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GoMa Ahhounces New Cabinet :_ JERUSALEM, (JTA) ; The Knettet approved Premier Golda Meir't«:fiew Cabinet by a vole of ^46. Two prominent Labor Party ^meraben were among the nine MKs who abstained irwlien tlte vole of confldence was talten after 10 liours of acrimonious debate. Botti of ' them, Yitzhak Ben Aharon . and Lyova Ellav, are outspoken doves. They had informed Party^ Secretary General Aharon Yadlin and Alignment chairman Moshe Baram by mail earlier that they could not support the new government biecauae it represented to them no change from the outgoing one. Premier Meir presented the Knesset with the names of 22 ministers-designate, one shortef the full Cabinet. The Tinal designee will be from the NRP which will be given a ministry without portfolio in addition to the three it held In
the old government. The new Cabinet will ckwely resemble the outgoing one though It will be slightly larger and will contain at least live new faces, probably more. The newcomers are Haim Zsdok who was named Minister of Justice to replace Yaacov Shimshon Shapiro who resigned several months ago; Sblomo Rosen, who will replace Natan Peled as Absorption Minister; Yitzhak fUbin, replacing Yosef Almogi as Minister of Labor; Aharon Uzzan, Communications Minister; and Yehoihua Rabinowltz who replaces Zeev Sharef as Housing Minister. The Independent Uberal Party will receive a second Cabinet seat, though without portfolio, which is going to Gideon Hausner. ' Among the incumbents who will sit In the new Cabinet, Shimon Peres has been switched from Transport
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mflia9-"IMtT bos" «arM over the weekend but failed to ''explode. Syrian forces l^initiated three shooting incidents Friday and Saturday. IITMII forees responded to the first one Friday — the firing of Ruuian-made Sager anti-tank missiles at an Israeli patrol — but did not return the fire, when the Syrians lobbed a number of shells at Israeli positions in • the northern Golan enclave later Frklay or when they fired on the Israel-held section of the KuneitraDamascus road Saturday. Israeli forces suffered no casualties or damage. An Israeli army spokesman denied a Syrian allegation that an Israeli , pilotless plane - "Drone" -
Minister to the newly created post of Miniater of Information. The others will retain" their present portfolioii. They are: Golda Meir, Premier; Yigal Allon, Deputy Premier and Minister of Education;
Moshe Dayan, Defense Minister; Abba Eban, Foreign Mlhiiter; Pinhas Sapir, Finance Minister; Victor Sheffltov, Minister of Health; Haim Gvati, Minister of Agriculture; Haim Barlev, Minister of Oimmerce and
JERUSALEM, (JTA) Jewish ^ency officials said last week they were not alarmed by the abrupt decline in the number of Jews emigrating from the Soviet Unkm last month. Only 1600 arrived during Feb. compared to 2S00 in Jan. The officials said the drop couM be the result of seasonal facton and that it was too early to attach any serious significance to it.
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Shipments of U.S. Wheat Continue to Arab Countries
They acknowledged, however, that during the past two months, more than 100 Jewish families in Moscow ied exit visas. ° ching here note a WASHINGTON (ZINS) in rejections in Pirfitkral dreies are surprised other Soviet cities. at the lack of stronger op-
was ihot down by Syrian uitlcir craft fire snd craahed In north Jordan. Israeli circles said nothing of the sort happened. Israeli restraint it believed to have averted more serious incidents which the Syrians were apparently inleni on provoking. Purim festivities were held at the various Golan Heights settlements but only the kical settlers attended.
position to the continuing shipments of U;S. wheat to Arab countries, at a time when the Arabs have embargoed oil shipments to this country. Some voices in Congress have been raised demanding a halt to the sale of wheat to countries that discriminate against the United SUtes. But John Farker, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, defended the sale of $800 million worth of wheat to various Arab countries on the ground that they must make up a drought deficiency to feed their populations.
For many years the Arabs have imported wheat from America, but now their requirements have increased and costs have gone up. Saudi Arabia will be buying wheat to the tune of $100 million, as compared with purchases of only 136 million a year ago. Iraq's order is for $60 million, an' increase of f3 million over last year. Egypt's purchases will aggregate $120 million, as compared with $83 million in 1973. Israel's purchases of U.S. wheat are estimated to be $200 million this year; last year they were for $145 million.
Visitois and tourlata have been barred from the area.
4 Jewish Women Killed in Damascus
Israeli engineers have demolished the easlemowat portion of the DanuiKUS road near the cease-fire line. The action was taken to make a pcsaiblc Syrian attack more difficult. The road is the only one suitable for heavy tanks.
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He told a press conference In Beirut, at the sUrt of a tour pf the Mkldle East, thst^the ^Intted States is the Hfifbotd of Zkmism and
build-up of forces — was said to have been responsible for the unexpected announcement by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Tranipcrt Minister Shimon Peres that they will serve in a new Cabinet after all.
Decline Noted in Soviet Emigration
fioxing Champ Ali Attacks Zionism The Cantor is a Lady I NEW YORK, (JTA) Muhammad Ali, who says he -^ retiring from the ring to ifpraad the faith of Islam, is losing no time throwing right books at Zionism.
Industry; Shiomo Hillel, Minister of Police; Moshe Kol, Minister of Tourism; and Israel Galili, MiniaterWithout-PortfoUo. A suddenly developed security threat on the Syrian front — a reported nuM^e
champion was quoted by a guerrilla news agency as aaying: "In my name and the naRie of all Muslims in America, I declare support for the Palestinian struggle to liberate their homeland and oust the Zionist invaders." Ali told newsmen that after retiring from the ring he will devote his life by preaching th^ Moslem faith, beginning by eitabliahing a mosque in Laa Vegas. Uncharacteristically modest, he added: "1 am no longer the greatest. AUah is." I
MONTREAL — "Even the Scriptures aren't too kind to women," reflected Rabbi Bernard Bloomstooe, recalling that as a boy he sal with his father on the ground floor of the •yaagogue with other men while his mother was relegated to the balcony. "They place women In the same category with children aad slaves." 8* It It with no small amount of satisractlon that Rabbi Bloomsfame (left) listens at Phyllis Cole becomes the first woman cantor for an official service at any synagogue hi Canada. The servke look place In Moata-eal'i Temple Emraanu-EI, a Reform congregation. Rahbl Bloomstooe, the coagregstion'i ipirltual leader, termed the event "a new high hi liberal Reform Judaism." Mrs. Cole, the mother of two boys. Is a member of the Metropolitan Opera Studio and ii among the ffa^t group of women to i>e accepted at the Hebrew Union College School of Sacred Music in New York.
PARIS, (JTA) - Four Jewish women were killed in Damascus within the last week. Their bodies were found last Friday in a street of the Jewish quarter, it waa reported by the French daily, Le Figaro, which cited a "sure source" for this hiformation. According to the daily, several dozen Jews left their ghetto to participate in a demonatration by Christian women last Tuesday to protest Syria's anti-Jewish discrimination. The protestors were reportedly brutally dispersed by the police. U Figaro, in its Friday edition, quoted diplomatic sources saying that the slayinga were by extremists opposed to President Hafei Assad's Middle East policy, but It was not known whether the extremists were Palestinian or local op-
ponents of Assad. Earlier, the French state radio, France Inter, reported that a number of Syrian Christians, mainly women, had conducted such a demonstration in the center of Damascus and tried to march through the streets. According to this report, they were protesting a recent incident involving a numtwr of Syrian Jewish women who reportedly had been arrested and maltreated and others believed to have been killed. It was not immediately clear whether the four women found Friday were those killed earlier or whether they were killed during the demonstration last Tuesday. The French radio did not mention any source of datelines as to where its report originated. Other sources in Paris confirmed the veracity of the report of the demonstration.