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TORONTO-
Ephraim Raviv, Israel's newly-appointed trade commissioner to Canada, arrived in Toronto last week from Nigeria. He had served three years in the Israel embassy in Lagos as first secretary for economic affairs.
The 34-year-old native of Roumania succeeds Mena-chem Lahat, who has been trade commissioner here for three years.
Raviv, who arrived in Is-real in 1948, worked for the large British department store Marks and Spencer after completing business studies in London. From 1966 to 1970, he was in charge of investments in food and agricultural industries for the Israel Investment Authority.
In an interview with The Canadian Jewish News during his second day in Canada, he said he enjoyed his stay in Nigeria "one of the countries with the greatest potential in Africa."
And he added that his wife Nili, and their three children are looking forward to their Canadian stay. He declined comments on his goals
while in Canada until he gets more familiar with the local scene.
Lahat, who will be returning to Israel later this month, said that after a short stay in the Holy Land, he'll be going to New York where he'll be in charge of the office there for Bank Hapoa-lim.
"I enjoyed this posting very much," he said. "I loved the Jewish community and the business community here."
Asked about his accomplishments while here, he pointed to a considerable increase in Canada-Israel trade, the insurance investment agreenient with Ottawa and the up to $100 million credit agreement for purchase of capital goods in Canada - "$35 million already allocated" - and the large Canadian delegation which went to the recent Jerusalem Economic Conference.
The Canada-Israel Chamber of Commerce and Industry is holding a luncheon to honor Lahat and welcome Raviv at the Sutton Place Hotel Sept. 12 at 12 noon.
Katzir to meet Toronto group
E One of Israel's main tourist attractionis are its lovely women. Here, Avhra Zichroni = soaks up the sun on one of Tel Aviv's beautiful beaches. IPPA Photo
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TORONTO -
Probably the largest and one of the most important Toronto study missions ever to visit Israel will leave here for Lod on Monday, Nov. 26, according toMurray B. Koff-ler, 1974 United Jewish Appeal campaign chairman.
Koffler said Israel President'Ephraim Katzir has asked him to organize this first President's Mission so that Prof. Katzir - who was installed in office earlier this year - can meet a responsible group from the Toronto Jewish community.
President Katzir will launch the mission's activities at a reception at his home on Wednesday, Nov; 28.
"The president is aware of the strong bond that exists between the Toronto community and Israel," Koffler* said, "and that is why he' wants to meet with and talk' with us."
koffler announced that Eddie Creed has accepted the responsibility of-serving as chairman of the event, which will be organized through the United Jewish Appeal oif Metropolitan Toronto.
He added that the mission will be open to all segments of the community and all' older members of the family. "This," he said,: "will be. the first phasp of our 'United Jewish Approach and there, has already been a-, most enthusiastic response from the community." 'In addition to; the audience
with the president, mission members will dine with the prime minister and will be guests also at a dinner host^ "ed by all former Israel ain-bassadors to Canada. Another highlight will be the dedication of the John Bas-sett Sports and Cultural Centre in the Arava.
There will be briefings by military leaders at the Suez Canal and Golan Heights and there will be an opportunity to see the "open bridges" policy with Jordan in action at the Allenby Bridge.
Details of the mission will be mailed out to the community within the next few days. In the meantime, information is available from Eddie Creeds 9r24-7171, Murray Koffler, 493-1220 and David Marks, 363-7190;
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By MICHAEL HOFFMAN MONTREAL -
Over 2,000 senior citizens living in Montreal require long-term institutional care, but are refused admittance to the special hospitals because they are filled to capacity..
Both Louis J. Ndvick, executive director of the Mai-monides Hospital and Home .for the Aged, and Anita Ca-'belli, his counterpart at the Jewish Nursing Home, are acutely concerned with the problem and are looking to home-oriented, as opposed to institution-oriented care, as' ap .eventual solution.
"Institiitional care iis nee-. essary only if the state of the patient's health is so deteriorated that he is ihcap---able of looking after his own pihysical heeds,'" Novick explained. "Some people get tliat help in the family. An instutition is a last resort."
He added that roughly five per cent of thoise paist age 65 reach such stages of physical disability. . ^^''^~\
What he hopes will Mtse the overcrowding in the long- : terni: is a network of services for the elderly with the idea
of preventing further disability.
M rs. Cabelli agrees. " It' s easy to. fall into that trap of relying exclusively on institutions. But the number of elderly people in our society is steadily increasing. We must begin to develop extensive home-care facilities which will allow them to continue to function in the community.
"As it is now, our society
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LONDON (JCNS )-. A major policy switch by President Sadat has been re-piorted. The Egyptian leader. has paid a visit to King Fei-sal oif Saudi Arabia, as well as to Syria"ind Qatar, in an> attempt to establish a new Arab alignment m which oil would be used as a foremost weapon to force the United
States to lessen her support for Israel.
King Feiisal is reported to ,_have agreed to limit the annual growth of Saudi Arabia's oil output to 10 per cent instead of the present 30 per cent as an immediate warning to the UnitedStates. Saudi oil is wholly-produced and exported by an American
fii;;m - the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco).
While at the moment only 14 per cent of American oil imports come from Arab countries and only six per cent from Saudi Arabia itself, Sadat and Feisai clearly believe that the Americans .will be frightened by the spectre of an oil short-
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stunts the process ofnatural development of the individual past age65," sheadded. "We^ must make the community a community for people of all ages."
At Maimohides, two programs geared to that end are already in existence. One is the "Day Hospital ' Program/' with participants spending seven hours a day at Maimonides under the Cont'd on Page 9
LONDONiOnt.-
Repairs are under way at the London, Ontario's Or Shalom Cemetery following the upsetting of eight gravestones and the defacing of a monument in memory of Jews killed in the Second World War.
The cemetery, on Oxford Street West, fell victim on Sunday, August 26,' to vandals who used red paint to desecrate the monument with slogans in German and misspelled English. "Juden Raus," German for "Jews, get out," and''Never again,'' the motto of ^ the militant Jewish Defence League, were among the slogans.
Rabbi David Kirshenbaum, rabbi ereritus of Or Shalom, told The Canadian Jewish News: "The Jewish community of London is enraged by this shocking incident. This is not the work of young -sters or (conimon) vandals, but rather the work of adults, poisoned with hate for the Jew.
"This is clearly expressed by the language used on the memorial erected in memory of the six million Jews killed by the Germans. The red paint that was used is impossible to remove, even by the usage of chemicals. During the time 1 have spent in London, never has such an ordeal taken place."
Insp. Lloyd Bryson of the London police department, who heads the investigation, also slaid he could recall no similar incidents in the past where there were apparent racist overtones. However, London merchant Harold Vaisler said, "The same sort of thing has happened in Roman Catholic and Protestant cemeteries in the past," but he agreed the painted epithets put a slightly different complexion on the incident. There have been no arrests in this case.
An editorial by Williani C. Heine, editor of The London
Freei Press, urged "automatic stiff fines and jail t€rms" for senseless vandalism and said, "deliberatevandalism, however, is worse. The desecration of the Jewish cemetery on Oxford Street is far more dangerous than blind smashing of park benches. It reflects the kind of insane bigotry and racial hatred which poisoned enough Germans in the Second World War to cause the merciless, deliberate
slaughter of six million Jews . . . The police should not treat this incident as another bit of casual vandalism. Every effort should be made to find those guilty of such viciousness and to make it self-evident that the people of London want no part of such hatreds."
Rabbi Yaacov Rone, of Or Shalom Congregation, said surveillance at the cemetery has been increased as a result of the incident.
age as the demand for Middle; East oil increases. Kuwait' and Qatar have assured Sa-' dat that they would be ready to limit production arid President Qaddafi of LibyaJ has stated that he is prepared to take even stronger' action.
"Some diplomats predict that Arab oil - producing countries will issue a decr laration in Algiers during the conference of the non-aligned countries ne^ct week demanding that Arab oil and Arab capital now deposited in Western banks must be put into the service of the Arab cause against Israel.
these moves in the Arab world have been takencalra--ly in Israel. The oil crisis is seen as having been manufactured by King Feisal, whose obsessive hatred of Jews and Israelis is notorious and well-known to the Americans, and by a desperate President Sadat.
The Israelis are confident that the American administration will not follow the example of the Standard Oil. Company of California, which has called for a change in the U.S. policy in favor of the Arabs.
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TEL AVIV (JTA) -
Premier Golda Meir has administered a tongue lashr-ing to immigration and absorption officials for their alleged preoccupation with red tape that makes the integration of new immigrants an exhausting time-consuming ordeal for thein. . Mrs. Meir summoned the officials to her office and made it clear that she would not tolerate inefficiency and , P r 01 on g ed delays during :
which immigrants languish, for hours in office* waiting to see officials and are shunted from office to office sometimes losing one or more working days.
She blamed the officials for sending new immigrants "here and there" while a . problem can be solved easily when the official meets his colleague sitting just next door or on the next floor. ' 'I should remind you that you are sitting here to serve him
(the immigrant) and not the other way around," she said. "Why is there no respect for the time of the people who come to see an official?" she asked.
Mrs. Meir stressed that immigrants arriving in Israel now, particularly from the:. Soviet Union, had been living for years under a repressive regime which made them nervous about officialdom. v
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Authoritative sources claim to have information that a number of European airlines flying to Israel are paying blackmail money to Arab terroristorganizations to protect their aircraft from hijacking and ^damages
The sources said that pay -ments, amounting to millions of dollars and pounds sterling, were negotiated between the terrorists and the airlines without the involvement of their respective governments and were secretly deposited in bank accounts of■ terrorist groups. Recipients
- according to the sources -were two terrorist factions
- the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, heided by Dr. GeorgeHab-ash, and the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, headed by Ahmed Jibril.
At least two payments were made to the Palestine Lil)eration Organization, the umbrella body of terrorist groups, headed by El Fatah chief Yassir Arafat, the-sources said. Official circles here declined to comment on the charges and they were emphatically denied by airline representatives in Tel Aviv.
However, Israel's Defence Minister Moshe Dayan made a similar charge wheii he addressed the second. International Congress of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists in Jetu-. salem recently. Dayan said "Some airlines are paying sums of money to the terrorists for immunity," but he did not elaborate or mention any airline.
According to the•soui'ces, with the exception of one air-: line, no planes of the companies paying blackmail have
been targets of Arab terrorists. The sources mention no airlines by name. It was pointed out, however, that 10 of the 16 foreign airlines serving Israel have not been affected "by terrorist activities.
Th^se are: Turkish Airlines, Tarom Rumanian Airlines, Alitalia, British European Airways (BEA), the Dutch KLM, Scandinavian
Airlines (SAS), BOAC, Canadian Pacific, Cyprus Airlines and Air France. Air France and Alitalia have ■been immune apparently because of their governments' policies, sources said. Fran(;e has taken a consistently pro-Arab stand in the Middle East, and Italy has, in the past, released Arab terrorists caught red-handed with arms and explosives.
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TORONTO -
Dr. Stuart E. Rosenberg, president of the Canadian Fbundation for Jewish Culture, recently returned after a sabbatical leave in Israel, will soon be visiting various Canadian Jewish communities to acquaint them of the progress that has been taking place in the growth of Jewish studies programs, from coast-to-coast, announced the foundation.
"A silent revolution of new expectations in Canadian Jewish creativity, of great proportions, is taking place on the Canadian campus," he said. "We must get ,the help and develop the support from the Jewish community to help 'seed' these programs, so that they may grow and prosper on their own, in the near future. Unfortunately, most Canadian Jews are still unaware of the great potential that awaits us as a Jewish community , in the area of university Jewish studies. It is the mandate and respon-. sibility of the C a na! d i a n
Foundation for Jewish Culture to tell the story and to help to encourage this new potential for good," Dr. Rosenberg added.
A total of 183 courses in Hebrew, Yiddish and Jewish Studies are presently being offered to students at Canadian universities and colleges, according to a summary prepared by the Canadian Foundation for Jewish Culture. Prominent in offering such courses are the University of Toronto, Mc-Gill University and Sir Geior-ge Williams University* with . a lesser number of courses now on the. curriculum of York University. A summary of these courses is now available for consultation by educators, university faculty members, counsellors, and students, at the office of the foundation. '
The courses in Jewish subject^ are in history, literature, philosophy^ /religious studies, Biblical'i^ttid-ies, archeology, theology, - language and humanities,'and range in period from Bib-r Cont'ddhPiliii'^
By MOSHE RON CJN Israel Correspondent JERUSALEM -Christian niissionaries,
.. with the help of Israeli agents, have started vast activities, especially among
. new immigrants, who at first find life hard on their arri-, val in Israel. The missionaries are especially active among families who have problems regarding religious conversion. ; ; \
It is assumed that there are hundreds of missionaries who are permanently active in Israel. During the summer months, they are joined by anpther-500, who enter i the country as~^tpur-ists, from the United States, Germany, Holland, Switzerland and other countries;
Ludwig Schneider's group from iCermany,' which or-, ganizes youth trips from Germany to Israel, wear the
: sign of the Star of David, with the inscription' 'Jesus" on it. They come to worship at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and at the Wailing Wall.
In every town in Israel there are clubs run by mis-
; sionaries. Some are frequented by Jews and Arabs. In Tel Aviv; the most active missionary. group are
: the Jehovah Witnesses, who ■ have succeeded in converting niany JewS. There are clybs in Jerusalem, Haifa, Jaffa, Bat-Yam) Beersheba, Mmat Can, Afula and even inMltz-pe RamonVTheir activities: are usually cbnducted in pri-
vate apartments.
It is assumed that the missionaries succeed in converting 50 Jews each year. These are usually problem cases, people with serious family trouble and new im-' migrants who have not yet adjusted to life in Israel. \
There are also personal tragedies in missionary work. A family from Miami Beach bad sent their two daughters and a son-to Israel. The son joined the army and in Eilat, missionaries persuaded him, successfully, to becoine a convert. He was sent to Greece. Although his parent^ came to Israel ai immigrants, in order to regaiW their son,/ he refused toreturntoJewry and to Israel.
: The missiqnaries also succeeded in converting the son of a family fronri North •Africa. He is now living with missionaries in Jerusalem and refuses to return to his parents. ■■:\--k^'-).:\:'-..:
At Carmiel, missionaries worked among new immigrants from the Soviet Union, who have many absorption problems. They gavetheim- •
Miasioiury symbol in Israel.
migrants: money in order to repay the Jewish Agency,and to enable them to fly to Canada and other countries.
Recently, a missionary entered a Sephardi Synagogue near Lod during a service and appealed to the com-niunity to pray for Jesus. The synagogue Gabai called the police who threw him out.
The leader of a Lutheran sect in Stuttgart, a Mrs. Er-•na Berger, bought 350 du-nahns of ground inlsrael at Zichron Yaacov, Pardpss Hanna, Benyamina and "rini She had paid $6 for this lai d. l: .Up till now, the populaUon of lisrael has shown indifference to missionary activities. Most people thought that such an activity is legal in a
democratic country. But lately public opinion has begun to change. A great part of the population thinks that legal steps should be taken against missionaries, barr- . ing them from concentrating their efforts at new immi-r grants and making use of social problenis for their- own means. Ihe Chief Rabbinate has
recently dealt with the question of missionary activities in Israel. Chief Rabbi Shlo-mo Goren demanded that the Israeli government take steps to restra. thiis activity by law. He disclosed that he had discussions with Christian bishops, asking, theni not to make use of social and economic problems of new immigrants.
The Chief Rabbinate is try-; ing to solve; the problems of -'mixed' couples and to make conversion procedures eas -. ier. Special teachers will be sent to immigrant centres to teach their inhabitants, who wish to convert to; Judaism and Jewish'. laws. ; ■ ■ ■ :: Chief. Rabbi Gpren also revealed that lately hundreds of 'mixed'couples have come
to Israel and have riot turned to the Rabbinate for conversion. They later face family; problems if they do not consider conversions in due time. Any steps takeii to facilitate conversion procedures, wiU certainly encourage such couples to hasten their conversions and not to delay until difficulties alrise later on. .,
Christian misrioiuries work out of Zion House on one of Haifa's mahi streets.