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Tzur is charged
wifh 18 counts of theft, bribery
TEL AVIV [JTA]— An 18-count indictment. ' ■■, including charges of bribery, embezzlement, fraud tnd theft of some $18 million, including personal bribery of some S2 million. was presented in TelLAviv district court against Michael Tzur, a leading Israeli industrialist.
Michael Tzur
He faces a possible sentence of up to 10 years. His trial, for which the date was not set. will be held before a panel, of three district judges. Tzur 'has been general director of the Israel Corporation, chairman of the board of the Zim Shipping Co. and chairman of the board ot the Haifa refineries.
The charges, covering the period of 1970-74. are listed in legal terms as theft by a public servant, receiving bribes, violating confidence and embezzlement, and receiving money under false pretenses in grave circumstances.
Tzur also was accused of violating foreign currency regulations. According to the charge sheet. Tzur accepted a $1.5 million bribe in one case and the equivalent of $1,4 million in German marks from an investors group that invested in the Israel Corpo-, ration, allegedly to'get inexpensive finaMiflg from Tzur for their investments.
Tzur was charged with using the bribe funds to form a Vaduzian corporation which in turn invested funds in the Israel Corporation then headed by Tzur. He also was charged with having received a bribe of $130,000 fix)m an Israeli agent of an Italian shipyard. According to the indidment, Tzur so manipulated matters in his capacity as Zim chairinan, that Zim ordered two container ships in the
Italian shipyards represented by the agent who allegedly bribed Tzur. Tzur also was accused of receiving a bribe of $15,000 from Tiber Rosen-baum of Switzerland allegedly to persuade a foreign firm to invest $6 million in one of Rosen-baum's Vaduzian corporations. The prosecution charged that the listing of the capital invested by Tzur for the Zim and the refineries by the Rosen-baum corporation was to produce interest which allegedly was registered as lower than the actual interest payments, with the difference deposited in Tzur accounts allegedly kept in foreign banks.
Israel was shocked by a new scandal involving officials of the Defence Ministry and members of the officers corps hitherto considered the most impeccable and loyally served branches of the government.
Three senior Defence Ministry officiak have been suspended for their jobs and are underinvestigation for allegedly accepting bribes, it was announced here. Officers of one army corps are also_ under investigation and two Defence Ministry offi-fials attached to the Ministry's purchasing mission in New York have been recalled for questioning over alleged corruption.
The three suspended: officials are alleged to have worked in collusion with the director of Ha-megader, a metal works that supplies the Defence Ministry with barbed wire, to cheat the army. According to the allegations, the pliant supplied wire of a lighter weight than that specified and p^id.for by the Defence Ministry witli the khow-.-ledge<rfatleastotieof the ^ officials under investigation.
The managing director of Hamegader was also detained for questioning in the investigation that has spread to the officers corps. The two. officials recalled from New York allegedly favored certain suppliers in return for personal advantages. They are also alleged to have set up their own supply firm which tendered "bids to the supply mission of which they were employees.
Kahane says prison refused to give him kosher f(
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U.S. Secretary of Stale Henry Kissinger didn't get a vote of confidence from this group dem6nstrating in Tel Aviv whOe he was engaged in shuttle diplomacy in the Mideast. (ReUgious News Service photb)
says
agreement
NEW YORK —
The American Jewish Congress charges that Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon had signed what amounted to "an agreement to accommodate the religious bias of the Saudi Arabian government and...to exclude qualified Jews" from projects authorized by thie U.S.-Saudi Arabian Commission on Economic Co-operation.
In a letter to the Secretary. Rabbi Arthur Hertz-' berg of Englewood, N.J., president of the Congress, cited a statement adopted last June 8 by the U.S. Saudi-Arabian Commission — and signed by Simon for the U.S. — which requires that instructional programs to be providcxllb^. American experts I* ••srtsttiveto^^ sod«i'^"«afltm|}i political' and religious contexts of Saudi Arabia." Arabia."
This requirement, Rab-br Hertzberg said, represented an "implicit understanding that the Saudi Arabian government will not be obliged to deal with, accept or recognize American citizens whom it finds objectionable on any of these grounds."
The American Jewish Congress leader described the provision as "euphemistic concealment" of an agreement to acquiesce in
Saudi Arabia's discrimination against American Jews.
Rabbi Hertzberg commented:
* 'The rights of Ameri r can citizens are not for sale to the highest bidder, no matter'how many oil wells he may have. Economic arrangements with Saudi Arabia that require abandonment or betrayal of our proudest and most cherished beliefs are too costly in moral and ethical terms to be adequately recompensed by any dollar reward.
"We submit that it is the responsibility of your. department and other agencies of government to make that fact unmistakably plain to those who wish to trade with us or benefit from pur human re^oiuces and techncdogi-'fidbdSHs." < ... ;
"The American Jewish
Congress letter noted reports that Saudi Arabia will need some 6,000 ; physicians by 1980 for two new hospitals in Jidda and Riyadh and that two American firms — the Whittaker Corporation of California and the Hospital Corporation of America — had contracted to operate the new facilities and would presumably recruit additional physicians in theU.S.
"We have no doubt." Dr. Hertzberg declared, "that none of the 2,000 doctors already on the staff...is Jewish and that none of the 6,000 doctors u-hom the Saudi-Arabians now iptend to recruit will be Jewish. We are certain that all Jewish candidates will be excluded because of the 'religioi|$ contexts, in Saudi Arabia?'
"We submit that U.S.
collaboration in promoting any program thus permeated with religious bigotry is incompatible with fundamental American tenets and traditions and inadmissible on the part of any government agency."
NEW YORK CJTAl—
The refusal by the federal prison authorities to obey a court order to. provide Rabbi Meir Kahane with kosher food has resulted in another court order delaying the transfer of Kahane to a federal prison from a detention center in Manhattan.
The former Jewish Defence League leader was. scheduled to leave for Allenwood (Pa.) Federal Prison to begin serving the remainder of his one-year prison term. He has been held at the Federal Training Center in New York since March 18.
In a press conference held at the detention center, Kahane said that Federal Judge Jack Weinstein conducted a hearing on Kahane's charges that the prison authorities, in defiaiice of Weinstein's own order, refused to provide him with kosher food.
According to Kahane, U.S. Attorney Tom Peterson told the judgethat it is "too expensive" to have kosher food and that "if theJew« wiU^et it. other groups will'iisK for special food" a&rtvell.
"Judge Weinstein was furious," Kahane said, "because the refusal of the government was not only a violation of human rights biit also a question of court contempt."
Kahane, who looked pale and haggard and has
started to grow a beard, was eating meals outside the detentton center since his arrest in order to have koisher food. Kahane said that he and his lawyer, Barry Slotnidi will take
"this case up to the Supreme Court, to uphold the right of Jews for kosher food in prison."
Kahane added tiiat even if his case is resolved, there are presently two
other JDL members m federal prison who> do not get kosher food. According to Kahane, Wetiistein gave the gdvenunent two weeks to file a brief m the case.
200,000 Israelis now living in Cana
WASHINGTON [JTA]—
Rfty-five percent of the estimated 200.000 Israelis in North America live in^ the New York City and' vicinity, while 15% live on the West Coast. 15% in Canada and 15% are scattered throughout the United States.
These details and others concerning the Israeli community in America are
included in a special report prepared by Eli Paz, the representative of the Israeli Ministry of Labor in the United States. According to the report, there are about 12.000 Israeli students and academicians in the U.S., 85% are in the 26-36 age group; 77% of them are married and most of them are studying for or hold
M.A. or PhD. degrees.
Engineering, according to the report, is the most popular study course among the Israeli students here, with science, economics and computers following on the Kst. The Yom Ktppur War, the report notes, hasincreas-. ed by 50% the number of Israeli academicians who returned to Israel in 1974.
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