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Senators Deinand'Peace Act

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Knesset Approves 111-G's
New Coalition Cabinet

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JERUSALEM—Premier David Ben-Gurion submitted to
Parliament Tuesday his reconstituted five-party coalition
government and after a lengthy debate won a vote of con-
fidence.
The new Cabinet held no surprises. The same parties
— Mapai, Mapam, Achdut Avodah Progressive and the
Religious group — will have 15 ministers, including Mapai's
Peretz Naphtali who holds no portfolio and Ben-Gurion who
holds two—Premier and Defense Minister. The only Min-
ister not present in the House was Moshe Shapira, renamed
Minister for Religion, who is recuperating from severe
. wounds suffered when a madman hurled a bomb in the
Knesset last Nov. 29.
The five party coalition musters a safe 75-vote total in
the 120-member house. Included among its supporters are
five Arab deputies elected on three slates affiliated with
the Mapai party. The opposition includes the Herut and
Genera' Zionists on the right, the conservative Orthodox
Agudas Israel parties and Communists on the left.
In a brief address to Parliament, Ben-Gurion said that
the -live partners had agreed on the following platform:
"Collective responsibility •binding all ministers and
coalition parties to vote for decisions of the government
and laws proposed by the government to Parliament. The
government may permit a party to abstain from • voting
under certain circumstances and the party may also allow
one or several of its deputies to abstain but details of such
:abstentions and circumstances under which they are per-
mitted are to be determined by the government: If one or
more ministers feel compelled to abstain without govern-
ment permission he or they must resign. A vote by party
against a government decision will - be regarded as the equiv-
alent of abstention by a Minister without agreement of the
(Continued on Page 7)

JERUSALEM—Half a million Jews in nine countries, either in the Soviet orbit
or under Arab League influence but not including Russia or Romania, want to go to
Israel, Shlomo Shragai, chairman of the Jewish Agency's immigration department, as-
serted Tuesday.
He said half a million, representing one of every three Jews in the nine countries
which he did not list by name, had members of their immediate families or rela-
tives in Israel. Their inability to immigrate was a grave humanitarian problem, he
added. He reported that of 900,000 persons who had come to Israel since the establish-
ment of the Jewish /State, 20,000 were non-Jews, including persons with deep religious
convictions who chose to throw in their lot with Israel. The non-Jews, he added, in-
cluded cleargymen, missionaries and experts in many fields, and some 2,000 marriage
partners, mostly women, of Jewish mates.

French Senatorial Group Calls for Action Against Arabs in M.E.

PARIS-:---A French Senatorial Commission Tuesday submitted a report which
urged the western powers to threaten the Arab states with non-participation in the
United Nations agency for Arab refugee relief if they continued to refuse to agree
to peace negotiations with Israel.
The report, prepared by five senators •• who toured the Middle East, also proposed
that the same warning be used to induce Arab states to give active help in the
permanent settlement of refugees-. The report will serve as a basis for next month's
discussion in the French senate and in its foreign affairs commission on French
Middle Eastern policy.
The. Senators also aske. d the French government to propose to other financial
backers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency that a financial embargo
be imposed unless peace talks were started soon. The commission also asked for in-
creased French financial support for cultural work in Israel.

Soviet Leaders See Mid-East Tension Relaxing

LONDON (JTA) — The withdrawal ofMarshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky from
the command of the Soviet TranscaUcasus force is an indication that Soviet leaders be-
lieve the danger of war over Syria appears to have .ended and tension is relaxing in the
Middle East, it was indicated by Soviet Deputy Premiere Anastas I. Mikoyan.

Israel Ambassador to Moscow Returns to Post

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Joseph Aikiidar, Israel's ambassador to RuSsia, returned to
Moscow after three months absence from his post. He was a member of the Israel dele-
gation to the United Nations General Assembly, which was in session in New York for
three months.

Max M. Fisher Named Chairman of 1958
Allied Jewish Campaign; Cohn and Simons
Co-Chairmen; Minimum Goal $6,200,000

Judge Theodore Levin, president of the Jewish Welfare Federa- 000, but in order to provide additionally needed funds for Israel we
tion, this week announced the appointment of Max M. Fisher as •hope to exceed this minimum estimate."
chairman of the 1958 Allied Jewish Campaign..
" The acceptance by Irwin Cohn and Leonard Simons of co-chair-
"Mr. Fisher's devoted services to our community in the past few „manships in the drive gives us added hope of success,” Mr. Fisher
years have been so outstanding that we are heartened by his accept- said. "Their experiences as campaigners should stand us in good, stead,
ance of the chairmanship for another year," Judge Levin said. -"It and all of us should be especially pleased that men with their devo-
is our earnest hope that under his leadership our community this tion to all our needs will play vital roles in our current drive."
year will rise to new heights in its efforts in behalf of our local and
Additional campaign appointments will be made known in the
national causes and in ful-
coming weeks, and impoi.--
fillut our obligations to the
t3:, -.••• sa'Sr"s tant announcements regard-
overseas causes, especially .
ing the 1958 Allied Jewish
fro Israel."
Campaign will be made at
the annual meeting of the
Accepting the reappoint-
Jewish Welfare, Federation
ment, Mr. Fisher announced
on Feb. 4.
that he had selected Irwin
The 1958 Allied Jewish
1. Cohn and Leonard N.
Campaign must raise suf-
Simons. to be his campaign
ficient funds for increased
co-chairmen.
allocations to local agencies,
"I am hopeful that the
a 10 per cent increase to
1958 campaign will be the
funds assigned to national
•largest on record in Detroit
agencies and additional
and that we will raise suf-
urgently needed funds for
ficient sums to provide for
the United Jewish Appeal.
the needs of more than 50
agencies included in our
(See Editorial, Page 4; Per-
Allied Jewish Campaign,"
sonality sketch of Max Fisher,
Mr. Fisher said. "The base
in Smolar's c o 1u an at on
Irwin L Cohn
for our campaign is $6,200,-

