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Religion, Na- tionality, 'Conversittn'
Issues -.Mark Knes . set Contr
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Cabinet majority position would said: "Should we, for a small when Shapiro was Interior criteria of Jewishness which
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JERUSALEM
— Israel Bar make more difficult the task group whose children's regis- Minister several years ago the are thousands of years old.
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:..q Yehuda, Minister of the In- of finding a solution. The tration as Jews is primarily Chief Rabbinate had already
44 terior, asserted Wednesday in Prime Minister agreed to wait involved, destroy the last bar- issued instructions not to co
Rejecting charges of reli-
I the Knesset debate on the until the end of the Knesset ricade defending the Jewish- side'. identity cards as suffi- n- gi ous coercion on the part of
debate,.
which next
was week.
considered
ness of tens of millions?"cient evidence of Jewishness. religious interests in Israel,
rn question of his Ministry's con- unlikely before
In
Shapiro charged the govern-
troversial identity card that the the interim, further ' behind
Bar Yehuda, speaking as the
He also listed a long stand- ment with failing to respect
Z disputed principle of self-iden- the scenes peace negotiations first proponent for the govern ing regulation that persons the religious rights of its citi-
tification
Jew
by Israel
citizens
has as
been
accepted
r- were expected. ment, appealed for reason coming to Israel under the Law tens by sending children of
rather than emotion and listed of Return which permits every observant
m peated ly by the Chief Ra e -
to secular
Moshe Shapiro, who once a series of previous registra- Jew to settle in Israel should schools and parents
into settlements
binate.
served as Minister of Interior tion r e g u I a ti on s, including be considered as having by where religion is not practiced.
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Bar Yehuda made his dis- and who resigned as Minister many issued while Shapiro was their immigration established
The only religious
law
affect-
•Es:11 closure as a battle between of Religion, made a last- Interior Minister in which he prima facie evidence of their ing personal
status on
Israel's
religious an d secul ar elements
ment minute appeal in the Knesset said the applicants' bona fide Jewishness.
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to the resign ation of s debate to Ben-Gurion. Shapiro declaration of Jewishness had
statue books, he declared,. was
o which
Nationality Issue
and other religious party lead- been accepted as sufficient for
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that on marriage and divorce.
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religious
party
members
as
ers
warned
that
self
identifi-
registration
A
Then he quoted from the This had become the law ' of
purposes.
Ministers of Religion and Posts cation by Israelis as Jews
r:7 continued unabated.
Ministry's files, letters from the new state by vote of Par-
Point
to
Precedents
would have "direct repercus-
the Chief Rabbinate, advising liament and in the interests of
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The debate was preceded by sions" abroad, and urged can-
The Interior Minister also that there was no objection - to the unity of the Israel
people,
a special Cabinet meeting in cellation of that right, adding cited numerous specific deci- Jewish nationality being regis- he said.
which feverish maneuvering that "if introducing Christians sions during periods when tered on the identity card of
took place aimed at preventing into Jewry is more important" Shapiro or General Zionist Is- a Catholic Monk convened to
the debate. Both Mapai and to the Prime Minister "than rael Rokach, as Interior Minis- Judaism and similarly in the Hebrew Corner
the religious parties were re- unity of the nation, then the ters, supported the same prin- case of a woman who was con-
ported to fear that the debate choice is up to you."
ciple, including the regulation vented to Christianity but
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m
force a showdown
own on
that newborn children of whose Jewish nationality had Translation
'Reason vs. Emotion'
st ate religious issue d , which
of
Hebrew column be-
mixed marriages could- be been accepted by Shapiro as
both sides wished to avoid.
Joseph Burg, resigning Minis- registered as Jews if both Interior Minister for purposes low. Published by Brit Ivrit Olainit.
EverY time I pass on the road
Debate to Continue
ter of Posts, speaking after parents so declared in written of immigration.
Shapiro, made a strong emo- declaration.
near the airport at Lydda I
The Cabinet members did tional a ppeal to the Cabinet
Earlier, Shapiro told the look to see if a plane of El Al ,
succeed in
Challenging Dr. Burg's argu- Knesset that since the state Israel's National Aviation Corn-
persuading Prime to cancel the registration regu- ment that rabbinates outside of was proclaimed 10 years ago pany, is standing there. We are
Minister Ben-Gurion not to lation which he called "neither Israel would consider the Israel his party had cooperated with all proud of these planes.
make any statement at the logical nor decent." In refer- identity cards as false concern- every government in an at-
beginning of the debate on ence to 'mixed marriages ing the Jewishness of card
The El Al Company began to
grounds that his restating the among immigrants, Dr. Burg holders, Bar Yehuda said that tempt to "serve as a 'bridge be- operate following the establish-
tween observant Jews and ment of the State of Israel,
secular Jews."
when it only had a few old
If the Religious Party were planes. Since then the company
b
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now to accede to the new has increased
number of
effort in Israel and the Jewish
p s on new routes
tion of our historic people, ligious law.
accept
for
nationalit
u
communities of the world to
purposes to Erope. South Africa and
bound -with tradition to our
Premier Ben-Gurion's second that every persons who so de- North America.
explain their differences with
forefathers
and
with
a
unique
letter
to
Rabbi
Maimon
stressed
claret
.
•himself
is
a
Jew—it
the Ben-Gurion government.
Jewish character."
The first
El Al
Company
one
the Prime Minister's desire for would help to destroy this of the
firms
in the was
world
Shapiro's statement that the
Rabbi Maimon asserted he peaceful relations b e t w e e n bridge, he added.
to buy the new turboprop
Ministry of Interior's instruc- doubted whether the govern- government and the religious
'Why War on Reli ion'
planes. Since the Company has
bons threaten a division of the ment was constitutionally em- element in Israel. The letter
also asked the "Why
left- service
introduced
planes into
Jewish pedple in and out of powered to decide who was a reportedly did not contain any ists Shapiro
in the government,
on these
the European
and
Israel, echoed a statement by Jew and referred the Premier new suggestions to solve the this sudden war on
United
the Chief Rabbinate's Council to high court decisions which, dispute - over which the United He insisted that to religion?"
answer the
have States
broken routes.
all pr its pil re-
that
that the new identity card he said, established that this Religious party has resigned question of "who is a Jew" cords for civilian n o previous
n - s t o re-
p
regulations are in opposition question could be determined from the coalition. had been clear for
thousands flights from Europe to the
to the laws of the Torah.
of years and asserted it was United States.
The eight-man body—consist-
most ironic that this question .
The badge of El Al is a
ing of Chief Rabbis Isaac Her
had been raised in the tenth Magee David and wings, and the
zog and Yitzhak Nissim, the
year of the new state of color of its planes is blue and
chief rabbis of the princip al
A Dig e est of World Jewish Happenings, from Isra l.
white, the colors of the Israeli
cities of Israel and two in em-
If the government continues flag. The pilots, the air-host-
bers of the rabbinical high Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other
its present path, he warned, esses and the stewards en-
court—charged that the regu- News .Gathering Media.
religious authorities would be deavor to create a pleasant
cations would bring confusion
obliged to institute a genealogic Israeli atmosphere in the El Al
into Jewish family life — en-
Europe
register to protect standards planes • so that the tourist who
courage mixed m a r r i a g e s
ROME—By a ruling of the Italian Ministry of Education, of Judaism, and insisted that is travelling to Israel should
abroad, and create in Israel a ,Jewish students will be entitled to make-up examinations in it was not the rabbis who had feel as if he were in Israel
mixture of races which would public schools when tests fall on Jewish religious holidays.
imposed Jewish law, but it was from the moment he boards the
not identify themselves with
PARIS — Andre Blumel has - deferred his resignation as they who are preserving the plane.
the historic character of the president of the Zionist Federation of France until his visit to
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Jewish nation.
Israel next month . . .
- A separate statement by
VIENNA—A book entitled "Jews Who Fell in the Struggle
Rabbi Nissim challenged both Against Fascism," listing several hundred Jewish martyrs who
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the regulations and Premier died fighting fascism in Bulgaria, is reported here to have
Ben Gurion's assertion that published in Sofia . . . A four-course mid-day meal at the low
a definition of a Jew is con- price of five zlotys is being served to all who want it at a
ttptti woitonn
tabled in Psalm 15. This community dining room conducted ' by the Jewish Community
in Lignic, Poland, it was reported here, but there is the require- rit.? :u.- ,1
Psalm, the rabbi insisted, is
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only a part of the Torah, not
the entire Jewish law.
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a reward equivalent to more than $100 for information leading
During the week-end a new to the arrest of vandals who desecrated the Saarlouis Jewish
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exchange of letters took place cemetery and overturned seven tombstones . . .
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leadership of the State, because from Hungary of the fascist Arrow and Cross s regime, has
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publicity by Israel's radio anti-Semitic material to "old" Hungarian refugee organizations.
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BERLIN—Dr. Erich 011enhauer, , leader of the German Social -"tori
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ness of 'the Ben Gurion gov- Democratic Party, in an interview with the JTA correspondent,
criticized the West German Federal Government for failure to
ernment to accept such Jew
criticized
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ish self-identification a de-
diplomatic relationS with Israel.
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BUENOS AIRES—The third Latin American conference of rrimifr
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unity and integrity." At the the World Jewish Congress opened here with addresses by Dr.
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same time, it put the aged Israel Goldstein of New York and Israel's Minister to Argentina
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that Israel was never intend-
MEXICO CITY—Israel Attorney General Chaim Cohen
ed to be a theocratic state. was awarded a medal by the Mexican Committee for Human
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ever, to a section of the his visit here by Luis Garrido, former president of the Uni-
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which declared that "Israel
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