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Goldmann Heads World Zionist Organization
Zionist Movement Eliminates
Advocates of 'Defensive: War
Israel Protests to Iliammarskjold Against
Infiltrators' New Outbreaks of Violence
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM — Israel protested on Tuesday to United Nations Secre-
tary General Dag Hammarskjold on the most recent outbreaks of violence
along the Israel-Egyptian and Israel-Jordan borders. Foreign Minister Sharett's
message told Hammarskjold that the latest incidents made dead letters of cease
fire pledges given him by the Arab states.
.Meanwhile the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission failed to con-
demn Jordan for the blasting of a building at Kfar Yavitz near Nathanya by
infiltrators who fled back across the 'Jordan border. The American chairman,
Cmdr. J. J. Terrill, abstained, despite evidence that UN observers had followed
tracks of observers to the Jordan border,
Afterwards the Israel delegate on the MAC deplored the commission's
failure to reach a decision. By obscuring the issue, he said, the MAC had failed in
its duty and had not supported Hammarskjold's efforts to improve the situation.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The 24th World Zionist Congress
closed Monday with the election of Dr. Nahum Goldmann as
president of the World Zionist Organization, the naming of a
17-member world executive and the election of a 100-member
Zionist Actions Committee. Dr. Goldmann, who was elected by
a vote of 272 to 42, with only the Reirisionists in opposition, was
also authorized by the Congress to appoint an acting chairman
of the Jewish Agency executive during his absence from either
New York or Jerusalem.
The new executive includes. representatives of every Zionist
party except the extreme right-wing Herut, whose advocacy of a
"defensive war" by Israel was ignored. After the composition of
the new executive was made known, Harry Levi, Herut leader,
declared that his organization "will use all constitutional means
to break the excutive." The executive is composed of six mem-
bers of the General Zionist - Confederation, six Mapai members,
three Mizrachi and Mizrachi Laborites, one Achdut Avodah
member and one Mapam member.
The Congress adopted a resolution to invite non-Zionists to
share responsibility in the Jewish Agency. The new executive
was instructed to submit proposals to the Zionist Actions Com-
mittee on how to implement this resolution "as soon as possible."
The delegates• authorized the Actions Committee to deal with
and decide upon all matters pertaining to. the structure and corn-
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Gen. Makleff and 'Farmer on
Watch-Tower' Guests of UJA
Edward R. Murrow is "showninterviewing Uri Maririoff for "See
14 Now" program. On the left, Uri is in a typical farm chore.
When Israel stood before Mount Sinai reatily to
receive the Torah, the Holy One said: "I am prepared
to give the Torah to you, but give me some surety,,
that you will keep its Commandments." "Our Patri-
archs will be our guarantee," said Israel, "I have a
complaint against your forefathers," God retorted.
"Our prophets will be our guarantors," said Israel.
"That is not enough," said God. "Our children win
be our guarantors," promised Israel. "These surely are
_good guarantors and you" shall have the Torah for
their sake," said the Holy One.
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The Jewish News dedicates this issue to the Con firmands, Cons'ecrants
and Graduates of our congregational and community schools. May
they be inspired to uninterrupted consecration to Jewish learning,
and may they re-dedicate themselves to the sacred, moral and ethical
teachings of the People of Israel.
List of Confirtnands, Consee,rants
and Graduates on Pages 16••11
A leading Israeli general and an heroic Israeli border farmer, re-
porting on'the positions ofIsrael's frontier settlers, will be guests of the
United Jewish Appeal's emergency national action conference, June 9
and 10, at Roosevelt Hotel, New :York, it was announced by Rabbi
Herbert A. Friedman, JTA executive vicezchairman.
The conference has a goal of $50,000m0 in community cash collec-
tions.
Chief among those who will take part are General Mordecai Makleff,
former Chief of Staff of the- Israel Defense Army, and Uri Marinoff, the
young farmer-guard of Nahal Oz who was brought into prominence
recently by Edward R. Murrow, who interviewed him on the settle-
ment's watch-tower overlooking :the. Egyptian border, shown in the
recent coast-to-coast telecast of the "See It Now" program which was
focused on the Egypt-Israelcrisis.
Max Lerner, noted newspaper columnist and one of America's top
political analysts, will address the delegates and will interview Uri on
his life and experiences at Nahal Oz.
Gen. Makleff, who headed the Israeli delegation in the armistice
negotiations with Syria and Lebanon in 1948-49, will discuss Israel's
position and requirements in the light of the threat to its survival.
Uri was an Obscure settler at Israel's border colony of Nahal Oz on
the Gaza frontier when the interview by Mr. Murrow for the March 13
"See It Now" telecast brought him suddenly into the limelight. He was
besieged by thousands of letters which showed how deeply he had im-
pressed the American public. Despite the danger he faced nightly on
the watch-tower overlooking the Egyptian border, he spoke of the need
for peace and told Mr. Murrow that he. hated no one.
Born in Jerusalem in 1935, Uri. was 13 when he moved to Tel Aviv.
After schooling, in which he prepared himself for the life of a farmer,
he moved to Nahal Oz in 1953 as soon as that town was open for settle-
ment.
Nahal Oz is near Gaza, only 500 yards from the Egyptian frontier,
it comprises 2,500 acres on which cattle and chicken raising are the
principal pursuits. Uri works primarily in a cattle-barn - but does other
farm chores as well. He spent six months on a farm in Denmark last
year as part of a farmer exchatige'plan, returning to his home in Naha'
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