Sinai Hospital Dedication on Jan. 4

Dedication of Sinai Hospital--the first hospital under Jewish auspices

in Detroit—located at 6767 W. Outer Drive, between Whitcomb and

Lauder—has been set for Sunday, Jan. 4, 1 to 5 p.m.
Guided tours of the hospital's facilities, with members of the Women's
Guild of Sinai Hospital, lea by Mrs. H. C. Broder, president, serving as
guides, will follow the official opening at 1 p.m., Max Osnos, Sinai presi-
dent, announced this week.
A- meeting of the hospital's board of trustees will be held that day at
11 a.m., to arrange final details for the dedication, under the leadership
of the officers, including Mr. Osnos; Sidney J. Allen, Maurice Aronsson
and. Henry Wineman, vice-presidents; Irwin I. Cohn, secretary; Israel Da-
vidson, treasurer; Nate S. Shapero, chairman of the building committee;
Dr. Julien Priver, executive director.
. . 1 Other dedication events will include entertainment of professional
and lay leaders of various community health services at an open house
Jan. 6, 1 to 5 p.m.
- All Detroit physicians are invited to view the hospital's facilities at
an open house Jan. 7, 2 to 8 p.m. Hosts at that time will be the medical
staff members and the following members of the medical advisory board:

Three Noted

Drs. Harry August, Bernard Bernbaum, Samuel Bernstein, Herbert Bloom,
Lionel Braun, I. Jerome Hauser, Sol G. Meyers, Saul Rosenzweig, Harry
Saltzstein, David J. Sandweiss and Peter G. Shifrin.
The week's dedication festivities will conclude with a Come-See-Confer
tour for Jewish women, sponsored by the Women's Guild of Sinai Hos-
pital, on Jan. 8. Women interested in the tour are invited to participate
either in the 10 a.m. or 1. p.m. inspection of the building, under the guid-
ance of the following hospital tour committee: Mesdames Philip R. Mar-
' cuse, chairman, Ellis Fisher, Marcus Ginn, Sol Grossman, Benjamin Jack-
son, Louis L. Kazdan, Henry Krolik, Samuel Rhodes, Jacob S. Sauls and -
George M. Stutz.
Members of the Sinai board of trustees are, in addition to the offi-
cers, Charles N. Agree, Louis Berry, Irving W. Blumberg, Justice Henry
M. Butzel, Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, Nathan R. Epstein, Max Fisher, Nathan
Fishman, Judge William Friedman, Joseph Holtzman, Abe Kasle, Marcus
Kates, Max J. Kogan, Julian H. Krolik, Samuel H. Rubiner, Morris L.
Schaver, Ben L. Silberstein, Judge Charles C. Simons, Leonard N. Simons,
Isidore Sebeloff, Samuel B. Solomon, Abraham Srere, Louis Tabashnik,
Melville S. Welt, Frank A. Wetsman, David Wilkus, Lew Wisper and
Max J. Zivian.

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RAMBAM Manuscript:

Twelfth cen-
:fury manuscript written in his own hand by.Moses Maimo-
(RAMBAM), celebrated medieval philosopher, discov ,-
ered in the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of
America by Dr. Shraga. Abramson, associate professor of Tal-
mud. The document is a fragment of Maimonides' commen-
jary on the Mishnah Baba Batra, a section of the Jewish legal
code dealing with civil laws. It is in Arabic spelled with
_Hebrew letters, on two sides of a paper leaf measuring pp-
:koximately 6"x 4". This latest finding brings the Seminary
: holdings of authentic Maimonides' writings, in his own hand,
to eight, the largest collection of its kind in the world.

JERUSALEM—David Ben-Gurion on Tuesday announced the composition of his
new three-party coalition . government to the Israel parliament, following a brief re-
view of the domestic and international situation. The parties in the new government
are Mapai, General Zionist and Progressives.
The Mapai members of the Cabinet are Mr. Ben-Gurion, Premier and Minister of
Defense; Levi Eshkol, Minister of Finance ; Dr. Peretz Naphtali, Minister of Agricul-
ture; Bettor Sitreet,
_Minister of Police; Golda Myerson, Minister of Labor and Public
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Works; Moshe $harett, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Prof. Ben Zion Dinor, (formerly
Dinaburg), Minister of Education; Pinchas Lavon and Dr. Dov Joseph, Ministers without
portfolio.
The General Zionist Ministers are Dr. Peretz Bernstein, Minister for Commerce and
Industry; Israel Rokach, Minister of Interior; Joseph Saphir,' Minister of Health, and
Joseph Serlin, Minister for CommuniCations. The lone Progressive is Dr. Pinellas Rosen,
Minister of Justice, The welfare and religious portfolios will be distributed within a week,
Mr. Ben-Gurion announced.

Ben-Gurion Outlines Policy of New Government

Outlining the program on which the new coalition will be based, ' the Premier said
it would accept joint responsibility for defense of the country's democratic regime and
would exercise joint responsibility before the' Knesset. It also provides that Hebrew shall

be the official state language, but .the Arab population shall be entitled to use its own
language, the cost Plus system shall be elirninated from the economy of the country, the
output shall be increased, a general compulsory educational system shall be introduced for
ail childr6n, with a religious education available for children whose' parerits prefer it.
The program also provides absolute equality in political and economic and other
fields for Arab citizens,* Sabbath and Jewish holidays shell be official holidays but min-
orities will have their own religious holidays; exit visas shall be abolished except for se-
curity reasons, and a new electoral laW shall be introduced in parliament to end frag-
mentation of parties.
Negotiations to induce Mizrachi Laborites to join the
new coalition governinent were still in progress as 'late as
Tuesday afternoon and it was hoped by Premier Ben-Gurion
that these talks would bring the orthodox workers into tilt
cabinet in whiCh they were promised three seats. However,
shortly_ before parliament convened, the Mizrachi Laborite
group sent a letter to the Premier stating that they were
unable to join the government because their demands in the
field of religious- education were not granted.

Government Commands Largest
Majority It Ever Enjoyed

Never before has -Premier Ben-Gurion commanded so
comfortable a majority in parliament as now. The pro-gov-
ernment majority in Parliament will consist of 77 deputies
out of a total of 120. It will include 45 Mapai members, 23

Technion Founders:

The founders' fund for the Israel Institute of
Technology--Technion—in Haifa, Israel, was launched here last Saturday night at a dinner
at the Detroit-Leland Hotel, Speakers included (from the left) : Dr. MENAHEM MERLUB-
SOBEL, - professor of chemical engineering at the Technion; LEON KAY, vice-president,
American Technion Society; DR. WILLIAM FONDILLER, honorary president, American
Technion Society; BENJAMIN WILK, president, Detroit Technion Society; CHARLES FROST,
national Technion Vice-president. Mr. Wilk announced that $80,000 has been raised to-
wards the $300,000 Detroit three-year goal, part of the national $10,000,000 campaign for
the new Technion university campus on Mount Carmel.
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General Zionists, five Arab Democrats and four Progressives.
The opposition will for the time being command 41 votes. It
is known that two members of the Agudah Labor Party will
not join the opposition but will abstain from voting on all
issues.
The opposition may dwindle to . 33, should the Miziachi
Laborites decide to ,join the new Cabinet. An indication that
he still expects the Mizrachi Laborites to join the cabinet
was given by Premier Ben-Gurion in his address in Parlia-
ment diming which he itook leave of the two Mizrachi mem-
bers of his old cabinet—Dr. Mordecai Nurok and Haim
Cohen—but refrained from bidding farewell to two Miz-
rachi Laborite members of the former Cabinet.

President Ben Zvi authorized David Ben-Gurion, Mapai leader
and Premier in the previous two Israel Governments, to form a
new government. Mr. Ben-Gurion officially submitted the resigna-
tion of his last Cabinet—which was in office 14 months—to the
President last Friday. -
The Progressive Party's central council decided by an 18-9
vote to join the new Cabinet.