Israel Cabinet Establishes
Five-Man War Committee

THE JEWISH NEWS-3
Friday, July 23, 1948

Attempt to Investigate DP

Law •is Scheduled for
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A special five-member cabinet war Special Congress Session

committee was established by the Provisional Government
of Israel.
The group includes Premier. and Defense Minister David
Ben Gurion and Finance Minister Eliezer Kadflan, represent-
ing the Labor Party; Interior Minister Itzhak Gruenbaum, a

General Zionist; Immigration
Minister Moshe Shapiro, of the
estine. "The idea of Egypt
Mizrachi, and Agriculture Min- playing the role of interna-
Aaron
Zisling,
of
the
United
ister
tional firemen while throwing
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Workers Party.
incendiary bombs over the city
A large quantity of currency of Tel Aviv has passed being
notes ordered from the United an international joke," he de-
States months ago arrived in Glared. Eban welcomed the
Tel Aviv and will be put into
United States conception of the
c i r c u l a ti on immediately to
demilitarization of Jerusalem,
but insisted that this be done
serve as auxiliary currency.
Andre Philippe, former French "without prejudice" to the ulti-
mate political fate of the city.
Finance Minister, was received
Bernadotte, told the Council
by Premier Ben Gurion and later
met with Foreign Minister Moshe that Ole Bakke, one of the. 50 se-
Shertok. He said that he was curity guards sent from Lake Suc-
greatly ,impressed with what he cess to Palestine, had been killed
had seen in the Jewish state and by a sniper July 13 while on duty
promised that when he returned on Mt. Scopus. Canadian General
to France he would work for the Andrew G. L. McNaughtori, pay-
ing tribute to the Norwegian vol-
support of the new state.
unteer, said the Council must in-
The Israeli Government ac-
its
cepted—less than 24• hours after sist that the UN flag and
personnel be respected at all
its issuance—the United Nations
Security Council's order to halt times by both sides.

the Palestine war by Monday
morning, Tel Aviv time.
Israeli bombers' on July 15 at-
tacked an Egyptian air base at
El Arish, 50 miles south of Gaza
along the Egyptian-Palestine bor-
der in the Sinai Desert, subject-
ing it to a seven-ton bombing
raid.
Israeli aircraft also boinbed
military objectives in Cairo for
the first time since the war be-
gan.
Jewish forces overran the stra-
tegic Arab town of Tira, remov-
ing the last important Arab
threat to the Tel-Aviv-Haifa coas-
tal road. The town is situated
five miles south of Haifa. A
small Israeli naval • vessel and
several planes participated in the
operation which resulted in the
surrender of between 700 and
1,000 Iraqi arid Syrian troops.
At 'least 1,000 Egyptians were
killed, wounded or captured in
engagements on the southern
front.
The capture of the Arab city
of Nazareth was officially an-
nounced by Israeli officials.
The city had been converted
into a major base by Fawzi el
Kaukuji and his "Liberation
Army." "

Charge Bernadotte with Partial
Responsibility for Hostilities
LAKE SUCCESS, (JTA)—U.S.
delegate Philip C. Jessup, in or-
der to secure prompt approval
of the cease-fire proposal, ton-
ceded one point to the Russiaps-
that demilitarization of Jeru-
salem meant actual withdrawal
of all fighting men from the city.
While the U. S. still favored in-
ternationalizing the city, Jessup
said, it did not feel that it was
possible to do so on the basis of
a Trusteeship Council plan drawn
up earlier this year because that
plan was predicated on the exist-
ence of an independent Palestine
Arab state which never came
into existence.
Manuilsky charged mediator
Count Folke Bernadotte With
partial responsibility for the
renewal of hostilities in Pales-
tine. He accused Bernadotte
of encouraging Arab intransige-
ance by helping to spread the
conviction that the General As-
sembly decision to partition
Palestine was going to be
scrapped. This impression stem-
med directly from Bernadotte's
"suggestions" which violated
that Assembly's decision by
proceeding to revise the front-
iers of Israel without consult- •
ing the UN, the Ukrainian
said. Manuilsky also declared
that the U: S. proposal for de-
. militarizing Jerusalem was a
veiled attempt to occupy the
Holy City by troops of the wes-
tern power's.
(Jamal el Husseini, the Mufti's
cousin, on his visit last weekend
in Detroit, threatened that Arabs
will continue to aim at the crush-
ing of Israel, in spite of efforts
by the UN or any truce deci-
sions.)
Aubrey S. Eban, the Israeli
representative, condemned an
Egyptian reference to the need
for "firemen" to put out the
rebellious Jewish blaze in Pal-

CHICAGO, (JTA) — Legisla-
tion to investigate the recently-
adopted displaced persons immi-
gration law will be introduced at
the special session of Congress
to convene July 26, Rep. Jacob
Javits, of New York, told a com-
bined UJA meeting.
The motion will be preSented
by the House Foreign Affairs
Committee's special committee
on DPs by Reps. James Fulton
and Frank Chelf, Rep. Javits
said. He denounced the present
DP law as "calculated, ,brazen
discrimination against Jews and
deserving Catholics."

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Sprinzak Heads Israeli Council

TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Joseph
Sprinzak, Histadrut leader and
member of the Labor Party, was
elected chairman of the Israeli
State Council. He became a mem-
ber of the Coun-
cil July 15, re-
placing Goldie
Meirson w h o
was appointed
to the Soviet
Union.
Dr. Abraham
G ranovsky,
managing direc-
tor of the Jew-
iSh National
J. Sprinzak Fund and a
General Zionist, was named depu-
ty chairman, as was Nahum Nir
of the United Labor Party. A

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third deputy chairman, assigned
to Mizrachi, has not yet been ap-
pointed. A move to give the Re-
visionists a dei3uty chairmanship
was defeated 14-12.

Since May 15 the government
has granted import licenses to
bring in goods valued at nearly
$8,000,000, despite the fact that
most of its currency assets are
frozen in London.
The Israeli Supreme Court be-
gan hearings on a habeas corpus
proceeding brought by attorney
Max Seligman in behal: of Peter
Bergson, chairman of the Amer-
ican Hebrem, Committee of Na-
tional Liberation, and Jacob
Meridor., deputy chief of the
Irgun.

Henry Meyers Heads
JWB Policy Group
For Personinel Bureau

NFW YORK — Henry Meyers
of Detroit has been named na-
tional chairman of the newly-
created committee for "the bureau
of personnel and training of the
National Jewish Welfare Board,
it was announced by Frank L.
Weil, JWB president. The nem
committee will be the policy-
making body for the JWB .Bu-
reau. *
The Bureau plans for and co-
ordinates all training programs
of JWB divisions and depart-
ments; helps train, recruit, certi-
fy and place trofessiorial work-

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Israeli Soccer Team to Tout U.S.;
Two Women Athletes in Olympics
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — An all-
star Israeli soccer team is sched-
uled to tour the United States
in September. Members of the
Maccabi, Betar and Hapoel teams
are being selected for the tour.
Only two Israeli women ath-
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