Allied Campo* Passes $5,000,000 Mark
Detroit's 1956 Allied Jewish Campaign passed the $5,000,000 mark
at the closing dinner meeting of the. drive, held Tuesday evening at
the Hotel Statler. This assures for the current campaign the position of
third best fund-raising effort in the history of fund-raising in our Jewish
community. The two best years were 1948 and 1949, when the sums of
$5,700,000 and $5,300,000 were raised here.
With several thousand prospects still to be seen — included among
them being a number of large contributions — hope is entertained
that by raising another $300,000 in the coming weeks 1956 may yet
become the second best fund-raising year.
Campaign leaders and workers were inspired at Tuesday's meeting
by an address by U.S. Solicitor General Simon E. Sobeloff, who was
introduced by Judge Theodore Levin. Presiding at the meeting were
the campaign chairmen, John E. Lurie and Max M. Fisher, Isidore
Sobeloff, director of • the drive, reported on campaign results.
—Detailed story on Page 28
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Peace Marred by New Incidents
As Zionists Open 24th Congress
`Windsor's $162,000 Drive Starts
With Initial Gifts of $91,600
Resume of Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
On the eve of the opening of the 24th World Zionist Congress in Jerusa-
lem, on 'Tuesday, the -peace of the Middle East again was marred by new out-
breaks of violence.
The 'Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports from Tel Aviv that four Israeli
water engineers were murdered when their- Civilian car was ambushed on the
Elath road—between Ein Yahav and Beer Menuha some 70 miles north of
Elates. The car was set afire after -all occupants were murdered by close range
shootings. The place is near the. Jordanian border. ,
United Nations observers tracked attackers from their ambush position,
Which had been occupied by eight men, to a point across the Jordan border_
where the, eight split into three parties and disappeared.
The victims, two of whom were cremated in their blazing automobile,
have been identified as Eliahu Sukenik, 50, of Jaffa; Yigal de Toledo, 28, of
Ramat Gan; Dani Offer, 26, of Petach Tikvah, and Arye. Vilensky, of Kfar Saba.
Israel's Foreign MiniSter -Moshe Sharett sent an urgent message to UN
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Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold drawing his attention to the latest mass
attack in which the four passengers (workers of Tahal, the Israel water-plan-
ning body) were killed. Israel's Foreign Minister emphasized that this out-
rage bears all signs of- another .Fedaye-en action, from whatever country the
murderers may come.
An extraordinary session of the Israel Parliament was told S u n d ay by
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion that opportunities for reducing Arab-Israel-
tentions have arisen now as never before in Israel's history, but the danger
of war was similarly increased as never before.
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Windsor's annual welfare fund drive, for a goal of $112,000,
and the current emergency campaign for Israel, for an additional
Windsor quota of $50,000, had a good start Monday evening
when Samuel Bronfman, president . of the Canadian Jewish
Congress, honorary president of the -Zionist Organization of
Canada and chairman of the Israel bond drive in Canada, ad-
dressed a dinner meeting of the special gifts division, at the
Prince Edward Hotel. With contributions made at this meeting,
the total raised in the Windsor over-all drive for $162,000 in the
first week of the campaign rose to $91,600. Leaders present at
the meeting to hear Mr. Bronfman's stirring address included,
from the left: Seated: Simon Meretsky, Mr.. Bronfman, Reuben
Madoff, Harry Rosenthal; standing, Morris Tabacjnick, Ben
Matthews, Anthony Kovinsky, Robert Slutzky, David Mechanic
and Eli Golden, who presided at the special gifts dinner meeting.
ency defense tax proposed by the government and sent the bill to the Knes-
set Finance Committee. The bill was adopted by 56 to 6, with only the Com-
munist Party voting against it.
Detailed Story on Page 28
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Extension' and broadening of the cease - fire agreement, reached between
UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in his talks with Israeli and Egypt-
ian leaders, refers to a key clause in the armistice pact forbiddin g
side to
commit any "warlike or hostile act." It reads: "No element of the land, sea
or air military or paramilitary forces of either party including non - regular
forces, shall commit any warlike or hostile act against - the military or para-
military fdrces of the other party, or against civilians in territory under the
control of that party; or shall advance beyond or pass over for any purpose
whatsoever the armistice demarcation line."
The Israel Parliament approved a measure for a 50,000,000 pound emerg-
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Repetition of History -and Prophecy
words of the Prophet Nehemiah (Neh. 4.1 H—"They that builded the
wall and they that bore burdens laded themselves, every one with one of
his Kands wrought in the work, and with the other held his weapon" —
are being revived today in modern Israel as evidence of the double task
of the builders of Zion: to create and to defend. Eight years ago Israel's
people won their freedom despite Arab aggression. The armistice was to
have ended the fighting, yet hundreds of Israelis have been killed or
wounded by sneak attacks of infiltrating Arab gangs. The threat of an
a1-out invasion with Communist jet bombers and heavy tanks • has forced
the people of Israel to divert much of their energies to defense. That is
why the constructive work of resettling tens of thousands of immigrants
from North Africa now is the responsibility of American, Jewry and the
United Jewish Appeal, the major beneficiary of Detroit's Allied Jewish
Campaign, whose successful drive now is nearing its end. The defending
builders of Israel, who are re-enacting the story recorded in Nehemiah,
are, from the left: Children leaving a bomb shelter after an air drill;
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion assists in stringing barbed wire barri-
cades hear the Gaza border; remains of a home in a border settlement
after- an Arab raid; an Israeli patriarch digging an air defense trench.
Additional photos of Israel's builders-defenders, Page 28.