Around the World .

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A digest of current news reported by the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and the Israel Service of Information.

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The United States

NEW YORK—Dr. George Josephthal, director of the absorp-
tion department of the Jewish Agency, who arrived in this country
for a UJA tour, said that at least 80,000 Iraqi Jews must be moved
into Israel between April and December, as a result of the
decision of the Iraqi Parliament to permit Jews to leave Iraq .. .
The American pro-Falasha Committee has been revived, with Dr.
Charles P. Kramer as chairman and Dr. David deSola Pool, vice
chairman . .. Israel's first experimental shipment of oranges and
lemons to this country arrived from Haifa in good condition and
has passed inspection by the U. S. Department of Agriculture
plant quarantine officials. The 5,000 cases of citrus fruits will be
• on sale in time for Passover use . .. Reports reaching here reveal
that the Soviet authorities have closed down the last two Jewish
schools in the U. S. S. R. The schools operated in .Vilna and Kovno
until the end of the 1949 school year. . . . A gift shipment of 1,000
superior grade pedigreed hatching eggs, gift of Benedict B. Stock-
hold of New Jersey, was sent to Israel via Air France this week,
1 to improve the breed of white leghorn flocks at agricultural ex-
perimental stations in Israel.
LAKE SUCCESS—Emanuel J. Feign of the Israel Foreign
Office has been selected one of 29 persons, representing 20 mem-
ber nations, to make a working study of the United Nations.

Israel

JERUSALEM—The death toll in the mine explosion in Jeru-

salem, near the Jewish agricultural school which operates in the
demilitarized Government House, had reached six by last Friday.
Nineteen yduths were injured. A memorial to the fatally injured
boys, immigrants from Turkey, will be established by the Pioneer
Women's Organization . . . Each Jew leaving Iraq for Israel will be
permitted to take the equivalent of $560 in cash. • However, he
inay sell his property only to Iraqis in Iraq. After obtaining his
exit visa, no Jew may remain in Iraq longer than two weeks .. .
The Knesset moved to its third home in 13 months last week,
when it transferred to the Froumine building.
TEL AVIV—A Jewish school operated by the Alliance Israelite
Universelle in Beirut was blasted by a time bomb. One person
is known to have been killed. The bomb was planted by Arab
Saboteurs . . Israel and France have concluded an agreement
providing for the purchase by the Jewish state of more than
$1,000,000 worth of kosher frozen meat, frozen fish and lumber
produced in France . . . A $3,400,000 trade agreement between
Israel and Uruguay has been signed . . . Nearly 2,000 persons will
be moved out of the immigrant camps in the next six weeks, Jew-
ish Agency sources said here . . . The body of the young Jewish
heroine, Channa Czenesh, who was executed behind Nazi lines in
Hungary during World War II; while on an Allied mission, will be
given military burial on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem . . . Israel's
cost of living dropped one point in February.
HAIFA—Israel troops and police held a seven hour house-to-
- house search of villages in Western Galilee after a clash between
Once and Arabs. They rounded up a number of Arabs who
crossed the frontier illegally and returned them to London . . .
• Shar Haliya reception camp, which is the gateway to Israel for
every ninth citizen, was one year old last week. A staff of 400,
mans the former army camp, which now houses 5,000 immigrants.

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LONDON—Political resolutions pledging to the Jewish Agency
-"the allegiance and sacrifice of British Jewry in support of the
immigration into Israel of hundreds of thousands of Jews" were
adopted at the annual conference of the British Zionist Federa-
tion. The delegates also called on the British government to
accord de jure recognition to Israel . . . An organized group of
Jews will shortly leave Portugal for Israel for the first time since
the establishment of the new state ... Legal experts representing
various Jewish - organizations have been organized into a commit-
tee to draft a memoranduth to the United Nations, petitioning
for international action to help secure the return to the Jewish
community of Dutch Jewish war orphans still in non-Jewish fos-
ter homes . . . Two Britons were indicted on charges of creating
panic in a crowded movie theater during the showing of "Sword
in the Desert."
THE HAGUE—The archives of the Nuremberg trials of 22
leading Nazis have arrived here for safekeeping by the Inter-
' national Court of Justice.
BUCHAREST—Six communal leaders from various parts of
Romania have been removed from the central committee of the
Jewish Democratic Committee for "failure to carry on activity
within the framework of the committee." . . A planned propa-
ganda campaign against Israel was announced here by the Com-
munist-controlled Jewish democratic committee . . . Five thousand
Jews are currently receiving government pensions as victims of
Fascism. There are still 3,000 applications from widows, orphans
and crippled s victims to be processed.
ZURICH.L-The executive committee of the Union of Swiss
Jewish Communities has called on the Swiss government to make
a "last minute arrangement" to change its plans to hand over
to the Polish government the property of heirless Polish Jewish
refugees who fled Hitler.
KIEL, Germany—Wolfgang Hedler's trial in a denazification
court was again postponed, to give him time to recover from
injuries suffered when he was beaten up by Social Democratic
deputies at the Bonn Parliament.
MUNICH—Joachim Nehring, head of the neo-Nazi under-
'ground movement "Katakombe Scheinwerfer" (Catacomb Search-
light) was arrested by German police acting on orders from
Camille Sachs, head of the Bavarian Denazification Ministry.

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