ARABS SEEN OUTNUMBERING JEWS IN NORTHERN ISRAEL
Friday, August 3, 1973—THE BULLETIN—7
JERUSALEM — A report prepared for the ministry of interior predicts that the Arab population will exceed the Jewish population in northern Israel within the next few years.
The report, prepared by Eliezer Brutzkus, an architect, was recently published in a planning quarterly.
According to the projection, the present population ratio of 53.6 percent Jewish to 46.4 percent non-Jewish in the north will be reversed in a few years as a result of a steady Jewish exodus from that region and the relatively small number of new immigrants settling there.
Brutzkus' projections are based on estimated Israeli population of five million by 1991 of which
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4.180 million will be Jews and 820,000 Arabs.
The projection covers only Israel proper and the areas of Jewish settlement in the administered territories where Israeli law applied.
The Jewish population is expected to rise by 58 percent and the Arab population by 79 percent but there will be a substantial drop in the annual rate of natural increase among the Arab population from 3.9 to 2.6 percent, Brutzkus said.
The Jewish rate of increase is expected to drop but to a smaller degree.
Brutzkus' report anticipates major growth for Jerusalem but a decline of population in Tel Aviv where the trend is to move to the suburbs.
U.S. loans Israel $845M since 1971
JERUSALEM — The Director-General of Israel's Finance Ministry disclosed that since September 1971, the United States has extended credits to Israel for military and other procurements, amounting to $845 million.
According to the Ministry spokesman, it is expected that an additional credit of $700 million for the same purposes will be negotiated in due course.
The first $350 million credit was for 20 years at three percent annual interest. The balance of $495 million in credits were for 10 years at six percent interest.
Apart from the above, Israel received an assistance grant of $50 million from the U.S. Government in 1972.
Polish Jews' priceless archives, institutions "left to decay"
NEW YORK — A scene of desolation and neglect of the once-thriving Polish-Jewish community, with institutions and priceless archives left to dacay, profoundly shocked a visiting party of American Jews to Poland.
Their feelings were summed up by Mrs. Irene Fantus, of Chicago, who said in an interview on their return to the United States:
"Nothing had really prepared us for the sense of loss we experienced. We had never realized how rich the Jewish culture of Poland had been."
For Mrs. Fantus, vice-chair-m.an of the women's division of the United Jewish Appeal's young leadership development movement, the visit to witness the remnants of Jewish life in Poland was to understand fully the meaning of the term "Judenrein."
The party of 37 UJA lay leaders in the 30-50 age group from several parts of the United States felt that they were in a hostile environment in Poland.
"When we visited the stone monument on the site of Mila 18 (the nerve-centre of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943), teenagers playing there sniggered at us," Mrs. Fantus said.
The party met no Polish Jews aged under 60 years and it found that the Warsaw Jewish community building had been recently desecrated by the painting of a swastika on the wall.
The visitors also learnt that there were plans to demolish the
Warsaw Jewish cemetery because the Polish authorities considered it was a suitable site for a high-rise apartment block.
Howard Stone, executive-director of UJA's young leadership division, spoke of the sorrow of the group when visiting the Jewish Historical Institute archives next to the Warsaw synagogue. "We found that priceless historical records, such as Emanuel Ringelbaum*s diaries, the minutes of meetings of a sixteenth-century congregation and a Hebrew account of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, were disintegrating, the pages turning yellow and crumbling," he said.
"There are cartons of material just sitting there, diaries, ledgers lists of destroyed towns and names of victims gathering dust and falling apart," Mike Pelavin, a lawyer from Flint, Michigan, declared.
"No one is taking care of it and it should be sent to Yad Vashem ( the Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem) or another institution where it can be copied and sorted," he added.
The visitors found the historic Twarda Street synagogue in Warsaw nearly in ruins and the few remaining synagogues in the Polish capital and in Cracow in dilapidated condition.
The elderly Jews still in Poland meet in 10 kosher canteens in different parts of the country which are maintained by funds contributed by outside Jewish organizations.
Inertia and a feeling that their lives are over are the main characteristics of these Jews. Many said that they had children in Israel but they would not go themselves because "they had nothing to offer the young country."
Don Gould, a pharmaceutical exporter from Albany, New York, said that the elderly JPolish Jews were surprised to meet their young Jewish visitors "who were com-mited to Judaism."
One elderly woman was moved to declare: "Remember always that you are Jewish. Stay proud, stay strong, stay free."
The most poignant part of the American party's tour was a visit to the Jewish pavilion at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps.
There not a single word of Hebrew or Yiddish was found and a souvenir counter inside sold "Auschwitz" pennants.
The Soviet-made film shown at the camp where millions of Jews were murdered by the Nazis carefully tries to de-Judaise its gruesome history, the group reported.
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her handbag blew up. "ftie aircraft's chief steward, who was standing near her at the time, was blown to the floor by the blast and injured.
Meanwhile, the hijackers announced that they had seized the jumbo and would hold the passengers and crew hostage until Israel released Kozo Okamoto, the Japanese responsible for the Lod massacre in May, 1972, who is in prison in Israel.
"We are Palestinian commandoes and members of the Japanese Red Army," the hijackers announced. (The Japanese Red Army is the group to which Okamoto belonged.)
On July 21 the airliner landed at Dubai, on the Persian Gulf, having first flown to Basra in Iraq, where it could not land because the runway there is too small. It also overflew Bahrein, byt was refused permission to land there.
The hijackers said that they were awaiting orders from "headquarters" and gave a number of different names of the organization to which they claimed to belong. One was "Sons of the Occupied Territories Organization." Another was "The Martyrs of Mount Carmel."
On July 22, they demanded fuel and enough for three hours' flying was put aboard the jumbo.
Some 24 hours later, the hijackers demanded more fuel and threatened to blow up the airliner unless it was supplied. It was supplied. The demand came some 90 minutes after a message from West Germany had been relayed to the hijackers by the control tower.
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Then, on the evening of July 23, having in the meantime allowed the injured chief steward to be taken to hospital, the hijackers demanded the coffin containing the remains of their dead woman colleague, released an elderly Japanese couple and ordered the jumbo's Japanese pilot to take off.
The airliner first flew to Baghdad, but the Iraqis refused it permission to land. It continued its journey westwards and early on July 24 reached Damascus.
As it passed over Bahrein, i^uwait and Abu Dhabi on the way to Syria, the three small Arab countries closed their airports.
During the three hours or so that the airliner was at Damascus airport, the Syrian Def> ense Minister, General Mustafa Tlas, was reported to have appealed to the hijackers to release th^ir hostages. His request met with no response. Soon afterwards the airliner was refueled and took off again, still flying westwards, across Lebanon and then Cyprus.
Beirut's main airport closed down for the second time as soon as the airliner took off, and was. reopened an hour or so later.
Lod airport was put on full alert in case the hijackers tried 'to crash the airliner on an Israeli target in a suicide mission.
This was thought possible, not only because Arab terrorists have threatened to do this in the past, but because the hijackers had declared that the airliner had been renamed "Carmel" after they hijacked it.
Moshe Dayan, the Israeli Defense Minister, General David Elaz^r, the Chief of Staff, and Shlomo Hillel, the Minister of Police, spent all evening July 23 at Lod.
On July 24, leaders of all the {Arab terrorist organizations issued a statement in Beirut, where â– they had held a long meeting, denying that the hijackers were connected with them. They also
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