Davar Israel's. Leading Daily
THE JEWISH NEWS-3 Dinner-Concert to Open Israel Philharmonic Tour
Friday, October 20, 1950
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Is-
rael Philharmonic Orchestra will
launch its 10-week tour of the
United. Staes with an inaugural
dinner concert to be held Jan.
8. Jan Peerce, Metropolitan Op-
Israel, Lebanon Study
Border; Arab Families
Transferred to Egypt
Davar, the Histadrut Hebrew daily, which this year celebrated
its silver anniversary in its own modern printing plant in Tel
Aviv, is the most widely read newspaper in Israel. It speaks for
the 400,000 members of Histadrut. For a quarter of a century it
has been the voice of the pioneering forces in Israel. It was
founded by the late Berl Katznelson, in whose honor the Beth
Berl Institute has been established at Kfar Saba. Israel Foreign
Minister Moshe Sharett has been among Davar's editors.
Around the World . • •
A digest of current news reported by the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency.. the Israel Service of Information and the World
Jewish Affairs News Service.
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The Israel-.
Lebanese mixed armistice com-
mission met at Metullah, on the
Israel-Lebanon border, and dis- ∎
cussed the completion of bound-
ary demarcation between the
two states and the return of
Arab infiltrees to Lebanon. At
the conclusion of the meeting
the Lebanese officers were in-
vited by the Israelis to visit the
nearby Israel settlement of Kfar
Giladi.
Transfer of the last 75 Arab
families in Migdal Gad, in the
southern part of Israel, to Gaza,
in the Egytpian-held coastal
strip was completed.
Before leaving Israel territory,
the Arabs surrendered all their
Israel currency, receiving in ex-
change the equivalent in the sil-
ver coins issued under the old
Mandatory regime.
The Mandate currency is back-
ed by the Palestine Currency
Board in London and is still the
currency used in Jordan.
Some of the Arab families who
were interviewed by newspaper-
men said they had not been sub-
ject to any pressure to leave Is-
rael territory. About 150 Arabs
still remain in Migdal Gad
awaiting transfer to Ramleh of
Galilee.
Epilepsy strikes before the age
of 20 in about 75 per cent of all
cases.
era tenor, who recently returned
from Israel after a six-week en-
gagement with the Philhar-
monic, will be the soloist at the
dinner-concert and Leonard
Bernstein will conduct.
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The United State
NEW YORK—Dwight D. Eisenhower, president of Columbia
University, launched the $20,000,000 maintenance campaign of the
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, at services at
Temple Emanu-El. The fund supports a network of hospitals,
health and welfare agencies.
LAKE SUCCESS—Paying high tribute to the achievements
of the United Nation's International Children's Emergency Fund,
Dr. Joseph Oren, of Israel, asked the General Assembly's Social
Committee to continue the agency.
Israel
TEL AVIV—A 44 year-old watchman at the Mikveh Israel
agricultural college, who had served the institution for 15 years,
was found dead, believed victim of Arab infiltrees after police
dogs followed a series of tracks to the Arab triangle area . .
Swiss investors floated a company capitalized at $1,400,000 for
development of -Nathanya, which would permit the settling of 400
to 500 middle-class families in the next two years ... . President
Chaim Weizmann landed at Lydda Airport Oct. 12 on his return
from Paris, somewhat in advance of the date he was originally
scheduled to arrive. He was met at the airport by a guard of
honor, a representative of Premier David Ben Gurion; Mrs. Ben
Gurion; Labor Minister Golda Myerson; Dr. Dov Joseph, Minister
of Supply and Rationing; Communications Ministerd David Re-
mez; and Brig. yigal Yadin, Chief of staff of the Israel Army .. .
Forty thousand immigrants of the 90,000 housed in temporary
camps a few months ago, have already been transferred to semi-
permanent camps and work villages . . . The Revisionist Organiza-
tion, after an 18-month suspension of activities, has resumed work
as an affiliated body of the World Zionist Organization, Meir
Grossman announced.
JERUSALEM—The Keren Hayesod, Jewish Foundation Fund,
has reported a total of 245 new agricultural settlements in Israel
since its inception in May, 1948. Newcomers built 135,settlements,
while Israeli pioneers were responsible for 110 . . . Ten thousand
small sacks of soil from Mt. Zion have been sent to the U.S. to
Jewish burial societies for graves of orthodox Jews, to whom the
soil is sacred . . . Rescued from Yemen, were 300 Scrolls of the
Law and 2,000 Bibles, which arrived from Aden.
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Europe
BERLIN—Stressing the danger of a revival of anti-Semitism
in Germany, the Mother's League of Berlin submitted a resolution
to the Berlin municipality urging a fractional deduction from
building grants in compensation to Jewish victims of the Nazi
regime . . . A non-Jewish poetess, Ruth Hbffman, and Seigmund
Weltlinger, a writer, proposed the establishment here of a Jewish
cultural exhibit, to give the German people "a real picture of the
Jewish spirit."
ROME—Astorre Mayer, president of the Italian Zionist Feder-
ation, was named honorary consul in Milan after the establish•
men oaf Consular offices in the city was announced.
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