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A Digest of World Jewish Happenings; from
Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and
Other News Gathering Media.
Hebrew Schools to Graduate 16 Students
from High School; to Erect New Building
United States
WASHINGTON—A Department of Immigration spokesman
told the American Association of Jews from Egypt that the ad-
ministration does not plan to use the parolee section of immigra-
tion laws for cases other than Hungarian refugees. The associa-
tion appealed to the State and Justice Departments to extend the
same treatment to Jewish refugees from Egypt. . .
NEW YORK — New York University officials, explaining
impossibility to make any o,ther change, "because of commit-
ments for services and equipment, has postponed for 24 hours
the university's 1957 graduation exercises, inadvertently set last
fall for the first day of Shevuot. • .. At a cost of $300,000,000,
Israel will admit in the next 10 months the largest amount of
immigrants since 1949, 100,000 refugees from behind the Iron
Curtain, Egypt and North Africa, Dr. Dov Joseph, Jewish Agency
treasurer, announced here . A parchment scroll Of the Book
of Esther was presented to Mayor Robert F. Wagner to mark
the 45th anniversary of the founding of Hadassah . . The
York Times reports that the Catholic Church has thrown its
influence into the fight against anti-Semitism in Poland. The
weekly Tygodnik Powszechny, which represents the views of
the Polish Catholic Primate, declared: "Anti-Semitism is corn-
,pletely pagan in essence,"
It's graduation time for 16 young men and
women in the high school division of the
United Hebrew Schools. The graduates, pic-
tured here with their instructors, are, left to
right, seated: ARELLA BARLEY, CHAR-
LOTTE HYAMS, SANDRA KUTNICK, AL-
BERT ELAZAR, superintendent of UHS; ADA
ROTHENBERG, MARSHA KUTNICK and
MYRA COHEN; standing, STEPHEN ROD-
Europe
ROME—A group of center and leftist Chamber of Deputy
members called on the Ministers of Interior and Justice to take
action against the "Paper of the Fascist Revolution" and curb its
anti-Jewish agitation.
STUTTGART—The German District Court here has imposed
a three-month prison term on Erich Teich, a former county
leader in the Nazi party who sold a Jew-baiting book on Hitler,
.despite a government ban on it.
HAMBURG—Die Welt, a leading Hamburg newspaper, pro-
tested government application of a 16 percent "amusement" tax
on admissions to a movie house here showing the French • docu-
mentary "Night and Fog," which deals with the Nazi concentra-
tion camps of the Hitler regime and was boycotted by most
West German film distributors.
GENOA—Dr. Vittorio Pertusio, mayor of Genoa, apologized
to the president of the Genoa Jewish Community after hoodlums,
for the second time in two years, desecrated a memorial here to
Jewish victims of Nazism by covering it with red paint and
Nazi symbols.
LONDON—To insure against the sale of securities which may
have been sequestered from Jews in Egypt, the government
has suspended permission to trade in securities by or in behalf
of residents of the Egyptian monetary area.
BERCHTESGADEN—U. S. Jewish soldiers held a religious
.retreat here at the former hunting lodge of Hermann Goering.
GENEVA—Eran Laor, European representative of the Jewish
Agency, arrived from Israel to arrange for transportation of ref-
of the World
ugees to Israel .. . Max Braude, director
from- North African
ORT Union, reported here upon- his return fro/ma
tour that there are jobs for-every skilled mechanic graduated
from ORT vocational schools in Tunisia and Morocco.
STOCKHOLM—Swedish Foreign Minister Osten Unden told
Parliament the United Nations Emergency Force must remain in
Gaza until calm and order is restored, and pledged that Swedish
troops would be kept in UNEF.
More than usual attention is
being given the United Hebrew
Schools' high school graduation,
scheduled for 8:15 p.m., Wed-
nesday, at Beth Aaron Syna-
gogue, because of an effort now
being inaugurated for the erec-
tion of a building to house all
Hebrew High School activities.
Plans for such a building are
expected to materialize soon.
Sixteen young men and wo-
men who have completed the
required four-year course of
study will receive their Hebrew
diplomas. A highlight of the
commencement will be the pre-
sentation of a cantata, "Shir
Hashirim" (The Song of Songs),
under the direction of Mrs.
Chana Stiebel and Shimon
Gewirtz.
The graduates, who studied
Bible in the original. Hebrew
language and composition, Jew-
ish history, Mishna and current
events, will qualify to enroll
in the Midrasha in time for the
Latin America
BUENOS AIRES—A national educational council to coordi-
nate educational activities of all political movements within the
Jewish community was set up by 400 delegates from 120 schools
and institutions throughout Argentina.
Israel
TEL AVIV—Minister for Development Mordecai ben Toy
said Israel is extracting a "fair amount" of uranium needed for
atomic research in this country . Minister of Trade Pinchas
Saphir reported that Israel has granted the request of the new
State of Ghana to provide it with economic and technical advice.
An economic delegation from Ghana is expected here soon, and
Israel's West African trade representatives are now in Accra, the
Ghana capital, surveying Ghana-Israel trade possibilities. . . .
JERUSALEM—The cost of living index continued its unin-
terrupted climb last month and reached a new high of 259. It rose
from 250 in December to 254 in January, and if it is not stemmed
• by April 15 a new series of wage increases will go in to effect. . . .
The Israel Treasury announced. completion of long-term financ-
ing arrangements for the purchase of 200 passenger buses from
the British Leland Company at a cost of $2,100,000. •
Two Israeli Officers, 9 Border Police
Stand Trial for Massacre of 47 Arabs
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM — Two Israeli
officers and nine border police-
men killed 47 Arab vilagers in
-Kafar Kassem last Oct. 2 ,9 in
violation of orders from superior
echelons, the prosecutor told a
military court trying the men
Tuesday.
The prosecutor charged that
. the ranking officer in the unit,
Maj. S. Malinski, had instructed
Lt. G. Dehan and his nine men
to shoot villagers returning
from the fields after a curfew
deadline had been set in their
absence.
The prosecutor said that Lt.
Dehan and his men knew that
the orders were illegal, and
- cited the fact that two other
police squads under Maj. Malin-
ski's command had received the
same Orders but did not act on
them in imposing curfews on
neighboring villages.
The prosecutor further charged
that after his men had killed
14 Arabs returning from the
field, Lt. Dehan rode through
Kafar Kassem firing at - Arabs
and personally killed three
others.
The • president of the three-
man court, Judge Benjamin
Halevy, dismissed a defense mo-
tion demanding that he dis-
qualify himself because he had
conferred with Maj. Gen. Moshe
Dayan, Army Chief of Staff,
before the trial. In open tes-
timony, Gen. Dayan testified
that the aspects of the case they
discussed were- whether, in the
interests of national security,
the case should be tried in open
court or in camera.
Haifa Refineries
Fire 12 Leftists
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV — Four Arab and
eight Jewish workers have been
dismissed by- the Haifa Oil Re-
fineries because of their affilia-
tions with extreme leftist and
Communist organizations, refin-
ery officials announced Wednes-
day.
The dismissals were ordered
by the Defense Ministry which
called the workers security risks.
The dismissed workers have
appealed to the Knesset and to
the Histadrut executive for re-
instatement.
ZIN, MICHAEL WEINSTEIN, ANDREW
KOHEN, I R VIN G SORSCHER, MARK
EICHNER, A. J. LACHOVERM, instructor;
Dr. MAURICE M. SHUDOFSKY, principal;
JOSEPH HAGGAI, instructor; ME L VIN
SCHMITTEL, DAVID ELAZAR, LEONARD
ROSENTHAL, SANFORD F I N K E L and
JERRY KUTNICK, Ceremonies are planned
for this Wednesday evening.
prayer. The public is invited to
spring quarter of this year.
Lawrence W. Crohn, chair- attend.
man of the UHS education com
mittee, will present the diplo-
mas, and Mrs. Charles A. Smith,
of the UHS Women's Auxiliary,
Specializing in:
will present graduation pins.
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speak on behalf of students of
the Midrasha and Rabbi Ben-
jamin H. Gorrelick will con-
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