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Friday, August 11, 1950

Young Citizen

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

United States

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Israel

JERUSALEM—Twenty thousand Bedouins of the Negev will
be innoculated against tuberculosis during August . . . The settle-
ment of Kiryat Anavim, ten miles west of here, recently cele-
brated its thirtieth anniversary . . . A three-way celebration, Pre-
mier Ben Gurion attending, was marked in Eilat, on the Gulf
of Aqaba at the tip of Israel, when the ancient town marked a
new housing development, inauguration of telephone service and
launching of a water supply line.
TEL AVIV—Ten teen-age Bulgarian bOys and girls were ex-
pelled from the Givat Brenner agricultural training school for
organizing a Communist underground in the colony. They ad-
mitted membership in the Communist Party . . . Mordecai Namir
and Ehud Avriel, Israel ministers to Russia and Hungary, respect-
ively, left here to resume their posts . . . Eamon De Valera, former
Prime Minister of Eire, left by plane after a six-day visit, said his
visit had corrected "a lot of wrong notions" about Israel . . •
One Israel soldier was killed and two wounded in a clash with
Arab infiltrees in the Sharon district. More than 500 Arab in-
filtrees were seized in the Jerusalem diserict, their weapons con-
fiscated, and the infiltrees turned over to the Isral Army. The
infiltrees had killed 10 Jews and • eight Arabs, carrying out 200
robberies and • thefts, the damages amounting to nearly $90,000.

Europe

STOCKHOLM — Europahjelpen, SWedish relief organization,
will contribute $150,000 to Youth Aliya for establishment of a
hospital in Israel for orphaned immigrant children suffering from
chronic diseases.
ROME—Reports circulated here of the arrest in Hungary of
several Jewish 'members of the Hungary Socialist Party. The ar-
rested included two former members of the Hungarian Parliament.
DUSSELDORF, Germany—Eight persons, who assaulted two
Jews in Bensheim last month, were charged with "disturbing
public order."

North Africa

TUNIS—The provisional North African bureau of Hatzohar

Zionist Revisionist Union urged Israel to transfer to Israel the
remains of Vladimir Jabotinsky, now buried in the United States.

Australia

SYDNEY—Former inmates of Nazi concentration camps in
Sidney' and Melbourne have united to put forward claims against
the German government.
MELBOURNE—In response to representations from the Exec-
utive Council of AuStralian Jewry, pointing out that increasing
numbers of anti-Semitic and Fascist publications have been im-
ported into Australia in recent weeks, the Minister for Trade and
Customs has ordered detention of all imported literature of a
seditious nature.

JNF Designated Sole Purchaser
Of Arab, German Lands in Israel

NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
Jewish National Fund has been
designated by a special act of
the Israel parliament as the
principal body authorized to
purchase land holdings of the
Arabs who fled the country dur-
ing the recent Arab-Jewish hos-
tilities, as well as the property
belonging to enemy Germans,
according to a cable received
from Jerusalem by the JNF of-
fice in New York.
Under the new law, the Jewish
National Fund . will be enabled
to acquire title to tracts of land
constituting the bulk of the
country's entire area, including
entire towns and villages. Not
more than 100,000 dunams of
urban property may, according
to the provisions of the bill, be
sold to private buyeis. The ac-

NEW YORK—Russian Premier Josef Stalin, writing in the

Communist party organ "Bolshevik," branded as "Talmudists"
those dogmatic Marxists who hold Marxist formulas, successful
in one particular period, valid forever . . . An Israel film, processed
in the United States left here for Venice as Israel's contribution
to the International Film Festival in Italy.
PHILADELPHIA—Dropsie College, which established its In-
stitute for Israel and the Middle East two years ago, will open
a field station in Israel this fall for practice field training . .
Conservative rabbis here have offered to join with the Orthodox
rabbinate in the handling of all matters of Kashruth under the
widened program of the reorganized Vaad Hakashruth.
TRENTON, New Jersey—The State Commission on DPs re-
ported their settlement in this state has not dispossessed Amer-
ican workers of jobs; has caused no appreciable disturbance in
the normal employment picture.
SAN FRANCISCO—West coast offices of the National Jewish
Welfare Board are ready to meet increased needs of the armed
forces for religious materials and Kosher foods . . . Mrs. Milton L.
Colton, chairman, Jewish Welfare Board Women's Division, for
the Sixth Army area, received an award for service at the first
anniversary celebration of the Enlisted Men's Club at the Presidio
here.
OAKLAND, Calif.—Plans for a Jewish population census in
Alameda and Contra Costa counties this' October are complete.
TUCSON—The Anti-Defamation League film, "Your Neighbor
Celebrates" depicting various Jewish holidays, has been acquired
by the University of Arizona.

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tion of the parliament puts an
end to the current talk about
Israel's plans to seize the Arab
land without due compensation.
According to the advices from
Jerusalem, the sums which the
JNF pays for the Arab-held land
will be deposited with the Israel
Treasury to be applied, at some
later stage in the negotiations
with the Arabs, to a compensa- 0
tion fund agreed upon by Israel
and the Arab states.

UN Decision Near
In Israel-Lebanon Dispute

LAKE SUCCESS, (JTA)—UN
Secretary -General Trygve Lie
indicated that United Nations
authorities in Palestine were
nearing a solution of the recent
Lebanese plane incident on
rael's northern border.

A six-year-old immigrant
boy in Jerusalem is shown on
his way to a Chassidic school.
American Jewry's support of
the United Jewish Appeal pro-
vides for tFie needs of religious
groups in Israel, Europe and
North Africa.

Mr. Samuel Pearl has at present a supply of fresh-catch

Zealots See Heresy
At Biological Institute

HAIFA, (JTA) — The "Neturei
Karta," Israel's religious zealots,
who have caused Israel author-
ities trouble in Jerusalem over
Sabbath observance, are threat-
ening action also in Haifa, it
was reported' today.
The head of the Biological In-
stitute_ here has received anony-
mous letters warning him to re
move a collection of "unclean
animals" from the Institute
building on MOunt Carmel. The
letters threatened destruction of
the animals and said police help
would be of no avail. The ani-
mals are being used by the In-
stitute for experimental pur-
poses.

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South America

BUENOS AIRES—$300,000 will be raised here through the sale

of burial plots to wealthy members of the Jewish community.
One-third of the funds will go to Israel; another third for con-
struction. of Jewish school buildings; the remainder for Jewish * Shelf area 14.65 square
feet—more than usual.
educational activities, according to General Assembly of the Ash-
zenazi Kehillah, in charge of Jewish community cemeteries here. * Genuine DEEPFREEZE
freezer compartment
IRO, JDC Plan will Aid
holds 22 pounds of froz-
en food.
Aged Hague Refugees
* Full width vegetable
THE HAGUE, (JTA)—A group
crisper.
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A tent vil- of aged refugees here has been
lage to be known as "Kfar Mac- assured
life-long
support
as
a
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10-p
o i n t temperature
cabi" is being erected near here result of a unique plan worked
control.
to accommodate 600 foreign and out by representatives of the In-
15l Israel athletes who will par- ternational Refugee Organiza-
ticipate in the Maccabiah.
tion, Joint Distribution Commit-
The village will have modern tee and the Dutch Government.
showers and a host of other
The refugees, most of whom
equipment for use of the ath- fled to Holland from Germany
letes. The Israel Supply Min- and Austria during the Hitler
istry will provide special food regime, will receive 30 guilders
rations for the contestants, it monthly for life from the Com-
was disclosed.
mercial Life • Insurance Corn-
pany as annuities purchased by
77 On British Team
LONDON, (JTA)—The British the Dutch Government with
Maccabiah Organizing Commit- funds provided by IRO and JDC.
tee announced that 77 athletes This is the first time that "hard,..
have been selected for the Brit- core" refugees have been re-
ish Maccabiah team. The team established on a basis of receiv-
includes two girl athletes, three ing annuities.
boxers, 15 football players, three
cyclists, six fencers, 14 swim-
English Chalutzim
mers (including four girl swim-
A total of 64 Chalutzim pro-
219 Michigan Ave.
mers), eight tennis and three ceeded to Israel from England
OPPOSITE BOOK-CADILLAC HOTEL
table tennis players, three during the first half of 1950, the
weight-lifters, a wrestler and a Palestine Office of the Jewish
seven-man basketball team.
Agency reported.

Maccabiah Tent
Village Going Up

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