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A Weekly Review
End of Hurrahs
and Beginning of
New Era of Action
for Israel
of Jewish Events
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VOLUME 19—No. 12
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Israel Resumes
Huleh Diggin
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TEL AVIV Israel resumed drainage of the Huleh
swamps in the area which is not disputed by Arab land-
owners.
The first meeting of the Israel-Syrian Armistice Com-
mission since the clashes on the northern frontier took
place Monday in Rosh Pinah, a frontier settlement, under
the chairmanship of Maj. Gen. William E. Riley, .United
Nations Chief of Staff.
The Syrian representatives officially notified Syria's
acceptance of the cease fire order issued recently by the
UN Security Council. They then protested against Israel's
continuance of work on the drainage of the Huleh swamps.
The Israeli representatives explained that this work had
been stopped on Arab-owned land. Gen. Riley then declared
that the Syrians were not justified in submitting their com-
plaint to the Commission.
The Mixed Armistice Commission, Gen. Riley said, is
not competent to deal with disputes of this nature. He
pointed out that the Syrian complaint could be submitted
only to the UN chairman of the Commission who is the
only person competent to handle the case. After hearing
his views, the Syrian delegate no longer insisted on a dis-
cussion of the Huleh issue and both delegations started
review of the agenda for their forthcoming formal meet-
ing which will take place Sunday.
_ Israeli military authorities denied reports from Am-
man, capital of Jordan, that six Israeli soldiers had been
killed during a fight with Jordan National. Guardsmen.
. Ehn official communique issued here revealed the
n g facts.
On May 22, an Isra.eli military patrol was fired upon
by Arabs crossing the _Israeli Territory with their flocks
.near - the Dawayima village. A short time later, elements
of the Jordan National Guard also crossed the border into
Israel and occupied four heights inside Israeli territory.
They fired at JeWish troops with small arms and mortars,
but were driven off by the Israeli forces.
Detroit Stays Top Contributing
City With Cash Gift of $1, 500,000
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
CHICAGO—Once again, Detroit emerged as the top Jewish community in the land,
with the magnificent gift of $1,500,000 in cash which Abe Kasle, chairman of the Allied
Jewish Campaign, presented on Sunday afternoon to Israel Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion. New York remitted $2,500,000 while Chicago matched Detroit. On the basis of
population, Detroit thus holds the first place in the land as the largest contributor to
the major fund for the upbuilding of Israel and the rescue of hundreds of thousands of
Jews from lands of oppression.
The Detroit gift of $1,500,000 was part of the $15,731,000 in cash given to Mr. Ben-
Gurion during a roll call of "over the top" cities, at the national action conference of
the United Jewish Appeal at the Palmer House here. The cash income of the UJA for
this year now stands at $45,000,000.
While the major objective of the conference was to secure an immediate large
sum in cash to solve the trying problems that have arisen in Israel, the Chicago con-
ference left one important impression: that the UJA must carry on its great humani-
tarian efforts for years to come in order realistically to solve the problems which
continue to emerge in many lands where the Jewish position is intolerable.
The UJA's status was analyzed as a _great humanitarian effort not to be confused
with "charity." The Israel- Prime Minister, Vice-President Alben W. Barkley, Dr. Na-
hum Goldmann, head of the American Section of the Jewish Agency; Dr. Joseph
Schwartz, executive vice-president of the UJA and other leaders were as one in the
emphasis placed on this point. At the same time, there was the declared recognition of
the importance of all the sections of the four point program—the sale of Israel bonds,
private investments a_nd the securing of grants-in-aid from our Government, in addition
to the UJA.
Mr. Ben-Gurion was visibly moved as city after city came forward with large sums
—in cash—from incomes of UJA drives throughout the land. It was his final public
appearance in this country, winding up his triumphal tour in behalf of the Israel bond
drive. (Only • one other meeting was arranged for him -- a farewell dinner Tuesday
at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, under the auspices of the JeWish Agency. The
Decoration Day. deadline necessitates deferment of a report on this session in The Jew-
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Syria Protests Against Isreal
. UNITED. NATIONS, N. Y.—Syrian Representative
Faris El Khouri on Tuesday submitted a complaint to the
president of the Security Council charging Israel with fail-
ure to obey Security Council instructions and return Arabs
removed from the demilitarized zone.
In a letter dated May 28, the Syrians charged that Is-
raeli authorities had "taken no measures to implement this
clear injunction of the Security Council." Referring to re-
ports that chiefs of Arab villages of Bakkara and Ghanameh
asked to be admitted inside Israeli territory, the letter
charges: "Israeli authorities have no intention of abiding
by the Security Council resolution and still aim at extorting
from Arab inhabitants of the demilitarized zone acceptance
to relinquish :their right to their lands situated near Lake
Huleh.
The Syrian government's complaint adds that these
Arabs still are under heavy restrictions, unable freely -to
express themselves." It asserts that UN observers so far
failed to gain access to them. The letter concludes that
Syria reserves rights vis-a-vis such alleged requests and pro-
tests against Israel's "unnecessary delay" in obeying the
Council resOlUtion.
Knesset Orders Adoption
Of New Defense Measures
JERUSALEM, - (JTA)--The Israel Parliament condemned the
use by the government of the emergency defense regulations to
smash the religious underground movement Brit Kanaim and to
imprison, without the benefit of legal assistance and without
the right of habeas corpus, a number of the leaders of the move-
ment on charges of plotting to blow up the Parliament building.
-• - The Parliament also 'voted to instruct its legal committee
to. prepare, within two weeks, legislation to replace the emer-
gency regulations. The vote in the first part of the motion--
: which was put forth by an unprecedented coalition of the
Mapam, Herut, Religious Bloc, Communists and. General Zion-
ists—was 53 to one. Forty-eight members of the Mapai and
the Progressive Party abstained. The vote on the second part
-of the motion was 58 to 12 with the Mapai supporting the re-
quest for new security legislation.
A series of charges against four leaders of Brit Kanaim, the
underground Orthodox group in Jerusalem, was presented by the
Assistant State Attorney before the Chief Magistrate here, who
ordered that the four be detained for another eight days in or-
der to enable the police authorities to complete their investiga-
tions.
Vice-President ALBEN W. BARKLEY kept the promise he made in his address to
the 1,000 delegates from 40 states at the national action confrence of the United JewisL
Appeal at the Palmer House, Chicago, Saturday night, and arranged to welcome Israe.
Prime Minister and Mrs. DAVID BEN-GURION at the Chicago airport on Sunday morn-
ing. The Vice-President was on his return journey to Washington shortly after the Prim-
Minister's arrival. With them in the upper photo, from the left, are DR. JOSEPH J
SCHWARTZ, executive vice-chairman of the UJA, and MORRIS W. BERINSTEIN, chair
man of the UJA National Campaign Cabinet.
Among the early arrivals at the UJA conference from Detroit were, in the !owe:
photo, left to right:. JOSEPH HOLTZMAN, EDWARD LEVY, ABE KASLE, MRS. KASLE
MORRIS L. SCHAVER, MRS. JOSEPH H. EHRLICH and LEON KAY. Other Detroit dele-
gates are listed elsewhere in this issue.
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