NEW BURMESE AMBASSADOR to IsraelyShweZan Aungv presenting his diplomatic credentials to President Yitzhak Navon in Jerusalem. (Jerusalem Post).
CARTER EXPECTED TO VISIT ISRAEL
JERUSALEM — ' President Jimmy Carter is expected to visit Israel and Egypt before the end, of 1978. His Israeli counterpart, Prest-dent Yitzhak Navon, will probably visit the U.S. in November.
In addition, 'British Prime Minister James Callaghan has accepted an invitation from Premier Menachem Begin, made at Heathrow airport recently, to visit Israel.
President Navon received an invitation from the U.S. Jewish community to visit that country, along with his wife Ofira, during a meeting with Max Fisher, chairman of the Jewish Agency board of governors. Navon will address the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, which will meet in San Francisco. The assembly will include-3,000 representatives of the Jewish communities in.the U.S., Canada, Europe and South Africa. Carter is expected to receive the Navons at the White House. Navon will also: visit other Jewish communities in the U.S. during.his first American tour since taking office. (Jerusalem Post)
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JERUSALEM — The consumer price index rose by 2.4. percent in July to 201.4 points double the average price level of 1976 — and exceeded the price increases in July in previous years.
Without further price increases by the government, price inflation between December 1977 and the end of the current year is thus likely te^ reach 38 percent, and the average price level of 1978 will be 43 percent above that of 1977; This is considerably more than the revised estimates of the treasury, whiph put inflation this year at 33 percent.
Spokesmen of the Central Bureau of Statistics; who released the data, saw the sharp increase as an indication of accelerating - inflation. The price level of July was 54 percent higher than in July 1977, and but for the end-of-season sales of clothing and footwear, the index would have risen still more.
The price increases spanned practically all expenditure items but were particularly sharp in the price of apartments and the cost of transportation.
Prices of apartments sold by private builders went up 30 per cent in the first half of 1978, compared with the second half of 1977, compared with the second, half of 1977. Those of public housing companies rose by 31 percent. Jerusalem topped the list, with prices
rocketing an average 46 percent. Tel Aviv followed with a 35 percent jump, while in the Dan area the average increase was 32 percent, in Haifa 29 percent, in the Sharon Plain 25 percent, in the Haifa Bay area 20 percent.
The average cost of a 3 1 /2 or 4-room apartment in Jerusalem '^as. IL786,000,^ compared'with about. IL500,000 in theTest of the country.-.
Bank of Israel deputy governor-Eliezer Shefer told'the BanKVad- / visory council that inflation will reach-40 percent by the end of the . year and that the central bank doubts whether the government is capable of restraining it.
Dr; Shefer said severe anti-inflation measures are needed.'i There is no sign that they are being taken, he said.
The deputy governor reviewed monetary developments and said that the infusion of cash into the economy continues at an average monthly rate of IL18.
Shefer also pointed to the moncr -tary expansion caused by the banking systemv Commercial credit had grown 45 percent in the first seven months of the year — an expansion clearly in excess of price inflation. The causes of this rapid growth are, among others, the rise of imports and the credits extended by the banks to customers who sign up for savings schemes.
♦ A London report says that U.S. economist Milton Freidman, in a letter to TTieTiwe*, took'issue with fellow American economist John-Kenneth Galbraith for saying that he ' was to blame for Israel's 30 percent inflation rate. Friedman said he had never been economic adviser to Prime Minister Begin. ' : The 1975 Noble Priie winner for ''^dOiiomicfs Ws rtplyirig^toa letter'' bi Prof.^GalbYaitb: ' " '
' Frifedrti^ Tsaid iMi duriiig i vViJit- • to Israel over a year ago, before ' Begin became Prime -Minister^ he had. publicly urged floating the Israelippund, eliminating exchange controls, reducing: . govemmeint^iv spending^ eliminating gradually all subsidies and controls, and in general relying on the free market to the fullest possible extent,
**My friends telK me that floating the Israel pound, and the associated reduction in exchange controls, are the only ^overtmient pplicy^^ctijons ■ that dorriBspdnd to my advice.-^ antf these measures seem to have been successful,** he said.
**Forthe rest my impression is that there has been littFe, if any, change in economic policy in Israel in .the directionthat I have urged, notalone for Israel but for the U.S. and the U.K. as well.'-' ^ (Jerusalem Post)
LONDON — The "enormous increase*! in anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union could not be happen-; ing without the consent or encouragement of the authorities, Arye Dulzin^ chairman of the World: Zionist Executive, said recently. He spoke to the press at the ineeting of the presidium of the second World Conference on Soviet Jewry.
Dulzin, noting the rise of anti-Semitism in Soviet literature and on radio and television, believes it is endangering not only Soviet Jewry
expected to reach 69 percent.
' If it reaches 80 percent, it will "kill the struggle for Soviet Jewry," Dulzin predicted. He described the increase in dropouts as "the g^cat calamity of the Jewish people,** and urged the leaders at the presidium- to take serious note of it.
Delegates to the presidium, who came from Israel, America, Latin America and Europe, were divided on the question of the 1980 Olympics and whether Jewish groups should
but Jewish communities t'hfoughouf campaign for their removal-from the world!* - ^ • ' ^ ^ ^ ' ^Moscow. Dulzin Said that, although ^Soviet'Russia' is. bebdmiilg the "he^did not believe in boycotts, he
centre of world anti-Semitic propaganda,*' he declared. "It is a danger for, the world and for .• : . democracy.]*
wanted to ensure that if the games were held in the Soviet capital, the rules of the International Olympic Committee were fully observed.
He said that not since the times of ^ particularly as far as Israelis were
Nazi Gernoanyhas; there been such a campaign of antirSemitism.
In addition to discussing the "endemic growth, of anti-Semitism and its deliberate instigation from above,** the presidiumalso debated
popcfrned;
' - Opening the conference. Lord Fisher of Camden, president of the British Board of Deputies^ said:; "Our campaign is not for an Increased quota biit for the right of
the growing . problem' of .Soviet. - :tevery-Jew to leave the Soviet Union dropouts at Vienna, which shprtly'^^if he so wishes.** (Jerusalem Post).
BUENOS AIRES — An Argentine newspaper has suggested that the country's best-known newspaper publisher and editor, Jacobo TimermaUi is being held under house arrest in order to appease the country's anti-Semites.
"This idea should be scurrilous," said the English-language Buenos Aires Herald in an editorial,/"but in the absence of anything better it must be considered."
Timerman's newspaper. La Opinion was considered by the government as "its main opponent. Timerman was arrested on orders of-the miliary junta but a military court was unable to sustain any charge against him in October 1977.
He reamined in prison, however, until April, 1978, when he was
placed under house arrest. The Supreme Court found in July that there .were no grounds for his detention and that hehad been held without justiflcation since his arrest. The Government has ignored this ruling.
Timerman, whose newspaper has been taken over by the government; with an Army colonel in charge of its editorial content, now lives with three policemen in his apartment 24 hours-arday, and more in the street, outside.-
Prptests have been made atout his continued detention by governments s around the world, including those of the United States and Israel, and also by"^ a host of organizations, Jewish and non-Jewish. AH have been to no avail. JGNS.
Withhold sanction of Asian Games
BANGKOK - The International Amateur Athletics Federation (lAAF) has withheld sanction of the eighth Asian Games because of the exclusion of Israel, an lAAF official said here. IAAF president Adriaan Pauler, who was here on a two-day visit, said: "We've not licensed the games because one of our members, the Amateur Athletics Association of Israel, has not been invited to participate. Israel,, as a member of the I AAF, has a right to participate in games that are sanctioned by the lAAF; Otherwise they can rightly protest," he added. He also said he would propose reconsidering the decision t exclude Israel from the Asian games in December.
(Jerusalem Post)
MENACHEM BEGIN, Prime Minister of Israel, receives is shofar handcrafted M Israel froRs Shragai Cohen, national direstoir of tbngregational and rabhinie actSvIties of State of Israel Bonds; There Mrerel,2G0 synagogues throughout U;S. and Canada which participated in the Israel Bond High Holy Day campaign and they received as an award, a shofar with a special inscription, to commemorate the Bond appeaL