Revised Translation of Ceremonies Mark Raising of Israeli
Bible, by Noted Scholars,
Flag Over Navy's First Submarine
to be Ready by End of 1959
PORTSMOUTH, E n g l a n d, confidence that the Israeli nav- it was turned over to the Israeli

Special to
The Detroit Jewish News
NEW YORK—Edwin Wolf II,
president of the Jewish Publi-
cation Society of America, and
Dr. Solomon Grayzel, the so-
ciety's editor, reported at the
semi-annual meeting of the pub-
lications committee of the so-
ciety, held here at the House
of Living Judaism, at a full
day's sessions Sunday, that the
revised translation of the Pen-
tateuch is expected to be ready
for publication at the end of
next year.
Reporting for Dr. Harry Or-
linsky, professor of Biblical lit-
erature at Hebrew Union Col-
lege, chairman of the commit-
tee of scholars that is now at
work on the revised transla-
lation, Dr. Grayzel said that
the translators have already
completed the translation
through Chapter 20 of Leviti-
cus.
"The nature of the task ac-
counts for the slowness of the
process," Dr. Grayzel said. "The
target date for the completion
of the entire translation of the
pentateuch is towards the end
of 1959. We shall then turn
our attention towards publishing

(JTA) -- The blue and white
ensign of the Israeli Navy flew
over the Israel defense fleet's
newest acquisition, the first of
two 715-ton submarines sold to
Israel by Britain.
Brief but impressive cere-
monies in the Portsmouth Navy
Yard, the Union Jack was low-
ered on HMS Springer, the
sleek, black craft was -formally
declared ready for transfer and
formally accepted by Israel, and
the blue and white flag of Israel
hoisted. The vessel, renamed
Tanin (Whale), thus became
the first undersea craft in the
Israeli Navy and a powerful
reinforcement to • Israel's sur-
face, land and air defenses.
(News of the sale of sub-
marines to Israel by Britain
created a storm in Cairo. Egyp-
tian newspapers reported that
Col. Nasser's government took
a "very serious view" of the
British action and was consid-
ering measures to counteract it.
The newspaper Al Ahram quot-
ed United Arab Republic of-
ficial sources as declaring that
the British move was an attack
on Arab nationalism which
must not be allowed to go "un-
challenged.")
Rear Admiral Samuel Tank-
us, head of the Israeli Navy
and Director General Shimon
Peres of the Ministry of De-
fense headed the Israeli con-
tingent which participated in
Under the terms of the the taking-over ceremonies this
reparations agreement with morning. Rear Admiral E. W.
Germany, the conference has Taylor, Flag Officer, Submar-
responsibility for the disburse- ines, at the Portsmouth- base,
ment of more than $120,- led the British.
000,000. Seventy-five per cent • To a 23-year-old seaman from
of all , expenditures in the past Hedera, now being trained at
went for relief and rehabilita- the Cunningham Naval College,
tion purposes and .12 per cent here, went the honor of raising
the Israel ensign over the new
for cultural activities.
In his report, Dr. Goldmann acquisition. He was Lieut. Zvi
Shur. The commander of the
said that the amounts available Tanin
is Lieut. Commander Ja-
to different German govern-
cob
Drori,
33, who received sub-
mental agencies for indemni-
marine training in France.
fication purposes were not
Lieut. Corn. Drori is resident
being paid out in full.
of Migdal Michael, a kibbutz.
However, he expressed ap- Crewmen Trained in France
preciation of the fact that the
The first Israel technicians to
amount allocated for indemni-
fication had been increased work on the Tanin are expected
from 1,900,000,000 marks last to arrive here early next week.
year to 2,600,000,000 marks Thirty crewmen, also trained
this year. Actually, only 560,- i at a French base, will follow.
The ship's . British former
000,000 marks had been paid
chief engineer, Lt. Pratt, told
out this year.
More than $50,000,000 in newspapermen that the Tanin
reparations money received "is maneuverable, aggressive,
from West Germany has been an excellent craft." The Tanin
distributed to needy Jewish can cruise,- normally, for four
victims of Nazism in 34 coun- weeks without refueling, he
tries in the past five years by pointed out.
the Claims Conference.
Other British officers familiar
The highlights of the study with the ship expressed their
committee's report and the ac- satisfaction with Israel's joining
complishments of the past five "the international brotherhood
years are "the provision of of submarines." They expressed
welfare services to more than
1235,000 needy Nazi victims per
year; creation or expansion, Israel to Purchase
with the aid of capital grants,
of 313 community Jewish day Tanker from Japan
JERUSALEM, (JTA)
An
schools, 31 synagqgues and
other religious institutions, 28 Israel government decision to
children and youth schools, 23 purchase a second huge oil
summer camps and 19 elemen- tanker from Japanese shipyards
tary schools and kindergartens, was announced here. It has also
yeshivas, hospitals and clinics been decided to build a large
shipyard at Haifa, with the par-
and homes for the aged.
The conclusions presented by ticipation of the Japanese. Both
the study committee were: The decisions were reached by the
principle governing the alloca- Cabinet committee of economic
tion of the conference's funds ministers.
should be retained without any
The new 47,000 ton tanker
change; 2. The basic pattern will cost $7,000,000 which rep-
of the conference's allocations resents a saving of $1,500,000
is valid; 3. The Jewish com- below the price of the first Jap-
munities in the countries that anese tanker ordered by Israel.
fell under Nazi occupation, The current world-wide ship-
and those which are dispropor- building slump contributed to
tionately burdened by heavy the lower price.
influx of Nazi victims, must re-
The first phase of the ship-
main areas of primary concern yard porject at Haifa will cost
of the conference; 4. The an estimated $10,000,000, which
present levels of support for the Japanese will supply 30 per-
cultural and educational pro- cent in the form of equipment,
grams represent a commitment it was learned. There is said to
commensurate with the basic be a possibility that French in-
conference responsibility.
vestors will join the venture.

the Pentateuch with Haftorot•
and Commentaries. Later, we
hope to work on a new edition
with revisions of translations
of Prophetical portions."
The JPS publications commit-
tee made important decisions
at Sunday's meetings on works
to be published during the corn-
ing 15 months.
Reports were submitted by
Lesser Zussman, executive sec-
retary of the society; Dr. Jacob
R. Marcus, chairman of the
committee on American Jewish
history; Robert D. Abrahams,
chairman of the committee on
juvenile literature and Covenant
Books and other national lead-
ers of the society.
The committee discussed a
report of a committee that is
surveying the status of JPS. A
report by Dr. Eli Ginzberg,
chairman of the survey commit-
tee, was discussed at length and
will be given additional con-
sideration at a future JPS meet-
ing.
Special attention was given
to the progress made by the
Covenant Books for children
published together with Far-
rar, Straus & Cudahy. Two new
titles are due before the end
of this year.

Claims Conference Reports Lag In
German Indemnification Payments

•

LONDON (JTA) — The Con-
ference on Jewish Material
Claims expressed for the first
time—at its two-day session
here—its concern over the
"growing gap" between funds
available to the West German
Federal and state governments
for the payment of individual
indemnification claims and the
amount actually disbursed.
The board of directors of the
Conference, representing 23 na-
tional and world Jewish or-
ganizations, passed a resolution
urging "the German Federal
and state governments to take
steps wherever necessary to
insure the disbursement of the
full sums" available for this
purpose. Else, the resolution
underlined, "the declared ob-
jective of the German govern-
ment to accelerate payments
cannot be achieved."
Adoption of the resolution
followed presentation of a re-
port, by Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
conference president, on "Ger-
man indemnification legisla-
tion and its implementation."
The session considered a re-
port by a committee appointed
earlier this year to study the
conference's operations in the
past five years and to recom-
mend future allocations.

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al men "have the necessary
characteristics to become expert
craftsmen in this new trade."
Lt. Commander Jacob Drori,
the elated young skipper of the
Tanin, said he was most satis-
fied with the maneuverability
and the equipping of his new
command. Cdr. Drori received
submarine training in France
with the French Navy which
has four submarines of the "S"
class — sister ships of the new
Israeli vessel.
Naval men expressed the be-
lief that the Israelis would re-
quire about a year of training
to be able to put the sleek black
snorkel-equipped vessel through
all its paces.
A 24-year-old submarine vet-
eran, Lt. Michael Hunt, who
served aboard the craft before

Navy, affectionately described
Israel's first undersea craft as
"very handy, easy to maneuver
and one of the best which has
been given over to asrew which
has not had very large experi-
ence in maneuvering submar-
ines."
The Tanin, as Lt. Hunt point-
ed out to the Jewish Telegraph-
ic Agency correspondent, will
not provide exactly luxurious
quarters for its six officers and
50 crew members.
The officer's wardroom,
where they eat, sleep and spend
their off-duty time, has five
berths for the six men — one
officer always standing watch.
The crew's quarters, he said,
is fairly similar to that of the
officers in comfort and facili-
ties.

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