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Israel Awaits Crisis Solution;
Alone Backs Ben-Gurion

. Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News and
Reports by Jewish News Special Correspondents

Although the Israel Parliament on Wednesday morning voted
"no con-
.
fidence" in the proposal of Premier D avid Ben-Gurion to form a "caretaker
government" composed of seven Mapai members, the Jewish state carried on its
normal functions and showed no signs of panic over the crisis that was occasioned
by the resignation of the Ben-Gurion Cabinet.
In London, according to a report received by The Jewish News late on Tuesday,

Fence No Barrier:

When GUSTAVE
STIFEL, left, an Israeli citizen, came here recently for medi-
cal treatment, he did not dream that he would be reunited
with his brother, Dr. FRANK STIFEL, whom he last saw in
- his native Austria in 1937. Dr. Stifelis shown introducing his
daughter, Aurora, 3, to her uncle over the fence at Pier 61
following their arrival aboard the "General Howze" under the
auspices of United Service for New Americans, a United Jew-
ish .Appeal agency.

WTI Iteligions Division:

FRANK
-L. - WEIL (center) , honorary president of the National Jew-
ish Welfare Board, inducts =new leaders of JWB's Division of
Religious Activities headed by Rabbi MAX D. DAVIDSON
,(second from right) , of Perth Amboy, as chairman. Left to
:right: Rabbi JOSEPH LOOKSTEIN, New York, vice-chairman;
Rabbi SOLOMON B. FREEHOF, Pittsburgh, retiring chairman;
Mr. Weil; Rabbi Davidson, and Rabbi ABRAHAM FELDMAN,
Hartford, Conn., vice-chairman.

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Rabbi Judah L. Maimom, Israel Minister for Religions and a leading member of the Miz-
rachi, emphasized that the importance of the Cabinet crisis should not be exaggerated.
He declared that it would be wrong to believe that the situation will hamper or retard
the state's progress.
The vote came at the end of an 11-hour session which
was preceded by two adjournments to give the Premier
time to form a new coalition. Mapang, the religious bloc,
whose withdrawal from the Cabinet caused the crisis,
Heruth and the Communists opposed Ben-Gurion and only
Mapai voted to support him. Progressive, Sephardic and
WIZO delegates abstained from voting.
After the "no confidence" vote, Knesset voted 51 to 44
to order its judiciary committee to prepare within a fort-
night election laws fixing the date for balloting and other
technical details. Prior to the vote, Ben-Gurion delivered
a conciliatory speech calling upon the religious bloc and
Pinchas Rosen, Progressive, Minister of Justice, to remain
in the Cabinet, but they refused to -,accede due to the
absence of definite assurance to meet the religious bloc's
Premier Ben-Gurion
demands.
Mr. Ben-Gurion's . proposed "caretaker Cabinet" would consist of eight members,
seven of whom are members of Mapai, the Israel labor party. They are : Mr. Ben-Gurion,
Moshe Sharett, Eliezer Kaplan, Dov Joseph, David Remez, Golda Myerson and Zalman
Shazar. The eighth member would be Behor Shetreet, leader of the Sephardic community.
Before presenting the names of his ."caretaker government," Mr. Ben-Gurion review-
ed the events leading to his decision to throw the issue into the House. He reported
his decision to add a 13th Cabinet member outside the coalition—Jack Gering, South Af-
rican Jew and a non-party man. He said that he had taken this and other problems
before the Cabinet for approval last week, but got no decision. The Religious Bloc, he
said, asked until Sunday to reply, and when they failed to do so he asked President
Weizmann to call together the representatives of all =parties in an attempt to form a
new government.
Speaking of his government's program, the
Premier emphasized that "we deny that either full
Question Posed
capitalism or full socialism" is possible in Israel. He
By Jewish News:
insisted that both courses have always been present
in the country. He warned that "there will never be
"MUST Detroit have
a government in this country which will dare move
two
community organ-
from this line."

Crisis Will Not Affect Bond Drive

TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,
general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, who
left by air for New York via Paris, Oct. 16, said before
his plane took off that the resignation of the Israel
Cabinet will not affect the projected $1,000,000,000
Israel bond campaign in the U. S. He expressed confi-
dence that Israel's "process of absorption can keep up
with the rate of immigration through increased sup-
port of the UJA."

izations, and isn 't
there a way to com -
bine the two and to
create ONE ove ra I I
Jewish Kehillah?"

Read the answers of the
Jewish Welfare Federation
and the Jewish Community
Council on Page 2.

-In Primitive Tents:

The National
Israel and Jewish Reconstruction, to
Planning Conference
cbe held in Washington, D. C., Oct. 27-29, will develop an
over-all program of aid for immigrants to Israel, like the
mother and child shown above, who must still live in primi-
tive tents because of the lag in housing construction.

linildindi an Israel Cooperative:

do Ai

kiln:

A group of young immigrants is shown
here undergoing an emergency first aid course given by the
Red Mogen David, Israel's agency for Red Cross work, at
Rishon LeZion. Dr. I. KOTT, national chairman of the Red
4 Mogen David in Israel, is fifth from the right.

First

Holon, the fast-grow-
ing suburb of Tel Aviv, is the center of many cooperative enterprises of the Histadrut in
Israel. Above is a new building erected by Solel Boneh, to serve as the home of many
new shops and factories. Holon is practically a 100 per cent Histadrut community, en-
joying all of the social, educational and economic services of the cooperative labor move-
ment. Detroit's Israel Histadrut Campaign officers will be elected at a meeting at the
Labor Zionist Institute on Nov. 9. The local campaign is scheduled to start on Nov. 30, with
a rally at Northwest Hebrew Congregation

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