Germany to Pay $90,000,000
On Jewish Claims This Year
BONN, (JTA) — West Ger-
many's Federal budget for 1955-
56, submitted by the Ministry of
Finance to the parliament for
a p p r o v a 1, appropriates the
equivalent .of $74,000,000 for Is-
rael reparations, $36,000,000 for
indemnification, $7,000,000 for
restitution of identifiable prop-
erty, . $2,900,000 for pensions to
former German rabbis or com-
munal officials, and $48,000,000
for the victims of Nazi medical
experiments. The total of these
payments constitutes just under
two percent of the Bonn Treas-
ury's anticipated tax revenue.
Knesset Votes
Confidence in
Israel Cabinet
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Israel government won a confi-
dence vote in Parliament after
the righwing Herut attacked it
and introduced a motion of non-
confidence. The vote . upholding
the Sharett government was
66 for, seven against and 12 ab-
stentions. The leftist Mapam
and Achdut Avodah parties and
the Communists abstained.
Herut charged that the gov-
ernment was maintaining a "de-
featist" policy, retreating on
such political . issues as the Bat
Galim case and the Syrian cap-
ture and detention of five Israel
solqiers.
When allowance is made for
benefits accruing to non-Jewish
victims of Nazism, the Federal
Republic's 1955-56 budget pro-
vides an aggregate total of about
$90,000,000 for Jewish claims of
all categories, not counting the
$14,000,000 in reparations funds
that have already been spent.
This constitutes an increase of
$20,000,000 over the current fis-
cal year.
More than $14,000,000 out of
the $74,000,000 designated for re-
parations purposes, has been in-
cluded in the new budget only
as a bookkeeping device, to cov-
er earlier Israel purchases for
w h i c h no appropriation had
previously been asked or made.
For actual deliveries, only $60,-
000,000 will be available in the
forthcoming fiscal year.
The reparations agreement
sets $74,000,000 as the "normal"
rate, but West Germany, in spite
of her unprecedented economic
boom, is for the second year in
sucession in taking advantage of
an escape clause permitting her,
as a last resort if she should
find herself in economic straits,
to restrict payments to a min-
imum of $60,000,000 per year. I
DETROIT JEWISH N EWS - 5
Friday, January 21, 1955
JNF Foundation
Members to Hear
Judge Rosenblatt
Judge Bernard Rosenblatt,
president of the Jewish National
Fund Foundation, will address
a dinner of Detroit Foundation
members, Wednesday evening, at
Holiday Manor.
William Hordes, chairman of
the board of the JNF Council
of Detroit, stated that Judge
Rosenblatt will evaluate the im-
portance of bequests to the JNF.
There will be no solicitations at
the dinner.
Israel Invited for
Talks With Turkey
Honor Dr. Hershman at Dinner Feb. 8;
Establish Israel Library in His Name
A committee has been formed
to honor Dr. A. M. Hershman at
a dinner, to be held at the
Shaarey Zedek on Feb. 8.
The occasion will be the pres-
entation to Dr.
Hershman of a
certificate signi-
fying that the
Library in Tel
Aviv, Israel, to
be set up at the
Hapoel HaMiz-
rachi Center,
has-been named
in his honor.
Harry M.
Shulman heads
t h e committee
which includes H. M. Shulman
Abraham Borman, Harry Cohen
and Abe Kasle.
JERUSALEM — The Turkish
government has invited Israel to
hold high level talks on various
financial and economic • prob-
lems, it was announced here
Tuesday. An Israel delegation of
three top-level government of-
ficials will leave for Ankara Feb.
7, the announcement added •
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the creation of a joint Israel
government-Jewish National
Fund authority_to set land poli-
cy in Israel was placed Tuesday
before the session of the Jew-
ish Agency Executive here by
Abraham Grannott, world head
of the JNF.
The plan calls for the crea-
tion of a public body with equal
representation from the govern-
Ment and the JNF to formulate
public policy dealing with land
use and amelioration, reclama-
tion, afforestation and swamp
drainage projects and the leas-
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tributions, annual contributions
from the Zionist Organization,
and rents from JNF - owned
lands.
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The publication. -last week, of
the latest book of poems, in He-
brew, by Ephraim A. Lisitzky,
serves as a reminder of the great
contributions made to Hebrew
culture by the
noted American
Jewish leader,
the late Dr.
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man.
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and scholars, in
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urope and in
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published by the Dvir Publishing
Co., Tel Aviv, is a result of the
efforts that were inaugurated by
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