Agency Begins Fund-Raising Check;
Hadassah to Maintain Separate Drive

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The'
Jewish Agency central licensing
committee, which is empowered
to either permit or prohibit the
raising of funds abroad for Is-
raeli institutions and to check
any fund-raising activities con-
ducted in the United States and
in other countries on behalf of
—Israel, has started functioning:
The committee, formed after
consultations with the Israel
Government and with represen-
tatives of Jewish relief and wel-
fare organizations, including the
Joint Distribution Committee, is
composed of five members of
the Jewish Agency executive:
Dr. Itzhak Gruenbaum, M e i r
Grossman, Eliahu Dobkin, J.
Zerubavel and S. Z. Shraglai.
Dobkin explained that much
harm has been done in the
United States by the separate
drives conducted on behalf of
various institutions in Israel. At
least 120 such drives have been
conducted this year in America,
he said. He attacked the ORT
and the OSE declaring that
while these organizations have
hitherto worked outside of Is-
rael, they now claim to be do-
ing 70 per cent of the work

which is actually being done by
the Jewish Agency. The licens-
ing committee, he stated, is fully
empowered to consider any ap-
plication of any public institu-
tion trying to raise funds in
countries outside of Israel for
work in Israel. •
The committee will have the
right to approve and control
small collections raised in- any
country for any kind of work in
Israel, he added. It can prohibit
certain collections and it can
study the balance sheets of any
collection, he pointed out.
Hadassah will continue to
maintain a separate fund-rais-
ing drive in the United States,
Mrs. Rebecca Shulman, Hadas-
sah liaison officer here, told a
press conference. She stressed
that Hadassah's educational
work and its fund-raising acti-
vities are indivisible.
Mrs. Shulman said that she
had explained Hadassah's posi-
tion to Premier David Ben Gur-
ion that the Premier indicated
he -understood the position
clearly and appreciated the need
for independent fund raising for
its projects, which are not hi -
eluded in the United Jewigh
Appeal.

THE JEWISH NEWS-3

Friday, August 26, 1949

Syria-Israel Talks
On Despite. Coup

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Despite
the recent change in the Syrian
Government, the Syrian mili-
tary delegation to the mixed Sy-
rian-Israeli armistice commis-
sion attended a scheduled meet-
ing at Rosh Pinah. The con-
ference was understood to have
discussed the evacuation of Sy-
rians from Tel Azizat.
Gen. William E. Riley, chief of
the UN truce staff, expressed
the hope that the new regime
in Syria would honor the armis-
tice agreement signed between
Israel and the predecessor Sy-
rian government. Gen. Riley was
commenting on the overthrow
and execution of "strong man"
President Husni Zaim.
Competent observers believe
that Husni Zaim's execution
and the assumption of power by
his opponents is bound to have
an adverse effect on Israel. It is
expected that one result of the
coup will be that the United
States will accelerate., its pres-
ent policy toward the Arab
states, a policy which is de-
scribed here as "coddling the
Arab states at the expense of
Israel."
The explosion- of an ammuni-
tion dump near the Damascus
Gate to the Old City of Jerusa-
lem was postponed indefinitely
by the Israeli authorities be-
cause it was feared that the
ciation of Engineers and Archi- blast might damage the Church
tects in Israel; Ludwig Samuel, of the Holy Sepulchre, located
of the Palestine Association of nearby. .
Jewish Economists in Jerusalem;
and Moshe Erwin Witkom, of the
Israel Embassy in Washington.

Cantor's Plea Brings Forth Cash
For Quarter Million OA Payment

Seventy Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration and Allied Jewish Cam-
paign leaders had an inspiring
conference with one of the most
notable figures active in the
United Jewish Appeal d r i v e,
when Eddie Cantor took time
from his brief visit in Detroit
last week, on behalf of Boys-
vine, to meet with them at
Knollwood Country Club.
Cantor told the campaigners
how much the Jews of Israel and
Europe appreciated Detroit Jew-
ry's work in the Allied Jewish
Campaign. He also read a cable-
gram from Jerpsalem pleading
for immediate cash on AJC
pledges previously made.
As a result of the comedian's

S. African Jewish Leader
Views Communities Here

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Abel
Shaban, South African Jewish
leader and prominent industrial-
ist, arrived here following a
visit to Israel where he studied
possibilities for investments.
During his stay here he will
make an .extensive study of Am-
erican Jewish communal life.

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Lie Urges UN Priority for JVA;
Israel 28th to Sign Genocide Pact

LAKE SUCCESS, (JTA)—Nine
representatives of Israel attend-
ed the opening session of the
first United Nations' conference
on the conservation of natural
resources. They are among the
eight largest representations in
a conference to which 50 coun-
tries have sent representatives.
In opening -the session of some
600 scientists, U.N. Secretary-
General Trygvie Lie reiterated
the importance of giving a high-
priority to the development of
the Jordan Valley as one of the
principal projects in the Middle
East. He also stressed the im-
portance of giving the Middle
East the right of way in devel-
opment programs.
Among the seven papers sub-
mitted by the Israeli scientists,
one by Shragai Irmay, of the
hydraulics laboratory of the
Haifa Institute of Technology,
-presents the United Nations for
the first time with a detailed
blueprint for the reclamation of
the Negev and other areas in
Palestine through - the develop-
ment of the Jordan Valley Au-
thority scheme.
Two other Israeli papers, sub-
mitted by Shmuel Duvdivani, of
the Dew Research Station of
Karkur, Avi Salkind, hydraulic
engineer of the Palestine Water
Company, and Adolph Reisen-
berg, associate professor on soil
science of the Hebrew Univer-
sity, deal with the problem of
Palestine's need for water.
A paper submitted by Rudolf
Moshe Bloch, consulting chemist
to Palestine Potash, Ltd., deals
with mineral problems. Papers
Will also be submitted by D. E.
Bergman, of the Weizmann In-
stitute of Science at Rehovot;
Alfred Freudenthal, of the Asso-

Israel became the 28th na-
tion to sign the UN conven-
tion on -the 'prevention and
punishment of the crime of
genocide. Aubrey S. Eban,
Israeli representative to the
United Nations, who signed
the convention, made the fol-
lowing statement:
"The signature of the geno-
dile convention by Israel
evokes - the memory of the
brutal slaughter of millions of
Jews by Nazi regimes in Europe.
Many peoples were afflicted
by this massacre, but none lost
a greater proportion of its
sons than did the Jewish
people.
"The United Nations, which
defeated the Nazi tyranny, has
in this convention expressed
the revulsion of civilized man-
kind against the dread con-
sequences of persecution and
-discrimination. Israel hereby
reaffirms its most intimate
concern for the protection and
observance of human rights
within the framework of he
United Nations."

Hechafutz Sponsors Oneg
Shabbat Friday Evening

An Oneg Shabbat will be
sponsored by the Detroit branch
of Hechalutz at 8:45 p.m. Fri-
day, Aug. 26, at the Labor Zion-
ist Institute, Linwood at Pasa-
dena. Feature of the evening
will be the Israel film, "House
in the Desert." The public is
invited.

Homes-Not-Tents-Is W A Plea

13 Countries Sign
Israel Trade Pacts

NEW YORK—The State of
Israel has recently concluded
barter agreements with 13
countries covering goods valued
at more than $30,000,000, accord-
ing to Israel Corporation of
America.
Under the agreements con-
cluded, Israel will supply citrus;
fruit juices, diamonds, artificial
teeth, textiles, chemicals, brush-
es, fountain pens, a variety of
other industrial products as well
'as books and religious articles.
In return, Israel will receive
grain, processed agricultural
products, agricultural machinery,
textiles, timber, bicycles, leather
goods, and other essential raw
material, semi - manufactured,
and consumer items.
The countries with which
Israel has signed barter agree-
ments include Beligum, Finland,
France, Holland, Austria, Hun-
gary, Poland, Sweden, Switzer-
land, Turkey and Yugoslavia.

appeal, t h e group responded _
with payments ' of $260,000, en-
abling the Federation to send
a quarter of a million dollars
to the United Jewish Appeal this
week.
Louis Berry, chairman of the
1949 campaign, called the gath-
ering "our opportunity to show
Eddie Cantor how we have
warmed with pride every time
we have- read of another of his
magnificent humanitarian ef-
forts." Berry also had a brief
private conference with Cantor.

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