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(Religious News Service photol Eg>pt President Anwar Sadat puts the hug on U.S. President Carter during iatter's brief visit to Aswan Airport during his seven-nation trip earlier this month.
Christians protest law on missionary activities
B> GIL SEDAN
JERUSALEM |JTA| -
The Council of Christijn Churches in Israel has protested vigi)rousl\ against a
Jerusalem Post has reflected the changing direction of Israel
Bv SUSAN LAZARUS
JERUSALEM -
The Jerusalem Post could liot have asked for a better birthdav present to celebrate its 45 years as Israel's onl\ English-language newspaper.
On No\. 20. 11 days before the Post's anniver-s;ir\. Presuient Anwar Sadat of Egypt arrived in Israel, marking a turning point in Egyptian-Israeli relations. Ihe [laper was sold out for the first time . ^lIKe D-Da\.
Hie Post's celebration was sweetened even mine vMi Dec. 4. when for the first time in history, .m .iccretlited correspondent sent copy to his'' Isueli newspaper from an .-\rab country. The !•, porter w as \V'olf Bhtzer. Washington correspondent of the Post. His placcline was Cairo.
Cerslion Agron.the late founder and editor of the Post. could only have fantasized such incredible e\ enis.
When the paper, then titled the Palestine Post but \\ iih the same logo as today, first went to press on Dec. 1. 1*^32, .^gron made it clear it was for the benefit of all English-speaking inhabitants, be they British. .Arab or Jew.
' .-\s the years passed, the pages of the Post documented the concerns, triumphs and tragedies in Palestine and later Israel. It also reported the bloody horrors occurring in Europe during the Holocaust..
During, this period, the paper reflected the changing direction ihe country was taking. °At the \ erv beginning. thePost was clearly British-oriented in style and content. Even today, 30years-after the .Mandate ended, the Jersualem Post refers to a truck as a 'iorry' and an elevator as a 'lift'.
.-\t that time., however, in the '30s and. early '4ps. the reader could find the latest cricket scores and accountsof dinner parties given by the British high commissioner at Government House on the pages of the Post.. • .
. Within a short time, the Palestine Post began to emphasiye matters important to Palestinians rather than to British residents. It became the voice of the Yi.shuv — the Jewish community, in ■ the pre-state years.'
One of the most difficult periods in.the history of the state was between the date of the partition
vote in the United Nations on Nov. 2*^, 194" until the end of the War of Independence in 1949. The Post not only reported on quickly-breaking news but became part of the event the night of Feb. 1. 1948. when its office was bombed by .Arab terrorists.
On that winter's night Ted Lurie. vyho would later serve as editor of the Jerusalem Post from 1955-19"4. was the assistant editor, .-\fter checking that night's layout of the front page. Lurie stepped out for a cup of coffee. Ten minutes later, the Post building, then located in the heart of Jewish Jerusalem, just off Zion .Square, was rcx-kcd by the explosion.
It was feared that .Arab terrorists were at last able to silence the voice of the Yishuv. Liirie. shocked b\ the destruction of his new spaper and worried about wounded employees, did nothing to put out that night's paper until his u ifc pointedly reminded him that his responsibility was to get out the paper no matter what.
Bysi.x o'clock the following morning, afier setting up an emergency newsroom in a nearby apartment and using a borrowed printing press, the paper, a reduced one page edition, appeared on the street as usual.
Since the end of the Mandate. the..JerusaJem F'ost (the name was changed on .April 1.3. 1950) has been the voice of Israel to the outside world, as w'ell as one of the country's leading newspapers. Unusual for an Israeli newspaper, it has always been completely non-partisan-, feeling free to explain and., if necessary.- criticize government, policy through its editorial columns.
.An important way in which'the Post is able to . report unfolding events to interested outsiders is through its international edition. A long-time dream .of Gershon .Agron. the International Post became a reality oiily after the late Ted Lurie became, editor.
Since September. 1959. an edition containing a selection of The week's most interesting news and feature articles has been airmailed abroad every Tuesday. Beginning with 1,800 subscribers;, the overseas weekly, now renamed The Jerusalem Post International, now has more than 40.000 subscribers in some 90 countries all over the • world.
TEL AVIV IJTA] —
The representatives of foreign oil companies op-'eratingin the rsrael-occu-pied zones of Sinai; are inecting Israeli officials .' here in an attempt to find.' . out what will become of their;.holdings .should all of , Sinai be-cetiirned to Egypt . as proposed in Premier '. Menachem Begin's pekce ■ plan.
"The Neptune Co.: and the Western Desert Co. have invested millions of dollars in'oil drilling and prospecting in Sinai., :, Neptune recently
The Egyptians, for their part, have no obligations^ to .allow the companies to^ continue.their activities in
tracts with other foreign oil firms which, presumably, inighf take over operations in ■ all of Sinai
pectirig for oil. in the , Bardawil Lagoon region in not'thern Sinai;'
Senior directors of the two firms have metWith Sinai.- . should the peninsula re-
Energy Minister Itzhak; . Egypt; in fact, has con- , vert to Egyptian rule. : Modai and. Israel '"^^^^r-,^ QQ^^
head of the: government s ^ ^ oil prospecting authority. Israel's position, is that it has no legal obligation toward the tvvo companies if the areas where they operate an taken over by Egypt.; • .' .;' ■
The companies were aware* when they entered into their contracts with IsriaeK that thev.would be
brought in severaljiew off- investing in a region with shore \yells in the Gulf of^an uncertain-political fu; . Suez which are estimated ..jure. , - to contain foiir billibn bar- ■ The oilexecutives ack-. Tels of oil. sufficieiit tonowiedge this, but say supply hirf of Israel's pre- they assumed Israel would' sent oil consumption. ■ lindertake some form WesTern Desert is pros-umo^
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Chaim Herzpg may l6ave his post as Israel's ambassador to the United Nations this.summer, it is learned here. ; ;
The envoy, now in Israel on a briefprivate Visit, refiised to talk to reporters about his fiiture plans until after he has seen Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. One man.tipped within Foreign Ministry circles as his possible successor is the^mbassador. to Bonn, Yohanan Merpz, a , former . private secretary of GoIdaMeirwh'en she served as\^ foreign minister. : /
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recentl> enacted law imposing prison terms and iuies fiir certain types of missionarx acti\ity.
.A delegation representing the churches met with Visrael Lippel, director general of the Ministry of Religious .Affairs, to protest that the law was wriiten without consulting the Christian community. Thev also charged that its aim was to create "a teeling of hate and suspicion against the Christian ctuirch."
Ihe law pros ides penalties of five years in prison, or a S3.500 fine for anyone attempting to persuade another person tO convert to his religion in r.ctiirn for material benefit. A person w ho converts for material benefit is stibjcct to three \ears imprisonment or a S2.000 fine. The law itself does not mention missionaries nor does it contain the word ""Christian".
But the explanatory paragraphs attached to the bill when it was presented -in the , Knesset warn against the allegedly growing infiuencc of missionary elements in Israel who take advantage uf financial difficulties of Jews to convert them te Christianity. It was the cv-planatlon ■ which aruii--ed the anger of the Couiu ;i ot Churches.
Ttve.chureh representatives told Lippel thc> were determined to fight \o have the law "abolished. Lippel said the> should-understand Israel's sensi- ' tivity to niission.iry actni iy. especially after the . Holocaust. He conceded, however, that the Chns-lian community slu>uKl ha\e been consulted before the law w as adopted.
The bill was originall\ Submitted to the Knesset -in 1.975. Jt was- passed onl\ late last year in ac--cordairce with promises made by the Likud govern-riicnfto its ...Aguda. Israel, coalition partners. The AgAjda has been inveighing against inissiohary ac-. tivity for years.
But the' church delegation noted that the conver-, sion rate of .Lews to Christianity is less than 10 a year compared to as many. as 2,000 Christians wtio
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By NECHEMIA MEYERS
REHOVOT—
Last week Israel's prime time evening TV news show went to the dogs.
Ignoring Carter and Arafat, rising prices and», the plummeting pound, the show's producers decided to'focus instead on the startling growth of interest in dogs thatTias developed in-Israel. '~ .J"his wss reflected, for examplis, in the record turnout for the annual Israel Dog Show, held" recently Jt a large publi£ park south of Tel Aviv.-'Ov'er 20.000 dog lovers and blladogs were present for the competitions, won by a Staffordshire terrier. Second prize went to a greyhound, while third place was taken by a Schnauzer.
tAll these are rather unusual for Israel where — in addition to a great assortment of mongrels — one finds large numbers of Doberman pinschers, poodles, Scotch terriers, Pekingese, collies, German shepards, and a local breed, the Canaanis. Less common are enormous Great Danes and St. Bernards, which cost a fortune to maintain in a country where meat is extremely expensive.
This~Ticlps. to explain why they are often owned by social climbers, who also patronize the high-priced veterinarians — with soothing music in their waiting rooms — as well as the fashionable dbg barbers and dog boutiques of Tel Aviv.
And when these snobs go on overseas vacations, they board their dogs at special
pensions, the best of Which is run by an immigrant couple from Argentina. The owners arc always pleased to show visitors ; both the kennels and the postcards sent from Europe and the U.S. by dog owners vyho ask that greetings be passed on to their four-footed friends. , - "-
^. This affcaion for dogs is quite aj^riew thing Tor Jews. Those who grew up in C/arist Russia will never forget -how rampaging Cossacks used dogs to smell out Jews in hjding. after which they were assault<id. rapialoPeven niBrder^^?ATid for -survivors of concentration camps, dogs — and more particularly German shepards — will always remind iheni how camp guards amused themselves by having such animals, attack helpless inmates.
Traditional Jewish antipathy towards dogs finds frequent expression in Yiddish literature as well as in cvery-day Yic'dish phrases. Someone who is particularly stupid, for instance.' is said to have a "hintishe kop" (dog's head).
But today most Jews have a different attitude, as evidenced by the growing membership of the Israel Kennel Club and the economic success of its periodjcal which, shades of Playboy, features a canine pin-up as its ceiiirepicce.
Even the Tel Aviv municipality has taken cognizance of the canines, providing special pissoirs for them along fashionable Dizen-goff Street. .And in a city where humans are hard-put to find such facilities, that is
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Farmer is for aping Hitler
BONN IJTAL —
\ -t.^-vear-old farmer fr.'iii I he south German i,H\M iif Mucnsingen has bicii fined S140 for mas-qui-rading as.Hitlcr during a variiiv.t! procession.
l!u tanner. Max Papst. iH.trs a striking re-s.-r.blaiice to Hitler, wore a;, .'k' police uniform and lu 'i;iei. with swastikas on !.':s sleeves. He was ac-t nijMnied in a jeep by two siniLirlv-dressed colic...lics who were fined s.inie amount.
fix judge argued that 1 ;.v;ch most of the public
viewers had regarded the incident as "ajoke." some had been shocked and insulted and had regarded the act as "in bad taste."
The judge also objected to a banner on the jeep proclaiming "He (Hitler) was never as valuable as today."
The judge commented that in a time of relatively high unemployment, this could be understood as a "Callfor a strong man, a ne\y Hitler."
The three men have appealed the verdict.
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