n Dollar Program for Israel
Inspired by igh Lev I of Unity
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THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
of Jewish Events
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
WASHINGTON, D. C.—American Jewry's most responsible
leaders, representing every movement that is dedicated to the ful-
fillment of the communal and , social needs of Jews everywhere,
rose to new heights of consecrated devotion to the ca use of Israel's
upbuilding when they resolved, at the National Planning Confer-
ence for Israel and Jewish Reconstruction, at Hotel Statler here,
during the past week-end, to work towards translating into reality
the three-year program to provide $1,000,000,000 for Israel.
It was a remarkable conference. Two days prior to its official
opening—on Oct. 25—hundreds of leaders began to arrive in Wash-
ington from coast to coast. On Oct. 26, prior to the official opening
of the sessions, more than 500 men and women participated in
debates—many of them heated and controversial—over local con-
ditions as they affect the national situation in its relation to the
projected effort for Israel.
When the sessions opened Officially on Friday, the debates
became more heated. Viewpoints of the Council of Federation
and Welfare Funds were projected into the debates and fears
crept in that the plans for . Israel might meet unexpected snags.
But when Israel Ambassador to the United States, Aubrey Eban,
rose to say the final words at the closing meetine , of the confer-
ence on Sunday—after differences of opinion ad been ironed
out and the four-point program was adopted—it became evident
that enthusiasm and devotion ruled the day; that consecration
to service dominates American Jewry; that dedication to the
ideal of seeing Israel through her crises is far more important
to the Jews of America than minor local controversies.
The historic conference went on record extending American
Jewry's program of action to the field of practical effort—com-
plementary to philanthropy—calling for grants in aid to Israel by
the American government and expressing the view that this coun-
try should assume the role of partnership in Israel's struggle for
democracy in the Middle East.
Spokesmen for the government of the United States expressed
confidence in Israel in their comments on the projected program.
Leon Keyserling, chairman of the. President's Council of Economic
Advisers, pointed to Israel's economic maturity in assuming finan-
cial obligations for large-scale industrial development. Secretary
of the Treasury John W. Snyder similarly expressed this Govern-
ment's confidence in Israel's program.
Recognizing the existence of a desperate financial situation,
the conference called upon representatives of various communi-
ties to make available to the United Jewish Appeal, before Dec.
31, the sum of $50,000,000, and to that end nearly $6,000,000
was subscribed at Sunday's meeting.
Initial, debates, at the session of the program planning com-
mittee and at the opening sessions of the conference, centered
around unification of campaigns and abandonment of some drives
now conducted by national organizations. It was on this score that
Isidore Sobeloff, director of 'the Jewish Welfare Federation of De-
troit, raised an issue which he based on a challenge whether there
is to be "business as usual" by Hadassah, Jewish National Fund,
Histadrut and others.
Another issue which emanated from Council of Federations
personnel had reference to the conflict between local and Israel
• needs. There was strong feeling that there should be pre-campaign
budgeting to assure in advance Israel's receiving a determined per-
centage of income from campaigns instead of the present system
in most cities according to which the United Jewish Appeal is given
allocations after the local agencies had been fully provided for.
'Mr. Sobeloff several times challenged the claims of national lead-
- ers that local agencies are receiving more than half the incomes
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I I i ring Israel s Message:
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Israel's
needs were outlined for the more than '1200 delegates at
the Washington conference that discussed a billion dollar
economic aid plan for the Jewish State by noted Israel lead-
- erso Representatives of 45 national Jewish organizations
heard to r.) Israel Finance Minister, ELIEZER KAPLAN:
.DR, NAHUM GOLDMANN, chairman of arrangements
committee: MRS. GOLDA MYERSON, Israel Labor Minister,
and ABBA EBAN, Israel Ambassador to the U. S.
VOL. 18—No. 8
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November 3, 1950
Ben-Gurion's Cabinet
Approved by Knesset
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM.—After hearing a foreign policy statement made by Foreign
Minister Moshe Sharett, the Israel Knesset voted confidence in the new Cabinet
formed by Prime Minister David Ben-Guroin.
Although the left-wing Socialist Mapam party requested that Mr. Sharett's
report be separated from the general debate, this was considered impossible be-
cause the Foreign Minister found it necessary to return to Lake Success on
Wednesday to take part in debates involving pressure upon Israel to assume re-
sponsibility for the Arab refugees.
Prime Minister Ben-Gurion reported that the new Cabinet would operate on
the basis of the four-year program approved by the Knesset in March, 1949, to-
gether with recently introduced economic reforms making concessions to the
business interests.
Ben-Gurion's Mapai party, with sev en seats and the most important port-
folios, will control the government. The Cabinet Ministers are:
Prime Minister and Defense Minister—David Ben-Gurion, Mapai.
Foreign Affairs—Moshe Sharett, Mapai.
Finance—Eliezer Kaplan, Mapai.
Education—David Remez, Mapai.
Labor and Social Insurance—Mrs. Golda Myerson, Mapai.
Communications—Dr. Bernard Joseph, Mapai.
Agriculture—Pinhas Lubianiker, Mapai.
Interior, jkalth and Inuoigration—Moshe Shapiro, Orthodox. 4046100)4•0100010k:
Religious Affairs and War Sufferers—Rabbi Judah Maimon, Orthodox,
Social Welfare—Rabbi Itzhak Meir Levin, Orthodox.
Justice—Pinhas Rosen, Progressive.
Police Affairs—Behor Shitreet, Sephardim.
Trade and Industry—Yakov Geri, Non-Political.
Until Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Geri had been known as Jack Gering, The Cabinet
said he would not be allowed to appear in the Knesset until he had changed his name
because of its similarity to that of the late Nazi Hermann Goering,
The Adventures of Captain Tov
New Comic Strip—Starts Nov. 10
A legendary hero, "Captain Toy," born of the strife and struggle of Israel
pioneers, will greet readers of The Jewish News with a hearty "Shalom" beginning
with our next week's issue. Mounted atop his faithful steed, "Mazal," the illustrious
"Captain Tov" gallops the sandy plains of Israel's Negev desert to ward off the
attacks of Arab Bedouin marauders and to aid pioneer settlements just as in the
glorious days of the Old American West. Watch for this comic strip next week
and every week in the Jewish News.
Workers
are shown preparing the founda-
tion stone-laying ceremonies for
the new Orde Wingate Children's
Home to provide care for 100
orphaned children at Kibutz Nir
Etzion in Israel in memory of
the British war hero who assisted
in the creation of Haganah,
New Home:
Scrolls Escape Nazis: Sixt y Sifre Tor-
ah, saved from the Nazis, recently arrived in Tel Aviv. They
were taken from synagogues in Denmark, Norway and Fin-
land by Christian clergymen and others before the Nazis
arrived to destroy them and lay hidden until the end of
World War II.