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Base; Israel Condemns Germany

Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News

Israel Cabinet Committee
To Decide Potash Co.'s Fate

TEL AVIV—Reports in the London Press stating that the Israel Government has
offered the Port of Haifa as a naval base to western powers and as headquarters for
the Middle East command was denied here Tuesday. Circles close to the Foreign Min-
istry said the report is "untrue and without any foundation."

Mapam, Herut Protest Government's -Food Policy

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Israel Cabinet appointed a five-
man Ministerial committee to negotiate the future of the Pales.-
tine Potash Company which operates under a concession granted
during the British Mandate over Palestine. Plans for the Israel
government's becoming a partner in the company are under
active consideration, it was indicated by Treasury officials here.
• The five-man committee appointed by the Cabinet includes
Finance Minister Eliezer Kaplan; Dov Joseph, Minister of Com-
merce and Industry; Levi Eshkol, Minister of Agriculture and
Development; David -Zvi Pinkas, Minister of Communications;
and Perez Naphtali, MinislAr Without portfolio.
• It was disclosed that certain. officials quarters favor com-
plete nationalization of the company, since it has failed to
raise the requisite funds needed for operation in partnership
with the government. However, other factors—including the ex-
pectation that development of Dead Sea resources will be ac-
complished more economically by a private company in part-,
nership with the government than by a wholly nationalized
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industry—has militated against nationalization.
• Moshe Novorrieysky, managing director of the company, in-
dicated that he is not opposed in principle to the transfer, of
control of the company to the -Israeli Government.' It is under-
stood, that _shareholders WhO do not approve of the partnership
arrangemerft with the Israel Government will be compensated
by the government if they prefer to turn over their holdings in

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JERUSALEM—The Praesidium of the Knesset Monday night received an eight-man delega-
tion from a Communist-Herut demonstration protesting against the shortage of food.
The delegation was sent from a public meeting held earlier in front of Histadrut headquar-
ters in this city. The meeting was addressed by Mapam deputies Moshe Erem and Itzhak Ben
Aharon and other speakers who called on their listeners to protest the government's economic
policy. The delegation was accompanied by workers who came here from Tel Aviv, Haifa and
elsewhere to register the same protest.
Minister of Justice Dov Joseph Monday night told parliament that the Israel government
has asked the Jewish Agency to make available to it a report by Dr. Emil Shmorek, World
Zionist Organization :comptroller, who charged at the last Zionist Congress that a number of
irregularities existed in the Agency set-up.
Dr. Joseph said that the government was interested in investigating Dr. Shmorek's report and
if necessary indicting. any one found guilty of illegal actions.

Israel Votes with Soviet Against Germany

PARIS—Israel intervened in General Assembly's debate Tuesday morning denouncing ineu-
sion of Germany on the agenda as "morally unacceptable and legally unjustified."
Foreign Minister Sharett said Israel would vote against the western request for an interna-
tional comMission to investigate the possibility of holding elections throughout Germany.
Sharett spoke of the rise of the Nazi spirit and said democratic forces in. Germany were pow-
erless to suppress the spirit of hatred and revenge. Readmission of Germany to the family of na-
tions is a desecration of the memory of the martyrs, he declared, and said Israel would,regard
reunited. Germany as a threat to peace.
The western request to put Germany on the agenda was accepted by 47 votes to six—the
eastern bloc plus Israel—and two abstentions.

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the company to the government.

Conservatives and Orthodox
Oppose. Maclver's UAHC Plan

NEW YORK, (JTA—Opposition to -the suggestion by Prof.
Robert Maclver that the Union of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions be regarded as the sponsor • and general director of pro --
grams concerning interfaith activities in the field of combat-
ting anti-Jewish prejudice, was expressed in statements by Con-
servative and Orthodox rabbinical groups.
The United Synagogue of America declared its "absolute
and complete disapproval" of the suggestion. It also emphasized
in its statement that it entertains "some doubt" regarding the
advisability of the main thesis of the MacIver Report namely
that "various aspects of community relations be "framed out"
as a special concern of specific, presently existing' organizations."
"The United Synagogue of America is, however, of the opin-
ion that if the main proposals of the MacIver Report are to be
implemented and interfaith relations are to be assigned to re-
ligious bodies, then an incontrovertibly logical and cogent case
can be made out in behalf of assigning this area to the Syna l.
gogue Council of America," the statement -said.
-.-- The Rabbinical Assembly of America, which represents the
Conservative rabbinate, made public a statement declaring that
it considers "clearly valid" the contention , of the MacIver Report
that inter-religious work should be carried on by religious bodies,.
not by secular agencies. "However," the statement adds, "we .
submit that the problem cannot be solired by entrusting inter-
faith activity to only one segment of the Jewish religious com-
munity which 'cannot represent the total religious community
in American Jewry. Furthermore, much of the most important .
interfaith work is being done in communities throughout the
country by the local synagogues and their rabbis. These repre-
sent, all the three interpretations' of the Jewish religion."
The Rabbinical Council of America, which comprises about
450 American-trained Orthodox 'rabbis, called upon the evaluat-
ing committee of the National ComMunity Relations Advisory
Council to give particular attention to that part of the Maclver
report which recommends the designation of a religious body as
the sole agency for the direeting of all interfaith activities; How-
ever, the Orthodox group took issue with the MacIver report
and also expressed the. belief that interfaith activities must be
vested in the Synagogue Council.
(In his newsletter Cross-Section U. S. A., Allen Lesser main-
tains that "the MacIver Report is dead!" and that a new five- .
point.program of principles adopted by NCRAC Will replace it.
Primacy for community relations councils and strengthening of
NCRAC's authority are among the predicted five Points).

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First Synagogue Built Here

COmposed of Mapai and Religious Bloc leaders,
the new Israel Cabinet buckled down and grappled with pressing matters facing the Jew-
ish state. Prior to beginning a session, the Israeli leaders posed for cameramen before the
Knesset Building. In the background (left to right) are LEVI ESHKOL, Minister of Agri-
culture and Developnient; Rabbi ISSAC MEIR LEVI N, Minister of Social Welfare; ELI E-
ZER KAPLAN, Minister of Finance; GOLDA MYERSON, Minister of Labor; PEREZ NAPH-
TALI, Minister Without Portfolio, and DAVID PINKAS, Minister of Communications. In
the second row, book in hand and left to right: Dr. SHLOMO JOSEPH BURG, Minister
of Health, followed by MOSHE SHAPIRO, Minister of Interior: DAVID BEN - GURION,
Prime Minister of Israel; DOV JOSEPH, Minister of Trade and Industry and Minister of
Justice, and to the extreme left sporting a spotted tie is dapper BEHOR. SHITREET, Minis-
ter of Police. Missing from the photo are Cabinet members Moshe Sharett, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, and Ben Zion Dinaburg, Minister of Education and Culture. Golda Myer-
son makes notes as Ben-Gurion explains a point.

New Israel Cabinet:

This was Shaarey Ze-

dek's first synagogue, On

Congress and St. Antoine

Sts. It was built in 1877

and was the first Jewish

house of worship to be

erected in Detroit.

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