ ■ ■;■.;■■■;
Maria Macciocchi, of the Italian Socialist Party; ■ tabled a resolution stating that ahti-semitism was unacceptable, that discrimination on grounds of name arid origin undermined the autonomy and dignity of the Parliament. and that the EEC' Commission should review economic relations with Pakistan, The resolution received unanimous support from the other MEPs.
Kyeld Qleseh, the Danish foreign minister, has protested against the Pakistani ban on Mr. Israel, which he attacked as "an apartheid measure." v
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By SHELDON KIRSHNER
Israel__has hardened its settlement policy amid growing indications that the Palestinians on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip will continue to resist it.
Last;week, as more blood, flowed, and as Israeli Jets raided southern Lebanon for the second time In three weeks, prompting Palestinian' shelling of northern Israeli : villages, the Knesset approved Prime Minister Begin's policy statement ruling oat.the dismantling of Jewish settlements as part of any future peace accord with the Arabs.
The vote was 58-54, with two abstentions, and it re-fleeted the split between the government and the opposition Labor Party over the issue of settling the West . Bank and the Gaza Strip.
As parliamentary debate flared, so did Palestinian demonstrations, spaced by Israel's recent dismissal of four democratically elected mayors on the West Bank, the earlier appointment of an Israeli civilian to run the West Bank's civil administration. Begin's increasingly hard line, and PLO incitement.
In Jerusalem, a 14-yeaf-pld girl died in hospital three days after being shot in the head by an Israeli motorist, whose car was; stoned by Palestinian , demonstrators. The police have not found him.
Her death brought to 17 the number of Palestinians who've been killed in the latest wave of unrest to hit the occupied areas.
A deceptive calm settled over the West Bank after four Arabs were blown to pieces when a landmine they found
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exploded. But in Gaza, Israeli troops fired at the legs of demonstrators who threw stones and a Molotov cocktail at soldiers manning a post inside a refugee camp.
The mayors of Gaza and Bethlehem, Rached Shawa and Elias Friej; criticized the Israeli army for repeatedly opening fire on protestors.: Friej said: "The resistance of the young (Palestinians) is' growing. A generation which grew up under Israeli occupation is showing how much they hate it."
In Gaza. local municipal employees started a limited strike to protest Israeli policy, and there were reports that West Bank riiayors planned a new campaign of refusing to cooperate with the military government.
iSpeakIng at the opening of the Knesset's summer session, Begin said that Israel would demand sovereignty over the West Bank and the Gaza Strip at the end of the 5-year transition period envisaged by the Camp David Accords.
Under those accords, the Arabs there are to be granted a form of autonorny pending a final agreement on the status
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of these regions; The Palestinians have boycotted thie talks and only Israeli Egypt and the U.S. have participated.
In his address, Begin said that he would reject "any proposal for the removal or evacuation of Jewish settlements" and \yould resist the establishment of, a Palestinian; state in "Western Eretz Israel." .
The term "Western Eretz Israel" is a Revisionist Zionist one and refers to the historical Land of Israel on both sides of the Jordan River.
The Labor Party, led by Shimon Peres, voted against Likud's policy statement for basically two reasons. Labor opposes the building of settlements in heavily-populated Arab areas. And while Peres agrees that setdements should not be dismantled, he believes that the question of sovereignty should be left to Israeli -Arab negotiations.
Peres charged that B^gin had raised the West Bank settlement issues at this juncture because of his "bad conscience" o,ver the razing of Yamit and the abandoning
of other settlements in northern Sinai.
He attacked the government from the right, saying that the increase of Jewish settlers in the occupied terri-tories was less than half the number of Arab babies born there between 1977 arid-now;
The devil's advocate role that Peres has, taken upon himself, for ideological and opportunistic motives, is a function of public opinion in Israel, A poll in The Jerusalem Post shows that 54.5% of Israelis "are not ready to make any concessions" vis-avis withdrawals. Twenty seven percent of Israelis are willing to concede some areas, 10% are prepared to give up the West Bank but not Eaist Jerusalem, and slightly more than 2% are ready to relinquish , everything. Five percent are undecided. ;
Begin, too, is playhig on this sentiment, fdthough he needs no prodding from public opinion surveys. ;T1ie Knesset resolution he Initiated may have little practical value, but it tends to reinforce the radical wing within' the Likud coalition, and it probably dims hope for a compromise solution to the intractable Palestinian problem. '
The Egyptians said that they would disregard the resolution. But Fdreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ali: reminded the Israelis that they had pledged, at Camp David, to freeze settlement activity — a claim Begin denies.
These sharply clashing views underline the Immense difficulties facing Israel, Eg}ptahd the U.S. in the still to-be-convened autonomy talks.
See Mideast Analysis: and editorial. '
Bank Leumi, Israel's hu^est bank, recently dedicated Ito new branch hi Toronto, locatecl fai the Bathurst-Lawrence area^ Event participants hidnded: [seated, from left] Momy KofDer, director; Ernest Japhet, board chairman; Moshe Rosen, president; and thomas Hecht, director; [standbg, from left] Uraam Sadmy, representative; EUezerLerner, senior officer; Yalr Kadishay, res;Ioila] management president; Maithi Levhie, director; and Donald Carr, director. See stojty on page 9. [Ben Lechtman photo]
JERUSALEM [JTA] —.
The cabinet at the strenuous urging of Premier Menachem Begin, has decided that Israel's national airline, El Al, ,;is to cease operations on the Sabbath and religious holidays. ^
It empowered an ad hoc ministerial committeeto work out a new "timetable and other arrangements'': with the management of the stater owned carrier and set a three-month deadline for the Sabbath ban to go into effect., •
The ban on Sabbath flights was one of the concessions to religion the Agnda Israel Party exacted from Begin as the price for Joining his coalition government. Begin, who is himself observant, argued for the ban on religious and moral grounds and insisted that" coalition agreements must be honored, cabinet' secretary Dan Meridor told reporters.
In effect. Begin rejected the minority report of a gov-enunent-appointed commit-; tee which found that the suspension of service on the Sabbath and boUdi^ would cost the. financially shaky airUne about ^$40 million annuaHy. /
Bdt a major fight loomed between El Al employees and the government • over the cabinet's decision. Eli Ben-Menachem, a spokesman for the airline's workers com-mittees, said the employes would consider what action to take but indicated nothing immediate.
However,. he branded the cabinet decision a violation of
the law, which stipulates that government-owned corpora-,
. tions must operate strictly in accordance with economic; considerations. Ben-Mena-cheni said the employees would oppose the decision and that the workers committees of the countr>'s 13 largest enterprises ; would support them, hinting at the possibility of ageneral strike that could paralyze the nation, r
The El Al management, which is appointed by the cabinet, had no immediate reaction. A company spokesman said the managing board was waiting for further details from Transport Minister Haim Corfu.
Meridor told reporters that the ministers acknowledged that the Sabbaathjban Would niean~a' reduction of El Al
"^activities but said-there was' no talk of lay-offs. He said El AI's figures as to the possible losses were treated with skepticisnHby some ministers, who charged that El Al workers only wanted to protect the overtime pay they earn working on the Sabbath and holidays,
Two Knesset members; Dan Tichonand Dror Seiger-man of Likud's Liberal wing, said they would vote against the government's decision if the matter came to the Knesset. But the government apparently feels It could push the measure through with the support of rellgloos members of the opposdon factions. Hie Labor Party and M^pam have called urgent meetiiigs on the matter.
JERUSALEM —
Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir says Israel will conclude no new arms deals with Arjgentina but will honor existing ones.
Israel has sold the Argentines jets, patrol boats and missiles.
Shamir made this statement following a remark by a British diplornatic spokesman who implied that Israel was sending Argentina military equipment after Argentina's invasion of the Falkland/Mal-vinas Islands.
Earlier, despite the celebrations of Independence Day in Israel, the British ambassador, ^ Patrick Mober-ly, was summoned to the foreign ministry- here and told of Israel's "astonishment'? not bnly that the Israel Ambassador in London, Shlo-mo Argov, bad been called in on to be asked about reports to Israeli arms supplied. to Argentina, but that publicity had been given to this meeting.
Hanan Baron, the acting director-general, of the Israeli foreign rriinistry, said that this was likely to feed utterly unfounded rumours about Israel's position in the B r i t a i n - A rg'e n t i n a dispu t e and "could distort Israel's actual position completely."
Moberly.was asked to convey the concern of the Israeli government over the reported Israeli arms supplies to the Britiish government.
An Israeli embassy spokesman had earlier described the reports of continuing Israeli arms suppUes as "without any foundation.'' ^
After the visit to the foreigii; office by Argov, the foreign office spokesman had said: . "We are naturally concerned ; about the reports we have seen, aiid we have been in-touch with the Israeli government both in Lbndon and Tel Aviv,   at ambassadorial level."
Answering a question in the Commons, Douglas Hurd, the minister of statefor
foreign affairs, said: "We have discussed this question, with the Israeli government and have asked them to ensure that no further Israeli arms go to Argentina."
Meanwhile, the Israeli media has accused Britain of duplicity for complaining of Israel's arms sales to that South American republic.
Haaretz said Britain had not been deterred by infringements of civil rights in Argentina and had allowed economic considerations to prevail until theseizure of the Falkland Islands.
Haaretz said the supply of British Chieftain . tanks to Jordan for the' establishment' of modern armored divisions had endangered Israel,: arid Maariv said that until the Russians appeared on the scene, Britain had been the; Arabs' chief arms suppliers.
'' Israel fought for its sur-' viyal and for the lives of its citizens,'' the Maariv editorial said. "Britain is not fighting for its existence. Its
citizens are not endangered by the Argentine capture of the Falkland Islands. It is a prestige war."
Leaders of . Anglo-Jewry . have received abusive letters and telephone calls following press reports of Israeli arms supplies to Argentina.
Unlike the DAIA, tfie central Jewish community organization, in Argentina, which has hailed the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands, the Board of Deputies of British Jews has re-, frained from issuing unquali^ fied support for the government of Britain;in the Falkland's crisis.
,. Greville Jarineri the president of the board and a member of Parliament, justified this caution by noting the ■ absence of linanimity in the , Jewish community, as in Britain as a whole, about the; government's handling of the crtisis. At the same time, he voiced British Jewry's profound concern for the safety of British forces defending the Falklands.
FALLEN MOURNED
Parents who lost sons and daughters hi wars visited the graves of their loved (UOM on Israel's i4th year of statehood, celebrations of which were maiied recently. Ilionsands of Israelis have died in the/defence of thefar country sfaone 1948. [flPPA photo] ' ( \