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A Digest of World Jewish Happenings,
from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic
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Israel

TEL AVIV — At Heletz Number 11, the eighth well in the
only paying oil field in Israel, oil was struck again last week,
at a depth of 5,026 feet. Israel Barnea, general director of Mat-
zada Co., said five of the eight wells have a daily capacity of
130 barrels each .. . Israel has approved a reduction in air fare
rates, allowing a special low fare between New York and London
or Paris. The reduction applies to tourists who return to their
point of departure within 15 days. Israeli approval was given
for only one year; new rate reduction talks will be held by
international airlines next year.
JERUSALEM — The Jewish Agency's budget for the coming
year will go up to 160,000,000 pounds and will be 15 per cent
higher than last year and the highest in Zionist history, Eliahu
Dobkin reported. . . By the end of November, Salk vaccine
innoculations will begin for all Israeli children of six months
to 3 years. Batches of the vaccine produced in the Ministry of
Health's Jaffa virus laboratory have been shipped to the U. S.
and Denmark for inspection. . . . The first Arab girls' seminary
for the training of kindergarten and school children is opening
in Jaffa this month. It will offer a two-year course and will
accommodate 40 Moslem, Druse and Christian girl graduates of
Government Arab secondary schools. . . • The Food Controller
has issued an administrative order ending rationing of eggs and
egg price control. . . . The public commission investigating the
Sabbath disturbances in Jerusalem is continuing its hearings,
Dr. Zorach Warhaftig, Deputy Minister for Regions, being the
latest to testify at a closed session.
HAIFA — The first underground pedestrian crossing in this
port city, to be completed this month, will cross Rehov Herzl.
BEERSHEBA — Intervention in the problem created by the
extreme shortage of medical personnel in the Negev has been
promised by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. . . .

The United States

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Two Interesting
Israeli Articles

Night Raid by Israelis

Coronet Magazine for October
contains an important article en-
titled "Young Kids on a Tense
Border."
This . richly-illustrated story,
by Lewis W. Gillenson, editor
of Coronet, describes the strug-
gles of the settlers at • Mahal
Oz, 11.: the Negev, on • the Egyp-
tian border. It is a factual and
sympathetic description of the
battle to guarantee the free-
doms of the Israelis in the
desert area.
The October issue of Adven-
ture Magazine carries an article
by Maj. George Fielding Eliot,
"The Day Abdullah Died." De-
scribing ° the plot to kill Jor-
dan's king, Maj. Eliot reveals
that Abdullah was prepared to
make peace with Israel and was
murdered on July 20, 1951, to
prevent that move.
Maj. Eliot states that Ab-
dullah's plan would have re-
opened trade between Israel and
Jordan, would have shattered
the Arab League, would have
"released the energies of the
Israeli people into channels of
commerce, industry and social
Two Israeli soldiers, one ready with a submachine gun
prograss, opened the way to re-
(right), walk past the body of a Jordanian soldier during the
lieve the sufferings of the Arab
recent Israeli raid into Jordan territory at Hussan, south of
refugees."
Abdullah's recognition of the Jerusalem. Fifty Jordanians were killed, two armored cars
danger to the entire area from were set on fire and a quantity of vehicles and weapons were
Soviet influence induced him to captured. The raid was staged in reprisal for Jordanian attacks
seek peace with Israel. A rela- across the Israeli border.
tive of the ex-Jerusalem Mufti
was among the leaders in the Jewish News Reporter in Paris
plot against Abdullah.

WASHINGTON — Israel has joined the International
Finance Corporation, an affiliate of the International Bank of
Reconstruction and. Development .. . Jews constitute 6 per cent
of the religious population of the United States, according to an
estimate of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in
the U. S. Protestants form 53 per cent and Catholics, 40 per cent,
of the population. . . .
Myths Exposed
SAN FRANCISCO — Mt. Zion Hospital has been awarded
A number of popular myths
close to $325,000 in research grants by the U. S. Government.
NEW YORK — The Lucy Oppenheim Vocation School in about the new state of Israel,
are dispelled in a new 25-cent
Tel Aviv, named for the late labor leader, was dedicated here.
pamphlet "Portrait of Israel —
Europe
BONN — Dr. Fakoussa, a top Arab League propagandist, has Myth and Reality" just pub-
arrived here with an ostensibly innocuous diplomatic status, but lished by the Public Affairs
in reality, according to Arab circles, to keep watch on German Committee, 22 E. 38th St., New
reparations deliveries to Israel. . . . The annual "Day of the York.
Written by Hal Lehrman, the
Victims of Nazism" has passed with little acclaim, few Germans
having as much as heard about it. In Munich it was found diffi- pamphlet surveys the strengths,
weaknesses, problems, and op-
cult to fill a 120-seat auditorium for a meeting. . .
LONDON — Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World portunities of the new state and
Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency, addressing the finds "the Israelis a people like
Foreign Press Association, said a long-range program for Arab- any other, with the usual
Israel peace is being evolved. . . . The International Red Cross strengths and frailties, with no
reported to the World Jewish Congress that it has found valuable monopoly on good or evil."
the WJC European Tracing Records dealing with 524,000 Jewish
Most - of the myths regarding
Israel, Mr. Lehrman finds, come
victims of Nazism. . . .
DUSSELDORF — The Central Council of Jews in Germany in pairs, each mutually refuting,
has protested to the Bonn Ministry of Finance the bad faith with the truth somewhere be-
evinced in a recent interpretation of a clause in the new amend- tween.
ment to the Federal Indemnification Law for individual victims.
He notes, for example, that
The Council also protested to the Ministry of Finance the appar- many contend that "Israel is
ent intention to enact, without first consulting the organizations indeed the Scriptural land of
of Nazi victims on the implementation regulations to the new milk and honey," while others
compensation regulations.
insist that "Israel is an artificial
BERLIN — Kurt Mueller, a German anti-Semite, was creation, her soil too stony and
sentenced to- three weeks' imprisonment and fined $35 for in- arid and narrow to sustain her
sulting Heinz Galinski, president of the West Berlin Jewish present population, her produc-
Community. . . . The West Berlin government has banned two tivity too low to justify her high
neo-Nazi organizations for paving the way for establishment of a Western standard of living."
new party under the leadership of Otto Strasser, one-time Hitler
"Among all of her neighbors
in the Middle East," Mr. Lehr-
aide.
VIENNA — The Austrian Ministry has dissolved the neo- man points out, h o w e v e r,
Nazi National Youth Corps. . . Six former policemen charged "Israel is by far the nearest
with the mass murder of Jews in the Polish town of Kolomea to a free society by Western
will go on trial soon. . . . The Vienna Bureau of the Austrian standards."
Relief Fund has received 6,600 applications from persecutees
"Israel needs peace and time,"
living abroad, 600 already having received settlement of their Mr. Lehrman concludes. Grant-
claims.
ed such blessings, the record in-
WARSAW — The Yiddish newspaper Folkstimme reports dicates that she may look for-
that the Soviet Ministry of Culture has asked Jewish theatrical ward to a future of great prom-
leaders to prepare a project for a Yiddish State Theater to open ise."
in Moscow next May.
BRUSSELS — Gertrude van Moorst, foster mother of the
abducted Jewish war orphan, Anneke Beekinan, was released
from Liege prison and given 24 hours to leave the country. .. .
NEW ORLEANS, (JTA)-
Queen Elizabeth of Belgium attended the Jewish State Theatre
of Poland's performance of "Meir Ezofovitch," last week-end, Label A. Katz, chairman of the
meeting leading members of the Yiddish troupe, presented dur- Anti - Defamation League of
Bnai Brith here, sharply con-
ing intermission by company director Ida Kaminsky.
demned Dr. Emmet L. Irwin
United Nations
and the Citizens' Council of
Israel has asked the UN to take steps to insure observance New Orleans for what he
of the cease-fire pledge by Jordan. .. Foreign Minister Golda termed "a second unwarranted
Meir had informed UN Truce Chief E. L. M. Burns that Israel's and vicious attack" on ADL.
attack on Jordan was "the inevitable consequence of a chain of
Earlier, Katz denied a state-
murderous aggression." . . . Ambassador Abba Eban's request
that his country be heard as an interested party in the UN ment by Dr. Irwin to the effect
Security Council's debate on the Suez Canal question has been that the ADL had been under
shelved temporarily. . . At his press conference in Washington, suspicion as a possible Com-
President Eisenhower said he personally feels Egypt's anti-Israel munist-front organization.
In his reply to the Citizens'
Suez blockade is most unjust and not in accord with the Suez
Treaty of 1888. . . . Secretary of State Dulles, at an earlier press Council leader's second set of
conference, said he deplored the Jordan-Israel outbreaks but did charges against the Bnai Brith
not see any direct relations of this development to the Suez unit, Katz scored Dr. Irwin for
Canal crisis. Dulles said it was "irrelevant" whether Israel was bad faith, saying that "he
given membership in the Suez Canal users' association, and added knows as well as we do that
that Israel might not meet membership qualifications for lack his false accusations and innu-
of minimum required tonnage. ... Israel officials attached im- endo cannot be substantiated—
portance to Dulles' assurance regarding possible availability of for the simple reason that blat-
Suez Canal Users' association facilities to all ships, including ant lies can never be proved
true,"
Israel's.

Co-Religionists Are Friendly

By SALLY KORNWISE
The multi-street stalls of the
Flea Market were the first con-
centration of Jews in Paris no-
ticed by this reporter. Many
were the Jewish merchants who
operated the three-sided wood
arrangements offering i t e in s
ranging from shoe laces and
soap to silver or sable.
I first discovered this while
admiring some brass candle-
sticks in one of the best
antique stalls in the market.
A New Yorker bargained in
Yiddish for a vase.
For the next two hours, I
found that two out of every
three stalls were owned by
Jews. Realizing our mutual cult,
these French were warm and
genuinely friendly.
Dotty Davis, my traveling
companion, was a history major

in search of old maps. The
globe now on her Detroit desk
is a remnant from the time of
Louis Phillipe, bought extreme-
ly reasonably from a Jewish
vendor who had "two daugh-
ters, etudiants like we."

At a cloak-and-suit stall we
became acquainted with a Jew-
ish couple whose brother aided
us in mailing a package, then
conducted us through the Jew-
ish quarter, near the center of
Paris.
Narrower-than-most American
streets led us to Goldenberg's, a
kosher-style restaurant, where
bright maize linen tablecloths
made it unfortunately "pour les

touristes." Cold cuts there tasted
like American ones but con-
tained less grease. Apple stru-
del, with unusually flaky crust
and familiar tart filling, exem-
plified Jewish culture meshed
with French culinary ideals.
Cross-table suggestions of
South African, Parisien, and
American kinsmen caused us to
call at a luxury-item "discount"
house—also owned by Jews.
Phenomenally like larger Met-
ropolitan Building shops, it was
teeming with tourists in quest
of delights "wholesale."
But, the largest Parisien
synagogue was the most
memorable item on the "Jew-
ish portion" of our itinerary.
Located on Rue St. Victoire,
is grey facade in no way
hints of its marvelous inside.
The carefully beautified syn-
agogue struck us speechless.
Of magnifiicent gothic style,
it compared with . the finest
structures of other French
faiths.
With tremendous stained glass
windows from Israel, a round-
balconied lectern built on .a
beautifuly wooded column, it is
subsidized by congregants like

Baron de Rothschild. Orthodox
fashion, men sit on the main
floor, women on a second level
resembling box seats at an
opera. It was built in 1874.
The 125,000 Jews in Paris
are scattered throughout the
city, 3,000 of them on member-
ship lists of various synagogues.

ADL, 'White Council' in Second Round After New Attack

"Dr. Irwin, for reasons best Army intelligence expert, .had
known to himSelf, is seeking to had his Reserve commission
destroy the good will which cancelled by the U. S. Air
exists in New Orleans," Katz Force for the "best interests of
the service."
declared.
He also noted that a series
The ADL statement cited the
sources used by Dr. Irwin and of articles in the Scripps-How-
declared that many had long ard newspapers entitled "Ped-
been discredited. Among them dlers of Hate" had discussed
are Robert H. Williams, Jack "not only the discredited Rob-
ert Williams, but other sources
Tenney and Joseph Kamp.
Katz asserted that Williams, which Dr. Irwin cites, such as
described by Dr. Irwin as an Tenney and Kamp."

Mrs. Halprin Urges U.S. Sale of Jets to Israel

Israel had been heartened by
the decision of Canada and
France to sell jets. The U.S.,
she noted, had not interfered
with these transactions. It
should now go "a step further"
Jewish Agency executive, rec-
and make American jets avail-
ommended upon her return from
able directly to Israel, she
Israel.
Mrs. Halprin reported that urged.

NEW YORK (JTA) — The
United States should supply
Israel with American jet fighter
planes to help the Jewish State
defend itself, Mrs. Rose Hal-
prin, acting chairman of the

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