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Herzl Centenary Speed Irrigation of Negev
Events to Begin
WorldwideinMay
A - spokesman for the Jewish
Agency in Jerusalem said that
the Herzl Centenary celebra-
tions will begin throughcut the
world in May, and will be part
of Israel's Independence Day
celebrations both in Israel and
abroad. The celebrations in Is-
rael will feature a military pa-
rade, a- display of the Herzl
flag flown in Basle during the
first Zionist Congress and the
opening of the Herzl Museum
on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
Rio Youngsters at Airport to Greet New Ambassador
RIO DE JANEIRO, (JTA)—
Yosef Tekoah, Israel's new Am-
bassador, arrived here from
New York, where he had been
his country's acting permanent
representative at the United
Nations, and was greeted at the
airport by several hundred
school children and members of
the Zionist Youth Movement,
I as well as by government pre-
' tocol officers.
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Honor Pratt on Leaving
for Foreign Office Post
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
American Jewish Committee
gave a farewell luncheon for
Simcha Pratt, Consul General
of Israel, who is returning to
Jerusalem to take over a new
post in the Israel Foreign Min-
A Yemenite workman at the Yuval Gad factory tests a
istry. The luncheon was attend- 108-inch _irrigation pipe which will be used to bring water to
ed by AJC officers and lead- the Negev from northern Israel. As the result of vast irriga-
ers, including president Herbert tion -systems made possible with Israel Bond investments,
B. Ehrmann.
Israel now produces more than 70 percent of her own food
The National Committee for requirements and exports more than $60,000,000 worth of food
Labor Israel held a reception products annually.
at the Histadrut House to bid
farewell to Mr. and Mrs. Pratt
on the occasion of their • return
to. Israel. Leaders of the Amer-
ican Zionist Labor movement,
addressing the gathering, laud-
ed Pratt's activities in bringing
bombs into the building. Police
• From JTA. Wire Stories
closer the ties between, Amer-
Scattered attacks on Jewish are holding 16-year-old Jerry
icanjewry and Israel.
houses of worship continued this Hunt on a charge of assault with
week in Utica, N.Y., and Chi- intent to murder.
Israel, Britain Sign- Pact
Meanwhile; swastikas turned
cago, as religious leaders of all
Covering Extradition
faiths denounced the desecra- up at Utica's uncompleted Tem-
ple Emanu-El, a new synagogue
LONDON, (JTA)—Britain and tions.
Israel signed an extradition
In Gadsden, • Ala., scene of an being erected on the town's
treaty at the Foreign Office. attack two weeks ago by a 16- main street at a cost of $240,-
Foreign Secretary •SelvVyri Lloyd year-old youth on Temple Beth 000.
A huge 10-foot swastika was
signed the document for Britain .Israel, Catholic and Protestant
and Arthur Lourie, the Israel leaders joined members of the smeared over a bas-relief of the
Ambassador here, signed for Is- Jewish congregation at an in- menorah which adorns the
facade of the building. Other
rael. The treaty is retroactive terdenominational service.
to January, 1957.
Rabbi Saul Rubin, the tem- swastikas were painted on win-
The treaty does not cover po- ple's spiritual leader, delivered dows and walls, and obscene
litical crimes. It bars extradi- a sermon in which he hailed slogans also were found. Police
tion of persons who have been unified community action estimated material damage at
resident in the country of ref- against anti-Semitic and other about $3,000. .
uge for three years. It permits hate groups throughout the - In the Chicago incident, three
extradition to one country of a country.
swastikas were found painted
citizen of the other as, for ex-
In the Beth Israel incident, on the Skokie Valley Tradi-
ample, of an Israeli who is ac- two members of the congrega- tional Synagogue at Skokie, a
cused of a crime in Britain and tion were shot as they ran out Chicago suburb. A plainclothes
has returned to Israel, or of a of the building in an effort to detective was on guard on in-
British subject w ante d on catch the attacker who un- definite assignment following
successfully threw two fire the incident.
changes in Israel.
The smearing was the second
to the synagogue, which was
previously attacked in J u 1 y,
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1958, when it was under con-
struction. Police Chief Louis
Henning promised full prosecu-
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Israel Autocar Firm
Expands Production;
Will Make Sport Cars
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Autocar company of Haifa,
which assembles small cars from
British-made engines and an
Israel-made plastic. body, an-
nounced that it w o u l d soon
manufacture sport cars and
light pickups.
The company, which said it
was expanding existing produc-
tion, • reported it had a $1,500,-
000 backlog of orders, a consi-
derable portion of them being
from abroad, including the
United States. A shipment of
"Sabra" station wagons made
by Autoear is now en route to
Los Angeles, the first shipment
of these small cars to the Unit-
ed States: The shipment is due
to arrive in about two weeks.
Increase in Telephone
Rates Provokes Sharp
Criticism in Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Stiff
opposition developed within the
coalition government over an
announcement of a 20 per cent
boost in telephone rates effect-
ive April 1. Davar, organ of the
Histadrut dominant group in
the Coalition, - assailed the in-
crease in- a sharp editorial.
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