Israel to Receive $68,000,000
In U.S. Economic Aid Program

THE JEWISH NEWS-3
Friday, October. 5, 1951

Posts Assigned by
Agency Executive

JERUSALEM, Sept. 27, (JTA)
—The Jewish Agency for Israel
has announced the distribution
of portfolios among the mem-
liens of its executive in Jerusa-
lem.
Berl Locker, who shares the
chairmanship of the executive
with Dr. Nahum Goldmann of
New York, will head the Public
Relations Department. Levi Esh-
kol was named treasurer and
head of the Agricultural and
Settlement Depart m e n t. His
deputy treasurer, Moshe Kol, will
also head the Youth Immigra-
Rep. Ford
Senator Ferguson
tion Department.
Rep. Rabaut
George Josephthal and Y.
WASHINGTON — (JTA)—AD- take the Senate's decision on Braginsky
were named joint
aid,
to
the
Near
East,
which
rep-
proximately $68,000,000 in eco-
resented a cut from the House heads of the Absorption Depart-
nomic aid for Israel is included figure of $175,000,000 in the ment, while Hayim Greenberg
in the $160,000,000 for the Near amount of $15,000,000. Passage of New York will be in charge
East allocated in the final of this legislation establishes of education outside Israel and
agreement announced by the authorization for Congress to Rabbi Zeev Gold will be respon-
Senate-House conference on the appropriate this amount, but sible for religious education in
Mutual Security Bill. An esti- the actual appropriations must countries outside Israel. Eliahu
mated $41,000,000 for military be made in additional legisla- Dobkin will head the Youth and
Pioneering Department as well
aid • to the Near East, in which tion.
Congressmen Gerald R. Ford as the Administrative Section;
amount Israel will share, is
Zvi Herman will be in charge of
separately included in the bill. and Louis C. Rabaut and Sen= the
Organization Department;
The measure went to the White ator Homer Ferguson of Michi- Yitzhak
Raphael will be in
House for President Truman's gan were members of the Sen- charge of the Immigration De-
ate-House Conference Commit-
certain signature.
partment; and Dr. Emanuel
The conference of Senators tee which took final action on Neumann of New York will head
and Representatives decided to the bill.
the Economic Department.
Mr. Locker and Dr. Goldmann
were also named joint presidents
Catholic Priest Urges Law Opening Israel
of the Keren Hayesod, the
To Church Personnel; Claims No Persecution
Agency's fiscal arm, and Dobkin,
Herman and Dr. A. Hantke were
JERUSALEM, (AJP)—A Cath- was forced to suspend opera- named to the Keren. Hayesod's
olic school official in Israel has tions.
executive committee. That or-
Rev. Conde reported that since ga,nization's 12-member board of
urged passage of an immigra-
tion law to permit .the settle- the school has. had no pupils directors will be named at a
ment of Christian "religious per- and that while waiting a clari- later date.
fication of the situation, the
sonnel" in the Jewish State.
The proposal was made by the priests in the school "devote
Rev. Father P. de Gonde, of the themselves to the study of He-
Ratssbonne Monastery and brew, try to gain an even bet-
Trade School' in Jerusalem, writ- ter understanding of Israel, and
ing in the current issue of dedicate themselves to religious
"Christian News From Israel," service and scientific research".
published • by the Department for
The Catholic priest denounced
Christian Communities of the any suggestion that the school
Israel Ministry of Religious Af- or its personnel was suffering
any form of "persecution" by
fairs.
Rev. Conde made his proposal Jewish authorities, "which anti=
DOWNTOWN
in tracing the growth of "mu- Semitic propaganda is trying to
219 MICHIGAN
tual understanding" between intimate."
Opposite Book Cadillac
the school and Israel Jewry. The
"But it would be a wise policy
school was established through
the efforts of Father Marie Al- on the part of the' State of Is-.
phonso Ratisbonne, the younger ra#el if it demonstrated confi-
son of a Jewish family of Stras- dence • and lifted the restrictions
bourg, who embraced Catholic- which are understood to be tem-
ism and thereafter devoted his porary and due to the non-ex-
life to Catholic activities in Pal- istence of an immigration law
estine, according to Rev. Conde. providing for the entrance of
"For many decades from 1879 religious personnel in the Holy
to 1935, the school trained hun- Land," he declared.
dreds of pupils as artisans," Rev.
Mechanization of agriculture,.
Conde reported. "Most of them
were Christian Arabs, with a which will be greatly speeded as
a result of the $500,000,000 State
sprinkling of Jews."
He said the percentage of of Israel Bond Issue, has made
Jewish pupils increased consi- significant strides since the state
derably after the Arab attack of was established. The number of
1929, but when the Arabs in- tractors has increased by 303
vaded Israel in 1948, the school percent.

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. On the Haifa dock at last, this old man look toward the
future 'with weary but hopeful eyes. He will be one of the 5,000
people helped by "Malben," the organization which now admin-
isters 65 hospitals, old-age homes, sanitaria and other facilities
for the aged and sick in Israel. Malben is a project of the Joint
Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency, supported by the
UJA, which finances programs for the United Palestine Appeal

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Jewish Groups Ask Probe of Police in Cicero Race Riots

NEW YORK, (JTA) — Jewish executive committee meeting of

community. relations organiza-
tions have called on Attorney-
General J. Howard McGrath to
convene a special grand jury to
investigate "the egregious mis-
carriage of justice which has
occurred in connection with the
housing riots in Cicero, Ill." In
a message sent following an

the National Community Rela-
tions Advisory Council, the Ci-
cero police were charged with
"cynical disregard of their
duties" and with "collusion in
mob violence" in the riots which
occurred when a Negro war vet-
eran sought to move into a
Cicero apartment.

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