Harman Attacks `Unrealistic' Talk by Arab Leaders
Knesset Candidate Gets 24-Hour
Reprieve to Make Radio Address
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To The Jewish News
JERUSALEM, — David Ben
Haroush, the self-styled leader
of the North African settlers in
Israel, was released from prison
Monday for 24 hours to speak
on behalf of his Knesset can-
didacy over Kol Israel, the Is-
rael radio.
Ben Haroush, who was sen-
tenced to a two-year prison
term for participation in the
Haifa July rioting, heads the
North African immigrants' list
in the forthcoming election and
was therefore allotted time with
other party leaders to explain
his platform on the radio.
A total of 1,291 candidates
are bidding for the 120 seats in
the Knesset in the Nov. 3 na-
ti anal elections, according to
lists published Tuesday in the
Official Gazette.
The Gazette reported also that
112 of the outgoing Knesset
members are running for re-
election, with 92 of them as-
sured of winning again.
Of the candidates, 84 are
women.
A breakdown by professions
showed that 300 of the candi-
dates are clerks, 230 are farm-
ers, 68 are merchants, 120 are
teachers, 64 are newspapermen,
79 are attorneys, 43 are profes-
sional politicians and 24 are
housewives. The candidates in-
clude 380 under the age of 40,
while 40 candidates are 70 or
over.
Ranault's Withdrawal from Israel
Creates Crisis and Controversy
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Kaiser-Frazer Company uneco-
nomic and that this was the
major factor for the decision.
An Israel Cabinet intermin-
isterial committee met Tuesday
to consider the proposal of of-
ficials of the Kaiser-Frazer As-
sembly Plant in Haifa to manu-
facture a small car locally, fol-
lowing the decision of the Re-
nault Company to cease assem-
bling its Dauphine at Haifa.
It was reported that Kaiser-
Frazer officials said they could
produce a complete car. Some
of the parts would be locally
produced and the rest would be
bought from specialized manu-
facturers in accordance with
automobile industry practices.
The officials indicated this could
be achieved within 18 months.
They reportedly told the inter-
ministerial committee that man-
ufacturing costs would probably
be higher than the arrange-
ments halted by the French
auto firm's decision to halt Is-
rael operations. They want the
Israel government to reduce ex-
cise and purchase taxes on such
locally made cars to keep retail
_prices_ at a. competitive level.
Invites French Friendship
Brig. Gen. Moshe Dayan, for-
iner Army Chief of Staff,• de-
cared Monday night that Israel
should welcome improvement of
French relations with the Arab
countries even at the cost of the
Renault cancellation. Speaking
as a candidate for a seat in the
Knesset, Dayan said that France
helped Israel in its darkest
hours and such friendships must
be carefully cultivated.
An Israeli Foreign Ministry
spokesman denied reports that
Israel had interrupted negotia-
tions for construction of a huge
passenger liner by a French
shipyard because Renault sus-
pended operations in this coun-
try.
The negotiations were for
construction of a new trans-
Atlantic passenger liner for the
Zim-Israel Navigation Company.
An official version was that,
actually, there had been no
interruption in the negotiations,
only a possible, temporary im-
passe which developed before
the Renault closedown was an-
nounced. It was pointed out that
such hitches customarily de-
velop during complex financial
negotiations.
(In Paris, it was announced
that French Minister of Trans-
IF YOU TURN THE
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port Bouron left by chartered
jet plane for Israel, to attend
the official opening of a new
subway in Haifa. A special rep-
resentative of the City of Paris
went to Haifa with M. Bouron,
to dedicate the main terminus
of the subway, which has been
named "Paris.")
Reject Counter-Boycott
A nine-man, all-party commit-
tee set up in Israel to fight the
Arab economic boycott has
ruled out a counter-boycott
against such firms as Renault.
Meir Grossman, head of the
Jewish Agency's external rela-
tions department and chairman
of the committee, said t h at
there was little that could be
done to prevent such incidents
as the surrender by Renault to
Arab pressure. His committee,
he said, had ruled out a count-
er-boycott of - such firms.
He noted that economic boy-
cott was illegal in many coun-
tries and thus that even if it
were possible to organize a cam-
paign against firms observing
the Arab boycott of Israel and
refusing to deal with Israel,
such efforts might prove illegal.
He said that the committee's
attempts to draw attention
abroad to the situation had had
little success and that Jewish
organizations abroad were gen-
erally reluctant to lend support.
• (In Paris, a spokesman for
the French Foreign Office said
that the_ Renault decision was
"strictly commercial." The com-
pany has asked the French
government, according to a
Paris report, for permission to
start an assembly plant in
Egypt.)
NEW YORK—Avraham Har-
man, newly appointed Israel
Ambassador to the United
States, said last week that Arab
talk of wiping out Israel is
less realistic today than it w a s
11 years ago when "that policy
was tried out by the Arabs and
failed."
Defense vigilance, Ambassa-
dor Harman declared, is a
great drain on Israel's man-
power and financial resources.
"But, in accepting this burden
as they always have and always
will," said the ambassador,
"the people of Israel will never
forget what it is that they are
defending—the right of their
children to live freely and
their right through their own
efforts and hard work, to live
a better and fuller life."
Harman spoke at a reception
in his honor, given by the
American Zionist Council, at
Hotel• Commodore.
"The Middle East is still,
unfortunately, an exception
to an historic process which
all men of good will hope will
develop and gain strength,"
Ambassador Harman said.
"This process involves the
conduct of direct communica-
tion both as an expression of a
desire to reach a settlement
of disputes and as an essen-
tial condition for an approach
to such a settlement.
"In relation to the Arab-
Israel situation the prepared-
ness for such a direct communi-
cation is still lacking on the
Arab side and instead, one still
hears wild talk from the highest
Arab quarters, of preparations
to - wipe out Israel. Anybody
visiting Israel today will soon
convince himself that this talk
is even less 'realistic than it
was eleven years ago."
Referring to the election cam-
paign now being conducted in
Israel, Harman said it was
"proof of Israel's democratic
system." Two aspects of the
pre-election campaign which he
found "positive and encour-
aging" were that among the
campaigners and the audiences,
the "place of locally-born and
educated youth was much more
I
pronounced than in past years,"
which he described as "an in-
dication of the rooted quality
of Israel's growing citizenship,"
and also that relatively new
immigrants were "already pro-
viding political and civic leader-
ship on a national local level.
Other speakers were Dr. Na-
hum Goldmann, president of
the World Zionist Organization
and chairman of the Jewish
Agency; Rabbi Irving Miller,
chairman of the American
Zionist . Council, who presided;
and Gil Kollin.
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sations against the film. The
campaign against the film began
after its presentation on Sept.
16 before" the Holy Springs Par-
ent-Teacher Association.
Jackson State ADL President,
Sidney- L. Rosenbaum, felt criti-
cism of the film was "obviously
anti-Semitic." Robert Besser, of
Natchez, president of the state
Bnai Brith, said: "We do not
believe tolerance is un-Ameri-
can. Someone has apperently
done a lot of extreme miscon-
struing to find anything wrong
with the lesson of the film."
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JERUSALEM, (JTA) — A
group of 30 Jewish teachers
from Persia completed a two-
month course organized by the
Department of Education in the
Diaspora of the Jewish Agency.
The teachers will resume work
in Teheran and other cities in
Persia.
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