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VOLUME 16—No:( 1
Rquests Postponement of
Local, Find-Raising to Aid • Israel
InternationaLlisalem
Mapped by IMommission
WASHINGTON--(JTA)—Appeals to the Jewish community in the United States
to postpone for a year or two the raising of capital funds for new buildings for local
Jewish institutions and concentrate instead on helping the United Jewish Appeal to
achieve its goals in - order to strengthen the position of Israel were voiced here last
week-end by leading speakers at the two-day UJA Emergency National Conference.
Henry Montor, director of the UJA, revealed that - while the UJA raised $120,-
000,000 in the first eight months of 1948, only $84,000,000 was received in cash in the
same period this year. Other speakers described the financial situation in Israel as "very
grave." The conference adopted an emergency program to meet the "cash crisis'!' and
voted to reduce the allocation for local community needs to overcome the substantial
drop in cash receipts for the UJA.
Henry .Morgehthau Jr., general chairman of the UJA, who was scheduled to pre-
side at the conference suddenly took ill with pneumonia and is now in New York Hospi-
tal, in New York City, where his wife, who is also hospitalized, is reported to be "seri-
ously ill."
The parley decided to hold the National Conference of the UJA in Atlantic
City on Nov. 25 at which decisions will be made regarding the scope of the 1950 UJA
campaign.
Other decisions adopted by the move than 800 delegates from all parts of the
country attending • the conference provide for : 1. The immediate dispatch of "flying
squads" of UJA leaders to strategic parts of the country to speed the remittance of
all possible cash as quickly as possible; 2. The launching of extraordinary efforts with-
in the communities to speed the collection of all funds pledged to the UJA ; 3. The initia-
tion wherever \possible of supplementary campaigns to provide additional funds for the
UJA; 4. The establishment of a formula to assure the allocation of maximum funds
and the request that communities suspend all allotments until UJA requirements are
met; and 5. That communities make local bank loans at once to assure a substantial
flow of cash.
Louis Berry, chairman of the Detroit Allied Jewish Campaign of 1949, who
was one of the speakers for local communities, pledged his services to speed Ameri-
can Jewry's rededication to the UJA and in making the proposed "flying squads"
effective. Joseph Holtzman, another Detroit delegate, similarly volunteered his serv-
ices of the national UJA. Detroit was also represented by Mrs. Joseph 11. Ehrlich.
In a resolution covering plans • for the 1950 UJA campaign, communities were
urged to make no commitments locally relating to 1950 drives until after the Atlan-
tic City National Conference.
In a stirring address, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, • chairman of the American sec-
tion of the Jewish Agency, appealing to delegates to ask their communities to wait a
year or two on local Jewish projects because such a "diversion of funds from the WA
might prove fatal to Israel," declared that Israel is in "a state of war interrupted by
armistice," and warned that the Arabs were anxiously watching for the UJA to fail. He
asked that, rather than support "100 local projects which can be postponed" all avail-
able money be poured at once into Israel—"the thing really decisive" to the fate of all
Jews.
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LAUSANNE.—The Palestine ciliation Commission
committee on Jerusalem TuesdaI-lisheti its "instrument estab-
lishing a permanent internatiominte for the Jerusalem area."
In a preamble and 25 articles, 0:i-committee proposes to the
General Assembly the exclusion' Arab and Israel government
services from Jerusalem, the pr tion of mass immigration into
either the Jewish or Arab sectd the city, the establishment of
a UN guard to protect the Holrbs and approaches to them and
the complete demilitarization to entire Jerusalem area.
It also lays down the fror , of Jerusalem which are much
I the same as those outlined ble UNSCOP report, the western
border being Ein Karim, the hern border Shufat, the eastern
border Abu Dis and the soutl-Bethlehem. It divides the area
into Arab and Jewish zones nhlY corresponding to the present
military borders. It leaves aurity to local groups of two zones
except for certain functions revved for the UN Commissioner.
Jews and Arabs are ordet to "maintain in their respective
zones only such agencies al Officials and establish only such
administrative organs and RIC services normally necessary for
the administration of inunicilaffairs."
TEL AVIV.—Abraham 1?,, ti 24, who was arrested in Knes-
set Monday night when he fed a loaded sten gun at Premier
, David Beri-Gurion and othsrael parliament members seated
a hunger strike ?
on the speakers platform Iilon
*.t:
Tzafati, who is deicri:14Y his friends as a tall, dark-
skinned youth who is “pqful but somewhat crazy," asked
police officials to permit I to take his own life. He insisted
that he did not intend to i i t any members of the Israel cabi-
net but Instead planned . commit suicide before members of
Krtesset because his plan 1 the erection of a 12 story edifice
, ph the site of the ancien 'emple in Jerusalem to serve as a
center for world peace, il‘ccordance with Biblical prophecy;
had been turned down.
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The detained youth sathat failure of Knesset to adopt his
Plan was haStening the.tent of a third world war. Tzafati
• immigrated to Israel frolTeheran and is a shepherd in the,
Mapai setttlement Tel Ci(Pr. It was explained that the sten
gun in his possession wosued- to him and other members of
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his colony as a self-defer measure.
Achievements of thedstoric first session of Knesset were
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Finish 'heir Bridge to Horne in 5 710
Via UJA
By HENRY MORGENTHAU, Jr.
Chairman, United Jewish Appeal
The year 5710 is about to dawn on
a Jewish State which has established
itself firmly and proudly- among the
n
_ atigns of the world.
Israel has opened up a new era of
- hope for the Jewish people. At the
present time, homeless Jews seeking
to escape from the , misery of Europe
are streaming into Israel at the rate
of 20,000 a month. In the midst of a
war crisis, new settlements are being
built and the program of economic
and cultural development is being in-
augurated. • It is the aim of the United
Jewish Appeal to raise the funds
needed to support mass immigration.-
I am sure we- will not fail the
wanderers who have come home. We
will not - fail the • heroic people of
Israel who are making every sacrifice
to keep the gates open and to give
their homeless brothers a decent home.
The work of rehabilitation in
Europe, the program =in Israel and the
adjustment of refugees in the • United
States are , vital. Each of the agencies
of the UJA—Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, United. Palestine Appeal and
United Service of New Americans--:-
has an indispensable role to play in
the great homecoming of 5710. They
form the chain of rescue, the bridge
of hope, the road to final deliverance.
Any lack of support anywhere along
the line can disorganize the whole
program. There must be no weak
links became of lack ,of dollars.