Israel Trade Minister
Arrives in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA) —
Pinchas Sapir, Israel's Minister
for Trade and Industry, arrived
here as a guest of the Argentine
government to aid the sale of
Israel bonds in Argentina. He
was met at the airport by
Israel Ambassador Arieh Ku-
bovy and Argentine Jewish
leaders. Later, he met with the
Argentine Minister for Trade
and Industry and was received
by President Gen. Pedro Aram-
buru.

Tortured Diplomat Has More
Shocking Details of Ordeal

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affairs committees to deal with the treatment of the diplomat.
While Israel was impatiently awaiting the Soviet reply to
its protest against the kidnaping and third degree torture of
Chazan, members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs Committee were
summoned back from their summer vacation to meet here early
next week to consider the implications of this violation of diplo-
matic immunity of an Israeli attache.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman refused to discuss the pos-
sibility of action by the Israel government if the reply to its
protest is unsatisfactory.

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The Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Chazan does not
require medical attention but that "he is still dazed from his
experience" at the hands of the Soviet secret police.
Israeli police guards around the Soviet Embassy in Ramat
Gan were doubled Wednesday . and mobile police units patrolled
the streets leading to the Embassy in the wake of the Israel
Foreign Ministry's release of the details of the abduction and
torture of Chazan.

Italy Not Mediating
Arab-Israel Problems

ROME (JTA)—Foreign Min-
ister Giuseppe Pella, taking
cognizance of repeated reports
of Italy's interest in mediating
between Israel and the Arab
The Israeli diplomat is preparing a full report on his ex-
states, said that mediation
could only be entered into upon periences for the Foreign Ministry. He told newsmen that it
would contain even ."more shocking" details of the treatment
the express request of the
accorded him than had yet been published.
terested parties.
Peace in the Middle East, the
Italian statesman continued; is
a grave problem which must
be solved within the regional
framework. At this moment, he
stated firmly, Italy is not medi-
ating any issues, large. or small.

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Czech Jewry a 'Museum Piece,'
Agudas Israel Leader Reports; Says
Community Neither 'Dead Nor Alive'

LONDON (JTA)—The Jew-
ish community of Czechoslova-
kia is "neither allowed to live
nor allowed to die," H. A.
Goodman, Agudas Israel leader,
declared here this week upon
his return from an extensive
visit to that community. He
characterized the Jewish com-
munity of Prague as a "mu-
seum piece."
There are some 20,000 Jews
registered with communities,
about 12,000 in Slovakia and
8,000 in Bohemia. In addition,
he estimated that there were
another 20,000 unaffiliated Jews
in Czechosolvakia. There were
he said, more intermarriages
than unions in which both part-
ners were Jewish.
Goodman reported that the
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was open for worship every
day, during his visit, but he
rarely saw more than a bare
minyan — ten — of worshippers
in it.

On the walls of the syna-
gogue, which houses the Jew-
ish Museum are being inscribed
the names of 80,000 Prague
Jews deported to their- death
by the Nazis. Of the 400,000
Jews in re-war Czechoslovakia,
over 250,000 were sent to the
death camps.

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The Agudah leader said he
had raised with the Czechoslo-
vak authorities the question of
Jewish religious instruction for
children. At present, both par-
ents must make written appli-
cation before a child is given
permission to attend religious
classes, which provide only one
hour's instruction a week.

An official of the Czechoslo-
vak Ministry of Religion told
Goodman that there would not
be any objection to the open-
ing of Talmud Torahs in
Prague for children to attend
whenever they chose.
In discussing the question of
enabling young Jews to study
for the rabbinate, the official
said there would be no objec-
tion to permitting such young
men to go abroad for their edu-'
cation, since no facilities exist
in this country.-- However, he
countered Goodman's sugges-
tion of study in London by sug-
gesting they attend either the
Moscow yeshivah or one in
Arad, Romania.
Goodman also reported that
Prague' Chief Rabbi M. Sicher,
had urged Jewish communities
abroad to take an interest in
the maintenance of the ceme-
tery at Terezin, site of a Nazi
death camp.
The Prague community he
said, had used up all its funds
and unless it received assistance
from without, the cemetery
would have to come under the
care of the state. In that event,
Rabbi Sicher said, the soil in
which thousands of Jews from
all over Europe are buried
would still be vested in the
Chief Rabbinate for religious
administration.
He said that the Czechoslo-
vak state displayed a positive
attitude toward the mainte-
nance of the Jewish communi-
ties, paying the salaries of all
religious functionaries from
Chief Rabbi and shochet to
mikveh attendant and kashrut
overseer in kosher kitchens.

He further reported that
Rabbi B. Farkas, who was ar-
rested some months ago, is still
in prison. He is expected to be
released soon, Mr. Goodman
said, but it is not known
whether he will be allowed to
resume his religious duties
when he is freed.

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