Page 2 - The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, April 29, 1977
World News
Blacklist bars 12 firms
S The three men in the news spotlight in Israel discuss future moves. They are (from left) Abba Eban. Yigal Allon and Shimon S Peres. Eban is the latest figure in Israel to come under suspicion for wrongdoing overseas. He was slated to re-enter cabinet.
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Minister Without Portfolio Gideon Hausner declared that because of the Holocaust, Jews have the right to ask the U.S. to make "Israel ever stronger, ever more secure." He said that for that
reason Israel must speak out, too. against the "arming of IsraeKs enemies by the United States," an apparent reference to reports that the U.S. will supply arms to Egypt.
Hausner, who was the prosecutor of Adolf Eich-
Rabin wins
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in resigning
The standing of Israel's Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin,, in the Israeli public eye would appear to be somewhat enhanced by his recent decision to resign from the Party leadership over the Washington "bank account" affair, as Yoram Kessel, the Jewish Chronicle correspondent in Jerusalem indicates in this article.
Ironically, in his final major act as Israel's No. 1 politician — his resignation — Yitzhak Rabin won greater rcspcct_ from the majority of his countrymen than he had enjoyed at any time during his three years.in office.
Although some reactions, like those of the Likud leader Ezer Weizman. were churlish and the respect grudging, most Israelis, including Rabin's antagonists, admired his final act as courageous., noble and a display of his real strength.
Now . more than ever, he is reflected as possessing the best qualities of a commander in the ideal Israel defence force tradition — a sense of total-responsibility for all actions, however insignificant, conviction of the need for action, an ability to assess the essence of a situation and a capacity for clear-cut decision in accordance with that assess-nicnt.
These qualities have consistently outshone any characteristic ingredients of a politician, and all along Rabin has found it difficult to convince others of the correctness of his judgements. It was only now. at the end of his short political career, that he had managed to overcome his disability of communicating adequately. -
Immediately after his dramatic television and radio appearance to e.xplain why he was "reluctantly but unavoidably" relinquishing power, Israel Radio was flooded with cajls from listeners not merely praising the premier's courage, but seeking to e.xhort him to retract. One woman in tears said that Israel owed him a great debt as premier, for he had ensured at a critical time that the country had been totally without fighting along its borders. Others appealed to the radio journalists to advise them of ways to eniable them to bring pressure on Rabin to change his mind. Indeed, hundreds of Israelis put their names to petitions which were drawn up at improvised stalls in the streets imploring him to do just that on the grounds that he was "the ideal man to handle the problems facing Israel at this hour."
In the end though, Rabin was alone with his personal disappointment. He had made it quite . clear that had the attorney-general not been so adamant about prosecuting-Mrs. Rabin and had satisfied him.self with the approach of the Treasury^vhich called for the imposition of a fine, he woiild not have, in fact, seen the need to resign. • His bitterness, however, may be tempered somewhat by the broad recognition that his final political act, if nothing else, may have an important Bearing on-the quality of Israeli public life.
As the upheaval struck Israel, the nation was celebrating — the victory of the Tel Aviv Maccabi basketball team in Belgrade in the European champions cup. final. That basketball festival, which had kept the overwhelming majority of the nation glued to their television knd radio sets for 2'/j hours preceding Rabin's announcement, had really captivated the national imagination. The t^sigriation bombshell was in fact held back until after the conclusion of the match. — ■
Thus as Rabin spoke, tens of thdusands of merrymakers poured into the streets in a spontaneous cavalcading festivity of noise and jubilation.
mann in Israel, spoke in Temple Emanu-El at the 34th annual commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising sponsored by the Warsaw Ghetto Resis-tance Organization (WAGRO) in conjunction with major Jew ish organizations.
The ceremony, which was also a memorial se^■ vice for the six million Jew s who died in the Holocaust, was attended by 2,500 persons in the main sanctuary and seen by another 1,500 on closed circuit television in other halls of the temple. It was also piped by loudspeakers outside to persons
standing on Fifth Avenue.
Noting that the world, including the Western democracies, stood by while Jews were murdered. Hausner declared: "I therefore call upon the leaders of this great country and say to them: the w rong that w as committed by mankind at large — with varying degrees of moral responsibility — against the Jews, has not been put right. Only a strong and secure Jewish state — the country of the survivors — can constitute some form of moral consolation for the bestial crime against the Jewish people."
Hausner said that after six million persons died in the Holocaust, "all the Jews have, today, is that one small countr)', which, by the grace of God, was saved from Hitler's clutches. That small country — Israel — is still threatened. We enjoy.no peace.
"We have the right to ask that the leaders of the United States make Israel ever stronger, ever more secure, until peace with security is finally accomplished. This is not a matter of political favor. It is an imperative of supreme moral conscience and the acid test of human moralitv."
Portugal and Israel normalize relations
By DAVID LANDAU
JERUSALEM [JTA] -
Ephraim Eldar. Israel's consul in Lisbon, will be named the first ambassador to Portugal, sources here said, following the joint announcement in Amsterdam regarding diplomatic relations between the two countries.
The Israeli Consulate has been functioning quietly in Lisbon since the Salazar regime but there v^•ere never full-scale diplomatic ties between Portugal and Israel.
However, in his first policy speech following the installation of his rcr gime. Portugal's Prime Minister Mario Soares promised to normalize relations with both the People's Republic of China and Israel. Subsequently.
he had several meetings with Israeli leaders.
The joint statement in Amsterdam spoke of step-ped-up co-operation between the two countries in all fields.
Israel's Minister of Agriculture Aharon Uzan is to visit Portugal shortly at
the head of a group of • experts to implement certain projects agreed to between the two countries.
He will be returning the visit to Israel by his Portuguese counterpart Antonio Cardozo,Who has since resigned.
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The Arab blacklisting of 12 insurance companies chartered or licensed to do business in New York state threatens the financial security of tens of thousands of New Yorkers, who hold policies issued by these compan-ics.-the American Jewish Congress charged.
The warning was contained in a letter to New York State Superintendent
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Anti-Semitic show dropped
COLOGNE IJCNS] —
The television station here has cancelled plans to show a serial based on Gustav Freytag's novel Soil and HabenC*Debit and Credit") published in 1854. because of objections by Jewish and other democratic circles that it is anti-Semitic and anti-Slav.
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