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Israel Is Demanded y Zionists

By Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

JERUSALEM (JTA).----K demand '.for the incorporation 61 Jerusalem into the terri-
tory of State of Israel and making it the capital-- of the Jewish State was voiced at
the meeting of the Zionist 'Actions Committee by Dr. Bernard Joseph, military govern6r
of Jerusalem, who asserted:- "After Count ► Folke Bernadotte had proposed to convert
Jerusalem into an Arab city, we are fully entitled to demand the incorporation of the city
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in the Jewish State."
During subsequent debate, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok expressed the
point of view that the entire problem of the internationalization of the city. must be
considered as an 'arrangement which may lead to Arabization of the "holiest Jewish
city."
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chairman of the American Section of the Jewish Agehcy, in
a broadcast over the Jerusalem Radio, praised the stand of the inhabitants of the 'city
against Arab military attacks. He said "Jewish victims proved to everybody that Jeru-
salem shall forever remain the heart of the Jewish people and the renewed Jewish State."
Jewish troops,. he maintained, had ended the world's betrayal and the prOblem therefore
must be reconsidered by . Jewry. Stating that Jews never will agree to handing the city
over to the -Arabs, he declared .that _the biggest fight for . Jerusalem will begin at the
UN General Assembly session in Paris next month. He expressed the hope that the city
would become Israel's capital.
As general debate continued in the Actions Committee sessions, it became abun-
dantly- clear that the main issue of the parley will be centered about the election of
the new executive policy-making body. One proposal which has gained some support
provides for keeping the membership of the executive the same as it now exists
except for the replacement of those members who hold portfolios in the Israeli
cabinet. Supporters of this 'proposal fear that if a new executive is elected it may be
necessary to include the Revisionists, thus disturbing the present coalition.
Dr. Silver, in an address at Tuesday's session, welcomed the recent appointment of
Dr. James G. MacDonald as head of the U. S. Mission to Israel "as a definite gesture of
goodWill and friendly cooperation" on the part of the U. S. government. Speaking of the
work of the Zionist movement in the U. S., he declared that "the largest Jewish com-
munity in the world in the most important political and economic center in the world
stands ready to assume its full share, in all future activities of the World Zionist Organi-
zation Whose work will now of necessity have to be reorganized and redistributed." -
"The- scope of the American Section of the Jewish Agency which has served our
movement not unW6ifthily in recent years should be enlarged in order to marshal the vast
potential talent and resources of well organized, alert and politically mature American
Jewry for maintaining and developing the powerful world • Zionist • movement dedicated.
to the defense and development of Israel," he said.
_ Eliahn Dokbin, head of the Jewish Agency - Immigration Department, and Moshe
Shapiro, health and immigration minister, reported on immigration problems. Dobkin
outlined major problems of speeding immigration and finding new ways of mobilizing
funds for Zionist education among world Jewry and the establishment of an all-embrac-
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Tree for Nitzani Ain:

On his departure to
Israel last week, ITZHAK J. KARPMAN, executive director of the
- World -Confederation of- General Zionists; took with him a token
gift from American youth to the colony of "Nitzanim," a settlement
in the Negev destroyed by the Egyptian Army last June, in the
form of a pine free which will be replanted at the colony as a gift
from Masada, Young Zionists of America. ROBERT ISAACSON,
national treasdrer of Masada, presented Mr. Karpman with his
organization's pledge to extend assistance to the Nitzanim colonists.

—International News Photo

Plasma for

-Israel: Ready to take off with
the fifth shipment of blood plasma for Israel's wounded fighters,
the air freighter, "Lifeline to Israel," is shown at the Teterboro,
N. J., airport. The life-saving cargo, which includes gas gangrene
anti toxin and tetanus •anti-toxin serum, is sponsored by the Red
Mogen Dovid for Palestine. Congressman EMANUEL CELLER of
New York is at the right.

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- erusalem Is urs':

Riding in jeeps,
members of the Stern extremist group are shown here picketing
the building in Jerusalem where Count Folke Bernadotte, UN
Mediator, wasjolding a press conference. The Sternists' banners
, read: "Stockholm. is yours--4rusalern is ours."

T wo Am ono 50,000:

These two youngsters, who are among the 50,000
homeless Jews who entered the State of Israel since January, with the aid of the $250,000,000
United Jewish Appeal, are surveying their new surroundings. American Jewry retains in a major
position of responsibility for scenes like these in the ports of Haifa and Tel Aviv where thousands
of displaced European Jews.are arriving to begin a new life, free of hate and homelessness.

