Senator Lehman
and Jewish
Members of
Congress
Bernard Isaacs
Wins Acclaim
In Israel
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THE JEWISH NE S
A Weekly Review
of Jewish Events
and
'The Cohens':
New Jewish
Comic Strips
Pages 10, 24
VOLUME 1 8—No. 10 708 David Stott. Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1155 Detroit, Michigan, November 17, 1950 .44007
WA Launches Emergency Drive
For $50,000,000 in Cash Before
End of 1950 in New Rescue Move
For the first time in its 12-year history, the United Jewish
'Captain Toy'
Appeal
on Sunday launched a short-term emergency campaign to raise $50,-
000,000 in cash before the end of 1950 to effect the immediate rescue
of large numbers of Jews from eastern Europe, Iraq and Iran whose
legal right to leave for Israel may be withdrawn at any time.
. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., general chairman of the United Jewish
Appeal, emphasized that both the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the
Joint Distribution Committee, which receive their funds from the
United Jewish Appeal, are without resources necessary to carry them
through the "critical winter months that lie ahead." He explained that
the United Jewish Appeal has exhausted the budget allotted for trans-
portation and that unless new funds are realized within the next 50
days • it will be impossible to continue large-scale transports to Israel
from Eastern Europe and Moslem countries.
At present, between 18,000 and 20,000 Jews from all parts of the
world are being moved to the Jewish State each month. The great
majority of these immigrants come from Romania and Iraq.
Mr. Morgenthau stated • that the UJA had interpreted as "a man-
date from the entire American Jewish community" the decision un-
animously adopted by the more than 1,200 leaders of 45 major Jewish
organizations and 500 local Jewish communities at the recent Nation-
al Planning Conference-calling for an emergency campaign. He warned
that the approach of winter had aggravated the position of many
Jews in Arab . countries who, in anticipation of their scheduled de-
parture for Israel, had sold their hornes and possessions. He cited the
case of 4,000 Jews in Teheran who, having sold their homes, were
living in makeshift tents in the only Jewish public property in Tehe-
ran—the Jewish cemetery.
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300,000 Voters
In Israel Give Edge
To Mapai Party
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM—Nearly 300,000 persons, about three-quarters of the
eligible electorate, cast their ballots in Israel's municipal elections Tuesday.
A total of 527 municipal councillors were elected by direct, secret ballot on
the basis of a proportional representation system.
Early reports of the election indicated that the Mapai labor party has
been the edge by the voters; that a majority of the councilors in Tel
Aviv may be members of Mapai and that Israel Rokach may therefore be
defeated for the Mayoralty of Tel Aviv.
The number of slates in the field varied from city to city and from region to
region, extending all the way from a single list in some regions to as many as 14 in
Jerusale,m. Tel Aviv had 13 competing parties, Haifia 10 and Tiberias seven. The
cost of the elections must be borne locally and Jerusalem has set a top limit of 24,-
500 pounds, while Haifa will spend 12,000 pounds and Tel Aviv's budget is unlimited.
President Chaim Weizmann cast his ballot in Rehovot, prior to commencing a
four-day tour of the country. Premier David Ben-Gurion voted in Tel Aviv.
In Jerusalem the special registration cards were put to an additional use. They
will be used as a census index to record changes in the Jewish population and to
obtain official records of recent newcomers.
In addition to the 43 constituencies where the municipal elections were held,
/there are 35 regional councils, comprising 400 villages, where local elections are
scheduled for next May. The municipal net-work counts more than 1,000,000 resi-
dents as compared with 550,000 under the British Mandate.
Minister of Interior Moshe Shapiro revealed that local elections in Arab vil-
lages in Israel, now under military administration, will take place within a year.
The Jewish News •
Dedicates this issue to the
United Hebrew Schools
on the occasion of its 24th
Annual Education Month
'We join with Detroit's Hebrew educators in
urging Detroit's Jewish parents to enroll their
children in our schools and to enrich their heri-
tage through Jewish knowledge and wisdom'
"A people cannot be proud of itself if it is not cons-
-- •
cious of its cultural heritage." — Israel Foreign Minister
Moshe Sharett, quoted on the subject of Hebrew as a basis
for world Jewish unity in the editorial, "Hebrew Education:
Priority Task," on Page 4 of this issue.
Special Education Month Supplement
Pages 12 and 13