Jewish Doctor Finds
Clue to Heart Disease

Iraq's Jews Enter Fourth Restoration

THE JEWISH NEWS-7
Friday, September 28, 1951

From the fiery Furnace ofillodern Babylon
Came 100,000 Souls to Work for Israel

ical science a step closer in
ATLANTIC CITY (AJP)—Dr. conquering heart disease, Amer-
Louis N. Katz, director of cardio- ica's number one killer.
vascular. research at Michael
His findings disproved the
Reese Hospital in Chicago and
theory
that hardening of the
recently elected president of the
By MORRIS W. BERINSTEIN movement of Iraqi Jews to Israel of another Persian king, in 444 American Heart Association, arteries is a natural and un-
by representatives of the Jewish B.C.E.
In the books of Ezra and utilized 9.000 chickens for a ten- avoidable result of old age, and
Chairman, National Campaign Agency and the Israel Govern-
that the disease was due to an
Nehemiah
it is worded that a year study on heart disease.
Cabinet, United Jewish Appeal ment•
alteration of the body's utiliza-
The
internationally
famous
total
of
"Forty
and
two
thou-
On July 3, a laconically-word-
As the deadline of one year
sand three hundred and three- Jewish specialist advanced med- tion of fats.
ed news dispatch from Israel an- approached, the operation was
score" Babylonian Jews re-
nounced that 106,662 Iraqi Jews speeded up. Up to 15 planes a
turned during that entire pe-
had been flown to Israel in 1,000 day were roaring through the
riod, in the three restorations.
flights during a 13-month pe- sky from Baghdad to Lydda,
"Operation Ezra" (and Ezra
riod.
bringing home the homeless in
in
Hebrew means "help") . in
Now. as the Hebrew year 5712 a race against the May 31
our time, which well might be
is ushered in, there remains less deadline. The deadline was la-
considered the Fourth Restora-
than 20,000 Jews in Iraq. The ter extended through mid-
tion, has accounted for nearly
largest air transfer of any group summer Of 1951, but it was still
three times that many!
in Jewish history has been com- a battle against time to res-
Even "Operation Magic Car-
pleted. This record work of res- cue the thousands who had pet,"
which saved nearly 50,000
cue was accomplished with the staked their lives on the Jews of Yemen and flew them
help of American Jewry, whose chance of reaching Israel.
to Israel in 1949 and 1950, was
support of the United Jewish Ap-
Most of the 'newcomers went but one half the size of the re-
peal supplied the funds through straight to work villages, and cent Iraqi exodus.
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the United Palestine Appeal and within three or four days were
Modern Israel has flung open
the Joint Distribution Commit- on their way to becoming pro- her gates to the Jews of Iraq ---- offices, in New York, Washington, D. C., or ,
tee to keep the planes aloft with ductive citizens of Israel. The and the Jews of other lands. Is-
their human cargoes.
San Francisco. Or, if sending from a Western
sick and aged were sent to rael continues to pursue a policy
Last Spring, Iraqi Jews were camps. Thus, in the past sum- of unlimited immigration, be-
Union office, insure transmission by the
coming to Israel at the rate of mer, ended what might be term- cause Israel fought for ' sover-
30.000 a month!
ed the Fourth Restoration of eignty in order to provide a _hav-
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The Jews of Iraq, whose the Jews of Babylon.
en for the homeless. Israel is
territory is the site of ancient
free routing indicator (opposite the address):
In 596 B. C. E. the exile that determined that never again
Babylon, made up a cornniu- ended in these mass airflights shall such tragedy overtake any
nitY of great antiquity. Many really began. Nebuchadnezzar, group of Jews- as befell 6,000,000
Iraqi Jews claim to trace who built t h e famed hanging who died under Hitler because
their ancestry back to the days gardens of Babylon, deported the there was no place they could
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of Nebuchadnezzar, the Ba- first group of Jews from Jeru- go. And events in Yemen, events
bylonian monarch who con- salem then. Ten years later, the in Iraq, have borne them out.
quered Jerusalem and deport- Babylonian monarch supervised
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Iraq. and the Arabs were be- Babylon were the mainstay of brethren the Jews, that were
ginning to form their own state, Jewish culture in the Diaspora. sold unto the nations."
the Jews of Iraq, becFan to worry Babylon changed hands many
for their safety. Although the times in the course of history.
government never passed an ov- The Persians, the Greeks under
ertly arti-Jewish law. Arab na- Alexander, the Parthians all
tionalism created an ugly at- tried to subdue the rich city
mosnhere for Iraq's minorities. state. And Mongols and Turks,
When Hitler came into power, British and Arabs, have ruled
Nazi prOpaganda flourished in there since.
The Jews of Babylon never
Iraq. Jewish civil servants were
dischargd from their jobs. An- forgot the admonition in Da-
ti-Jewish feeling pervaded the vid's psalm, "If I forget thee, oh
Jerusalem, may my right hand
country.
In 1937, there were violent an- forget its cunning."
ti - Jewish demonstrations in
They left to Israel the heri-
Baghdad. In 1938, nitric acid was tage of the Babylonian Talmud,
poured on Jewish passers-by. In that remarkable document of
1938. there were riots. and the two and one half million words,
police did nothing to prevent which took more than a century
rioters from firing on Jewish to write, and is an encyclopedia
homes.
covering the whole range of hu-
During the riots, 150 Jews were man actions. Those who return-
killed and more than 700 wound- ed, built the Second Temple in
ed. Throughout the next 10 Jerusalem and restored Israel to
years. the economic status of the greatness.
Jews in Iraq deteriorated.
They kept Judaism alive and
In 1948, Iraq joined the other remembered Israel, and now,
Arab states in the war against when Israel is once again a na-
Israel and Iraq's Jews found tion, Israel has remembered
themselves being subjected to them.
searches, arrest, denunciation,
History records that when the
torture, mass imprisonment, Persians took Babylon, the city
fines. impoverishment and the fell without striking a blow. But
destruction of all rights.
Cyrus of Persia soon afterwards
Iraq declared martial law issued a proclamation permitting
during this period. The Jews all Jews who desired to return
of Iraq found out that for to Jerusalem to go at will. In
them this meant searches of 537 B.C.E. then, the First Restor-
homes at night, confiscation ation took place under Zerub-
of valuables, arrests and babel•
During the 76 years since the first Sanders store was estab-
"trials" by martial courts.
Later,
in
459
B.C.E.,
Ezra
the
On the Day of Atonement in
lished in Detroit, the familiar "Sanders script" has become a
1949. 150 soldiers surrounded a Scribe applied to another be-
syna gogue in El Amara, seized nign ruler, Artaxerxes. The Sec-
Symbol of quality in good-things-to-eat.
the men wrapped in prayer mid Return took place under
shawls worshipping there—and Ezra.
The Third Return took place
arrested them. The charge?
•here's a friendly feeling about this Sanders signature; and
There were Stars of David on under Nehemiah, the cupbearer
their prayer shawls.
*4 element of pride, too, as if it had been written boldly by a
Jews were not only forbidden
to emigrate to Palestine, but Silver Backer Says
man who had the utmost faith in the things he made. This
even to visit there. Iraq pass- ZOA Emerged Weaker
ports were stamped, "Not valid
Sanders signature has appeared on many millions of candy,
From Zionist Congress
for travel to Palestine."
baked goods, and ice cream packages; on every one it was a
After the establishment of Is-
NEW YORK (AJP)—A strong
rael in 1948, the policy .con-
guarantee that the contents were the finest that consummate skill
tinued. Suddenly, in Ma rch, supporter of Dr. Abba Hillel Sil-
ver
told
a
large
audience
that
1950. the government of Iraq
and the highest quality of ingredients could produce!
reversed its stand on emigra- the 250,000-member Zionist Or-
tion. Both chambers of the par- ganization of America "did not
liament passed a law authoriz- come out strengthened" from
ing Iraqi Jews to leave by May the 23rd World Zionist Congress,
31. 1951. The price was relin- and lashed out against "diehard"
Mapai leaders.
quishment of Iraq nationality.
Jacques Torczyner, vice presi-
At first, Iraq would not even
permit Israeli representatives to dent of the ZOA, charged that
enter the country to organize "diehards in the Mapai" pre-
vented Ben-Gurion and Silver
the emigration.
But on May 21, 1950, the first from enacting a compromise
-CONFECTIONERS
175 Jews in Iraq left for Israel which would have enabled the
Established in 1875 and Still
on two UJA-financed giant sky- Cleveland rabbi to assume a
Exclusively Owned and Operated
masters. The American-charter- leading position in World Zion-
by Members of the Sanders Family.
ism."
. ecl Near-East air transport com-
He said that only a "fighting
pany had been permitted to
carry out the air exodus, with attitude" for General Zionism
funds supplied by the Joint Dis- will enable the ZOA to "recap-
CAXD1ES ' BAKED GOODS • ICE CREAMS • LUNCHEONS
tribution Committee which was ture its position."
Otherwise, said Torczyner,
then financing the operation.
It was not until 1951, that per- "its chances for further success
mission was obtained for direct are dim indeed."

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