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NEW VORk — Ah American, who was the only rabbi to be present at Vatican II presided over by the last two Popes, said recently that their successor, Pope John Paul I, "will be good for the Jews."
Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, national inter-religious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee, explained his remark by saying that the former Cardinal Albino Luciani "possesses the warm touch of Pope John XXIII and the practical wisdom of Pope Paul Vl."
The 65-year-old Luciani, who was Patriarch of Venice until his surprise election by his fellow Cardinals as
the 263rd Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, selected a name that was apparently intended to signify he intended to continue the work of his two predecessors
"In recent years as Card inalof Venice, Pope John Paul made several statements in which he expressed his great respect for the Jewiish people and the Jewish religion," Tanenbaum said. "It remains to be seen ais to how he will translate his positive attitudes towards the Jewish community into policies toWard Israel and, in particular, toward Jerusalem " Tanenbaum noted that the
AJGommittee Tooks forward to "an early opportunity for establishing a dialogue oh all questions and particularly to promoting peace ^ between Israel and her Arab neighbors."
The director general of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, the Israeli Ambassador to Italy, and the Embassy Minister for Religious Affairs were part of the Israeli ■ delegation attending the coronation ceremony of the new Pope. Israeli government officials said the deiegatibn Was larger than previously because of improved relations with the Vatican. ;
Jewish circles followed the papal election with great ^interest. They have expressed the hope that the program of cautious renewal outlined by the new Pope in his first spee;ch to the cardinals does not imply any slowing down or shelving of the revision of the Roman Catholic Church's attitude to Judaism and the Jews, set in motion by the 1965 Ecumenical Council and fostered by Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul Vl. -
His confirmation in office of all the; high-ranking members of the (Cdntinued on page 4) see POPE
POPE JOHN PAUL I
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BEGIN TO VISIT CANADA
JiKUSALEM Prime Minister Menachiem Begin will fiay an official visit to Canada in the autumn, the government said. Begin will stay in Canada threjf or four' days. Thc.Brime Minister will be. ^he highest ranking Israeir official to visit Cana-^ da to date. Yigal A«on,.tljeii, Foreign ^Minister, paid an
paid.a,private visit to Israel in August I9'?6:
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f^gPNTREAL ^ The first legal appeal oh behalf of. imprisoned Soviet, Jewish activist^ Anatoly Sharansky was launched recently in Ottawa,
A IfOOCTrpa^e ddcument^contain-;ing material lebuttin^ evidence given
Which iVak abcepted.by, an fenibassy official^'was addressed to the Procurator-General of the Soviet ^nion. . . ' J , >
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AMSTERDAM — Jan Kru^^er, a havingtaken part as a member of an Dutch war criminal, who has been in SS commando group in the killing of hidmg in West Germany for more numerous Dutch citizens in reprisal than 25 years, was arrested by a ' Dutch customs inspector as he tried to enter the country at The Netherlands --West German border town of Venlo.
The" arrest followed a tip to authorities by a Dutch reporter;
Kruyer, 62yhad been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by a Dutch de-Nazification court in 1947 for
Irwin Cotler, a professor of law at rulfe of feiw compels Sharansky's McGill university, who is represent- release,??,Cotler said, ing Avital Sharansky and in whose ,,Cotier. who appeared atthe press name he delivered the document, .conference with Mis. Sharansky, ^old a. press conference in the capital' saiii he was under no illusion that the thatthe^ocumenrisanappealtotfte' SoVief Union would respond to the
hoped that.^.the
prdcedurallaws during the proceed- I3-|^if>":Jail: :?atid. prison canip
. senfence and free Sharansky.
>**The action is designed to ineet the Mrs, Sharansky* who has many Soviets on their own ground and-is relative^ iiii Canada, inet with several mtended to demonstrate that the governmeiitt. officials, including
Justice Minister Otto Lang and
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ECONOMY WORSENS
JERUSALEM The Cabinet will hold a special meeting Sept. 17 to discuss Israel's worsening economic situation.
MEIRIMPROVEO
JERUSALEM — Former Premier Golda Meir, hospitalized at Hadass^h Medical Centre for back pains, was reported in slightly improved condition.
PUN RENOVATIONS
JERUi^ALEM^ Egyptian architects will , be arriving in Jerusalem jn coming weeks to initiate
Terrorist attack from sea foiled
JERUSALEM — An attempt to mount an Arab terrorist attack On Israel from the sea was foiled by the
Multiculturalism Minister Norman Calik arid. Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Thideau.
The Prime Minister assured her that Canada has renewed its offer to the Soviet Union to grant immigrant
VISITS LATIN AMERICA
TEL AVlV^-r Histadrut Secretary-General Yeruham Meshel leh for a 2'/$ week visit of foiir Latin American countries as.guest of local trade unions.
for the deaths of Germans by members of Dutch resistance groups,
Kruyer, who had been active in the province of Groniiigen in the northeast part of Holland, was serving his prison sentence near the West German border when in 1952 he managed to escape over the border.
Israel trom the sea was foiled by the soviet union to grant immigrant Asg f Smfl nn«» aIBbI a
Israeli Navy. Two terrorists carrying status to Sharansky if he is released pPSSWMe
and permitted Canada.
to emigrate to
explosives, who had set out from Lebanon; were intercepted by an Israeli coastal patrol off Rosh Hanikra, on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
Nearly 20 attempted terrorist bomb attacks have been reported in of Labor Alignment, chairman of Israel during recent weeks, all of Knesset Education committee, anthem averted by alert members of the nounced his resignation froin the public. JCNS. Knesset.
Resliiis 1mm Krosset
JERUSALEM — Aharon Yad|in
JERUSALEM - There are hopes that )i new oilfield has been found in the southern part of the Gulf of ' Suez, some three miles from the Alma field, which is already being exploited by Israel. The four Alma wells are now yielding if,330 tons of oil a day.
GULAG RECORD
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OFFICIAL DEDICATION of Talmud Torah Beit HadMidrash Sept. 5 drew standing roorri tjnly QWdi MoE^^ i. seen before the open ark during the event, which dedicated the new fecility in>onoMhis s^, R^^^
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