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A Digest of World Jewish Happenings
from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and Other News-Gathering Media.
United Nations
For the first time • in eight years not a single Arab-Israel
dispute came before the Security Council, according to the tabula-
tion of Security Council sessions in 1960.
United • States
NEW YORK — A regular cash dividend of $1.25 per share
of common stock for 1960 has been declared by the Palestine
Economic Corporation. The previous year's dividend was $1.00.
The 35-year-old company uses its funds for development of
Israel's economy through private investment in industrial, agri-
cultural and commercial ventures . .. Israel's economic expan-
Sion will have to be concentrated in new development areas
south of Beersheba and in increased industrial production for
export, according to Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, vice-president of the
Israel Bond Organization, on his return from Jerusalem talks
with Prime Minister` Ben-Gurion, Finance Miniker Eshkol, and
leading economic experts . . . After recently starting direct New
York-Tel Aviv jet services, El Al Israel Airlines expects to
have six jet flights weekly by the summer . . . Three-year
graduate fellowships leading to doctorates in Hebrew or Judaeo-
Arabic studies will be available at New York University's depart-
ment of Hebrew culture and education beginning this year. The
fellowships are being awarded under the National Defense
Education Act.
WASHINGTON — A silver-bound copy of the Bible printed
in English in Jerusalem was presented to Postmaster General
Arthur . E. Sommerfield by Israeli Minister of Posts Benjamin
Mintz. In exchange, the Postmaster General presented Mintz '
with a leatherbound album of American stamps.
WALTHAM, Mass. -- Brandeis University will launch a
"traveling university" in Israel next summer, when a • select
number of Brandeis juniors will go to Israel to study and travel
under the instruction of members of the Brandeis faculty. In
its second year the program will be opened to qualified students,
regardless of race, color or creed, from any accredited American
college or university.
I srael
TEL AVIV — Sixty-one Jewish children from Mexico were
present at ceremonies in Acre marking the adoption of the
Acre Committee for Soldiers Welfare by a sister committee
in Mexico.
JERUSALEM — President Nasser of the United Arab
Republic has more tanks today than Marshall Montgomery had
in his desert victory over Nazi Field Marshall Rommel . at El
Alamein, Shimon Peres, Israel's Deputy Defense Minister, re-
ported . . . The importance of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
for the press in Israel was emphasized by Gershon Shoken,
publisher of Haaretz, a leading Israeli daily newspaper, and
president of the Association of Israeli Editors, at a luncheon
honoring Eleazar Lipsky, JTA president.
Africa
CASABLANCA — Local police carried out a night raid
in the Jewish 4uarter in which they systematically detain
ed
Jewish children wearing blue and white skull caps and arrested
some 20 Jewish youths. The action coincided with the arriv
of President Nasser of the United Arab Republic for
e
African "summit" conference . . . An appeal to the
g of
Morocco to intervene in the kidnaping of 15-year-ol
eanette
Cohen failed to bring any action by authorities .
. Admiral
Louis Kahn, vice-president of the Alliance Israelit
niverselle,
was reported to have discussed with Morocca
fficials the
situation of Jewish schools maintained by the lliance .
The local Chief of Police was ordered to pr
bit Morocca
Jews from adopting first names which are
► t in the Old
Testament — names such as Serge, Michel,
1, and Albert,
which are in use among MoroCcan Jews. Fo
ing a forma
protest by the president of the Casablanca Je sh community,
it was indicated the matter would be settled to
e community's
satisfaction.
ALGIERS — A military tribunal condemned
ar Slimane
to death and Ahmound Allal to life imprisonmen
throwin
a grenade into a Jewish-owned cafe in Blida last
Slimane also had been accused of trying to kill an Algerian
junior officer in an earlier incident.
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- Europe
BREMEN — The 10,300-ton freighter "Beersheba" was
launched here for Zim lines, and the 22,000-ton freighter Har
Sinai for the El Yam Corporation—both built under the German
reparations agreements with Israel.
BERLIN — Two former Nazi SS officers were arrested
here on charges of participating in the mass murder of about
30,000 Jews in the Soviet Union in 1941-42.
AROLSEN, Germany—The International
e of the
Red Cross, which maintains - files here
Ictims of
, an-
nounced that - the fate of about 20 I .0 more persons\ m
be
determined through recent resear
the former coneentrat
camps at Auschwitz and Matha
n, fin Poland.
STOCKHOLM — ASsar Or sson, head of the Scandinavian
neo-Nazi party of Malmoe,
s fined for slaying to a Jew in
public: "You damned foreig rs should go to the gas cha bers.
Heil Hitler." A waitress i the restaurant where he mach.the
statement also testified th he was intoxicated.
Tu rkey
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trade will reach a $25,0 ,000 level
include automobile tires building a
and Turkey will ship sug , tobacco, cotto
L 'n Americ
Hadassah's Immense Hospital and Medical School
Installations Leave Deep Impression with Guests
By Special 'Correspondent
of The JeWish News
JERUSALEM, Israel.— It was
only a few years ago that the
area on the outskirts of the Holy
City, where one of the world's
great medical wonders now is
among the realities of Israel, was
known. Beth 1VIazmil, which is
the Arabic for "house of stone."
It was a barren area, full of
Stones. Today, it has a new name
—4Ciryat Yovel—the Jubilee City
—and adjoining. it, in the impres-
sive hills -of. Jerusalem, is Ein
Kerem, where the Hadassah-
Hebrew University Medical Cen-
ter has been established with
funds provided by the supporters
of Hadassah in the United \States..
Those who now visit this great
center will marvel not only at
the immensity of the health cen-
ter and the medical college, but
they will be introduced to a new
road leading to this center. Ha --
dassah •paid for half of the road,
and then • the women's organiza-
tion loaned the Israel gaern-
ment enough funds to cover the
other half of the cost.
Located in an area of 80,000 .
Square meters—the large Beil-
inson •Hospital of Kupat Holim
has an' area of 22,000 square
meters — the new Hadassah
hospital, which will _officially
' begin to operate in May, will
have 500 beds. It will hate an
immense •kitchen; . -with .cbm-
plete provisions far- kashrut
and will serve . mil chi g
(dairY),_ fleishig '(mtat) and
pareve (neither'milk nor meat)
foods. _ -
Already having graduated 60'0
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full-fledged physicians, the med-
ical. school, which is operated
jointly with the Hebrew Uni-
versity, now has 450 students.
They are taught by experts in
several medical departments, and
the research activities are among
the most extensive in the entire
Middle East.
Clinical laboratories are at-
tached to this vast health set-up.
Mrs. Jerome Hauser was a
member of the Hadassah delega-
tion who - madea special tour of
the hospital. Her husband, Dr.
Hauser, who joined the tour, said
the installations he was shown
were among the most impressive
he had ever seen in any hospital
setup anywhere. (Dr. Hauser re-
cently was elected Chief ;of Staff
of Sinai Hospital in Detroit).
Dr. M. Rachmilewitz, pro-
Among the many special fea-
fessor of medicine at the tures of the Hadassah Medical
Hebrew University - Hadassah Center at Ein Karem is a solari-
Medical School, expressing um and classroom -in the chil-
pride in the achievements of dren's ward. There are 100 re-
Hadassah in having set up the search workers in the several
combined medical school and laboratories.
hospital buildings, deplored the
The eight-bed rooms are so
fact that building activities in constructed that only two people
the research department, the can see each other.
library and the teaching la-
Part of the hospital is under
boratories have had to be in- a mountain.
terrupted. But he was assured
An interesting fact about the
by a large group of Hadassah hospital is that, 400 families are
guests, who came to Israel for supported and integrated into
the 25th World Zionist Con- Israel's economic system as work-
gress, that they won't rest ers at the hospital.
until the project is fully com-
pleted.
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