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II, No. 26, SIVAN 20, 5719
VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1959,
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Late news briefs
....hELI MAYORS CRITICIZED FOR ATTENDING BERLIN CONFERENCE
(COMPILED FROM DISPATCHES)
JERUSALEM—The issue of attendance by Israel municipal officials of the West Berlin meeting of International Union of Municipal authorities was raised in the Knesset this week. It was decided to hold a general debate on the question.
Last week the city council of Jerusalem voted 10 to 9 to refuse permission for Mayor Gershon Agron to attend the West Berlin conference. Several other Israeli mayors however, including Mordecai Alon of Benye-mina, Pinchas Rashish of Fetch Tik-vah and M. Zachar of Tiberias are attending the Berlin meetings along with one Israeli Arab community leader, Owa Issag.
In the Knesset, Israel Rokach, a General Zionist member expressed sharp criticism against the mayor
of Petach Tikvah for going to Berlin. He charged
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that Mayor Rashish failed to bring the matter before his own city council in fear that he would be prevented from going. Mr. Rokach questioned the propriety of any Israeli participating in any conference in Germany.
MOROCCAN JEWS WARlNfED AGAINST EMIGRATION AND ZIONIST TIES
PARIS—^A Moroccan political leader has told the Jews in his country that they must become "integrated completely in the Moroccan nation." AUal el Fas-si, conservative wing leader of the Istiqlal Party has issued a press statement warning the Jews that they should not "have one leg.here and the other one with the Zionists who drove out the Arabs" from Palestine.
This statement was apparently made in response to a letter froni an anonymous group of Jews asking for help for some Jews who were arrested on their way to Israel on the charge of having false passports. According to el Fassi's statement the letter asks intervention in behalf of the detainees and suggests that the affinity of Jews to Israel is the same as that of Moslem Arabs to Mecca.
Pointing out that the authorities concerned have denied the charge that some of the detained Jews were tortured, the statement goes on to declare "that commerce in Morocco is a monopoly in the hands of Jews, who use their activities m local political associations (to ingratiate) them-
Many
perfo
weH known artists to rm at Int'l Festival
Among the many renowned artists froni the world of music and drama who will be appearing at the Vancouver Internationa' Festival this summer there are quite a number of personalities who will be of special interest to readers of the Jewish. Western. Bulletin.
One of the best known of these artists is 2^ra Nelsova, the internationally known 'cellist who hails.from Winnipeg. Miss Nelsova has won special acclaim for her performances and recording of Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo," the outstanding example of a classical composition of, Jewish music.
Tj&xdi Nelsova will appear as guest artist at the new Vancouver Civic Auditorium in two symphony concerts under the baton of Walter Sus-%kind on Monday, July 20 and Tuesday, July 21. At the first concert Miss Nelsova will play the Dvor^ak •Cello Concerto. At the second concert she will join with another distinguished Canadian artist, violinist Betty-Jean Hagan of Edmonton, in a performance of the Brahms Double Concerto.
Walter Susskind is one of several distinguished symphonic conductors who will participate in the International Festival this year. Mr. Susskind has been the conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra since 1956, and formerly was conductor of the Scottish National Orchestra. Among the other conductors at the festival this year will be MDton Katims, conductor of the Seattle Symphony since 1954, and Irwin Hoffman, conductor of the Vancouver Symphony; LLOYD BOCHNER IN DRAMA
On the drama side of the festival one of the better known personalities coming here is Lloyd Bochner who has achieved an outstanding reputation for his work with the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Ontario, and is also one of the top actors in
selves with the officials in charge of issuing commercial licenses."
The. Isfiqial leader affirms justice for everybody as a matter of principle but adds: ^as to allowing Jews to act as agents for foreign countries, no one could tolerate such a state of affairs, even from the standpoint of justice and even if It were for the benefit of a Jewish state. The statement emphasizes that Morocco has not extended recognition to the state of brael, *at Is therefore the duty of all citizens to maintain no ties whatsoever with ^ the state of IsraeP. The parallel between Israel and Mecca is called "inaccurate" since the latter "is in fact a religious centre of pilgrimage, whereas the immigrants to Israel come as settlers to bolster the number of those whom Ben Gurion is mobilizing to attack the Arab states as he did, with the collaboration of France and Britain, in the Sinai campaign."
After emphasizing the need for the complete integration of the Moroccan Jews in the Moroccan nation and warning against ties with the Zionists, the statement concludes^ "In spite o: all they did, we ask the authorities to treat tfiem according to law and justice. We assume that the majority of Jews are in full agreement with us, and only in .the. .eyes of foreign agents does non-encouragement of emigration look like persecution".
DOMESTIC ECONOMY IMPROVES BUT FOREIGN DEBT GROWS
UNITED NATIONS — The domestic economy of Israel is becoming stronger, but at the same time its official debt in foreign exchange is increasing. This
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Canadian television. Mr. Bochner will take one of the main roles in the play "Mary Stuart" which opens July 28.
Lloyd Bochner has also written for television and radio and has served as an overseas correspondent for the CBC. When he concludes his engagement in Vancouver Mr. Bochner wDl eave for Israel to gather material for CBC's "Project 60." SUPERVISOR OF MUSICAL EVENTS
Among local personalities playing an important part in the festival this summer is George Zukerman, who las been named contractor for the Festival Orchestra and supervisor of all musical events for the Festival. Mr. Zukerman has been principal bassoonist with the Vancouver Symphony since 1954. He is also the bunder and musical director of the Cassenti Players, a wind ensemble which has become well known locally as well as to thd .national radio audience. Mr. Zukerman will lead the Cas-(Continued on poge 8)
was disclosed last weekend in a [report issued by the United Nations on "Economic Developments in the Middle East: 1957-58."
Israel's industrial output rose by 11 per cent in 1957, compared with the previous year. Employment in industry rose about four per cent in 1957 and five per cent in 1958. Worker productivity has also risen.
In agriculture, in spite of drought conditions, there has also been an increase in output, amounting to 12 per cent in 1958 over 1957.
At the same time Israel's cost of living rose by 27 points from 1954 to 1958. However, in food consumption Israel is far better off than Egypt, for example.
U.S. UJA RAISES $38 MILLIONS IN CASH
NEW YORK —The 1959 United Jewish Appeal campaign in United States has raised a mid-year total of $38,150,000 m cash against pledges it was announced last weekend by Melvin Dubinsky, UJA national cash chairman, at the close of the UJA's mid-year conference.
Mr. Dubinsky said, "this sum rep-
taomg to London.''
MICHAEL S. COMAY, who served qs Israel's first ambassador to Canada is now reported to be in line for appointment' as the next ambassador to the United Kingdom. Mr. Comay has been serving with the Foreign Office in Israel since completing his term of office in Canada.
resents one of the greatest amounts of cash raised and delivered in the first six months of any UJA campaign of recent years." He added, however, that "It is only half of what is required in view of the vast needs which continue for hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have come to Israel in recent years, and tens of thousands of Jews in need in 24 countries of Europe and Moslem lands."\The conference called for $75,000,000 in cash funds by the end of 1959.
DAG'S NEW PLAN FOR ARAB REFUGEES
UNITED NATIONS — UN Secretary General Dag Hanuner-skjold has come out in favor of a plan to integrate Arab refugees in the economic life of the Middle
ISRAELnJORDAN JOIN TO FIGHT LOCUSTS
JERUSALEM—A jomt campaign to fight a locust plague has been started by Israel and Jordan following an agreement reached at a meeting of the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission.
Teams of Israeli and Jordanian anti-locust fighters have synchronized their activities along the border for around-the-clock operations. By daylight Israeli and Jordanian planes are to join in spraying operations in affected areas along the border.
TUNISIA PRESIDENT MEETS JEWS
TUNIS—President Habib Bourg-hiba met Tunisian Jewish representa--tives this week who came to thank him for government aid. The president expressed his understanding for the internal problems of the Jewish population arid voiced a hope for continued understanding between Tunisian Moslems and Jews.
Bourghiba recently directed municipal authorities at Sousse to provide a special subsidy of 500 dinar for the support of Jewish religious education in that community. He acted in response to an appeal by the Jewish community president Isaac Hayat.
Visitors welcome at new Home for Aged
Driving through the beautiful district around the new Jewish Home for the Aged at 54th and Oak Street last Sunday, a number of people stopped and took a look around.
Abe Wosk, president of the Home conducted the visitors through the nearly completed structure and he will be there next Sunday, June 28 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. to receive others who would like to view its progress. All who have seen it so far are most impressed by the beauty of its design and surrdundings.
"When the Home is finally ready to be occupied it will contain everything of the best in furniture and equipment", says Mr. Wosk. Latest applications from other parts of Canada have come from Moose Jaw, Prince Albert, Calgary and Edmonton. Local applications are being received at the old Home, 1190 W. 13th Avenue every Monday night from 8 to 10 p.m.
A report on the campaign will appear shortly in the Bulletin.
East* while continuing the program of United Nations relief for them.
Mr. Hammarskjold made this pro-(Contlnued on page 8) '
Expect top nuclear scientists dt Stoeicholm WJ Congress
transfer a major part of the World Jewish Congress headquarters from New York City to Geneva.
JUNIOR UJA THIS SUNDAY
The big day is approaching— Junior UJA is set for Sunday, June 28.
All youth interested in canvassing and/or driving are invited to attend the Junior UJA breakfast in the Community Centre Lodge Hall at 10:00 a.m. Youth Groups who are now canvassing their groups are asked to bring in their contributions and donations as soon as possible.
JERUSALEM (WJA) —Two nuclear physicists of international standing,have accepted the invitation to address the World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly in Stockholm next August on the subject of international cooperation in nuclear affairs, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Congress President, announced here. They are Professor Isidor I. Rabbi of the United States and Professor Amos de Shalit of the Weizmann Institute in Rehovoth. Replies are still awaited from Professor Niels Bohr, the Danish Nobel Prize Physicist, and from a "famous Russian scientist".
Two Moslems, one from Tunisia and one from Morocco, and a Polish representative- are among the non-Jewish speakers invited to address the Plenary Assembly on the subject "of "Cultural Pluralism", the right of minorities to pursue their own way of life. Professor Martin Buber will speak for Israel if his health permits him to attend. A symposium on "Israel and the World" which is to form part of the Plenary Assembly, meeting in the Swedish Parliament from August 2-12 will be addressed by Moshe Sharett, former Foreign Minister of Israel, and Professor Sale Baron, of Columbia University.
Reorganisation of the World Jewish Congress would also be an im portant topic of the Assembly. This will include a discussion of plans to
EAST EUROPEAN REPRESENTATION
As regards representation of East European Jewry at the Assembly— the last of which was held in Geneva in 1953 Dr. Goldmann said the Hungarian Jewish community was a mil member of the World Jewish Congress and Poland had been invited to send observers. Delegates from ten Jewish communities in the Soviet Union had been invited to participate and "some Russian diplomats are trying to persuade the Soviet authorities to permit their attendance."
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