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Israel Expectr,; :-,;- \:.:000 Egyptian
Jews in 4 Mon\Ais; Dulles Defers
Mideast Aid; El Arish Evacuated
Egypt's St. Catherine Charges
Declared Baseless by UN Team;
Israel Asylum for Greek Cantor
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The United Nations team which pro-
ceeded, at the request of the Israel government, to the ancient
Christian Monastery of St. Catherine, on the Sinai Peninsula, to
investigate Egyptian allegations that Israeli troops had destroyed
rare manuscripts in the.6library of the monastery during their
occupation of Sinai, returned with a report that the Egyptian
charges were baseless. -
The UN team stated that it had found all the manuscripts
at St. Catherine's intact and that the monks said they had never
been molested by Israeli soldiers. The team included a representa-
tive of the International Red Cross as well as a representative
of the Greek Orthodox Church.
At the same time, it was revealed here that Christos Evan-
gelou, cantor of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Decalogue
in the Sinai Peninsula, has asked for and received asylum here
from the Israeli government. The famous Church of the Deca-
logue, which was founded in the Fourth Century of the Christian
Era, stands at the traditional site, in Sinai, where Moses is said
to have received the Ten Commandments.
Cantor Evangelou said he did not want to stay on at the
church because he feared Nasser's troops would return after
Israel has completed withdrawal of its armed forces. He praised
the conduct of the Israeli soldiers who occupied the Sinai area,
reporting that they had supplied food to the Christian monas-
teries in Sinai.
United Nations observers found no basis to Jordan's complaint to
the UN last week that Israel was massing troops along the armistice
line in the Tulkarm sector. While UN headquarters here officially
disclaimed any knowledge of a study by observers, it was indicated
in informed circles that truce headquarters had already dispatched a
report to Dag Hammarskjold, UN Secretary General, to the effect that
no troop concentrations had been observed.
Arab Notables from Gaza Visit
Tel Aviv to Study Life in Israel
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A party of Arab notables from Gaza
were shown around Tel Aviv and its suburbs as part of a pro-
gram to acquaint inhabitants of the Gaza Strip with life in Israel.
Other parties of leading Gaza Arabs will be taken to other parts
of Israel on organized tours.
Reports from Gaza said that Israel police forces have been
increased and road blocks strengthened on the roads from the
Sinai Peninsula into the Gaza Strip, because of the increased
efforts being made by Arabs from Sinai to enter the strip and
thus avoid coming under Egyptian rule again. It is evident that
Sinai Arabs fear Egyptian. return. They seem to feel that the
strip, which never was Egyptian territory until the Cairo gov-
ernment seized it during Israel's War of Liberation, will not
again be reoccupied by Egypt.
Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM.—An association of Egyptian immigrants issued strong pro-
tests Tuesday against plans to repatriate more than 5,000 Egyptian prisoners
of war without prior guarantees for safety of Jews remaining in Egypt.,
Negotiations were scheduled to start soon on the return of the Egyptian
troops captured in the Sinai campaign in exchange for four Israeli prisoners
of war.
Israel had previously suggested exchanging the Egyptian war prisoners
for an equal or larger number of Egyptian Jews awaiting deportation, but the
proposal was rejected by Egypt. .
The Egyptian Immigrants Association asked the Israel Foreign Ministry
to delay the return of the Egyptian prisoners of war until the International
Red Cross, which will supervise the proposed war prisoner exchange, receives
adequate guarantees for the safety of Egyptian Jews pending their departure
from Egypt.
A prediction was made meanwhile by David Siton and Yaakov Nitzani,
leaders of the World Federation of Sephardic Communities, that 20,000 to
25,000 Egyptian Jews would reach Israel in the next four months.
The two Sephardic leaders returning from a European tour in connection
with the Egyptian expulsions praised the assistance given to expelled Jews in
France and in Italy, where there are currently 7,000 Egyptian Jews awaiting
transport to new homes.
The two officials reported in Jerusalem that 45,000 of Egypt's 80,000 Jews
have migrated to Israel since the establishment of thetewish state. They said
that of the remaining. 35,000 about 15,000 are nationals . of countries other than
Egypt.
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Dulles to Take 'Closer Look' at Mideast, Defers Economic Aid
WASHINGTON.—Secretary of State Dulles told a Senate hearing Tuesday
that under the Eisenhower Mideast plan economic. aid to Israel, Egypt and
Jordan would continue deferred until a closer look at the area was taken.
-Dulles said economic aid would be given under the Eisenhower Doctrine
as previously, but with some adjustments. But the programs for Israel, Egypt
and Jordan, suspended in November, would continue in abeyance until a better
look at the situation was taken, he said.
He said it was impossible . to be sure that arms given the Arabs might
not be used against Israel. He said war supplies were most needed in these
states, but he felt it unwise to supply arms to Israel or Arab states immedi-
ately adjacent. However, under' some future circumstances, Egypt and Syria
might get U. S. military and economic aid, he said.
Dulles said that in the past arms were provided in small amounts by
the United States to all parts of the Middle East except Yemen. He said
Israel received U. S. Arms until the Sinai incident.
Britain and France indicated by recent actions, Dulles said, that they
did not feel bound by the 1950 Tripartite Declaration. But the treaty is still
part of U. S. policy, Dulles said, since this country was still trying to avoid
art Israel-Arab arms race.
Stressing the importance of unilateral American action in the Middle
East, Dulles said U. S. involvement *with Britain and France might defeat the
objective by opening the area to Communism.
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Strong Faith Keeps Israelis
Geared for Defensive Action
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The Israeli Frigate Miznak sails into
the port of Elath to establish a naval base in the Gulf of Aqaba after a '42-day voyage
which took the vessel around the tip of Africa and back through the Red Sea. At right is
an Egyptian cannon, now spiked, which once kept Israeli ships from entering the port.
Having completed the first phase of its withdrawal frem.the Sinai Desert, Israel has asked
the United .Nations to give assurance that Egypt will respect freedom of the gulf. Before
returning to Israel last week, Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel Foreign Minister, said return to the
blockade was "unthinkable." , -. - - ..
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
WASHINGTON, D. C.—While Israel faces new batt-
les at the United Nations, interest in the future of the
Middle East and in Israel's security is centered in our
Nation's capital.
The coming two or three weeks will be the most
difficult ones for Israel . both here and at the United
Nations, especially in view of the Hammarskjold Report
that is interpreted as not too favorable to Israel because
of Hammarskjold's insistence that security to Israel at
Aqaba is not included in the action of the General As-
sembly Mandate.
Israel Foreign Minister Golda Meir has flown back
to the United Nations in a desperate attempt to overcome
the pressures that are being exerted by the Afro-Asian
bloc.
Meanwhile, a handful of Israel's friends are strug-
gling to gain assurances from our State Department that
Israel will not be strangled in a hostile Middle East
orbit in which. Arab states provoke little Israel—even
under the terms of the Eisenhower Doctrine.
As at the United Nations, there are a number of
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