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By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Ministers Recover
After Bomb Attack
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JERUSALEM—Moshe Shapira, the most seriously
injured among the five Cabinet ministers wounded in
last week's Knesset bombing, continued to make slow
but steady progress this week. Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion, who had a splinter removed from this leg
in a second operation, also was recovering nicely after
a minor setback • over the weekend, and is scheduled
for early release from the hospital.
The Premier was informed Tuesday morning about
the suicide of Col. Nehemia ArgOv, his military aide
and close friend, who killed himself Sunday morning in
despair, after his car had hit and seriously injured a
cyclist, The man is expected to recover.
Doctors at Hadassah Hospital, where the Prime
Minister is recovering, refused to allow officials to
tell Ben-Gurion about the suicide immediately because
he had suffered a slight post-operational relapse Sun-
day. The news was conveyed to the Prime Minister by
his Chief of Staff, Gen. Moshe Dayan, in the presence of
Mrs. Ben-Gurion, Theodore
Kollek, director general of
the Premier's 'office; Shimon
Peress, director general of the
Ministry of Defense; and Yitz-
hak Navon, the Premier's civi-
lian aide, who was recalled from
a South African speaking tour.
Meanwhile, Moshe D o u e k,
confessed tosser of the hand
grenade which wounded the five
Cabinet ministers, won a de-
mand Tuesday that he receive
prison privileges during his de-
tention for trial on charges of
attempted murder.
District Court Judge Peretz,
while denying the 25-year-old
Iraqi immigrant's request for re-
lease on bail, accepted his argu-
ments that for family and
health reasons he should be
permitted visitors and exercise
privileges. The judge also ruled
that Douek should be removed
from solitary confinement in
which he had been placed when
he was arrested.
Speaking in his own behalf in
fluent Hebrew Douek antici-
pated prosecution objections to
his plea for release on bail by
admitting a previous attempt to
leave Israel as a stowaway. He
insisted he had not tried to
escape from the country and
that he merely wanted a "free
ride."
Douek, in the course of his
plea, referred to the hand gren-
ade attack and admitted the
attempted murder. Judge Peretz
thereupon urged him to confine
himself to his pleas and warned
him against self incriminating
statements.
Earlier, Douek was arraigned
in magistrate's court and en-
tered a plea of guilty to charges
of attempted murder. Magis-
trate Yaacov Bazak ignored the
plea from Douek, who has . a
record of treatment for mental
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—International Photo
Mad Bomber:
Moshe Ben-Jacob Douek,
25, described as a men-
tally unbalanced immi-
grant from Iraq, is shown
after his arrest as the
man who tossed a hand
grenade during a session
of the Israel Parliament
in Jerusalem last Tuesday.
Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion, Foreign Min-
ister Golda Meir, Minis-
ter for Religion Moshe
Shapira, Min ister for
Transportation Moshe
Carmel and Health Minis-
ter Israel Barzilai all were
h u rt, Shapira seriously
All but Shapira were re-
leased from the hospital
within the following few
days.
TEL AVIV—If
you travel by air, you start from here, at nearby Lydda (Lod)
Airport, and you wind up in this great metropolis. Tel Aviv alone lends itself to a
romantic description of the rise of a community of a sand dune. Now there are
500,000 residents in this thriving city. It is not the preferred city in Israel. Many
people prefer Jerusalem, and a great many justifiably choose Haifa, the beautiful
port city. But in justice to Tel Aviv this must be said: Jews had come here to
create a new home for themselves. They did not select established communities: they
took a desert and turned it into a flowering oasis in the midst of ruins and devas-
tation. Now Tel Aviv is the Paris of the Middle East. Given half a chance, _in a
peaceful world, the people who have built this center will be able to match anyone,
anywhere, in creative ability, in commercial skill, in scientific development.
So little for Tel Aviv. You can proceed from here to all parts of the land
and find any any climate you wish, the representatives of the most colorful peoples
in the world, the contrasts in dress, habits, ways of life, religious practices. You
are in the land of contrasts.
In Jerusalem, the day after Yom Kippur, we suffered the heat of an
abnormal hamsin. A few days later, we nearly froze in Safed. In Tel Aviv we
witnessed a fashion show at the opening of the new cultural center; a few
days later we witnessed Yemenites on donkeys: Bedouin on bicycles, Arabs on
(...-it&is—and a gazelle crossed our pah at i,he fax tastic point where the south-
ernmost city of Dimona soon will rise up as additional evidence that Jews are
conquering the desert.
Retracing our steps, let us go to Haifa. Two boats arrived and 700 immi-
grants stepped onto Israeli soil. Let us temporarily forget the warm sentiments
that link these people with their old-new land. That in itself represents a chap_ter
in the glorious work of redemption, reconstruction and the "ingathering of the
exiles." It is the cold facts that we are concerned with and that we wish to pre-
sent at this time.
The most impressive fact about the new arrivals is that the moment they
are checked in they are handed their citizenship. It takes five years for an immigrant
to attain that privilege in the United States—and he has to acquire a basic knowl-
edge of his adopted country before he is granted that great privilege of American
citizenship. It takes 15 years to attain citizenship in Switzerland. But in Israel
there is an established rule: any Jew who chooses to become an Israeli can do so
momentarily. How else could Prophecy be realized?
In Haifa, at the modern port whose facilities are being expanded by the
genius of our people, the Jewish Agency steps in. Every newcomer receives enough
food for two days. He gets an assignment—a home in a new settlement, work to
do immediately, the permanence of home. Those who choose to go to relatives and
establish themselves with them are at liberty to do that. The others get their per-
manent assignments—the beginnings of a new life.
Israel's government has a place for every immigrant, a job for every person,
a new home, cattle where their jobs require it—and until they become established
they are not taxed.
You can travel the length and breadth of the land, and wherever you
turn you see the long rows of new homes that have been established for these
new settlers. They are in the midst of new farm areas or in the vicinity of new
industrial enterprises.
In the main, this is where the enterprising Israel government steps in to do
a job, with the aid of Israel Bond investments. The Jewish Agency does a mag-
nificent job transporting the immigrants and bringing them to their destinations.
That's where our United Jewish Appeal contributions are so vital. After that, the
investment dollars play so vital a role that the results literally follow you at every
step of your travels.
A sugar factory at Afuleh, a fertilizer plant outside of Haifa, the Irgun Steel
City, also in that area—these and scores of projects attest to ingenuity, to the
determined will of a people to create for themselves and for posterity. They are
attaining their objectives.
In Jerusalem, there' are elements that inspire joy over the creativity that is
made possible by Jewish contributions from America. The expansion of the
Hebrew University, which has been ousted from Mount Scopus, is heartening. A
great campus is arising at Jerusalem. The convoy to Mount Scopus still makes its
periodic trips, exchanging guards under the supervision of the United Nations.
Jack Zussman is the man in charge of the selection of the guards and of person-
nel to accompany the convoys. But in the new area there are being built imposing
structures; laboratories and lecture halls; all necessary facilities for a great school.
There now are 4,000 students at the Hebrew University-1,500 of them women—
as compared with less than 1,000 10 years ago. This is genuine growth!
In the hills of Jerusalem the American tree-planter can see what has been
attained with his coins spent in afforestation. The Jewish National Fund remains
Israel's most popular agency—due to its vision as the reclaimer of the soil, as the
planter of forests, as the instrument that is in the forefront in Israel's defense
mechanism. You make the tour in the hills and you see area after area emerging
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