LONDON (JTA)—The Jewish
National Fund office here an-
nounced receipt of a cable
from the Palestine Jewish
Colonization Association to the
effect that PICA had trans-
ferred to the JNF 130,000 du-
nams (42,500 acres) of land it
held. The PICA action was in
conformance with the desire of
the late James de Rothschild,
president of PICA. Some of the
land is unoccupied, and the re-
mainder is tenanted.
Premier David Ben-Gurion
invited the Rothschild widow
to spend a few weeks in Israel
next fall. The invitation was
included in a communication
thanking Mrs. Rothschild for
informing him of Rothschild's
decision to leave - PICA's
6,000,000 pounds in assets for
the building of a new Parlia-
ment building in Jerusalem.
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Force Libyan Jews
with Israel Relatives
to Register with Govt.
LONDON, (JTA) — The im-
plementation of a royal decree
under which all Libyan Jews
with relatives in Israel have to
register with the anti-Israel
boycott office in that country
has caused great anxiey in the
Libyan Jewish community, ac-
cording to reports reaching here.
The application of the new
measures may threaten the sta-
tus of the community there, the
sources said.
The decree is also aimed
against Jews who are custo-
dians of property left by per-
sons who have gone to Israel.
The custodians have been or-
dered to register this property
with the boycott office.
Since the great majority of
Libyan Jews have relatives in
Israel, the decree will affect
nearly every Jewish family in
the country. Efforts by the Jew-
ish community to have the
measure rescinded have failed.
Libyan authorities are conduct-
ing an intense anti-Israel cam-
paign and the population has
been inflamed against the Jew-
ish State.
Although there are only about
3,500 Jews left in Libya, reli-
gious life there is still very
strong, but there has been a.
great decline in cultural activi
ties since the emigration of over
30,000 Jews to Israel. The com-
munity is comparatively pros-
perous but anxious about its
future, informants state.
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Syria Ignores Israel's
Bid to Check Incursions
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Acts of
violence and sabotage continued
along the Israeli-Syrian border,
as Syrian authorities reportedly
rejected an Israeli demand
through the United Nations staff
that they check continued in-
cursions of Syrian villagers into
Israeli territory.
A pail of smoke covered the
entire area around the Jewish
settlement of Tel Azaziat earlier
this week, the result of hun-
dreds of brush fires set by in-
filtrators who crossed into Is-
raeli territory at Kfar Gila.di,
where the Syrian, Lebanese and
Israeli frontiers meet, and sabo-
t aged the pumping station.
Tracks made by the infiltrators
indicated that they had come
from Syrian territory.
$150,000 Irrigation
Await Nehru's Word on Mideast Mediation
Britain to Shun
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Pime had "no information" on re-
Placed by Burma
Refugee Problem Order
Minister Nehru of India has not ports that Saudi Arabia was
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
LONDON—Foreign Secretary
Selwyn Lloyd informed the
House of Commons Tuesday
that the British government will
not initiate discussions within
the Baghdad Pact with a view
to resettlement of Palestine
Arab Refugees in the undevel-
oped areas of member countries
in the Middle East.
"I think a solution of the
problem of Arab refugees must
rest with a wider body than the
Baghdad Pact," Lloyd said in a
written reply to questions.
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Israel Rejects UN
Request for Outposts
Along Syrian Border
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Israel
has rejected renewed United
Nations pressure for the estab-
lishment of UN observer posts
in the demilitarized zone along
the Syrian border.
Informed Israeli circles con-
trasted the UN's unwillingness
to consider Israel's complaint
against Syria under Article
I of the armistice agreement
which forbids threats of aggres-
sion as well as hostile acts.
However, UN headquarters
here did promise to take steps
to evict Syrian squatters on Is-
rael soil northeast of Lake Hu-
leh. - The Syrian farmers and
their families were supported
by Syrian troops in their incur-
sion into Israel.
Meanwhile, Col. Byron V.
Leary, Acting Chief of Staff of
the -UN truce set-up, issued a
formal denial of Syrian and
Soviet claims that he had found
French troops, concentrating on
Israel's side of the Syrian bor-
der.
A series of incidents along
Israel's borders with Syria, Jor-
dan and Egypt left one Arab in-
filtrator dead in an encounter
with a border patrol and an
Israeli Arab villager wounded
by Jordanian marauders.
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TEL AVIV—Israel industries
on Wednesday received their
first order from Burma for irri-
gation equipment. The order,
amounting to $150,000, was
mainly for light alloy Pipes and
fittings.
It was placed after the Bur-
mese authorities accepted irri-
gation plans prepared by an
Israeli expert in preference to
proposals by German and Aus-
trian irrigation engineers.
The plan was prepared by S.
S. Gichon, an Israeli irrigation
expert now serving as an ad-
visor to the Burmese govern-
ment.
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"I walk in the way of right-
eousness."—Proverbs 8:20
with nature's own
Guests of Alliance Israelite
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — A
party of 33 prize-winning Is-
raeli high school students lent
for a three-week visit to France
as guests of the Alliance Israel-
ite Universelle. The students
are seniors in Jerusalem, Haifa
and Tel Aviv high schools.
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Per-
haps the best__kept secret since
World War II was the Sinai
campaign, Premier David Ben-
Gurion told the recent Zionist
General Council meeting.
. The Premier said the secret
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JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Israel
of 600 housing units in a garden
town adjoining the new Hebrew Premier David Ben-Gurion re-
University - Hadassah Medical ceived Louis P. Rocker, presi-
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•a- outlined to the Premier the de-
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to the Gulf of Aqaba.
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gun positions)," he said, "it
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Israel government as a most
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to Pass Through Suez
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Italian freighter Martha, under
charter to the Zim Israel Navi-
gation Company of Haifa, ,pass-
ed unmolested through the Suez
Canal en route from the
Mediterranean to Elath.
The vessel . is expected to ar-
rive at Israel's Red Sea port
this week.
The Martha is the third for-
eign flag vessel chartered by
Israel for service between Elath
and East African ports. The
other ships were of Norwegian
and Panamanian registry, re-
spectively.
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