Community Gets Call to Immediate Action
To Assure Funds for Many Major Agencies
A call to action went forth
from the closing rally of the
Allied Jewish Campaign, held at
the Woodward Jewish Center
1VIonday evening, for immediate
con tact of 5,500 prospective
contributors to the Allied Jewish
Campaign, to assure availability
of 'funds without which all local
educational, health and social
service agencies must suffer and
without which Israel and the
national overseas beneficiaries
will have to take drastic cuts in
allocations.
Samuel H. Rubiner, presi-
dent of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, as chairman of
the rally, posed a series of
questions as to which of the
agencies — Israel, our schools,
the Home for Aged, Sinai Hos-
pital and scores of other
agencies—are to take the cuts
if the needed sum is not
reached.
diers. Today they think in the
reverse and believe that Jews
are only good in warfare but
are not economists and there-
fore hope to defeat us eco-
nomically. I am sure that we
shall all work together to dis-
illusion them."
The General noted that this
passage, as interpreted by the
High Command, indicated that
enemy forces in the Valley of
Ajalon, or Latrun, might pos-
sibly be holding a position that
could be turned into a trap,
("for I have delivered them into
Mrs. Yadin, who is accompa- thine hand") and that the best
Hying the general on his U.S. way to spring this trap would
tour, also was a guest at the be to take them by surprise in
dinner.
a concerted and unrelenting at-
tack, (as when Joshua "came up
unto them suddenly, and went
Yadin Points to Bible
up from Gilgal all night").
As Secret Israel Weapon
The tall, youthful, strikingly
The Israel . Defense Army in
1948 was pitifully outnumbered handsome General served dur-
and outgunned but it won ing the War of Independence as
smashing and often brilliant I Chief of Military Operations
victories because it had a under Commander - in - Chief
powerful, "secret weapon," Gen- Yaacov Dori, and assumed per-
eral Yigal Yadin, the Army's sonal field command in the
former Chief of Staff, revealed, fateful campaign for the Negev.
upon his arrival in the United He credited a reconstructed map
States to aid the UJA campaign. of the Roman Occupation with
General Yadin held up the
a disclosure that helped the Is-
"weapon" in his hands — a
rael Army drive the Egyptians
copy of the Bible — and said
from the southern desert.
that it was the Book of Books
The Roman map, he said, re-
that not only inspired the Is-
vealed that in ancient times
rael Defense Army to aston- there had been a great road bi-
Having set a goal of $5,000,-
000 for this year's drive, with a
total of $3,805.728 announced
thus far and an additional
$200,000 assured, the drive will
be short $1,000,000 unless the ishing feats of heroism but
5,500 unsolicited prospects are
actually suggested to the in-
contacted for a large additional fant Army plans of battle and
sum in gifts to the 1954 drive.
lines of attack.
The call to the community is Troop commanders, he said,
therefore embodied in the as- read the Bible to their men on
section that the closing rally was the eve of battle, and the Gen-
not the close of the drive,
eral Staff referred to the Bible
Isidore Sobeloff, campaign di- for clues as to how the battles
rector, pointed out in his ad- of antiquity were fought.
dress Monday that since the
He pointed out that in World
end of the war $41,000,000 was War II, General Montgomery
contributed in Allied Jewish of ten read the Bible prior to
Campaigns by Detroit Jewry, undertaking major military
and since the creation of the drives, but had to content him-
state of Israel the gifts have self with strained parallels in
totalled $32,000,000. This year, the case of the North African
Mr. Sobeloff stated, will be the campaign and Normandy, while
eighth consecutive year in which the Israel General Staff could
more than $4,000,000 will have apply the Bible text directly to
been.- raise d. He attributed their own land.
the local successes to leadership,
General Yadin explained that
good organization and under- in the Battle for the Bibical
standing of the causes involved. Valley of Ajalon, now known as
"While this will be another
Latrun, the High Command re-
$4,000,000 year," he stated, we ferred to the Bible's description
are running slower than a of Joshua's campaign for this
year ago at this time, but it same strategic site. The Bible
will be worse if the solicitors passage records that "Joshua
stop working. How close we ascended from Gilgal, he, and
will approach last year's fig- all the people of war with him,
ure will depend upon the ef- and all the mighty men of valor,
by cam- I
forts to be exerted
this point
on." land the Lord said unto Joshua,
paigners from
Fear them not: for I have de-
Reports were submitted at the livered them into thine hand;
rally by Irving W. Blumberg, there shall not be a man of
who pleaded with the workers them stand before thee. Joshua
that "this is not the time to be- therefore came up unto them
come tired;" Max M. Fisher, suddenly, and went up from
who stated that "it will take Gilgal all night."
most of June to complete our !
job;" Samuel J. Greenberg, Alex
Sklar, Stanley J. Winkelman,
Jack 0. Lefton, Daniel Laven,
Julius Mehler, Sidney J. Karbel,
Harvey Willens, G e o rge Keil,
Milton Lucow and Mrs. Harry
L. •Jones.
Rabbi A. M. Hershman gave
the opening prayer at the din-
ner,
General Yigal Yadin, former
Chief of Staff of the Israel De-
fense Army, in the principal ad-
dress of the evening, said he
felt it his duty to respond to the
invitation of the United Jewish
Appeal to come to this country
and to express Israel's grati-
tude to American Jewry for the
encouragement given the build-
ers of the young state. He de-
clared that Israel's problem is
three-dimensional, calling for
the building of a true democ-
racy, creating economic stabil-
ity and defense.
He stated that security de-
pends upon morale and eco-
nomics as much as upon mili-
tary defense. He said Israel is
aware of her responsibilities
and therefore has established
the policy of having her soldiers
devote their first year •of serv-
ice to farming.
"Our civilian reserve is im-
portant,"'he added, "and every
civilian has to serve in our re-
. serve army. Every one in Israel
has to guard and protect the
miracle that was attained six
years ago."
DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 28, 1954
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secting the Negev in length. If
the road could be found, he
noted, Israeli troops could be
put in a position to outmaneu-
ver the Egyptian Army. The
evidence of the road's existence
was so great that he personally
ordered his scouts to search out
its probable course.
The ancient highway was
found, and served as a pathway
to a decisive victory.
Re gional Education
BETTER
THAN
EVER
cakst!
Conferences Favored
PHILADELPHIA, (JTA l —The
National Council for Jewish
Education, at its national con-
ference, adopted a resolution
calling for the organization of
regional conferences in order to
strengthen the NCJE's work
throughout the United States.
Another resolution which was
ad2pted provides for the imple-
mentation of a pension plan for
NCJE members, who are the out-
standing Jewish educators in the
country.
Dr. David Rudaysky, executive
director of the Jewish Educa-
tion Association of Essex County,
N. J., was elected president of
NCJE.
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For Her.
years of triumph over adversity
years of freedom from oppregsion
years of democratic living
We Salute the State of Israel
and her devoted Ambassador Abba .E ban
upon his arrival in Detroit on June 2nd.
"Our task," General Yadin
declared, "is to make citizens
out of our soldiers. Six years
agi, the Arabs thought Jews
were economists and not sol-
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