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LARGEST CIRCULATIOM OF ANY JEW^
FRIDAY. MARCH 22,1968
Canadians Represented
LEADING BUSINESSMEN MEET
Some 500 Jewish buisiness-men from more than 30 countries — about half of them from Canada and the United States — are expected to attend the Economic Confer^ ence scheduled to open on j^ril 1 in Jerusalem, under the auspices of the Prime Minister. Mr. Levi Eshkol. Samuel Bronfman of Montreal, Ray D. Wolfe . of Toronto, and Maitland Stein-kopf, Q.C. of Winnipeg, are leading the Canadian delegation.
The conference will deal
primarily with ways and means of stepping up foreign investments in thelsraeleconomy and increasing exports of Israeli products abroad. It is understood that at least 20 new investment projects will be announced at the conference by participants from North America.
Preparatory work on the conference is being done, mainly through sub-committees established both in Israel and abroad. There are eight such sub-committees,
textiles; science-based in-
ky MJ. NURENBERGER
GOMULKA AND THE JANITOR
Each time Wladyslaw Gomulka, the Communist boss of Poland, lashes out at the "Zionists" and makes an effort to revise the latest antisemitism once so rampant in Slavic countries, it reminds me of a janitor in a Polish city who, after a few tea-glasses of vodka, would beat up his wife in public. This was a regular Sabbath afternoon spectacle to which he treated the tenants, especially on warm, sunny days.
The story goes that Wladek (his name also was Wladyslaw) had married a Jewish woman who converted but never became convert enough to please her janitor-husband.
In his young years Wladyslaw Gomulka, scion of a proletarian family in a small town of Polish Gali-cia, married a Jewish girl of good family who had converted to Communism. His son could be considered halakhically Jewish.
Those who know Gomulka maintain that he never overcame his inferiority complex vis-d-vis his wife or her family for whom he was wont, as a little boy, to turn off lights on the Jewish Sabbath. True or not, no one believes Gomulka when he says that all problems facing Poland today are caused by the "Zionists" in a country where only twenty-thousand Jews of mOre than three-million remain.
I rerrfember that when I first visited Czechoslovakia in 1945 after World War II, already there were then Communist party members saying, "the Jews have everything yet we are starving." I wished I had seen the Jews; but all Tfound in the Europe with practically all Jews liquidated by Hitler was the remnant of antisemitism. Antisemitism survived the Jew.
Then I learned the lesson about scapegoats -that can be unreal, non-existent, like a bogeyman in a children's world. Yet when children are conditioned to fear a bogeyman, it is easy to create one out of nothing.
In all this ugly, contemptible propaganda emanating from Communist Poland, 1 detect a very encouraging fact: it seems that the new generation of students of the once predominantly antisemitic Poles are immune to this bogeyman tale. They know, as the students in Warsaw and Cracow have shown, that the entire Red line of propaganda is one chain of lies, pure inventions. Its purpose: to keep the people in tow, queued up before food
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dustries; chemicals; metal-urgy; food, drugs, and plastics; paper art crafts, and general industries; tourism and films; finance and investment. Activities abroad are carriedoutbythefollowing 18 regional committees: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Western Europe, Far East, Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, and 6 regional committees in Latin America.
The job of each sub-committee is to help each industrial branch in Israel to develop through investment, know-how, marketing outlets, etc. Government circles hope that the conference will spur industrial development
SOUTH AFRICA TO BE REPRESENTED
Johannesburff. (JCNS) — South Africa rfill have 15 delegates at the Economic Conference called by the Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in Jerusalem at the end of the month. They are all top men in theRepublic's business and industrial world and represent a variety of undertakings.
The probable leader of the group (in the unavoidable absence of Mr. LA. Maisels, chairman of the S.A. Zionist Federation) will be David Susman, head of the Wool-worth group in South Africa.
Other members are: Stanley Cohen, joint head of South Africa's bluest doi^tmen- ,
tal store group, and Philip Frame, "textUe king" of Natal. Mining and mineral interests will also be represented.
Mr. Maisels told the JCNS correspondent that 15 men had been carefully selected with three factors in mind: the industries they represent; the purpose of Mr. Eshkol's conference; and the hope of encouraging a growing two-way trade traffic between South Africa and IsraeU
Meanwhile in Israel, a group of South African set-tiers have formed a "contact" enterprise which will act as a liaison agency between South African industrialists and businessmen and Israeli exporters.
CANADIAN DELEGATION LEADERS AT JERUSALEM ECONOMIC CONFERENCE. -From right to left: Samuel Bronfman, Montreal; Maitland Steinkopf, Q. C;, Winnipeg; Ray D. Wolfe, Toronto.
School Bus
FIGHTS CANADA INVESTORS
Jerusalem . — Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir made an unsuccessful bid to persuade Israel's Confederation of Labor Unions, Histadrut to transfer , a supermarket building site, purchased from Central Land Holdings by the Tel Aviv Cooperative Society, to the Supersol company.
It is understood that at the meeting held in the ministry office, Mr. Sapir pressed the Histadrut delegation which included Histadrut's Holding Company (Hevrat Ovdim) Secretary Asher Yadlin and the retail cooperative network director, Yitzhak ^pan, to allcv; ""-upersol to
Exclusive by Afallah Mansour
JERUSALEM ARABS COMPLAIN
Author Mansour is an Israeli Arab journalist writing regularly for Haaretz and our JCNS Service.
"Do me a favour. When you come tO visit me, please do not park outside the house".
When a friend of mine in East Jerusalem said this to me the other day, I was puzzled. "Why?" I asked. "Well", he replied, "when they see your car's Israeli number plate the neighbours will think that I have contacts with Israel".
These words positively astonished me, becauselhad been under the impression up to a few days earlier that he and many others in Jerusalem were eager to achieve contacts with Israelis.
, At almost any hour of the day, anyone walking through Sheiki Jarrah and Beit Hanina areas, with their splendid villas, could see Israeli cars, most of them small European models, interspersed with Arab cars - American or large European models.
They were all easy enough to identify from their number-plates, sincelsraeli ones are quite different from the East Jerusalem ones. So what had happened now to make the inhabitants of East
There was a time; as I have stated, only d generation ago when the Poles were stirred up to a pogrom in Kielce after the war and after Hitler. Yet today to Poles, Russians, Czechs and the non-Slavic Hungarians, especially those who think and,
study, -— as a direct result of Israel's perform- Jerusalem become reserved ance on the battlefields of the Middle East-the ^ ^^^^^^^
calumny of a Jew as a substitute for bread and: y„^„^^'^ , ; J \./• hundred yards from my
butter IS played out forever. friend's house and walked
Too, in the dangerous game which the old, con- ., over to see him. He began servative Stalin-era Communists now are playing, ioj^ "I know you many may. wonder further: why is it that only the Vietnamese or some African tribes have the right to national self-emancipation? Why should Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, Lithuanians and Latviansr-eveii Russians-be denied the privilege to elect a govern-
and I know Jewish Israelis as well, and I wish to maintain friendly relations with them, but the matter is becoming more difficult everyday.../' I replied
men, injruc democraticfasMo^^^^ When «iiri':ey have a McCarthy or a Kennedy runmng agamst a a growing reserve Johnson, a Mitterand opposing a DeGaiille? '
Yet in the meantime Wladyslaw Gomulka, in his frustration about his "Zionist" wife andison, tries to beat up. occasionally the tragic rentimits-of:^ Polish Jewry.
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Jerusalein what was
Arabs being
among towards done in
Israel. I attempted to explain that,,in my view, thedifflcultl
I repeat: something has occurred in Edsterh: Europe: The convulsions of revolt are plaguing] the Red tyranny. For the moment they may be! stilled by new Soviet tanks. BUt'those who march in Cracow and Warsaw: ill J: not [remain sileht^L forever.
economic problems, besett-\ing the inhabitants of East Jerusalem (as a result of difficulties In adjusting to the, post-war situation) would' beg^ to ease with the end of winter "and the advent of -4he large number of tourists expected. ► 1 They would croiyd
whole of Jerusalem thus solving the difficulties of the hotel owners and their staffs, as well as of the other branches of the economy connected with the hotel industry.
"Man does not live by bread alone", my friend interrupted impaUenUy. He continued: "We have had many discussions in the past six months, and you have always been able to find an answer for criticism of Israel's policy in her relations with Uie Arab public.
"In some instainces, you even managed to persuade me. Well, perhaps you can e;qplain to me why the former Mayor of Jerusalem, Mr. Buhl Abu Hani al-Khatib, has bieen disported to the East Bank of the River Jordan.
"What did he do? Like you, I heard the official Israeli announcement. He is supposed to have incited the Arab public against the regime, U-ansferred money and spread false rumours. There are legal provisions for dealing with all Uiese offences. Why was he not brought to trial and an administrative order issued against him?
"Why an expulsion order? He was born in this country exacUy like Moshe Dayan, who issued the expulsion order against him. Mr. al-KhaUb is being blamed for organising resistance to the authorities. What resistance? Where does this resistance exist?
"All Institutions and organisations are working normally. Terrorist activities originate from across the border, and all the public leaders in the West : Bank area have come out publicly against them.
"As for money, It comes In from Jordan and flows' back" again. Many people : bring nioney. Of course this ^s Illegal, but there are needs which force bne to break the law. Why not take Uie offenders to court?
"Wnat sort,.of system is this, wheriB J^nyohe;^ who falls hito disfavourcfe^jfleported? Does your Govemnent want
to bring us to such a state that we shall fell ashamed for not having been expeUed?"
I interrupted my friendt "The Government maintains that he behaved and still behaves as if he were a Jordanian, and should have taken into account in advance that he would be sent to the Jordan that exists today".
My friend grew angry^ "What is a Jordanian? Who is a Jordanian? A few days ago the police arrested a young engineer, Kamal Nammar, the son of a Moslem and a Jewish mother. According to Uie Israeli press, he has been accused of conducting terirorist activities and, according to one paper, he also told the police that he strangled a Druse watchman at Abu Ghosh with his own hands.
"Nevertheless,' he has still not been brought before either a civil or a military court and has not been tried. What did they do? They razed his parents' house - it was not his housie - and they did so at nine o'clock in the evening, in a way that caused terror In the whole town* What sort of behaviour is that? Why did they not wait until he had been tried? ' 'After all, he is under . arrest, and they can hang him or send him to prison with hard labour. And what have his neighbours done that they and their children should b^ frightened during the night and their windows smashed?"
I had no answers. I e;cpressed the hope that the state of war would come to an end. My friend replied: "Well, we shall be" reserved and distant, so that our, neighbours will not harbour the suspicion that we maintain contact with Israel^ss—We shall continue to drthis until peiace comes, or ;imtil war breaks.out and solves the problem".
Vfhen I said that a war should bring more des-fa-u6tlon and killing in its train, he retorted: /"But in certain .conditions, ^eii \ are liable to /express' themselves isharply".
buy the land. Supersol President Jack Brin and Investment Authority head Yeshayahu Stopper were also present.
Mr. Yadlin and Mr. Stopper had taken up the matter after Supersol protests brought the Treasury into the picture.
Mr. Brin said, Supersol's 1,600 Canadian and American shareholders and thousands of other potential investors "will not be encouraged by this kind of atmosphere." , He challenged Mr. Yadlin's statement in "The ,lerusalem Post" and "Haaretz" that "this was clearly a legitimate business transaction." He declared:
"Apparenfly Mr. Yadlin was given the wrong information."
Defends Canadian investors ■ against Histadrut financial ■ trust: Israel's Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir.
Mr. Brin also stressed that Samuel Bronfman, the Canadian Jewish leader, and
father of ^persol Chairman Charles Bronfman, would definitely be present at the forthcoming Economic Conference.
Mr. Bronfman reportedly had threatened to boycott the forthcoming Economic Conference in Jerusalem unless the land is transferred to Supersol.
He also reported the impending arrival of another Supersol director,-Mr. R.D. Wolfe, of Toronto,
He noted that Supersol first started negotiating for the site to July 1967, and after the Board consented, the figure of IL1.15m. was agreed upon. Last October,^^ plans were drawn up, and an architect was sent to Toronto to clear the blue-prtots with Mr. Wolfe. After all details were settied by himself arid Supersol's legal adviser, N. Rotenstreich, with the development company, and their last meeting was held in November, there was a delay because of the question of how the payment would be made.
Mr. Brto charged that later on, after the company • broke off negotiations, they learned that on the day of their last jotot meeting, an agreement was signed with the Tel Aviv Cooperative Society for the site^ with the Development Company
gjtting IL350,000 more. Mr. rto said Supersol was not ' asked for more money. "This is a very poor reflection of business morjde", Mr. Brm said.
According to other Sources, Mr. Sapir referred to the reactions he met in Canada to the transaction.
Demand for Tough Reprisals
by the CJN diplomatic editor
The latest outrage committed by infiltrators from Jordan, which took the lives of two Tel Aviv high school teachers and caused a number of severely wounded students, may bring about a complete change in Israel's policy vis-a-vis the Jordan government.
The explosion on Monday of a mine in the Negev twelve miles north of Eilat, when a school bus from Tel Aviv hit it, resulted in the death so far of two. The Israeli press is incensed and some are hinting that the Abba Eban policy of more concessions to the Arabs for peace now will be shelved for a more militant attitude.
The blast followed by one day two warnings to King Hussein by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, both addressed to the ruler of Jordan.
Dayan told Hussein in no uncertain terms that the latter is in the position to stop the terrorist operations centered in Jordan and that Israel will not tolerate his continuous silent treatment of attacks coming from his country.
It is reported in diplomatic circles that at an emergency meeting of the Cabinet, Menachem Begin, Minister Without Portfolio and one of the closest collaborators of the Prime Minister, obtained assurances that the Abba Eban policy of containment will be reevaluated. Moshe Dayan and Interior Minister Moshe Shapira believe the time has come to make a dramatic move proving to the Arabs of the West Bank that they cannot be protected by any foreign power but that their future is interwoven forever with the Jewish state.
Meanwhile it was reported that Kibbutz member Hagai Anabi, 30, was kilted last weekend near Tiberias in another mine explosion. He was the fifth kibbutz casualty of mines planted by terrorists from Jordan.
Diplomatic circles in Jerusalem also are reported impressed by two recent developments favoring Israel's ihternational position:
• A sixteen-member mission of the French Economic and Social Council, headed by its president, Emile Roche, arrived for a week's stay in Israel. The mission is accompanied by a number of journalists and includes a priest. Father Toulat.
• Israel and Turkey signed a new trade agreement in Jerusalem on Monday. The agreement with this Islamic country provides for the sale of both Israeli goods worth $10,000,000 to Turkey and a total of Turkish imports of approximately $11,000,000 in the next financial year.
• Four representatives of the official Yugoslav commercial company, Yugoslavia Commerce, left, from here by Sabena after a week of economic conferences.
The delegation signed a $t,000,000 export agreement with one of Israel's largest companies.
SHIPPERS' PROTEST
Haifa, (JCNS) - Israeli shippers have protested a-.gainst the imposition of a 15 per ■ cent congestion surcharge, as of April 1 next.
MEMORIAL FOR RABBI SILVER
Toronto's Agudat Israel, the Orthodox Rabbinate and Ner Israel Yeshiva College are holding a memorial meeting for the leader of North America's To-rah Jewry, the late lamented Rabbi Ellezv er Silver ofCincinna-
ing will take place ih\s coming Tuesday, March 26, at the Mudat Israel Center, 12iWVIcGillivrayAve.
REACHING THE HIGH POINT FOR UJA-IEF. - Thn Vyomen's Apparel Division, Toronto .1968 Unitecl Jewish. Afipeal-lsrocI Emergoncv Fund, which hold its initial pieoting at the home of chairman Irving Posluns. Aboyoare (lqft^d-r|ght|: Ben Levinsorj; SarVi-Crystal, chairman^ Public Relations Committee, guosispoaker; Leo Grlpenspan; Jack: Y \
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