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CANADA'S NATIONAL
JEWISH NEWSPAPER
China and Israel (Editorial, page 4)
ADIAN JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Mareh 8. 1968 8th Day of ADAR 5728
Candlelighting: Toronto 5:57. Montreal 5:33 S|dra: Tezaveh —
Shabbat Zachor
Authorized as,Socond Class Moil, Post Office Deporfmont, -Ottawa, and for poymant of postage in cash, . .
LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY JEWISH NEWSPAPER IN^ANADA
FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1968
Prime Minister Eshkol reviewing an Armoured Corps guard of honour shortly after he lartded at Bir Gafgafa to visit armoured units in Sinai where he made last week's important address.
More fur)ds needed immediafely
TORONTO UJA REACHES FIRST TWO MILLION $
Toronto's combined 1968 United Jewish Appeal-Israel Emergency Fund is moving ahead as the community realizes the exceptional character of this year's drive. It is, in the fullest sense of the word, defense of beleaguered Zion; assisting the Israelis in their economic and philanthropic pursuits so that they may be able to fend for themselves in the area of military needs.
Philip G. Givens, Q.C., campaign chairman, declared this week that the first thousand contributors to the combined drive already have pledged more than $2 million, which is very encouraging. Torontonians realize, Mr. Givens continued, that this
drive also must provide the funds for local community services. However, it is imperative that people remember that help must come now, in time.
also reported thousand pled-approximately ofallprospec-represent a of the total
Mr. Givens that the first ges covering one-twentieth tive donors cross-section conimunity.
Recent events — such as the visit of Israeli statesman Dr. Herzog, the mobilization of women, the activities of the trade and professional divisions, organizations and synagogues — have made possible this excellent beginning of the drive.
NO DANGER FOR QUEBEC JEWS,
Many groups, said the campaign chairman, have proven their enthusiasm for the drive.
Among them are organizations such as the construction industry division, dentists' division, Zaglembier Society.
This year's leadership of the construction industry, headed by co-chairmen Alexander Grossman, David Robbins, Leonard Blatt and Harry Gorman, has inspired many to raise their contributions.
The dentists held the largest meeting in their history under the leadership of co-chairmen Drs. Jerome Gib-Ion and Wilfred Rovan.
There is no danger whatsoever for the future of the Jewish comnnunity in Quebec despite many alarmists-reports disseminated recently by irresponsible circles. This is the opinion shared by leading intellectuals in French Canada representing all shades of opinion from Federalists to Separatists.
The statements are published in the March issue of Nouveau Monde, a monthly magazine under Jewish auspices, the first Jewish magazine in French ever published in North America. The March issue- appeared this week in Montreal.
Nouveau Monde is sponsored by the editors and publishers of The Canadian Jewish News as a medium of communication between the Jewish community and French Canada.
Claude Ryan, publisher of Le Devoir, Gerard Pelletier, Liberal leader, and Andre D'Allemagne, a Quebec Separatist, are among the French intellectuals who, in an interview with Ciaude-Lyse Gagnon of Nouveau Monde, answered candidly the following questions:
How do you see the future of the Jewish community in the "new" Quebec?
Do you believe there should be Jewish schools with French as the language for the secular curriculum?
Do you believe there should be Jewish schools Quebec soon?
Finally: Are Quebecois antisemitic?
Premier Johnson himself discusses in an interview the Jewish presence in Quebec, as do others.
The offices of Nouveau Monde arc at 6338 Victoria Avenue. Montreal 26, Quebec t'
PEACE
PUBLIC HUMILIATION. - Egyptian colonel seen here being stripped of his insignia, following a sentence of life imprisonment by an army court martial for his part in the military debacle of last June.
URGE DEFENCE AGAINST RELIGIOUS SLANDER
The Canadian Jewish Congress urged the Senate Special Committee dealing with Bill S-5 on hate propaganda to endorse the legislation in response to "a ground swell of opinion across Canada that a curb be placed on the gratuitous and deliberate dissemination of hatred against racial and religious groups."
The Congress presentation
to the Senate Committee/by a delegation representing Jewish communities across Canada, stressed its support for the Bill and Offered only one major suggestion for change - the inclusion of the category of religion among the ".identifiable groups" whose protection against hate propaganda is the major aim of the Government's legislative prcposal.
WOULD ACCEPT UNITED JERUSALEM
by the CJN diplomatic editor
Is President Nasser of Egypt ready for peace? -Diplomats stationed at the United Nations and in various world capitals say hjs last bellicose speech on Sunday in which he threatened to "liberate" ah the areas conquered by Israel during the Six Day War means. Yes.
the curious, diplomatic analysis of this speech is as follows:
Nasser is in deep trouble and he had to appease his hawks. He is worried especially about what he himself termed in his speech "the reactionary enemies of his revolution."
Nassier spoke of liberating the West Bank, Syria's Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula. Yet he did not mention East Jerusalem or Gaza..
In the address, the Egyptian dictator also omitted to mention the well known fact that the United Nations Peace Ambassador Gunnar Jarring continues his talks with both sides.
Thus some experts maintain Nasser may be ready to accept peace if all newly conquered territories except East Jerusalem and Gaza are returned to the Arabs.
In Israel, however, many are skeptical despite the fact that this time the Egyptian did not threaten to destroy Israel.
Speaking in the Knesset last week, the National Religious Party leader and prominent member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Yitzhaq Raphael, rejected the suggestion Arabs will ttiake peace if Israel evacuates the West Bank. He urged to hold on to these territories, following the government's declaration that these lands, now called Samaria and -Judea, have become de facto Israeli territory.
ESHKOL: NEGOTIATIONS MUST BE DIRECT, NOT BY PROXY
Jerusalem (CJN).-Prime Minister Levi Eshkol declared that Israel was prepared to forget the past and meet with the Arabs to make an "honourable and genuine peace."
Speaking to Israeli
troops at a former Egyptian officers' club in Sinai * Mr. Eshkol said.
"We do not want to think in terms of victors and vanquished. But there is no way of avoiding the necessity for the two part-
ies after the war to meet in order to settle their relations for the benefit of the peoples of the area. Logic tells us ultimately wisdom will prevail among our neighbours. The question only is when that will be."
The Premier said Israel had proposed to U.N. envoy Gunnar Jarring that he convene the two parties together "in order to continue the exchange of views directly," but "we will not agree to a return to Laus-
anne, nor to a severed telephone connection."
(Mr. Eshkol was referring to the meetings held at Lausanne with the Palestine Conciliation Commis-
sion, following the signing of the Rhodes Armistice Agreements in 1949. Contrary to.the direct negotiations held at Rhodes, the abortive Lausanne meetings, called to make- a peace agreement, did not
oblige the two sides to meet face to face. In fact, the FCC representatives, and the Israel and Arab delegations, all stayed in different hotels and the FCC shuttled between the two parties.)
According to a bulletin released by the Government Press Office, Mr. Eshkol arrived at the army base by helicopter, accompanied by the Chief of Staff, General Haim Bar-
Lev. After hearing reports from the troop commander, Mr. Eshkol summed up his visit in one sentence: "My impression is that we feel ourselves strong and secure here."
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THE BOOK OF ESTHER
There is sompthing wonderful, folksy, about Purim. It's more than the food, more than the Carnival atmosphere. It is the understanding of this seemingly light, novel-style Megillah-the Book of Esther; perhaps it is the symbol of our Jeivish capacity to stand together in times when others would give up.
ISRAELI TOURISM UP THIRTY PERCENT
Jerusalem— Tourism is expected to increase by 30 per cent this year, more than compensating for a decliiie of 11 per cent last year, Moshe Kol, Minister of Tourism, told a press conference in Jerusalem last week.
Only 400 hotel rowns were built in 1967, raising tourist-standard accomniodatipn to 11,700 rooms, and this year another 1,000 rooms will be
added (apart from the East Jerusalem hotels).
Questioned whether this slow pace of construction will not limit the growth in tourism, Amos Irron, head of the Tourist Industry Development C 0 r p o r a t i o n, pointed put thrt, although the nuinber of visitors has increased by an average of 15.5 per cent a year over the past decade, occupancy rates have
iiot risen above 52 or 53 per cent in hotels - though they need at least 60 per cent to make-both ends meet.
It is impossible, he went on, to. avoid a bottleneck at seasonal peaks. The remedy is to mobilize what is called in the trade "supplementary accommodation," such as, rooms for rent in privaite houses, or campitigfacilities.. "If we built enough hotel
rooms to cope vyith total demands at seasonal peaks -we would bankrupt the industry."
Kol told newsmen that the accent during the ne.xt five years will be on popular-priced hotels - for mass tourism that will come with the age of the jumbo jet.
They will have cafeterias instead of dining rooms -chief cause of deficits in the
hotel business; In any case, tourists like to sight-see during the day and eat out.
"We are at present the only active tourist center in the Middle East," he commented, "and must prepare ourselves for a big ejqjan-sion." Now that Americans can buy a 10-day package trip for $540, a holiday in Israel costs no more than going to Miami.
Among projects that will be offered for the attention of the Economic Conference in April are: a chain of hotels in six towns (allowing econoniy in overheads, including a shift of staff between hotels according to seasonal pressures);, achain of restaurants in the big cities and along highways^tobe nm by top-flight specialists; a roof company to develop Is-
To me the Megiilah, ivhich will be redd next Wednesday evening and Thursday morning (hal-akhically it must be read and heard twice), is, the proclamation of Jewish solidarity in times of emergency. Whenever Jews arc called upon to utiite, to stand up and be- counted, I think of the: passage in the Megiilah where Mordecai. somewhat disappointed with Esthers initial hesitancy iff: intervening with the King-wlwn she's afraid-, sends back the following m^^^^
Think not about yourself; do not believe that ■ becattse yon are ill rhekiiig's house you shall escape (Haman): more than all the other Jews..;:
Tor if you should, remain silent altogether at- thi^ time, their help and deliverance siiall come to Jews from another source; but you and your father's house shall be destroyed; and' who knows, maybe it is for this: that you have been riseit to royalty at a time like this. ^:
COLONIALIZATION TRANSFERED TO GDVERNMENT
Tel Ayiv - Arye Pincus, chairman of thfe Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, wants to know whether the Israeli government and the various parties have sent their representatives into the Agency to uphold its existence or undermine it.
On the eve of the Zionist Congress, Pincus poses this question and makes it clear
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It is the perennial appeal, if you like. For—: there always is a Haman somewhere, all/ihe time.. And it is incumbent upon us wid live in countries without Hamans to rem that it is for this thai Providence placed us [here-iii order that we iise Cfiir atreiigth or all \mr influence ■without any fear of kings or rulers oil behalf of those siirrotiitded by the conspiracy ^ which again thrciiiciis .iifj many among our breth ■ ren ■ ' . ■■■
SIMVA FOR DAKAR VICTIMS
Moshe Dayan,. Isra-vpI's lyiinister of Defense, doclared the, week ot N':-a>(^h 6th throLmli::
' Mr)r|:h^l2th as a perjlod 0f. (hiQiirning for Xpe crejfii Of Israei's subnia-.
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that he does not intend to put up with the present situation. It is impossible to work under conditions whereby anyone can criticize the Agency, he inaintains. At atime when the Agency is barraged by questions .of Aliya, absorption, colonization and other matters, members of the Israeli government and political leaders are voicing strong criticism; they even question the existence of the .■■ Agency.
A meeting of its executive took place, in Jerusalem and it was resolved to request the Prime Minister to convene an urgent joint meeting of the government and leaders of the Agency to discuss the present situation. Leaders of the Agency demand immediate cessation of all , attacks. ■ ,
A year ago the Minister of Finance,; Plnhas Saplr, proclaimed the necessity of the dlsmls!sal,0f 3,000 employees of the Agency. The executive body appointed a
special cothiiiittee to study this resolve; it came to the conclusion that 1,000 employees should be dismiss-ed.,-V- „ V.
Now, the Agency main^ tains, thecampaign against It is being renewed. ■
G. Meir, J. Aloh, J. Ben Aharon, Pt Sapir, even Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, claim that matters of Aliya, colonization and absorption be taken out of the hands-of the Agency and transferred
RUSSIAN FILM
/^London (JCNS).-Russia has docidod to re-lease a full length docLi-mentary film ahoiit thR life of Sovifit J(;ws.. This', is intended as liropaganda ■for "the West to ^'stiil^'tht! outcry, against the plight of Russian Jews..
to the government or, at least, to a special joint body.
The executive of the Jewish Agency is accused of being resjponslble for the pres-/ eht staite of Aliya and emigration:'
■ It Is hard for the Jewish Agency to counterattack; 'it does not have an efficient public relations department. Meanwhile everyone tries to blame It, Thus what will;
become of the Jewish Agency? ...
Is there iny sense trying to Strengthen the Zionist Organization, or should the Jewish Agency be disbanded?. Under present conditions, it Is Impossible for the Agency to fulfill its obligations..
The issue will be brought up in all parties which are represented in the Agency. The new Israeli Labor Party . will discuss Pincus' applica-
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tion within the nextfewdays.
There is talk about creating a joint body of the government and the Agency to deiail with Aliya. and absorption problerfis while colonization affairs be trahsferred completely- to the government. ; Whatever the outcome of this unrest, members of the executive of the Jewish Agency hardly need be en-: vied..' ' '.
POLES APOLOGIZE
■ Haifa (JCNS). • Poland has apologised to Israel for its slight on Israeli sailors : iwheri' shore leave facilities last .summer were not granted to them when ■ their ship, LofTion Core, stopped ill Dan/ig. The Polish Sea-, men's Liniori, says this was ,,in ,isolatO(l-incident; defi-iiiltily Jib sli{jht bp. the sea-'men llii,'"'^''lvii'V,:.,;
rael's health spas (in Shefer' Zohar and Ein Geddi on the Dead Sea, in El Hamma and in Tiberias); companies to construct beach amenities, and others to supply daily entertainmerit for the tourists.
Kol defended night clubs -provided they maintain a respectable cultural level. An East Jerusalemite proposed opening a strip-tease joint inside the'Old City walls. The Minister's rejoinder. "Places of entertainment that fall below the standard we have fixed do not need our assistance."
Fiddler in icteries
Yohudi Mohuhin, the violinist, prays In tefillln at .Kfar Habad last week under the guidance of Rabbi Shiomo Ma-idanczlk. •
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