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H E N R V H. FOVVLER, retiring U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Is shown congratulating Pinchas Sapir, Israel Minister without Portfolio and former Finance Minister, on the payment of $48,258,000 for Coupon Bonds of the first Development Issue of Israel Bonds, maturing on January 1, 19G9. This Is the largest sum ever paid out by the State of Israel In the United States for any purpose. Shown at a special meeting of the Israel Bond Board of Governors marking the occasion arc (top, left to right) Abraham Feinberg, President of the Israel Bond Organization; Mr. Sapir, holding the check for the record payment; Mr. Fowler; Samuel Rothberg, Israel Bond National Campaign Chairman.
Two Jewish Sailors in Released Pueblo Crew
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Near East Division of the State Department was reliably reported to be BO displeased by Israel's reprisal raid on the BeirutAirport that an effort is being made to block plans to deliver 50 Phantom jet fighter-bombers to Israel. Sources here said that the Beirut raid, occurring within a single day of the announcement-of final agreement on the Phantom transaction, ignored the latest United States advice and undermined pro-Western Arab governments. State Department officials refused to say whether the proposed sale of the Phantom jets would be affected by the Beirut raid. The report that the Phantom t r a n s a c t i o n might be blocked emerged after the Unit-. ed States made an official protest in the "strongest terms" deploring the Beirut raid. ' Assistant Secretary of- State Parker Hart, on personal instructions from Secretary y _pf
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ing Arab commando movement, destroy United Nations peace efforts and worsen the position of Arab.governments responsive J ^ American influence. A State Department position appeared to be emerging that Israel'overreacted against Lebanon and that the airport raid would help rather than hinder the Arab terrorist extremists. Criticism Expected t Jerusalem (JTA) — Semi-official sources said here that an outraged world reaction to Israel's commando raid on the Beirut Airport had been expected in Israel and taken into • account. The view was expressed informally, that Israel was human, too, and that there
cations technician, and Steven Paul Ellis, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Ellis of Los Angeles, a seaman. The Jewish sailors were reported to have been fearful during their year of captivity that their Communist captors might take notice of their religion and seek' to- link them with Zionism '•dr.. Israel, but they, were never asked about religion during interrogations.
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(JTA)—Jewishor--—Israel' was hardly an example
Yitzhak Sullamn, Israel's first •heart transplant patient, Mr, Sullam, who was op£rated~Qn_at Beilinson Hospital in PeWciT Tikvah on Dec. 5, died of kidney malfunction. His new heart was said to have functioned normaly. Donor Death Mr. Barzilai said that doctors performing. h e a tX transplants were faced with two grave questions: What determines death and who is to be responsible for applying these criteria. He told the Knesset that the doctors who had tried in vain to save the life of the patient whose heart was given to Mr. Sullam acted independently of the surgical team, headed by Dr. Maurice Levi, which .performed the transplant. He said that Israeli doctors hold. "It is much easier to be shared the modem medical view polarized into either a rejec- that death has occurred when _tion_of the goals because of the- - the brain ceases to function.- He methods—or an acceptance of added that this was a considerthe methods b e c a u s e of the able advance over the halachic goals. Either pole spells dis- (Jewish religious law) thesis aster of a kind with which the that only cessation of breathing J e w i s h community has had moans death. tragic experience. Some of the Opposition worst, most-de-humanizing tyrannies imposed on man in mod-. Rabbi Lorincz denounced that; em history have been attached view and insisted that both Mr. to legitimate human problems. Sullam and the person whose Even Hitler came to power on heart he received might now a program calling for an end be alive if transplant surgery to the' poverty and indignity of a had not been performed. He alstarving and degraded German leged that doctors were keeping people. But good men as well as ttye donor's identity secret "so evil can be caught in the same that 1they can forge the records trap. To abandon the demo- more easily." ' cratic p r o c e s s , in whatever . Rabbi Kalmati Kahano, of tho cause, is to start down the road Poalei' AgudaE Israel claimed that public opinion fn Israel was to brutality."------ ; -----.
Question Raised on Death Of Heart Donor in Israel
Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel's Minister of Health, Israel Barzilai, clashed with ultra-Ortho" TEL AViV (ZINS)—A remark- dox .members of _tho Knesset fibld "phenomenon is flow being this week over the question of h e a r t transplant operations; repeated in Israel. It is a statistical fact that af- Rabbi Shlomo Lorlncz, of the, ter each war more men than Agudat Israel, charged that the women are born. This is now unidentified donor in Israel's happening in Israel after the first heart transplant case was Six-Day War, as was the case not dead when his' heart was after-the War of Liberation in removed; Mr.-Barzilai called^he~ 1948, as well as after the Sinai charge an "unfounded libel." Campaign in 1056. The case came up in the KnesStatistics also reveal that the set as a result of three agenda birth rate in the country in- motions presented after the death on Dec. 19 of 41-year-old creased after June 5, 1967..
Jews Voice Views on Stole College Student Revolt
were hostile acts Israel could not tolerate nor could Israel wait for the Big Powers to take action when they had demonstrated their "flagrant inability to do so." : An official communique issued by the Foreign Ministry expressed the hope that the Beirut raid would put an end to sabotage acts against Israeli aircraft and to attacks on their passengers in any part of the world. The statement added that the Beirut airport had been chosen because the Athens airport attackers had come from there and lived there and because Beirut was the headquarters of the organization ; that' sent them to Athens. •
Jewish Groups Protest Silence By U.S. on Arab El Al Attack
State Dean Rusk, summoned Is- ganizations issued statements rael diplomats to the State De- accusing the State Department partment. The State Department of bias against Israel for conthen •announced* publicly that a demning the Israeli raid on the . strong official protest had been Beirut Airport while remaining made to them and that the Amer- silent concerning the Arab guerican Ambassador in Israel, Wal- rilla attack on an El Al' airliner worth Barbour, had been in- at Athens Airport. Among the structed to call personally on . protesting organizations were either Premier Levi Eshkol or the Z i o n i s t Organization of Foreign Minister Abba Ebaii to America, the American Jewish •emphasize the gravity of United Congress, the Union of Orthodox States reaction to the Beirut Jewish Congregations, the Rabbinical Council of America and raid. ° • The State Department's ad- the New York Board of Rabbis. Jacques Torczyner, ZOA presvice to Israel had been to refrain from reprisal actions be- ident, said J h a t "silence toward cause they might unify the grow- the Arabs and criticism toward
San, Diego, Calif (JTA)—The first request of the two Jewish crewmen of the USS Pueblo, on their return to the United States from North Korean captivity, was for mezzuzahs, it was learned this week. Chaplain Garson Goodman conducted a special prayer of deliverance and portions of the Chanukoh. service for the two : men and their- families in the San Diego n a v a l chapel. He noted that the men crossed the "Bridge of No Return" to freedom on the last day of Chanukah, stressing the symbolism of their liberation. The. Jewish s a i l o r s , were Steven Jay Robins, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Robins of Siiber Springs, Md., a communi-
San Francisco (JTA) — The Jewish Community Relations Council in Its iirst.statement on the student revolt at San Francisco State College, has called on the J e w i s h community to "support t h e s e student goals which areJust" but at the same time, to "condemn.any violence or disruption of democratic process committed in the pursuit of even those just goals." The student rebels, m a i n l y Negroes have demanded, and, received a Black studies program and are : also demonstrating for greater participation in college policymaking. The campus erupted with violence on several occasions. The Community Re-lations Council conceded that the stance _ ; :it - advocated was "difficult*8 to
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opposed to transplants and therefore the doctors in the Sul lam case performed the oneril ' ~ surreptitiously; ~ ^ K * ^ - - ^ - He « ^ "said -« ation Israel was the only country in the world where doctors could extract a heart without asking permission. Shlomo Rpssen, of Mapam, declared that heart transplant td that Israel's medical profession is qualified to stand the test as far as human skills and technical facilities are concerned.'
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"even-handedness." Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld, president of the American Jewish C o n g r e s s , said that "the proper function" of the State Department at this time was "to demand that the Arab Governments stop offering encouragement, hospitality and support of those terrorist forces whose wanton disregard for human life threatens to plunge the Middle East into still another round of war.". Rabbi Joseph Karaslcfc,-pres^ident of the UOJC, said that theV State Department should show the same sensitivity towarddangers to Israel from the Arabs as it did for the feelings of the Arab rulers. — ••. Rabbi Zev Segal, president of the Orthodox rabbinical group, accused the State Department of lacking objectivity; He said his organization was ''astonished" at the contrast between the quick condemnation of fce r a e l and the silence' on tho -Athens attack. -•--•"-v-—»-™ Rabbi G i l b e r t Klaperman, president of the New York Board of Rabbis, said in a telegram to Secretary of State Dean Rusk, J that the State Department was showing "incpmpr e h e n s i b I e bias"_agajg$t JsraelJnJhe-iiwQ "incidents. R a b b i Klaperman said in the telegram that Is«1 rael could not continue to bo' .,, "a sitting duck everywhere fot* terrorist activities while the na- " tions of the world refuse to deal with the problem.". " ,
Negro Newspaper Hits Anti-Semitism
The Counseling Service of the Jewish Community Center will administer Special Inters Tests, Sunday, January 5, at 2 p.m. at Chicago (JTA)—A leading Nfr theJCC. • Open to students in grades-9—gto newspaper, througfi 12, the interest inven- Daily Defender, has condemned tories help students clarify spe- anti-Semitic activities'by some cific interest areas. These tests black militants, and declared are not usually given in the lo- editorially that, "the element in cal high schools, and assist stu- the black.community, which agl,__ dents in making wiser vocational ta,tes a g a i n s t Jews is unin-, and educational choices. The re- formed, irresponsible, with a suits of the tests will be interpre- following that never amounted to more than a c o r p o r a l ' s ted to each student privately. There is no testing fee for stu- guard." The editorial noted the "great dents in grades 9 through 11. A fee of $1.5& is charged to seniors similarity between the Jewish who will take a special test re- struggle for recognition and quiring computerized scoring. rightful place in American soInterested students may regis- ciety and the black crusade for ter to take the tests by mail ap- freedom and equality." It complication or by calling the JCC mented that "it w o u l d be a Activities Department, 342-1360. strange twist of history, indeed, : This is the only time during for the m e m b e r s of an op- r the current school years when pressed black racevto^assmnr the role of oppressor^ these tests will be offered, u