Around the orld
A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from
Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other
News-Gathering Media.
United States
CHICAGO—A new $1,000,000 special treatment center for
children with severe emotional disturbances will be built by the
Jewish Children's Bureau of the Jewish Federation of Metropoli-
tan Chicago .. .
NEW YORK—The Israel-American Oil Corporation an-
nounced that it had completed an exchange of shares with the
"Miami Group" under which it acquired a 20 per cent interest
in the Israel Oil Ventures, which operates the Heletz-Brur
Israel oilfields . • . Applications for scholarship and fellow-
ship grants offered by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims
Against Germany for the 1960-61 academic year will be accepted
until March 31 . . . Dr. Alfred J. Marrow, chairman of the New
York City Commission on Intergroup Relations, told the JTA
the West Side Tennis Club of Forest Hills was not closed and
that the commission planned to look into the club's records
"in about a year" to determine whether admission policies
were free of bias . . . The State Commission Against Discrimina-
tion has ruled after an "exhaustive" study that the phrase
"churches nearby" in advertisements of vacation resorts is not
intended to produce religious discrimination .. .
Israel
JERUSALEM—A six-inch 30-kilometer pipeline will be
laid between the recently-discovered Rosh Zohar natural gas
field and the Sdom Potash Works, in an agreement between the
Dead Sea Works and the Naphtha Petroleum Co., which has
a concession to the natural gas field . . . Brigadier David
Shaltiel, former AmbasSador to Mexico, • has been appointed
head of the Foreign Ministry's newly created department of
economic and political planning, to "investigate political fac-
tors interfering with Israel's economic ties abroad and to plan
steps for their removal" as a means of ending Arab interference
with Israel's foreign trade . . . The Israel Rabbinical Council
rejected a government proposal to restrict the post of Chief
Rabbi to candidates under 70 years of age . U.S. Ambassador
Ogden R. Reid officially, opened the Louis Marshall Library
here, in the new Lawyers House, in memory of the late American
Jewish leader . . . Israel will have to increase its arms pur-
chases to offset the flow of armaments, mainly Soviet, to the
Arab states, it was declared in the 40-page review of Israel's
security situation submitted to the Cabinet by Premier and
Defense Minister Ben-Gurion . .
TEL-AVIV—Officials of Tnuva, the Histadrut agricultural
marketing - cooperative, called on the government to discontinue
further imports of dairy products, in order to eliminate unneces-
sary surpluses in milk, butter and cheese . A warning that
relaxation in fund-raising for Israel would be "tantamount to
writing a slow death warrant for those Jews who still need
help" was voiced by Gen. Chaim Laskoy, Israel Chief of Staff,
in an address to the Canadian Jewish Mission . „,. -The Canadian -
Ambassador, Miss Margaret Meagher, was hostess to the 50-
man Cariadiat Jewish study mission . . . Premier Ben-Gurion
and other eminent,,Israeli leaders attended the formal inaugura-
tion of the 15th Nahal settlement in Ein Yahav, 150 kilometers
north of Eilat in the Arava, half a kilometer from the Jordanian
border, the settlement, Neot (Pastures), formerly having served
as an agricultural experiment station .. .
Latin America
RIO DE JANEIRO—The Brazilian Ministry of Education
appointed a special commission to revise encyclopedia and
dictionaries used in public schools to eliminate anti-Semitic
allusions and definitions ... .
Canada
MONTREAL—A bibliography listing literary contributions
which comprise "a spiritual inventory of Canadian Jewry, and a
reflection of the Jewish spirit at work in Canada among Jews
and Christians," was published by the Canadian Jewish Con-
gress and the Jewish Public Library here. The 140-page work
was compiled by David Rome, director of the Jewish Public
Library . • . The Hadassah-WIZO Organization of Canada re-
ported transmitting more than $2,000,000 to assist nearly 1,000
institutions in Israel, at the 18th biennial convention, at which
Pierre Mendes-France, former French Premier, said that Israel
was a fine example of the effectiveness of free world financial
and technical assistance. Mrs. Harry Cohen, of Sydney, N. S.,
and Montreal was elected national president ..
Europe
LONDON—The Arab fight against Israel's plans to use
Jordan River waters for Negev irrigation projects reached the
stage of a Lebanese government decision to divert the Hasbani
River, one of the three principal . tributaries of the Jordan
River, to send the waters of the .Hasbani into another Lebanese
waterway before they reached the Jordan River . _The official
Czechoslovak News Agency reported that the Czechoslovakian
government had set aside the sum of 10,000,000 crowns ($1,500,-
000 at the official rate of exchange) for repair and reconstruc-
tion of eight buildings in the ghetto in Prague in- which the
Nazis ordered the Jews of the Czech capital confined. The agency
said the money would be used for the buildings housing the
State Jewish Museum. -
Israel Barred, UN to Shift Sessions Set for Pakistan
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.,
(JTA)—As a result of the re-
fusal of the Pakistan govern-
ment to permit an Israeli ob-
server to attend a session in
Karachi of the Economic Com-
mission for Asia and the Far
East, the conference will be
shifted to another site.
The two-week session, which
was to have opened February
17, will . probably be held in
Bangkok, Thailand, in March.
Israel is not a member of the
24-nation body but sends ob-
servers to its sessions because
of the importance to Irael of
its trade with the East. Pakistan
imposed the ban as a gesture of
solidarity with the Arab States.
(The New York Times com-
mented editorially as follows
on "Pakistan and Israel":
• ("Pakistan has a population of
about 85,000,000. Israel has a
population of about 2,000,000.
The distance between Haifa and
Karachi is about 2,500 miles. It
doesn't seem that our Israeli
friends are a great menace to
our Pakistan friends.
("Nevertheless Pakistan, and
not for the first time, has re-
fused to admit an Israeli diplo-
mat into its territory. For this
reason the sixteenth session of
the Economic Commission for
Asia and the Far East, a group
affiliated with the United Na-
tions, will probably have to
move a scheduled meeting from
Karachi to some other country.
The reason is, of course, that
Pakistan is trying to please the .
Arab nations, principally the
United Arab Republic, which
for a decade has refused to rec-
ognize the State of Israel as a
going and permanent concern.
("This position does not seem
wise when President Nasser
maintains it. It seems even less
wise when Pakistan feels com-
pelled to follow suit. The pro-
posed meeting has been called
"an economic parliament of
Asia." Its purpose is to do good
for all concerned. The Israeli
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SHLOMO DERECH, noted
Israeli journalism and editor,
and a member of the Histadrut
General Council, arrived. in the
United States to aid the 1960
Israel Histadrut Campaign.
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representative, if present, would
be an observer with a natural
interest in promoting a mutual-
ly profitable trade between his
country and countries East of
Suez. It seems too bad that the
Pakistan Government should be
willing to let Mr. Nasser write
the rules for a conference whol-
ly within Pakistan territory.")
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Contributions by Avrunin, Silver in Year Book
William Avrunin, associate
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director of the Jewish Family
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