THE JEWISH NEWS-3
Advances Reported on Many
Fronts Within Israel Borders
Significant events in Israel,
and throughout the world with
relation to Israel, occurred dur-
ing the past week.
Topping the news were two
events—the announcement that
Dr. James G. MacDonald, Special
U. S. Representative in Israel,
was called to Paris to confer with
Secretary of State Marshall, and
that Abdullah of Transjordania
had himself "crowned" "King of
Palestine."
The Israeli Government has
agreed to accept all Jewish
refugees in China desiring to
leave, according to Shanghai
officials of the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee and of Palamt,
the immigration unit of the
Jewish Agency. A total of
5,000 Europeans, plus another
4,000 Russian Jews, who have
been in China since before the
Hitler regime, are involved.
Israel informed Dr. Julian
Huxley, director general of the
UN Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, that al-
though the Jewish State was rep- -
resented at the previous
UNESCO meeting in Mexico
City there will be no Israel rep-
resentative at the UNESCO
gathering in Beirut. United Na-
tions Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization decided in
Beirut that observers of Jewish
international non-governmental
organizations should be admitted
to the conference, it was reported
Isere today from the Lebanese
capital.
Maurice Fischer, Israeli repre-
sentative in Paris was informed
by UNESCO secretariat that the
Lebanese government has re-
fused to issue visas to Israeli
observers. UN employees of the
Jewish faith who are going to
Beirut for the UNESCO meeting
will receive humiliating and dis-
criminating treatment.
Peter Bergson (Hillel Kook),
who returned to the U.S. to
liquidate the Hebrew Committee
for National Liberation, charged
that Israel is being fought not
by the Arabs but by the British.
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., na-
_ tional UJA chairman, in a radio
broadcast stated that enforcement
of the UN Security Counbil's de-
cision that Israeli troops .with-
draw from their Negev positions
will only encourage the Arab
states to continue the war in
Palestine.
Behor Shitreet, Israeli Min-
ister of Minority Affairs, stat-
ed last week that 100,000 Arabs
now living within Israel have
equal status in every respect
with the Jewish population.
Prof. R. Bacci, head of the
Israel Government Statistics De-
partment, supervised the first
Israeli national census which
was completed last week. The
national elections are scheduled
to be held in Israel in mid-
January. --
Arab invasion armies are be-
ing supplied with material by a
British "air lift," Al Hamishmar
charges.
Land abandoned by Arabs is
being tilled by Jews and 450,-'
000 dunams already are being
cultivated, Agriculture Minister
Aaron Zisling reported. A fund
of $4,000,000 is being established
to aid farmers.
The Israel Government clos-
ed the Jerusalem branch of
the Ottoman gank and charg-
ed it with "trading with the
enemy." B r i t is h-controlled
Barclays Bank reopened its
- Nazareth branch and is con-
- ducting business under Israeli
protection.
The Israeli State Council voted
19 to 17 last week to limit the
forthcoming general election to
places under 'the jurisdiction of
the laws of the State of Israel.
The vote reversed the decision
Of the State Council's election
subcommittee which voted ear-
lier to give the franchise to Jew-
ish refugees detained by the
British on Cyprus.
The United Nations does not
have a large enough force to
enforce the Security Council or-
der to the Egyptians and Israelis
to withdraw their troops from
the Negev, Gen. William Riley,
chief of staff to the acting me-
diator and second in command
at the UN truce supervision ma-
chinery, declared at a press con-
ference in Haifa.
An Israeli spokesman denied a
report from Beirut that Egyptian
troops smashed their way out of
Israeli encirclement in the Faluja
area and made their way to He-
bron to join other units of the
Egyptian invasion force.
Nearly
115,000 immigrants
reached Israel since 1947, Immi-
gration Minister Moshe Shapiro
said. He added that 35,000 more
immigrants were expected to ar-
rive in November and December.
The force of arms has decided
the Palestine issue, Gen. Charles
De Gaulle, former presiderit of
the French Provisional Govern-
ment, declared at a press con-
ference in Paris. The issues of
the Negev, from which the Unit-
ed Nations has ordered the
Israeli forces to withdraw, will
also be solved militarily, he de-
clared.
Last-minute intervention by the
United States delegate Philip C.
Jessup, taking place in full view
of the press gallery, brought a
sudden and sensational end to the
Palestine debate in the UN Politi-
cal Committee and caused Bri-
tain's Minister of State Hector
McNeil to withhold delivery of a
speech fully supporting the Ber-
nadotte plan in Paris on Nov. 17.
A new airlift has been added to
the immigration schedule operat-
ing between Europe and Israel.
Austria inaugurated air shipment
of displaced persons to the Jew-
ish state with a flight of 45 refu-
gees from Salzburg.
Friday, November 26, 1948
Duarte Calif. Medical Center Patients
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Thanks for Bouquet, Mr. Kasle
Editor, The Jewish News:
Please accept my personal
compliments and respect for your
generous, community-minded ex-
pression in dedicating your Nov.
5 issue to Education Month
which urges parents to give their
children, who are the future
citizens of this community, a
Jewish education.
Our community is indeed
fortunate to have men with such
sincerity, who feel the need for
Jewish education and good citi-
zenship not only in this commun-
ity but, nationally as well, at the
head of -a Jewish paper.
It is indeed a privilege for me
to be able to write this letter
to you. Again, with utmost
praise, I am
ABE KASLE,
President, United Hebrew
Schools.
Zionists Honor Goldstein
NEW YORK (WNS)—Over 250
Zionist leaders paid tribute here
this week to Dr. Israel Goldstein,
newly elected treasurer of the
JeWish Agency for Palestine at
a dinner tendered jointly in his
honor by the Zionist Organiza-
tion of America and the United
Palestine Appeal.
The gathering was attended by
top ranking Zionists leaders,
members of the Jewish Agency
Executive, and officials of the
Israeli Government.
Patients chat and relax at The Mount Sinai-Duarte' National
Medical Center at Duarte, Calif., where care is given free to indigents
suffering from tuberculosis, cancer, heart disease, non-tuberculous
chest ailments and other major long term illnesses.
Egyptians Break Truce; Israel Army
Intercepts Ammunition Sent as Food
Direct JTA Teletype
Wires to The .Jewish News
TEL AVIV (JTA).—Shelling of
a police station at the settlement
of Imara and various sectors of
the Mivtahim settlement, both in
the Negev and east of Rafa, con-
tinued through Monday, an offi-
cial Israeli communique stated.
A number of Israelic casualties
have been inflicted, and the Egyp--
tians still hold the positions they
seized last week-end in truce vio-
lations.
Commenting on reports of peace
negotiations between Israel and
various Arab states, a foreign of-
fice spokesman said that "what-
eVer contacts with the Arab states
have been reported could not be
described as peace talks. The
Israeli authorities are as anxious
as always to begin peace talks
with the Arab states and would
do all in their power to help all
the Arab states wishing to begin
such negotiations to do so."
A "food" parcel dropped by an
Egyptian plane for Arab' troops
surrounded in the Faluja area
was picked up by Israeli troops
when it fell wide of its mark. The
Jews found that the parcel con
tamed not food for the Egyptian
troops, but various military sup-
plies, including ammunition.
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