Vol. XXXIII, No. 7, SHEVAT 28i 5726       VANCOXJVEK, B.C., FR^       , i! EBRUARY 18, 1966
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Abba Ehan concludes talks
in Washington and Ottawa
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MR. ABBA EBAN, newly-apppinted Foreign Minister of Israel (left), is shown with the Prime n^nister of Canada, the Hon. Lester B. Pearson, durihg: informal discussions here last weekend.
OTTAWA — Israel's Foreign Minister, Abba Eban^ conferred here last weekend with Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and Foreign Minister Paul Martin on matters of mutual concern to the two countries.
Israeli-Canadian relations and Middle East and inter-Digesl!   national problems ^ were high on the
the   list,   as Mr. ' Eban reviewed with Canadian Government officials the policies of the Great Powers in the Mid-' die Eastern area and United Nations affairs. He also discussed with his Canadian hosts the U.N. , Emergency Force's role in the Middle East. Canada has a large contingent in this force.
Canadian Jewish leaders met as well with Mr. Eban when Am-jbassador  Gershon   Avner tendered a luncheon for the Israeli Foreign Minister.
While in Ottawa for a two-day visit; Mr. Eban also met the Hon.
Jean-Luc Pepin, Acting Minister of Trade and Conmierce, as well as senior officials of the Departments , concerned, for informal talks. Mr. Eban left Ottawa for talks in London with British officials including the British Foreign Secretary. He arrived back in Israel this week.
The Israeli Foreign Minister had flown to Ottawa following a visit In the United States during which President Lyndon B. Johnson received hun at the White House. The meeting was attended' by Avraham Harman, Israeli Ambassador to the United States; by Robert Komer, President Johnson's deputy special a.ssistant; and by Eph-raim Evron, a Minister at the Israeli Embassy.
It was reported by an Israeli Embassy spokesman that President Johnson and Mr. Eban reviewed a number of international questions  of  common concern
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TEL AVIV—At her first; press conference following acceptance of her new post as Mapai Party general secretary, Mrs. Golda Meir stated that members of two dissident groups of former party members, Ben-Gurion's Rafi and Lavon's Min Hayesod, woi^ld be welcome to return to party ranks.
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TEL AVTV — Former Foreign Minister Golda Meir is in the United States on a 10-day visit for the Israel Bond campaign.
Strike epidemic
TEL AVIV—In three months since November Knesset elections, 72 strikes have broken out in Israel involving 47,500 workers which exceeds total number of strikers in the entire year of 1964.
New daily
TEL AVIV — A new daily, "Hayom", supporting Herut-Lib-eral bloc, began publication in Tel Aviv, replacing the J^ormer two dailies "Habdker" and "He-rut", Editorial staff includes Peretz Bernstein, Menahem Begin, Joseph Saphir and Eliezer Livneh.
remarkable family dud
The Vancouver Jewish Community will salute a distinguished Father and Daughter on March 1> at the Annual Negey Dinner of the Jewish National Fund.
Recipients of this year's honor are Mr. Harry Frome and his daughter, Mrs. Cecil Groberman.
Mr. Frome has worked actively in all Jewish causes throughout the years, and has been a pipneer in the building of the British
Columbia Jewish Community. He has lent his talents and efforts in the furtherance of Jewish life and Jewish values in Western Canada.
Marjorie Groberman is known nationally and internationally for her efforts on behalf of Ha-dassah, and the rescue and life-saving work which that organization does. She has the distinction of being a member of the
national executive of Hadassah^ and holds the portfolio of na-(Continued on Page 5) See NEGEV DINNER
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AZARETH—This city, where Christ grew up an^ where He lectured to the rabbis at the age of twelve, today is the stronghold of an Arab population, largely Communist. Though citizens of Israel, they are generally critical of the Israeli government.
When I talked about this with the former mayor of Nazareth, Seif Eddine Zubi, I found that his wife had a brother and. a cousin in the cabinet of Jordan just across the boundary. Both the ex-mayor and his wife were very pro-Israel. But only six weeks 4g() the mayor had been defeated for re-election by his cousin, who had teamed up with the Communist party.   Both the Conununists and the cousin were elected.
When I talked to ex-Prime Minister Beh-Gurion as \ to how there could be peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors, he repUed: '*When'Russia and the; United States decide there will, be peace. They have been sending arms, to the Near East, and any time they get together they can bring peace to us."
This is true. Furtherinore, the amount of arms sent by the Russians to Egypt and the amount of arms sent by the United^tates to nearby Jordan and Saudi Arabia is so great that Israel faces somewhat the same situation as it did in 1956, when, threatened
HABEY FROME
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MRS. CEC^ GROBERMAN ' .