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Prof. Toynbee's
New Attack
on Israel

Commentary, Page 2

Arab-Israel Issue
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Cap

cc' Rioters Attack Jews,
Destroy ro erty
in
Old
Medina
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Austrian Accord with Jewry on Reparations

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

CASABLANCA—Jews in Casablanca are deeply con-

cerned as nationalist Moslem mobs turned to beating Jews

Israel's Pipeline to Productivity"

The first section of

the Yarkon-Negev pipeline, Israel's most ambitious irrigation project thus far, built mainly

with United Jewish Appeal and Israel Bond Drive funds, went into operation on July 19.
The new pipeline, which will bring water from the North to the Negev, is expected to add
50,000 acres to Israel's current total of 200,000 irrigated acres, to make possible an addi-
tional annual $25,000,000 worth of agricultural production. Thus the pipeline will serve to
turn the desert wastes of the Negev into a blossoming land of prosperous farms. It took
2,000 workers and 60 engineers about a million work days to build the 66-mile pipe
line. The line itself has three giant reservoirs and pumping stations which raise the water
by some 750-feet from the sources of the Yarkon near Tel Aviv to the reservoir at Tekuma
in the Northern Negev. The job which took a total of three years of concentrated effort,
cost approximately $40,000,000. The greatest part of these funds was furnished by Ameri-
can Jews through the United Jewish Appeal and its beneficiary, the United Israel Appeal.
The UlA makes monies raised by the UJA available to the Jewish Agency' in Israel, which
took care of 65 per cent of the cost of building the pipeline. Most of the remaining funds
represented Israel government loans with mon ies derived from the Israel Bond Drive.

Story of Inauguration of Pipe Line on Page 3

and destroying their property in the old Medina (native
quarter) of this city for the second successive day.
For the first time, veiled Moslem women joined the
mobs in attacking Jews. Both Jewish men and women were
stripped and beaten by the nationalists. Police came to
the assistance of the Jews and managed to beat off the
mobs. In addition, when small groups of Jews had to go
into the streets, they were accompanied by young Jewish
guards.
Observers touring the old Medina late Monday found
many Jewish shops and stalls burned down and some still
smoking. Debris from sacked Jewish stores was scattered
all about. Observers believed that the Moslem mobs turned
on the Jews because they identify the Jews with the French.
It is impossible at this time to assess Jewish losses in.
either lives and property. A number of Jewish merchants
have been ruined by the sacking and destruction of their
property.
A 10-year-old Jewish boy, Georges Dahan, was one of
six persons killed here when a powerful bomb exploded
at Casablanca Square. In addition, 35 persons were injured
in the explosion. This incident led to reprisals by French-.
men and further nationalist attacks.
Meanwhile, the World Jewish Congress has opened an
office here, headed by David Azoulai as executive secretary.
The decision to open the office was made by the WJC
executive and the Moroccan Central Committee of the

Congress.

$22,000,000 for Nazi Victims
InAnstrian-JewishAgreement

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

VIENNA — Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab on Tuesday an-

nounced that as a result of an agreement which he reached Mon-
day with Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the joint executive
board of the Jewish Committee for Claims on Austria, the Austrian
government will establish a fund of 550,000,000 schillings—approx.
imately $22,000,000 — to be distributed within 10 years among
people who suffered from Nazism in Austria and are now residing
abroad.
Chancellor Raab reported details of his meeting with Dr.
Goldmann to a session of the cabinet Tuesday. He said that Dr.
Goldmann, on behalf of Jewish Committee for Claims on Austria,
has presented him with a letter in which note is taken of the plan.
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Eminent Scholar Questions Authenticity of 'Dead Sea Scrolls'

Dr. •Zee. lin C Us xti

1‘Faisifi..cation ®f History'

composed not during the Second Com-
monwealth but "in the Middle Ages by
Prof. Solomon Zeitlin, of Dropsie Col-
lege, Philadelphia, editor of the Jewish some obscure and unlettered Jew." He
Quarterly Review, in the first of a series adds on this score:
of articles on "The Propaganda of the He-
"In examing the Scroll one should not
brew Scrolls," to appear next week in the seek to judge its age by seeking parallels
July issue of the Jewish Quarterly Re- to it. Parallels may be found in any an-
view, charges that the acceptance of the cient writings. Regardless of when the
so-called Dead Sea Scrolls is a "falsifica- author lived, he read books, and because
tion of history."
he was a Jew he was familiar with the
The book-length article by Edmund Bible and other writings, or he knew of
Wilson—"A Reporter at
the contents of some books by hearsay;
Large: The Scrolls from
hence he was influenced by them and
the Dead Sea" — in the
could have used parallel ideas and ex-
May 14, 1955 issue of the
pressions which had been in vogue in the
New Yorker, revived a
past."
controversy over these
According to Prof. Zeitlin, "this
Scrolls, found in a cave
Scroll is ascribed by some to the pre-
near the Dead Sea and
hellenistic period and by others to the
recently purchased by
time when the Zealots fought against
the Hebrew University of
the Romans; but it happens that it
Jerusalem. Prof. Zeitlin,
contains words, expressions, and hala-
in his charge that a hoax
kot which are of a very late period."
has been fabricated, is
Setting forth "unimpeachable proofs"
Zeitlin
Dr.
clashing with noted ar-
for the view that the Scroll "is not of the
cheologists, who gave credence to the period of the Second Commonwealth but
view that the discovered Scrolls belong of the Middle Ages," Dr. Zeitlin presents
to the pre-Hasmonean period.
the following arguments:
Dr. Zeitlin first expressed doubt as
Referring to Plate 24 of the photostats
to the antiquity of the Scrolls in an article of the text of the Scrolls, in which the
in the Jewish Quarterly Revicw in 1950. author says that the priests who partici-
In the July 1955 issue, he expresses the pated in the wars by blowing the trum-
belief that the Scroll which Prof. Sukenik pets should not go near the slain, so as not
called "The War Between the Sons of to defile the oil used in the anointment
Light and the Sons r f Darkness" was of their priesthood, Dr. Zeitlin declares

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

that "during the Second Commonwealth
Talmud that some copyists placed dots
the priests were not anointed with oil at
either over or under certain words to
all. There is no mention in the tannaitic
indicate that they should not be read.
literature, Josephus and the books of the
Now the question is, who wrote these
Maccabees that the priests were anointed
three words above the line; was it the
with oil. The authors of the Epistle to the
original author? If so, then we must
Hebrews who maintained that Jesus was
assume that he lived- in a very late
the Messiah, Christ and High Priest,
never said that Jesus was anointed as a period, because it was not the custom
in antiquity to enclose words in paren-
High Priest or as the king. The authors
theses. If we assume that a copyist and
of the Gospels, as well as the author of
not the original author enclosed these
the Epistle to the Hebrews, were aware
words in parentheses, then we must
that no anointment of the high priests
ascertain who tampered with the text
or kings took place during the Second
and especially at what time. Why did
Commonwealth; hence the phrase in the
Scroll shemen mish'hat kehonatam could a copyist take the Scroll out of the
cave, put the three distorted words in
not have been written by a man' living
parentheses, write the correct words
during the Second Commonwealth ... for
above the line and then replace the
a person living in that period would have
Scroll in the cave? Those who maintain
known of these doctrines."
the antiquity of the Scroll must explain
Dr. Zeitlin points out that three He-
this enigma."
brew words—sidrei hamilhama v'hatzot-
The use of connecting lines in Plate 25
zrot—were written in on the first line of
Plate 18, in the parchment that was also is exposed by the Dropsie College
damaged. Then he expoles this insertion scholar, who asserts, in his charge that
the Dead Sea Scroll is a "falsification of
as follows:
"These three distorted words are history:" "Connecting lines were used in
enclosed in parentheses. So far as we the Bible after accent signs had been in-
know, parentheses were not used in troduced, and this was in a comparatively
antiquity to indicate that certain words late period. How then can the connecting
should be ignored. If a copyist made an line in the Scroll be explained if it was
error, he erased what he had written written during the Second Common-
and wrote the correct words in the wealth? We must assume, therefore, that
same space. That was the practice it was written during the Middle Ages. If

among the Jews, We know from the

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