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Israel Leaves Canal
f TEL AVIV. (JTA) - Six yean and seven months of Israeli presence on the Suez Canal ended this week as the last Israeie soldiers departed from the banks of the famed waterway to take up new posltioM some 14' miles eastward in the heart of the
anai desert. The Israelis handed over their last positions on the canal banks to the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF). The last Israeli vehicle to leave the zone was a halftrack carrying three soldiers. Tbey left behind a bullet-
Israelis Mourn Slain Soldiers JERUSALEM. (JTA) Thousands of Israelis came from all parts of the country for a memorial service at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl for soldiers believed to have been killed in action but whole graves are unknown. Men and women, many weeping steadily, who lost husbands and sons U years ago in Israel's War of Independence stood next to families who had su/ferd similar losses in the flghting o( the Sinai campaign, the Six-Day War. the Yom Kippur War and the fighting between the wars. The government repnianlative, present 4ncluM Premier Golds Meir, ForaifR Minister Abba Eban and Defense Minister Moabe Oayan.
Kippur War were manifest at the rite. When Dayan rose to speak, he was interrupted by a man and a woman among the mourners who yelled at him: "You criminal, you murderer, you killed them. You sent them to their deaths." Dayan tried to ignore the interruption. He ended a brief address with the statement that "the youngest in our garden's flowers became the defense wall of our country, the defense wall to our lives, our settlements and our future. Their living memory is higher than any stone tombstone." A bereaved father recited the Kaddish, an army cantor recited El Mole Rachamim and an army guard fired three rounds in honor of the dead soldiers.
punctured sign saying "Sbalsom" in Hebrew. Arabic and English Some»ne added. "Au Revoir." Egyptian army units crossed the canal to take over the evacuated zone fi;om IJNEFand for the first Uine since June, 1967, Egypt's re<|, white and black flag flew over' the enUre lOO-mile length of the Suez Canal on both of its banks. The final phase of disengagement along the Suez was completed 24 hours ahead of the timetable set by the accord Israel and Egypt reached on Jan. 21. UNEF teams, each accompanied by and Israeli or Egyptian liaison officer, began Uieir inspection of the zones now heM by each side to determine among other things whether the disengagement provision calling for a thinning out of armed forces by both sides wu being observed. They made their report to UNEF Commander Gen. Ensio Siilasvuo who relayed it to UN headquarters in Cairo. The latter confirmed this morning that the disengagement agreeneot was being carried out to the letter.
Terrorists Refuse To Appear at Trial
ROME, (JTA)-The three Arabs accused of planning to blow up an El Al airliner laat ' Sept. Iiave refused to at their trial which here last week. Currently In Omaha - Tours will conOfficial opening of the new an Italian prison, the three tinue this Sunday at the new Center has tentatively been men, an Algerian, Iraqi Jewish Community Center, scheduled for early April. All and a Lebanese, said their 333 South 132nd Streets. All offices of the various refusal was an affirmation of interested members of the departments of the Jewish their innocence and said they community are invited to Community Center, as well as were putting their trust in participate in the tours from 1 the offices of the affiliate Italian justice. to 3 p.m. A special invitation agencies of the Omaha The trial went ahead has lieen issued to memlwrs Jewish Federation, are despite the absence of the of tlie Lincoln Jewish comcurrently operating at the defendants and it is believed munity to visit the new Center they will be expelled from new Center building. for the March 10 tours. Italy to avoid poasible Arab reprisals. Italian investigators are reported to have found Soviet-made SAM7 rockets in the apartments of the defendants who were arrested last Sept. Two other Arabs were also arrested at the time but later released ThcofficMof temporarily and it ii'believed they have sought refuge in Libya.
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20th Street JCC Sale Completed Omaha — The Jewish Community Center building at 20th and Dodge Streets officially became the property of Northwesfern Bell Telephone Company at 10:30 a.m. last Friday. The historic closing transaction was held at the Omaha National Bank in the presence of officials of the participating Institutions. The $700,000 received for the 20th street property was immediately transferred to the Omaha National Bank in payment of the major portion of the building loan which has financed construction costs at the.,jMw Center on I32nd
Street. Aeeording to Norman Batt,
ctiairman of the Building Committee, building fund pledges are expected to cover the complete cost of the new Center. "However," Mr. Batt said, "until the building fund pledges are paid, interim financing was needed to pay the construction bills. With inters! rates at 10 per cent, reducing the loan by $700,000 represents a sizeable saving for us," Mr. Batt said. Batt noted that as pledges are paid, the roo.OOO will be channeled into the Endowment Fund for the operation of the new Center, in accordance with the original plans for the use of the proceeds of the sale. Mr. Batt said that the
construction loans has now been reduced to less than $20,000 but that addiUonal funds will be needed immediately to pay constnictiion bills as the Center nears completion. "The more money we receive from the payment of building fund pledges, the less we will have to borrow," Mr. Batt said. "For that reason I urge payment of building fund pledges as quickly as possible." According to Allen Grauer, representing the telephone company at the closing, the 2ath street Onter building will be demolished within the next month. Future plans for the site were not revealed.
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MortlmerGreenbcrg, Executive DIrecUir of the Jewish FederaUon of Omaha (left) witnesses the completion of the isle of the ZOth Street JCC. The transaction was handled by Allen Grauer, atlomey for Northweitern Bell (center) and Howard Kaslow, attorney for the Jewish Federation of Omaha.
tsraeli War Dead Mounts to 2S21 TEL AVIV, (JTA) - The final number of laraell dead during the Yom Kippur War and after that has reached 2521 of which <06 (about 24 per cent) were officers. The ranks range from Major General to Lieutenants: The percentage of officers Ulled in action is highest ever in Israeli battlei. During the Six-Day War, 167 officers were kUled of a total of m.
Pictured from left, BUI Keclfe, 2nd vice-president ofthe Omaha National Bank, accepts the check In payment of the major portion of the construction loan from Jewish Federation represenatatlves Joe LIpton, Norman Ball and Hubert Rosenblum.