Late Reports of News from Israel

Israel to Desalt
Water Commercially

TEL AVIV (JTA)—Desalina-
tion of sea water will soon be
undertaken in Israel on a com-
mercial basis, Levi Eshkol,
.Minister of Finance, said at a
.• ceremony marking the 20th an-
_niversary of the founding of
the Mekoroth Water Company..
This, it is hoped, will provide
a partial solution of the coun-
try's water needs. -,
Meanwhile, the Haifa Tech-
. lion inaugurated a new de-
partment for research in the
distillation of fresh water from
the sea. It will experiment with
the use of exhaust steam as a
by-product of dower produc-
tion by steam driven turbines.
At the Mekoroth anniversary,
A. Weiner, Israel's chief water
planning_ and operations en-
gineer, said that if political
events interfere with Israel's
plan to use Jordan water to
irrigate the Negev, the steam
plant at Tagbha, which is now
in the construction stage, will
pump Lake Tiberias waters
into the Negev pipeline. The
plant will cost $3,500,000.
Weiner noted that mean-
while the Jordan-Negev project
had progressed to a point
where about 20 per cent of a
7,000-yard-long tunnel had been
constructed to carry water
cross-country.

Set New Rate of Exchange •
on Philanthropic Dollars

JERUSALEM (JTA) — T h e
government of Israel set the
exchange rate for philanthropic
dollars raised abroad at 1.8
p ounds to the dollar. This
brought the exchange rate for
funds raised by such agencies
as the United Jewish
and Jewish National Fund into
line with the official rate to
tourists and businessmen and
ended - a practice which the na-
tional institutions in Israel had
criticized bitterly.

Expect Israel Budget
to Pass Billion Mark

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
budget of the . State of Israel
will pass the one billion pound
mark for the first time in the
country's history next year, it
was learned here when Levi
Eshkol, Finance Minister, pres-
ented they of the 1957-58
document to the Cabinet.
The budget, which is predi-
cated on an expenditure of
1,160,090,000 pounds in the next .
fiscal year, provides for new
taxes on services—taxi fares,
restaurant meals, electricity,
etc. It also -extends the coverage
of sales tax..
The budget, which is about
190,000,000 pounds higher than
last year's, provides for a 'five
percent increase to most min-
istries to meet the rise in the
cost of living.

Court Reverses Ruling
on Converted Teacher

JERUSALEM (JTA)—A Hai-
fa court ruled that the Israeli
Ministry for Education may not
dismiss a Jewish teacher be-
cause she accepted conversion
to Christianity. The court or-
dered payment of full compen-
sation and severance benefits
due her.
The plaintiff, Yohevet Wolno-
witz-Dlattar, a teacher in a re-
ligious 'kindergarten in Haifa,
married a Christian Arab two
years ago. When she informed
the authorities of her 'changed
marital status, she was dis-
missed.
The court ruled that like any
other woman, she had the right
to marry the man of her choice,
irrespective of religion or na-
tionality. The court agreed that
she was no longer qualified to
teach in a religious kindergar-
ten, but asserted that she should
have been transferred to an-
other kindergarten.

Israel Sugar Factory
Kibbutz to Get 8,000
Workers Protest Dismissals Dunam.s for New Settlers

JERUSALEM (JTA) — One
hundred workers of the Affulah
Sugar f act or y demonstrated
against plans to dismiss two-
thirds of the 220 employes of
the factory. The dismissal de-
cision followed cancellation by
the Ministry of Trade and In-
dustry of imports of sugar to
be refined at the plant.

Over 2,000 dunams of good
agricultural soil, as Well as
6,000 dunsms of grazing and
forest land, will be put at the
disposal of a new Israel kib-
butz which is to settle next
spring on the Idmit Plateau in
Upper Galilee, close to the
Lebanese Frontier.

U. S. Asked to Intervene
on Moroccan Emigration

10,000 Tourists Stay in Israel
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Of
more than 10,000 tourists who
remained as immigrants since
the establishment of,the State,
some 700 were non-Jews, it was
revealed in the latest Bulletin
of Statistics which shows a pro-
gressive increase in the number
of settlers of such category.

TEL AVIV, (JTA) The
North African Immigrants As-
sociation appealed to President
Eisenhower to use his -good
offices with King Muhamraed V
of Morocco to make it possible
for Moroccan Jews to join their
relatives hi Israel.

Jordanians Uncover Tablet Israel Signs Trade Pacts Congressional Delegates
in Search for Arms Cache With Three Countries, Confer with Ben-Gurion

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — An-
cient wooden tablets on which
are inscribed the Ten Com-
mandments have been found
by Jordanian police searching
for smuggled arms from Syria,
the Jordanian Arab press re-
ported.
It is believed that the tablets
once adorned the ark of an
ancient synagogue in the Old
City of Jerusalem which was
destroyed by the Arabs during
the fighting in this city in
1948.

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Exten-
sion of a trade agreement with
Romania, and the. negotiation
of trade pacts with Bulgaria
and Iceland, were announced
here by the Foreign Ministry.
The pacts were negotiated by
Israeli delegates at last week's
annual meeting of the United
Nations Economic Commission
for Europe, in Geneva. The
Romanian. agreement, renewed
for a year, provides for an equal
exchange of $1,500,000 worth of
goods- b et w ee 11 the two
countries. -

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Four
Congressmen, who flew here '
from Lebanon for a two-day
visit, conferred this week with
Premier David Ben-Gurion and
Foreign' 'Minister Golda Meir
in their homes.
Earlier,. the Foreign Ministry
had tendered an official lunch-
eon in honor of the visitors.
The four, members of a House
NATO sub-committee, are Rep.
Wayne Hayes of Ohio, subcom-
mittee chairman, and Reps.
Armistead Sheldon of Alabama,
Barratt O'Hara and Mrs. Mar-
guerite Church, both' of Illinois.

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