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Israel Reshuffles Its. Cabinet,
Grants B-G Replacement Rights
$250,000 Israel Bond Sale
Opens Detroit's 1952 Drive
Advance sales of Israel bonds in an amount approxi-
mating $250,000—in cash and commitments—made at a
1' dinner and public rally last Sunday evening at the Shera-
Iv! ton-Cadillac Hotel, attended by audiences totalling 1,5(X)
people, launched the 1952 Israel bond drive in Detroit.
More than 200 people were unable to secure reserva-
tions for the dinner and the public rally attracted an
overflow audience.
Israel's Ambassador to the U. S.. Abba Eban, was
guest speaker at both events. Louis Berry presided and
the Ambassador was greeted by U. S. Senator Blair Moody.
In stirring addresses. Mr. Eban reviewed Israel accomplish-
ments during four years of statehood and outlined both the trials
and tribulations and the achievements of the young state.
"The main issue to be solved is that of productivitiy." he
stated, emphasizing that by adding to the efforts of the United
Jewish Appeal the drive for the sale of bonds, the Israel govern-
ment was providing an opportunity for American Jewry to join
in the task of solving the serious economic problems facing the
young state.
"But four years old, Israel's annals already have entered
the records of immortal history," Mr. Eban said. He described
bow the resources of the country were drained by the arrival
of large numbers of refugee Jews, by the entrance of i50,000
from European countries and 780.000 from Iraq. Morocco,
Yemen and Algeria. all of whom Israel has welcomed "beneath
the shelter of its protected roof." and he reported that the pre-
independence population of 650.000 has grown to 1,700,000.
Asserting that Israel has met all her obligations and that
her word .ialker-bond, Mr. Eban decried the very thought that the
"'binds might not be redeemed. He showed how the new state has
pushed its areas of cultivation further into the desert and des-
cribed the vast, developments in the Negev and the plans for
the harnessing of all natural resources in the scheme of indus-
trial development.
"Two thousand years of Jewry's anonymity have ended when
Israel was admitted to membership in the United Nations," he
declared.
Urging wide support of Israel's economic program. he said
that the new state must become self-supporting in food. by
producing the products of its natural wealth. through technical
programs now under consideration. and added that the bond
drive provides the funds that will make possible the realization
of these aspirations.
There were elements of wit in his address. At the outset
he quoted from Koheleth, "better the end of a thing than
the beginning," and advocated that this motto should be nailed
on every speaker's rostrum. He compared negative reports by
economists today with the reports that were received from
messengers into Canaan by Moses who rejected the majority
report and accepted the favorable report of the minority of
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JERUSALEM—Israel's Parliament passed a special measure permitting the
Premier to replace any minister who resigns or is unable to perform his duties without
first submitting the resignation of his entire cabinet and then having to obtain a new
vote of confidence on the cabinet as a whole.
The passage of this measure is ;,a prelude for the an-
nouncement of a cabinet reshuffle which was postponed by
decision of the Mapai party's political committee which
sought to avoid criticism of the government on constitutional
grounds. Mr. Ben-Gurion will announce his new cabinet be-
fore the end of the week.
It became known here on Tuesday that Eliezer Kap-
Ian, who is resigning the finance porton() because of con-
tinued poor health, will be appointed Vice-Premier. Ho
will be succeeded by Levi Eshkol who will become Minis-
ter of Finance and Development. Mr. Eshkol's present
Agriculture portfolio will go to Dr. Peretz Naphtali, cur-
rently minister without portfolio. Chaim Cohen, the At-
torney General. will become Justice Minister. assuming; one
of the two portfolios previously held by Dr. Dov Joseph,
Minister of Trade.
In the passage of the law permitting individual cabinet
changes, the 1-lerut voted with the government parties while
Levi Eshkol
the General Zionists abstained. The Mapam and Communist deputies voted against it.
The expected appointment of Eshkol to the post of Minister of Finance and De-
velopment will require his replacement as Jewish Agency treasurer, the Agency an-
nounced Tuesday. Dr. George Josephthal will assume that post with the assistance
of Moshe Kol who will hold the poAt of co-treasurer.
Retiring Finance Minister Eliezer Kaplan told the parliamentary foreign affairs
committee that the government will consult with the appropriate parliamentary com-
mittees before making a final decision on the German offer to pay Israel's reparations
claims.
Earlier, the _committee had debated the resumption of the Hague reparations - talks.
Despite the demands by opposition deputies that the talks not be reopened, the commit-
tee decided to endorse the government's decision to resume negotiations with West
Germany on the basis of the latest offer.
Campaign $800,000 Short of Minimum Goal
Final Meeting Spurs Effort
To Reach 2,000 More Donors
With an unaudited S-1.400.000 in pledges reported to date. Detroit's Allied Jewish
Campaign will officially close at a rally today. at 12:15. at luncheon in the Fred M.
Butzei Memorial Building, 163 Madison at John R, Abe Kasle, campaign chairman, has
announced.
"Pledges announced and in transit bring us to a fine total so far." Kasle added,
"and this closing rally signifies only the ending of formal meetings. Good workers in
every division are still at work to make sure that every Jewish person in Detroit will
have an opportunity to make his gift in behalf of the scores of essential services sup-
ported by the campaign." .
At last Friday's report meeting. at which Joseph Holtzman was honored by the campaign
organization on the eve of his departure with his family for a visit in Israel. Isidore Sobelotf
reported that 26.100 people contributed, up to that time, $3,947,947. The additional $400,000 was
raised during the intervening week.
Mr. Sobeloff said that the amount raised up to last Friday represented 84 per cent of the
gifts made last year and that $700,000 more is available from the remaining 2,000 unsolicited
people who participated in the 1951 campaign. "In the name of our own pride and in the
name of the causes included in the drive. we must continue our good work." he added.
Participating in last Friday's program, honoring Mr. Holtzman. in addition to Mr. Sobeloff.
were Abe Kasle, campaign chairman; Louis Berry, who presided, and Holtzman, who urged
speedy action to assure the drive's success.
Expressing the esteem in which Holtzman is held by his fellow workers, Kasle presented him
with "Credentials." signed by both the Campaign chairman and Samuel H. Rubiner, president
of the Jewish Welfare Federation:
"This document is to certify that the bearer, Mr. Joseph Holtzman, carries with him the
affection and the respect of his fellow-citizens of Detroit and of the entire American Jewish
community who are familiar with his labors for the common good.
For many years he has devoted himself wholeheartedly to the enhancement of com-
munity life on the American scene, the rescue of enslaved Jews in Europe and Africa, and
to the strengthening and development of Israel.
"We are proud to regard him as our ambassador—and any courtesies extended to hint
are, by reflection, a tribute to us, who have been enriched by his association with us."
Two-Nation Sal am te:
Israel's Ambassa
dor to the United State ABBA EBAN (right) and Michigan's
junior U. S. Senator BLAIR- MOODY are shown in a two-
illation salute to Israel's efforts to bolster her economic status
through the bond issue, at the dinner last Sunday which
marked the launching in Detroit of the 1952 Israel bond drive.
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Among those still maintaining an intensive campaign pace are members of the Sinai Hos-
pital board who have constituted themselves a special "flying squadron" of campaigners. - While
all of us are interested ik the total community causes included in the campaign," - Max Osnos,
Jewish Hospital Association president, said, "we members of the Hospital board feel a special
impulse to help in this additional manner because of the important way in which Sinai, De-
troit's first hospital under Jewish auspices, is included in the campaign."
The new hospital. scheduled to accept its first patient on .Jan. 1, 1953. will receive an allo-
cation from this year's funds both for Its first year's operating budget and for part of its con-
struction costs.
Hospital board members participating in the Campaign follow-up are, in addition to Osnos,
Sidney J. Allen, Irving W. Blumberg, Nathan R. Epstein, Judge William Friedman, Max J. Kogan,
Julian H. Krolik, Samuel H. Rubiner, Abe Srere, Melville S. Welt and Lew Wisper.
In addition to working with the hospital's "flying squadron," Epstein, Krolik, Osnos and Rubi-
ner will be soliciting with the "Pre-Campaign Caravan," including Louis Berry, Tom Borman,
Max Fisher, Harvey H. Goldman, Ben Kramer, John E. Lurie, Milton K. Mahler, Ben L. Siltfer-
stein and Saul Sloan.