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Saudi Arabic. ies to Close
Aqaba While Israel Offers
ordan Free Port in Haifa

—International Photo

Plan Israel's 10th Birthday
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The American Committee
for ISrael's Tenth -Anniversary Celebration announces plans in New York for ceremonies on
April 24. Among notables who joined in ' making the plans at a meeting this. week were
(1. to r.) : Greek Orthodox Archbishop Michael of North and South America; Dr. Israel Gold- •
stein, chairman of the committee; former Se n. Herbert H. Lehman, general chairman; and
Rev. Eugene Carson Blaie, Presbyterian. Former President. Truman, who prompted the Un-
ited States to be the first to recognize Israel, and Israel's Ambassador Abba Eban, will
take part in the special ceremonies at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

GENEVA (JTA)—In a slashing attack on Israel's
rights and assertion of a continued state of belligerenCy,
Saudi Arabia insisted that the Gulf of Aqaba remains a
closed inland Arab waterway. This position was outlined
by chief Saudi Arabian delegate Ahmed Shukairy at an
87-nation conference on world maritime nations being
held here.
Shukairy also said that the presence of Arab delegates
must not be construed as recognition in any manner of
Israel. He challenged.the assumptions that the laws of the
sea must be kept by states which do not recognize each
other. The doctrine of freedom of the seas together with
freedom. of navigation and commerce, he added, must all
"give way to the exigencies of war."
(The Dutch vessel Emma Folder dropped anchor off
the Israeli port of Aqaba March 2, inaugurating a new
Dutch shipping service between Elath and African ports.
The line, owned by Dutch Senator Henryk Villemse, will
operate between Elath and Massawa, Djibouti and Mom-
bassa. The S. S. Berman, a 2,000 ton freighter, is due at
Elath shortly to open a service between that port and
South Africa.)
ISRAEL OFFERS JORDAN HAIFA FREE PORT
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel's offer of the use of
Haifa as a free port for Jordan was renewed by Israeli
Foreign Ministry officials commenting on a statement in
Bagdad by the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament that he
hoped Jordan would soon reach the Mediterranean Sea.
An Israeli spokesman said that the Iraqi statesmen might
have been commenting on Israel's long-standing offer to
Amman, an Offer which he stressed remains open.

$2,000,000 Mark Is Passed in Allied Campaign
Solicitations at Annual IAA Conference in Florida

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Detroit again . took a place of honor in domestic
and world Jewish affairs at the United Jewish Appeal national pre-campaign
conference. and testimonial dinner to William Rosenwald at the Fontainebleau
Hotel as American Jewry prepared to launch its great annual drive to rescue
refugees, transport immigrants, and to sustain the people . of Israel in their drive
to integrate its newcomers and to help bring the youngest democracy to self-
sufficiency.
Forty-four Detroiters, headed by Joseph Holtzman, one of the national
campaign chairmen, participated in the stirring dinner meeting Sunday anct
announced that the Detroit 1958 Allied Jewish Campaign had passed the
$2,000,00 mark, some three weeks before the formal scheduled opening of the
drive with a city-wide rally at Temple Beth El on Tuesday evening, .March 25.
Brig. Gen. Dan Tolkowsky, commander of the Israel Air Force, principal
speaker at the meeting,
reported that the young
men and women of Is-
rael. were resolute in
their determination to
"keep Israel strong and
to make it stronger.".
On the defense front,
he said, Israel will do
its full share with its
own manpower but on
the humanitarian and
economic front it must
have the continued as-
sistance of friends ev-
erywhere "if new im-
migrants are to be re-
ceived and old immi-
grants adjusted to nor-
Brig. Gen. Dan Tolkowsky, commander of the
mal living".
Israel Air Force, who came to the United States
to address the United Jewish Appeal national in-
. Jerry Lewis, the co-
augural conference in Miami .Beach, last weekend,
median, surprised the
will be the speaker at the opening campaign meet-
audience by showing
ing of the Detroit Allied Jewish Campaign, at
the more serious side
Temple Beth El, Tuesday evening, March 25. The
of his nature in a di-
Israeli general is shown in the above photo con-
rect, sincere "conversa-
ferring with Israel's Prime Minister Ben-Gurion.
tion with fellow-Jews".

Tolkowsky to be Here
for. Allied Campaign
for

Turning to General Tolkowsky he passed along this greeting to the people of
Israel: "Tell our friends there that we have the understanding, the sympathy
and the generosity that is required of us as American Jews, but beyond that,
tell them that we have pride in what they are doing and that we shall assist
in integrating the dispossessed who at last have found a home."
• Rosenwald, responding to tributes on his two decades of service to man-
kind and particularly in behalf of fellow-Jews, rededicated himself to continued
effort and appealed to the Jews of America to strengthen "Israel's hand and
our own" by supporting the local drives "with warmth and unprecedented
generosity".
In advance of the formal dinner meeting Sunday, 14 leaders of the
Detroit community attended a UJA cabinet meeting at the • Martinique Hotel
and accepted assignments to interest fellow-Detroiters, as well as persons from
other communities, in coming to the campaign launching. In this group hi ad-
dition to Holtzman, were Max M.. Fisher, chairman of the Detroit campaign
and national chairman of Big Gifts; Paul Zuckerman, pre-campaign chairman,
Daniel A. Laven, Irwin I. Cohn, Louis Berry, Nate Fishinan, Charles Gershenson,
Louis Davidson, Charles Grosberg, Nate Epstein, Al Taubman, Louis Robinson
and C. William Sucher. Present at this meeting, at which Holtzman preside4
were leaders from all over the- United States.
Word that Detroit had secured in excess of $2,000,000 in pledges this
early in its pre-campaign preparation elicited warm applause from the audience -
and praise from Morris W. Berinstein, president of the UJA. It was pointed
out that this figure headed the list for all cities outside of New York City.
Parallel to the advance work among men, Mrs. Charles Gershenson, Mrs.
Hyman C. Broder and Mrs. Max M. Fisher directed the advance gifts of Florida •
activities for the Women's Division.
Simultaneously, Abe Shiffman headed a special committee in Palm Beach
which concentrated on Detroit vacationers in the pre- campaign category and
enlisted their renewed support.
Several advance meetings were held at the UJA headquarters and among
the successful projects of this type was a Detroit meeting under the chairman-
ship of Paul Zuckerman. Miss Esther R. Prussian, executive director of the
Detroit Service Group, served as liaison officer in coordinating the Detroit
campaign efforts with those of the national organizations. The Martinique Hotel
also was setting for a series of informal meetings in behalf of the campaign.
Gen. Tolkowsky told the 1,500 delegates to the conference that the align-
ment of Egypt and Syria in the United Arab Republic under Gamal Nasser has
produced new stresses anti difficulties for Israel's people.
An immediate response to the Isra'l Air Force chiefs plea was made by
the Jewish leaders from communities throughout the country with the an-
nouncement of initial individual' contributions to the UJA totalling $18,400,000. -

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