THE JEWISH NEWS-3

Invasion of Iraqi Troops
Threatens Truce in Zion

Friday, September 17, 1948

Reservations on Bernadofte's Rulings Expressed by Shertok;
First Arab Magistrate Name d by Israeli Justice Ministry;
Czechs Reply to U . S. on Plane Flying

TEL AVIV (JTA).—A striking
change for the worse in the Pal-
estine military picture and in the
possibility of continued peace
took place with the arrival of a
large Iraqi force from Mafrak,
Transjordan. This brings the
strength of the Iraqi army to
about 10,000 men—the largest
Arab force in Palestine. It is also
equipped with modern American
transport and new types of fight-
er and bomber planes.
The Sternist daily newspaper,
Mivrak, was closed, and its editor.
M. Amicam, and publisher, I.
Perl, were arrested by Israeli po-
lice. The paper has been suspend-
ed indefinitely, due to contraven-
tion of the censorship regulations
by the staff. Mivrak - carried a
violent attack against the United
Nations truce observation staff
and against the British in the
matter of immigration restric-
tions. The article threatened ac-
tion against both the UN staff and
the British—it was assumed that
the "vengeance" would take place
outside Israel.
An official spokesman declared
that the Israeli Government had
no knowledge of the reported dis-
, appearance from Britain of four
Beaufighter planes i3 supposedly
heading for Palestine.
UN Mediator Wants UN

an Army court-martial and or-
dered the release of two Ortho-
dox soldiers sentenced to one
week's imprisonment for re-
fusal to cook a meal on the Sab-
bath. The case raised a storm
of protest both in the Cabinet
and among the people; the Miz-
rachi Labor Party held a public
protest rally. In the Cabinet,
Minister for Religion Judah L.
Fishman protested against the
court-martial sentence, assert-
ing that religious Jewry was
shocked by it. He was support-
ed by Minister for the Interior
Itzhak Gruenbaum who said
that although he personally was
not religious he supported Fish-
man's position as a matter of
guaranteeing freedom of con-
science.

The Israeli Ministry of Justice
announced the appointment of
the first Arab to an official posi-
tion within the Israeli court sys-
tem. He is Aliz Jarjura, who
served as a magistrate under the
Palestine Mandate Government,
and who has been named to the
same position in Nazareth.

Aubrey Eban, Israeli repre-
sentative to the United Nations,
changed his name to Abba Eben
in line with the general policy
toward Hebraization of names.
In Hebrew Eben means "stone."

Azriel Schwartz was named
The surest way to secure peace counsellor of the Israeli legation
in Palestine is through a United in Warsaw.
Nations decision which the Jews
and Arabs should be called upon
to accept, UN mediator Count
Folke Bernadotte declared. Speak-
ing to a press conference after a
two-hour meeting with Foreign
Minister Moshe Shertok, the me-
diator revealed that his report to
the forthcoming meeting of the
UN General Assembly in Paris
would contain his "conclusions"
on a workable basis for peace in
Palestine.
Shertok voiced strong opposi-
tion to continuance of an indefin-
ite truce, insisting that a definite
term be set to the cease-fire. The
Foreign Minister told Bernadotte
that a protracted truce could not
force Israel to abandon its prin-
ciples.
Bernadotte told newsmen that
peace was nearer than at any time
since the truce began, but refused
to give reasons for his belief.

to Impose Peace Conditions

Mr. Shertok expressed strong
reservations on the demilitari-
zation of Jerusalem, pointing
out that since the city was vir-
tually ringed by Arab forces the
Jews could not agree to with-
draw their armed forces unless
and until they were assured of
an adequate UN force to pre-
vent the Arabs from seizing the
demilitarized city at will.

Shertok attacked the central
truce supervisory board, during
his talk with Bernadotte, for the
recent decisions they announced
on the strength of Arab state-
ments and without giving the
Jews a hearing. He reportedly
enumerated many cases wherein
Israel challenged the truce board's
decisions.

(At Lake Success, it was an-
nounced that UN mediator Ber-
nadotte has not made any final
rules concerning the admission
of men of military age as immi-
grants to Israel. A cable from
his headquarters in Haifa to
UN headquarters said that the
mediator told this to a press
conference in Haifa.

Following the policy of the
World Zionist Organization of
separating the world Zionist
movement from the internal po-
litical affairs of Israel, the world
executive of the Revisionist Party
adopted a dedsion which makes
it possible fr Revisionists in
Israel to amalgamate with the
Irgun-sponsored Freedom Move-
ment in the formation of a joint
parliamentary group in the forth-
coming Israeli parliamentary elec-
tions.
The role of President Truman
in helping the establishment of
Israel and its achieving interna-
tional recognition was lauded by
Eliahu Epstein, Israeli special
representative to Washington,
who is here engaging in high level
policy conferences with Foreign
Office officials.

The Israeli Cabinet overruled

Grand Rapids Lodge
To Be Guests of Zager
Bnai Brith Group Here

The Julius Houseman Bnai
Brith lodge degree team of Grand
Rapids will be the guests of the
Rabbi Mandel M. Zager Lodge
of Detroit at its first open social
";':.meeting of the
year, to be held
at 8:30 p. M.
Tuesday, Sept.
21, at the Rose
Sittig Cohen
Bldg., according
to program
chairman Louis
Schneider.
The 14 - man
Houseman team
will initiate for-
M. M. Lowe mally the new
members of the Zager Lodge.
The program will include reci-
tals by Morris Kleiman, Benja-
min T. Smith, Paul 0. Liebert
and Samuel H. Himelstein; vocal
selections by Sydney Muskin,
David Solomon, Jack Tannen-
baum, Joseph Weiner, Isadore
Robbins, Maurice Glaser, Louis
Weiner and Seymour Rapaport;
piano accompaniment by Morris
Berkovitz and Leo Winick.
In line with the present Bnai
Brith Aid-to-Israel campaign, the
two jeeps purchased for Israel
by the Zager Lodge and Chap-
ter will be on display.
Maxwell M. Lowe, Zager Lodge
president, has issued invitations
to the chapter, their friends and
members of the Detroit Bnai
Brith Council to attend this inter-
city social event.
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Berl Locker Named World
Zionist Executive Chairman

Dr. Israel Goldstein Predicts Budget of $192,000,000 for
Jewish Agency for the Coming Year; Revisionists in
Jerusalem Split, Majority Merging With Irgun

JERUSALEM (JTA) — At the
first meeting of the Jerusalem
members of the newly elected
World Zionist Executive, Berl
Locker was elected chairman of
the executive and was put in
charge of public relations. Dr.
Israel Goldstein • of New York
was elected treasurer. He re-
turned to the United States, but
is scheduled to assume his office
here within a month.
Another American elected to
serve on the Jerusalem executive
is Haim Greenberg, Laborite,
who will be in charge of the
education and culture depart-
ment, but is not expected to as-
sume his duties immediately.
Other portfolios were divided
among the members of the Jeru-
salem executive as follows:
Rabbi Wolf Gold, Mizrachi, in
charge of Jerusalem develop-
ments department; Eliahu Dob-
kin, Laborite, heads organiza-
tional department; Itzhak Wer-
fel, Mizrachi, in charge of hous-
ing program for refugee immi-
grants; Jacob Zerubavel, United
Workers Party, responsible for
department to care for Oriental
Jews; Moshe Kolodny, General
Zionist, continues to head Youth
Aliyah movement; Levi Shkolnik,
Laborite, responsible for coloniza-
tion and agriculture. Eliezer Kap-
lan, Laborite, and S. Z. Shragai,

Mizrachi, were given no port-
folios.

Crisis in Schools

The economics department,
under Grossman, is charged with
four functions: Mobilization of
p:ivate capital for investment in
Israel; supplying information
abroad of the economic develop-
ment of Israel; fostering an Israel.
export program and, building up
a tourist trade for Israel.
David Remez, Communications
Minister, and Aaron Zisling,
Agriculture Minister, members of
the special Cabinet committee on
Jerusalem, • participated in the
discussion on education. The
problem is becoming acute be-
cause schools throughout Jeru-
salem and Israel are scheduled
to open next week and the
Agency has taken no action to
offer financial aid despite the
fact that the school system is in
financial difficulties.

Agency Budget of $192,000,000

Dr. Goldstein said that he fore-
saw a budget of $192,000,000 for
the Jewish Agency this year. Of
this sum about $72,000,000 will
be allocated for immigration and
$24,000,00 for colonization.
The immigration rate to Israel
is expected to be about 10,000
per month, he declared. He esti-
mated that this year, as in the
past, from 65 to 75 per cent of
the Agency's receipts will come
from American Jewry.

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