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Street Fighting in Tel Aviv; Firni Seeks Swedish Translation of Buber Is
to Lift Ban on Renault—Israel Headlines Slated as Hammarskjold Memorial
Street fighting in Tel Aviv,
reports from a daily newspaper
(termed "highly premature" by
government officials) that
Prime Minister David Ben-Gu-
rion would visit Africa and ef-
forts to lift the ban on the
French automobile firm, Ren-
ault, headlined the news in
Israel this week.
Several young Communists
were under arrest in Tel Aviv
following a clash which devel-
oped when they tried to distri-
bute leaflets demanding an in-
vestigation into recent border
incidents in which five Arab
youths were killed in an attempt
to cross into the Egyptian held
Gaza Strip.
The leaflets were signed by
the "Movement of Defenders of
Democracy; " a Communist-spon-
sored student group, and con-
tained pictures of the bodies of
the five Arabs and a demand
for a committee to determine
whether the slayings were
"crime or accident."
Distribution was started as
, thousands of Tel Aviv residents
began coming out of movie
houses after a late performance.
The angry crowd attacked the
distributors and police moved
in. Several of the distributors
were detained on a charge of
circulating illegal material.
In other Israeli news,
Prime Minister Ben-Gurion
warned that "Israel still faces
• grave tests, and all Israelis
should be ready to meet those
tests. lie addressed cere-
monies at the Ramat Gan Sta-
dium near Tel Aviv, where
20,000. Israelis who had
served in the Jewish Legions
during World Wars I and II
received volunteers' decora-
tions.
Among the recipients of the
decorations were Ben-Gurion
himself and President Ben-Zvi,
both of whom served in the Bri-
tish forces in World War I.
The Prinie Minister is ex-
pected to visit Africa later this
year, according to a report pub-
lished in Yediot Aharonot, a
Tel Aviv afternoon daily.
The report said Ben Gurion
would pr o b ably attend the
Tanganyika independence cele-
brations on Dec. 9 and may also
visit Upper Volta as the guest
of President Yameogo, who re-
cently visited Israel.
Efforts are also being made
to arrange a meeting with Jomo
Kenyatta, a Kenya nationalist
leader, recently released from
a British prison. The. Prime
Minister might also extend his
trip and visit Burma as the
guest of Burmese Premier of Transport and Communica-
U Nu.
tion, but is "unlikely" to be
West Nigerian Premier S. L.
granted, the Ministry con-
Akintola, has arrived in Tel firmed.
Aviv accompanied by his wife.
Two years ago Renault can-
and senior members of his gov- celed its contract for assembly
ernment for a week's visit.
of cars in Israel under pressure
An application by an Israeli of Arab boycott. Recently an
firm asking for a lifting of Israeli firm applied for an im-
the ban against the importa- port license to import Dauphine
tion of automobiles made by cars, made by Renault. The ap-
Regie Renault of France has plication is being - shelved, the
been filed with the Ministry Ministry said, until Renault dis-,
associates itself from the Arab
League's economic boycott
against Israel.
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In Jerusalem, the Israeli gov-
ernment is considering a United
Nations request to contribute
$50,000 toward an $80 'million
fund being raised to help save
The Anti-Defamation League of the Nubian antiquities which
Bnai Brith reported that political are in danger of being flooded
activities of a number of North- through the construction of the
west Home Owners Associations Aswan Dam in Egypt.
are being directed by persons
A, 19-year-old New York girl,
who have intimate connections
with segregationist and anti-se- Toby Ellen Saks, won the first
prize in the junior section of
mitic organizations.
the Pablo Casals International
The League pointed to the Na- Cello Competition held in. Jeru-
tional Civic Association which salem under the auspices of
claims to be "a non-partisan po- the America-Israel Cultural
litical association comprised of 21 Foundation.
individual home owner groups
The cornerstone of Beit
located in all parts of Detroit." Agron,
a center for journalists
The National Civic Associa- named in honor of Gershon
tion was condemned by the Agron, the late mayor of Jeru-
Michigan Fair Election Prac- salem and founder of the Jeru-
tices Commission, in October, salem Post, was laid in Jeru-
1958, for injecting racial and salem this week. The $280,000
religious issues into a political building is scheduled to be
campaign.
completed within two years.
ADL Exposes
Anti-Semitic
Group Activities
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., letter, at his home in Jerusalem,
(JTA)—The Stockholm publish- the very day of the late Secre-
ing firm of Bonniers has notified tary-General met his tragic death
the United Nations headquarters in an airplane crash in Africa.
that, as a memorial to the late Bonniers said it will carry the
United Nations Secretary Gen- Hammarskjold plan for the trans-
eral Dag Hammarskjold, it plans lation and publish the book in
to publish a Swedish translation memoriam to the late Secretary
of "I and Thou," a basic book General "in the very near fu-
by the Israel philosopher Prof. ture." Hammarskjold's plan to
Martin Buber which Hammar- translate Prof. Buber's work was
skjold wanted to translate. believed, by persons here who
The Stockholm publishers said knew the former UN chief well,
that they received a letter from to have been preliminary to pro-
Hammarskjold, shortly before his posing Prof. Buber for a Nobel
death, informing them that he Prize in literature.
was translating "I and Thou"
Two recent Nobel Prize laure-
into Swedish.
ates in literature, Albert Camus
Hammarskjold had also in- and St. John Perse, had had their
formed Prof. Buber of his work works translated into Swedish by
on the translation. Prof. Buber Hammarskjold before they were
received the last Hammarskjold given the coveted Nobel prize.
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Profit; Add Routes
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The
Al Israel Airlines ended its
1960-61 fiscal year with a profit
for the second straight year,
the company reported here.
This year's profit, which
amounted to 1,567,000 pounds
($877,000), compared to earn-
ings last year of 60,000 pounds
($34,000).
The airline began the past
fiscal year with four jet prop
Britannias and four Constella-
tions and is now operating two
Boeing 707 jetliners, four Brit-
annias and two Constellations,
the report stated. The remain-
ing two Constellations will be
taken . out of service next
month with the Britannias
scheduled to be replaced by
toeing 720-B medium range
jetliners already ordered.
The Export-Import Bank has
already approved a $12,700,000
loan to cover 80 per cent of the
purchase cost of the new planes.
El Al is expected to open new
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