Three Artists
Israel Vice-Consul, I. D. Unna,
To 'Meet the Press' at League Event Highlight Concert
Isaac Daniel Unna, Israel Army. He was discharged in Of SA Chapter II
Vice-Consul in the Midwest 1947, after attending officers
United States, will meet the
press at a program arranged by
the League of Jewish Women's
Organization for Monday after-
noon, at Beth Aaron Synagogue.
Unna will be interviewed by
Frank Angelo, managing editor,
Detroit Free Press; Russell
Barnes, foreign affairs analyst,
Detroit News; Jack Manning,
editor, Detroit Times; and Philip
Slomovitz, editor, Jewish News.
Albert Elazar, superintendent
of the United Hebrew Schools,
will moderate
the discussion,
which will be
followed by a
general q u e s-
tion and an-
swer period.
Prior to the
meeting, a des-
sert luncheon
will be served
by members of
Unna
the Beth Aaron
Sisterhood, who will act as
hostesses, states Mrs. Philip
Fealk, program chairman.
Unna, whose offices are pres-
ently in .Chicago, is the son of
Dr. W. Unna, one-time president
of the Zionist Academic Union
in Hamburg, Germany. Settling
in Palestine with his family in
1936, young Unna was educated
in Haifa.
He entered the British Manda-
tory government in 1941 as
Haifa District Office, and in
1942 enlisted in the British
IF YOU TURN THE
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FIND A FINER WINE THAN
Cantor Saul Meisels, of Cleve-
school in England and serving
in Austria and Italy. He re- land, interpreter of 'Yiddish,
turned to his pre-war post un- traditional and Israeli songs,
til Israel's independence in will be one of the three princi-
pal artists to
May, 1948.
participate in
During the War of Liberation,
the concert to
he saw action as an infantry
b e presented
officer in the Galilee. From
by Chapter II,
1949 to 1952, he continued to
Sholem Alei-
serve the Israel Defense Army.
chem Institute,
Transferred to the Ministry
at 8:30 p.m.,
of Foreign Affairs in 1953, later
Wednesday, in
the same year he was appointed
the Detroit In-
Vice-Consul of Israel in New
stitute of Arts.
York. He was transferred to
Cantor" Meis-
Chicago a year ago, and is in
els will be ac-
charge of information services
companied by
for the Midwest area.
his wife, Ida
Ruth Meisels,
Strike Affects Israel
at the piano.
Cantor Meisels
Tickets still
Sick Fund, Clinics
are available for the concert,
Direct JTA Teletype 'Wire
Which also will feature the ap-
To The Jewish News
TEL AVIV — All sick fund pearance of Mischa Mischakoff,
and municipal clinics were concertmaster of the Detroit
closed Tuesday after Monday Symphony Orchestra, and Vi-
night's decision which sent vian Goldstein, Chicago drama-
8,000 physicians, chemists, clini- tist.
cal psychologists as well as
Mischalcoff will play Ernest
other academic workers, like Bloch's "Baal Shem," honoring
engineers, architects and senior the composer's '70th birthday,
government oficials, on strike which is being celebrated dur-
against the government rejec- ing the annual Jewish Music
tion of their demands for higher Festival, currently in progress.
wages which was previously ap- Miss Goldstein will recite from
proved by a government com- numerous Jewish authors, in-
mission. Many, citizens, unaware cluding Peretz and Sholem
of the midnight strike decision, Aleichem. •
queued up at clinics but were
Tickets for the concert, dedi-
deprived of services, save cated to the 30th anniversary
nurses. Only emergency cases of the Sholem Aleichem Insti-
were dealt with by a skeleton tute, are available from Maurice
staff. At the same time, all Beckerman, ticket chairman, or
public works were stopped due by calling the Institute, DI.
to the engineers' strike.
1-2552.
.
New Record: No January Casualties
Only Part of Hammarskjold's
Proposal Accepted by Egypt
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JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Egyp-
tian Premier Col. Gamal Abdel
Nasser only accepted UN Sec-
retary General Dag Hammar
skjold's proposal dealing with
the Nitzana-El Auja area, and
not proposals concerning the
Gaza strip, Premier David Ben-
Gurion told the Israel Parlia-
ment. He added that Col. Nas-
ser had added several contribu-
tions to his acceptance.
The Israeli public learned
this week that the month of
January passed without a single
Jewish •life being lost through
enemy action or infiltration,
despite a number of attacks
along the_Gaza border and from
Jordan. This is the first month
in a number of years in which
no Israeli fatalities were, re-
ported in the continuing border
hostilities.
Egyptian positions opened
Announcement was made this
week by Miss Yurika Mann, di-
rector of the Israel Art Center,
which is bringing to Detroit the
exhibition of paintings by Israeli
artists, that Mane Katz, the dis-
tinguished artist, will attend the
official opening of the event, at
Temple Israel, Sunday evening.
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Sholem Asch to Settle
Permanently in Israel
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Novelist
Sholem Asch arrived here last
week, and revealed that he
planned'to take up residence at
Bat Yam where he has been
given a home and been made
an honorary citizen. The writer
said he planned a long rest to
recover from a recent illness.
Mane Katz to Attend Israel Art
Exhibition; Community Is Invited
Just Received, New Comedy Recording
78
fire on Israeli personnel and
property 13 times during the
month, the press reported. Is-
raeli planes flying over Israel
territory in the Gaza border
zone-were fired upon twice 'dur-
ing the month, and two Jordan-
ian attacks, both repulsed, were
also reported. The Lebanese and
Syrian frontiers were quiet, in
the wake of the Israeli Decem-
ber 11 raid on Syrian gun posts
on Lake Tiberias.
UN. 3-0543
Mr. Katz, whose works are
on exhibition in Mexico, is fly-
ing here from Mexico City for
this purpo§e. Twelve of his
paintings will be included in
the Temple Israel exhibit.
Rabbi Leon Fram, who in-
vited Miss Mann to bring the
exhibition to Detroit, has ex-
tended an invitation to the
entire community to attend the
formal opening ceremonies,
Sunday evening, and to see the
exhibit during its month's dura-
tion here.
The Detroit exhibition com-
mittee includes Mesdames Mor-
ris Adler, Lawrence Fleisch-
man, Michael Freeman, William
Greenberg, John Hopp, William
Isenberg, Moritz Kahn, Leon
Kay, Hoke Levin, Max Osnos,
Sidney Ravin, Louis G. Red-
stone, Morris L. Schaver, Na-
than Shaye, Daniel Siegel,
Harry C. Singer, Philip Slomo-
vitz, C. William Sucher and
Irving Wolfe.
Detroit Jewish News-3
Friday, February 10, 1956
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