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Sam Belzberg, chairman of the Combined Jewish Appeal; Men's Division,.-has announced that prominent scholar and Israeli dignitary. Dr. Aiyeh Nesher, will conduct a' Canvasser's Clinic for the whole community this weekend. "
The event, under auspices of the CJA Men's Division, is scheduled for Sunday, March 27, 7 p.m. at Beth Israel auditorium.
Mr. Belzberg stated: "Dr. Nesher's visit could be regarded as a scoop for Vancouver. We expect an enthusiastic turn-out for this function".
Dr. Aryeh Nesher is currently posted in the United States on a special mission serving as the representative of the Prime Minister of Israel. In Israel, he has been elected vice-president of the University of Haifa. -
At the outbreak of World War n. Dr. Nesher, then a young economics student at University of Chemowitz in his native Rumania, became an active under-
ground fighter when the Nazis occupied his city and established a, Jewish ghetto. Posing as a German officer he helped fight the Nazi war machine in Rumania, sabotaging bridges, plants and railroad installations. He was arrested twice, but managed to escape each time.
Toward the end of the war, Nesher made his way to the American Military Zone in Germany and became a driving force in the work of organizing the broken and displaced Jewish survivors of Nazi terror and resettling them in. Palestine.
After the war, he became one of the leaders of the Jewish dis-^ placed persons as general secretary of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Military Zone in Germany.
In 1948, he joined the Ministry of Labor as an assistant in economic affairs -and later worked as' a scientific advisor with the economic advisory staff of the Prime Blister's office.
In 1948, as fighting raged in Israel, Dr. Nesher arrived in the newborn State, tc^ether with his wife, and they both joined the Israel armed forces.
In 1950, he joined the Ministry of Labor as an assistant in economic affairs and later worked as a scientific advisor with the ecmiomic advisory staff of the Prime Minister's office.
In 1965, Dr. Nesher also held the post of executive-director of aierut La'am (Service to the People), the Peace Corps-type program for Israel.
Known to many North Americans for his speeches in behalf of the United Jewish Appeal, Bonds, etc.. Dr. Nesher served as : a consultant in human relations to the Govenunent of Israel and the Jewish Agency.
In addition; he is former lecturer at the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics and is a member of the staff of the Afro-Asian Institute. ^
OR. ARYEH NESHER
SHABBAT SHALOM—THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1977~-NISAN 5, 5737
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JERIJSALEM — Sephardic Chief lUbbi Ovadia Yosef hasl; Jssued a stern and solemn"^ warning to all Jeiys ,tQ,.steer. i clear ,of ^gura-^orsliip„aitd^ triuiscendefital m^ditatioh/ In ^ a statement, the Chief Rabbi li^^yf^rs :and:>fedupatbrs| to ensure that;young^^eopleI did not fall for the blandish-;; ments of propagators'of these I faiths "which smack of idolatry." Continuing; ^Ybsefi noted: "To our heart's sorrow thousands of innocent Jews have been drawn by these sects to alien beliefs which run contrary to the beliefs of our'holy Torah . .
NEW YORK — Rabbi Meir Kahane, JDL founder and head of the new Israeli party, Kach (Thus), announced he is launching a nationwide drive to organize a group called Af Sha'al (Not . One Inch) dedicated to opposing any Israeli attempt to give up '*tilie liberated lands of Eretz Yisroel."
tead of the United Na onment Prograini ^,^nep) has ^ promised to help ensure, that Israel is not barred from an international environment conference to be held in the Soviet Union in October.
Dr. V Uii MarinQv, head of Israel's Environmental Protection Service, said that the pledge . was made to him by Dr. Mustafa Tolba, executive-director of Unepj during the recent conference held in Split, Yugoslavia on pollution of the Mediterranean.
"He' said that Unep would not sign a contract for the conference to be held there unless assured that all countries could participate." The inter-governmental conference on environmental education is to be held in Tblisi, (Georgia.
Marinov said he had broached the subject during a long and frutiful meeting he had held with Tolba on environmental matters. He described the Egyptian, a niicrorbiologist, as '*a very competent man."
Unillge the«JUibitat.vCoisferd&ce in : Vancouver last June, 'wrhich ,^rab .partic^ants turned;.^to a , ;i>itter ahti-IsraeLforumt, the Split '^conference was a model of civili^^ Marinov said. Four Arab counties were' represented and there' was no mention of politics. Marinov said he talked with'Arab delegates informallyduring social get-togethers.
An international convention signed in, Barcelona last year conunitting Mediterranean basin countries to combat pollution of the sea marked the first time, Marinov said, that Arab states had signed such an international agreement without stipulating reservations aboutvlsrael's participation as a signatory. -
The Split conference allocated $1.5m for the crieation of a long-range scientific program to combat pollution in thejifediterranean.
Israe^^p^^ its own rjBcently: eomi^^pl^psm master plan, as\^':ȣadel ^for Mediterranean countries.,' , seeking to develop coastel tourism facilities while preserving the environment.
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TEL AVIV—LudvinnaJanssen,
24-year-old Dutch i^rl who was
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BUEIOfOS AIRES — The DAIA (the central Jewish community council) expressed great satisfaction with the government's decree banning the distribution; circulation; and sale of all publications of Ediciones Odal, the leading disseminator of Nazi and anti-Semitic literature in Argentina.
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BONN—A former SS officer accused of participating in the deportation and murder of numerous French Jews has been deprived by a court in Oldenburg, north Germany, of his right to prctise as a lawyer. The action against Hans-Dietrich Emstj wartime regional commander of the Germany Security ¥ervice and Security Police in France, followed representations by the French anti-T^azi lawyer,. Serge Klarsfeld.
Ernst was sentenced to death' four times by French courts, in absentia.' The sentences were not recognized by West Germany although the Cologne State prosecutor is currently investigatuig Ernst's wartime activity. A spokesman for the Oldenburg court said the court assumed that Ernst, because of his senior position, was responsible: for the deportation of elderly people and children and_ others to various concentration camps.
TEL AVIV^ An explosive charge
was thrown at an IsraeU border
police patrol in main street of
Nablus but it failed to go off. * * *
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JERUSALEM EveripidCs D. Bfichaelides/ director of Cyprus Afforestetion department, and Otto Freiherr von Grotthuss, German afforestation advisor to Cypriot government, were recently in Israel, visiting development and afi'orestetion projects of Jewish National Fund.
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Three Soviet scientists currently in Vancouver were given the opportunity March 14 to deliver parcels of Passover matzos to Jewish scientists in Russia, rand refused to do so on the grounds that it was a political -act;, The Soviet Union recently issued a ban on the importation of matzos.
The refusal took place during an encounter at the H.R. MacMillan Planetarium between three Russian space technicians and a delegation of 15 demonstrators.
Leading, the demonstration were: Rabbi A. Cooper, chairman of the Vancouver Soviet Jewry Action Conunittee; John Fraser^ pr<nninent Conservative Member-4>f-Parliament for Vancouver Southland Charles Paris, director of the Canadian Council of Chris-ians'and Jews.
David Hurd, project coordinator of the Russian space exhibit "Kosmos '77", approached the
delegation who were wearing buttons with the words: "Freedom for Soviet Jews". Hurd explained that "Kosmos '77" was non-pol-
itical, but would allow politici-zation outside the exhibit.
The group had three wrapped onerpound packages of matzos with proper customs and postal forms; addresses and postage to present to the V Soviet scientists inside.-
Outside, ^at .11 a.m.. Rabbi Cooper read a text before the media, prepared by the Soviet Jewry Action Conmiittee.
A GBC rcfiorter asked Cooper why the delation specifically schose the three: activists which it had, to which the Rabbi replied: .because they are under threat of death."
The delegaticHi proceeded inside where their presence was noticed by some of the mamerous students visiting the exhibit. Several interested onlookers gathered around the delegation as it aiHitroached the information table.
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