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Bond Drive Speeds
Israel Absorption

'Between You
and Me'

...

(Copyright, 1958,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

Washington Views
Anti-Israel officials in the State Department who kept claim-
ing that except for Israel there would have been peace and unity
in the Middle East are now eating crow . . . For nine long years
they have been selling the idea to their superiors that the
existence of Israel constitutes a major source of strife and ten-
sion in the Middle East . The fight which is now developing
between Col. Nasser and the rulers of the other Arab countries
has proven them wrong.
Washington is coming to realize that Israel is perhaps the
most peaceful country in the entire Middle East, though she must
always be on the alert against enemies . . . Some important
people in Washington are beginning to believe that if any
country really knows how best to appraise conditions in the
Arab countries, it is Israel . . . The opinion of Israeli diplomats
in Washington on developments in the Arab countries is being
solicited by individuals of importance . . . Israel's evaluation of
many aspects of the internal Arab strife has proven correct
on more than one occasion . . . Quite a few people in Washington,
thinking back, regret that they criticized Israel's. entrance into
Sinai a year ago. They consider it wise on the part of Israel
now to have taken the position of a "quiet onlooker" in the midst
of the growing competition for power among the Arab rulers.

The American Scene
The Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith has completed
a study which throws light on the question of whether medical
schools in this country have quietly re-imposed a quota on
the admission of Jewish students . . . A study made public
last year by the Philadelphia Fellowship Commission in-
dicated that Jewish students seem to be accepted in greater
numbers when medical schools are faced with a shortage of
applicants . . . The study showed that when there is an. "excess"
of applicants. a quota is clamped, down on Jews .. . Following
up the Philadelphia study, ADL undertook a nationwide census
of Jewish students entering medical schools in 1956 to es-
tablish whether a "Jewish quota" pattern is re-emerging in med-
ical colleges . . . The census — based on data gathered from
official and unofficial sources — presents the following pic-
ture . . . In the nation's 78 approved four-year medical schools,
there were 7,471 students in the entering class of 1956 . . . Of
this number, 1,326 — 18 percent — were Jewish . . . Medical
schools in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland
accepted in 1956 a total of 1,937 students of whom 633, 32.7
percent, were Jewish . . . In New England medical schools
(Massachusetts, Vermont and Connecticult), the proportion of
Jews admitted during that year was 29.7 percent . . . • In the
Midwestern schools in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan,
Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin, the percentage of
Jewish students reached 15.9 percent of the total of 2,170 appli-
cants admitted .. . It was only about 8 percent in the medical
schools of California, Colorado, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Ala-
bama, Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, Kentucky and other South
and South-western schools . . . Small numbers of Jewish students
in the latter schools, or their absence from a particular med-
ical school, does not necessarily mean discrimination . . . In
some instances this is due to the fact that the schools have a
small Jewish population upon which to draw . . . It is a well-
known fact that nearly half of the total Jewish population in
the United States is centered in New York . .. However, ADL
is perturbed over the figures for Cornell Medical School in New
York City . . . In this school only 15 Jewish students were en-
rolled in the entering class of 1956, while at the New York Un-
iversity College of Medicine 90 Jewish students were enrolled .. .
Percentage-wise the figures are: Cornell — 15 out of 84, or 18
percent; New York University — 90 out of 132, or 70 percent .. .
According to the ADL study, Cornell admitted a smaller per-
centage of Jews to its entering class of 1956 than any medical
school in the state of New York . . . ADL leaders view this
situation against the background of Cornell's restrictive prac-
tices in the past.

As Israel prepares to cele-
brate her tenth anniversary
of independence, a recent im-
migrant from North Africa,
shown here at work in a
cotton field, exemplifies some
of the ways in which Israel
Bond income strengthens
Israel's economy. New in-
dustrial and agricultural
projects help to absorb im-
migrants into Israel's ex-
panding economy; new hous-
ing projects give them a
place to live, and the expan-
sion of commercial crops like
cotton, sugar beets and pea-
nuts, which receive Israel
Bond dollars, are speeding
Israel's growth.

Drought Damage Crops in Negev

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Pre- damages to nearly 70,000 acres
mature ending of the rainy sea- of crops in the Negev, most of
son in Israel has caused severe it on Bedouin land, Kaddish
Luz, Israel Minister of Agricul-
ture, told the Knesset. Unless
German Refugees Dedicate
$500,000 Synagogue in N Y there is some additional rainfall
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Cong. in the immediate future another
Habonim dedicated its new 7,500 acres of crops will be
$500,000 split-level synagogue burned up, he noted. Luz
in a special service, attended pledged government assistance
by . 250 persons. Speakers in- to all drought-hit farmers.
Israel's wandering Bedouin
cluded Abe Stark, president of
the City Council, Gustav Jacoby, tribes hunted feverishly for new
president of the congregation, pastures for their camel, sheep
and Rabbi Hugo Hahn, spiritual and cattle flocks as continuing
fine weather intensified water-
leader.
The congregation was found- shortages in the Negev and
ed in November, 1939, by southern areas. Most of the Be-
German Jews, who escaped douin were unable to emulate
other herdsmen who stepped up
Nazi persecution.
irrigation efforts to save pasture
Arab Honor Student, 24,
crops. The Bedouin sent urgent
Gets Magnes Scholarship
petitions to the Israel govern-
At Hebrew University
ment for help in saving their
A 24-year-old Arab honor stu- livestock.
dent, a senior in the School of
Education, has been awarded
the third annual Judah L. Mag-
nes Scholarship, donated by an
American foundation at the He-
brew University of Jerusalem.
James Marshall, president of
the Judah L. Magnes Founda-
tion, Inc., chairman of the
board of American Friends of
the Hebrew University, dis-
closed that the award for 1957-
58 had gone to Butrus Najeeb
Dally, a native of Kfar Yussuf,
Israel.

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Litter Gets New York Post

NEW YORK—David H. Lit-
ter, national commissioner of
the Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai , Brith, was sworn in at
City Hall by Mayor Robert F.
Wagner, Jr., as a member of
the New York City Commis-
sion on Intergroup Relations.

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European Reflections
I have in front of me the first issue of "Community" — an in-
teresting little publication devoted to the promotion of close
cooperation among the Jewish communities in Europe.
Previews of the future of Jewish community life in various
European countries, as presented in "Community" — which is
published in Paris — are of importance to Jews everywhere.
The Chief Rabbi of Stockholm evaluates the current role
of the European rabbi in the community, as distinct from his
influence in the congregation .. . The Grand Rabbi of Moselle,
France, has positive recommendations to offer on how to
strengthen communities too small to meet their own needs . . .
There are such rural communities — with less than 10 Jewish
families — some of them in existence since the Middle Ages .. .
"Community" also deals with the subject of how to attract
children to Jewish schools and how to create stronger Jewish
ties among the adult population.
Published jointly by the 'American Jewish Committee, the
Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Anglo-Jewish Association,
the magazine promotes no particular ideology and no one form
of Judaism . . . Its first issue shows that it is intended to serve
Merely as a permanent channel of inter-community liaison, and
as a medium for the exchanges of ideas . and experiences among
the Jewish communities in Europe, large and small alike.

New Soviet Ambassador Contacts Israel Leaders

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Mich-
ael Bodrov, the new Soviet Am-
bassador to Israel, continuing
his personal. program of meet-
ing the major leaders of Israel's
government, called on five Cab-
inet Ministers this week.
Bodrov spoke with Minister
of Finance Levi Eshkol, Minis-

ter of Interior Israel Bar
Yehuda, Health Minister Israel
.Barzilai, Minister of Transporta-
tion Moshe Carmel and Educa-
tion Minister Zalman Aranne.
Last week Bodrov conferred
with Justice Minister Pinchas
Rosen and Minister of Posts
Joseph Burg.

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