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Israelis Gird to Defend State
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Committee to the State Depart-
the people. The stock exchange ment to inform them of current
is stable and there has been no developments involving the
run on food and clothing stores. area. The delegation included
Foreign sources in Israel, par- committee chairman Walter
ticularly the British, estimate George of Georgia, William
,the' joint Arab • forces on land, Langer of North . Dakota and J.
sea and in the air at 260,000 W. Fulbright of Arkansas.
The,,..„State Department made
front line troops with no re-
serves. Israel's regular forces known. that Israel Foreign Min-
number 50,000 and its reserves ister Golda Meir, and Premier
,David Ben-Gurion were called
add another 200,000. ,
According to the JTA, the on in separate sessions . by the
Davar, leading pro-Government U. S. Ambassador in Israel. In
newspaper, reported that Jor- Cairo U.S. Ambassador Ray-
danian feclayeen (s uicide mond Hare arranged meetings
squads) have been concentrated- with Premier Nasser and For-
on the Israeli border for. the eign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi.
Israel Ambassador Abba Eban
last few days while heavy tanks
of the "Stalin type" were post- told Secretary Dulles that the
ed in forward areas in a joint reason for Israel's partial mobil-
Jordan-Syrian-Egypt provoca- ization was that Israel has rea-
tive move. Citing diplomatic son to fear an attack by neigh-
sources, Davar said that the boring Arab states. Mr. Dulles
new Arab triumvirate was plan- summoned Abba Eban to the
ning to infiltrate Israel with State Department.
After talking with Mr. Dulles,
fedayeen gangs to terrorize the
people and, if Israel replied the Israel envoy said that fear
with reprisal raids, to immedi- of attack has become intensified
ately start a three-front war on in Israel in view of certain de-
velopments in Arab policy in
her.
, The same source told Davar the last few days. He referred
that Gen. Amax, Egypt's Minis- to an arrangement for joint
ter of War, had informed Syria action by Jordan, Syria, and
and Jordan that Egypt is sched- Egypt, a recurrence of fedayeen
uled to receive next month a commando activities, recent re-
considerable number of Soviet ports of troop concentration on
MIG-17 fighters as well as ar- the Iraqi-Jordan frontier, and
mored vehicles and heavy ar- new anti-Israel statements by
tillery. Altogether, Gen. Arnar the heads of Arab governments.
The State Department admit-
was quoted 'as saying, the new
weapons would increase Egyp- ted that $15,000,000 worth of aid
tian firepower to double that to Egypt is being shipped de-
spite the fact that relations with
of Israel.
Addressing a group of Is- the Nasser regime are such that
raeli labor leaders, Golda no other shipments under the
Meir, Israel's Foreign Minis- development assistance • pro-
ter, said that as a result of gram are planned for the fu-
Iasi week's elections in Jor- ture.
It was revealed in the last
dan, and of the Arab tripar-
tite military agreement, the few days that the International
Egyptian ruler Col. Nasser has Cooperation A d m i n i s tration,
become Israel's neighbor in without fanfare, had resumed
the North and in the East. shipments to Egypt on such
The situation, she added, was items as locomotives, barges,
even more dangerous since other transportation equipment,
Russian submarines, mig]t al- and machinery. A State Depart-
so besiege Israel in the West. ment spokesman indicated that
Everything must be done this equipment had been pre-
to attain peace, she said, but viously contracted for and was
Israel must remain on the shipped to avoid penalty
alert, at the same time, to see clauses.
to it that should war come, Report from the Front
it would have the same result
By ITZHAK SHARGIL
as the war of 1948.
—International Sounclphoto
The reprisal raid by Israel
TEL AVIV — Lacking offici-
came after three Egyptian com- al reports on the present situa-
mando units entered Israel ter- tion of the Israeli army in the
ritory tSunday night. The units Sinai Peninsula but based on
were captured inside Israel British official statements and
near the Gaza strip border. The local fragment information, the
third unit escaped, although one Israeli army's swift advance into
of its members was believed the Sinai Peninsula was highly
wounded in an exchange of fire. praised by military experts. Ad-
The leader. of one of the cap- vancing units had to overcome
tured gangs confessed that they topographic difficulties 'in a
had been sent into Israel to comparatively short time to en-
commit sabotage and attack able a nonstop advance and to
Israelis.
supply convoys for advancing
Israeli authorities said that units. -
some five or six Egyptian'Avar-
The Israeli force, starting its
ships, headed by two destroyers, advance on Monday, reached
left their base at Alexandria the neighborhood of the Suez
and were moving in the direc- Canal in a one-day drive some
tion Of Israel. The authorities 230 kilometers from Kuntilla
also announced that a water and Ras El Vacieb, two points
pumping station was blown up near Israel's 'southernmost bor-
today near the Gaza strip, pre- der which were captured begin-
sumably by a time bonib placed ning the operation. An old sum-
by Egyptian infiltrators.
mer track leading. through
(In United Nations circled the Nakhl (in Sinai Peninsula)
opinion prevailed that the passes through Wadis cutting
Israeli reprisals raid. was not through high bare mountains.
a "war." At the same time, it In an advance towards the Suez
was learned at the United Na- Israelfs dropped paratroopers
tens that Egypt has lodged a near Suez, according to Eden's
complaint against Israel's raid statement Tuesday. Such an op ,
with the Egyptian-Israeli Mix- eration in itself is considered
ed Armistice Commission.)
very daring. Meanwhile, Israeli
President Eisenhower termed forces started wiping out Egyp-
the Middle East situation "criti- tian small resistance pockets,
cal" and pledged the moral left behind during the advance
power of the United States to of Israeli forces, and captured
maintain peace. In a last min- Kuseima, an Egyptian strong-
ute interpolation in a prepared hold some 10 kilometers from
address he delivered in Miami, the Israeli Nizana border. This
the President expressed grave placed significant Egyptian
concern over Middle East de- forces in pockets. Israelis are
velopments and said that "in trying to move westwards to
such a critical situation, we can- pin the main Egyptian force
not expect to erase suddefily the which still is on the Eastern
bitter heritage of the ages."
bank of the Suez Canal. Con-
The President delayed his de- voys of those forces were straf-
pArture on a campaign swing ed by Israel's airforce which
through the Southern states excelled itself in first extensive
while he met with Secretary of operations.
State -John Foster Dulles to dis- U.S. Embassy in Israel
cuss Israel-Arab developments. Urges Americans to Leave
Secretary Dulles summoned a
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — The
delegation of Senators repre, American Embassy urged Amer-
senting the Foreign Relations man citizen; to leave the coun-
try without delay in view of
the increased tension in the
Middle East. The Embassy is
arranging for the evacuation of
all women and children of its
officials as soon as' transporta-
tion is available.
Premier David , Ben-Gurion
sent a reply to President Eisen-
hower's pleas to him for re-
straint. The reply, conveyed
through U.S. Ambassador Ed-
ward B. Lawson, outlined the
reasons for Israel's partial mo-
bilization. Mr. Ben-Gurion re-
portedly assured President Ei-
senhower that Israel's own in-
terests require peace. The Pre-
mier also conferred with French
Ambassador Pierre Gilbert.
The cabinet met for two hours
Monday and heard reports by
various Ministers on the status
of food and medical stockpiles.
A scheduled appearance by Pre-
mier Ben-Gurion before the
Knesset Foreign Affairs and
Security Committee was can-
celled at the last minute.
Town and village govern-
ments gave civil defense prep-
arations top priority over all
other zetivities. In the three
large cities, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem
and Haifa, special committees
were organized to handle situa-
tions arising from the partial
mobilization which has already
upset many normal activities.
The government has been an-
nouncing that there is enough
food in reserve stocks to last
six months. There have been no
attempts at hoarding.
Constant streams of volun-
teers flowed in and out of
emergency bloodbanks in cities
throughout the country. In
Jerusalem recent - immigrants
still in Oriental costume mingl-
ed in blood donor queues with
Yeshiva students and women of
all ages.
Plane Reported Missing
LONDON, (JTA) — A mili
tary - plane , carrying 10 high
ranking Egyptian military of-
ficers is reported missing over
the Mediterranean. The plane
was last contacted about 50
miles from the Israel-Lebanese
-border, a cable from Beirut re-
ported. --
Canada Stops Jet Shipment
OTTAWA — The Canadi'an-
built sabre jet aircraft will not
be sent to Israel it .was
nounced here Wednesday night.
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Guest; His First Talk on Nov., 20
Joseph Weitz, one of the
world's most renowned affores-
tation experts, and director of
land and afforestation depart-
ment of the Keren Kayemeth
Le Israel, in Jerusalem, will be
the guest of the Jewish National
Fund of Detroit for several days,
arriving in Detroit Tuesday,
Nov. 20.
Mr. Weitz will address the
Ladies Auxiliary, Tuesday, Nov.
20, at 12:30 p.m., at Beth Aaron
Synagogue, when the JNF Aux-
iliary will launch its yearly
campaign which will culminate
with its 26th annual donor
event, Jan. 23, at Temple Israel.
Several other events at which
Detroit Jewry will 'have the op-
portunity of meeting and hear-
ing Mr. Weitz are being planned
by a special committee and will
be announced soon.
Mr. Weitz' visit coincides
with "JNF Month," which will
be launched nationally by . a
special Mobilization Conference
in New York, Nov. 9-11.
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