Guest Editorial

Bar-Iian's Great Role

By PH I LLI P STOLLMAN

Chairman, American Committee for Bar-Ban
University at Ramat Gan, Israel

I have been privileged with the responsibility of
heading one of the most important educational move-
ments in world Jewry—that of the Bar-Ilan University
in Israel.
Blessed with economic advances made in recent
years, challenged by the great flow of immigrants into
the country, the little Jewish State has had the vision
to develop culturally as well as industrially. Immigrants
arriving from more than 70 lands throughout the world
are being provided with educational opportunities. Their
children are getting a schooling comparable to the finest
in the world.
Bar-Ilan University steps in to fill a gap—by linking
science with• tradition, by offering courses in ancient
Jewish lore as well as in the most technical academic
subjects.
Bar-Ilan has grown from a mere infant only six
years ago to a real cultural giant. The university has
emerged as one of the very great institutions of learning
in the Middle East.
At our annual dinner on Wednesday, deserved
honors will be accorded to Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall,
distinguished military analyst and defender of Israel's
just rights. I am happy to express my appreciation for
his activities in defense of an embattled and unjustry
maligned people. We also will have the privilege of
welcoming the university's president, Rabbi Joseph
Lookstein.
It is a source of great pride to us to know that the
Jewish community of Detroit has played One of the
major roles in providing assistance to this university.
Our people in our wonderful community have provided
funds and leadership in Bar-Ilan's behalf.
I wish to commend my associates here on their
interest in Bar-Ilan, and to invite their continued co-
operation. It is a personal joy and source of pride for
me to be a part of this great movement.

Israel's Knesset Won't Debate Halt
of Weapons Sale to West Germany

JERUSALEM — (JTA) — Is-
rael's parliament defeated three
motions to discuss an immedi-
ate halt of Israeli arms' sales
to West Germany.
Deputies of the Communist
Party, Herut and Mapam refer-
red to the West German bid
for nuclear weapons and con-
tended that the continued de-
liveries of Israeli submachine
guns to "pave the way" for
that country to obtain an atom-
ic arsenal as well.
Yaacov Landau of Herut said
that the Israeli weapons sales
were a "certificate of moral re-
habilitation" to West Germany.
Mapam's Israel Barzilai argued
that the political significance of
the arms sales were detriment-
al to Israel's interests. Commu-
nist Shmuel Mikunis asserted
that the arms sale policy "fur-
ther isolated" Israel from the
neutral states.
Replying briefly on behalf of
the government, Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion recalled a
previous Knesset discussion on
the subject in which the oppo-
sition failed to prevail. His re-
quest that the motions be re-
jected as "insincere and unre-
alistic" was sustained only by
a narrow majority because one
coalition partner, Achdut Avo-
(la, which fought the arms sale
in the earlier debate to which
the Prime Minister referred,
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that the Israeli-made weapons
were being used by Portuguese
forces to fight the rebellion in
its Angola colony.
He added that relations with
the Belgian firm, FN, had been
"satisfactory and correct" since
the relationship was established
and that he therefore had full
faith in the firm's statement
that it had not and would not
supply the guns to Portugal. A
large percentage of Israel's
light arms come from the Bel-
gian firm with which Israel has
an agreement for exchange of
know-how and the manufacture
of components and spare parts
for the submachine guns.
Mordecai Bentov of Mapam
suggested that it would be best
not to sell arms to anybody be-
cause such sales were "fraught
with danger." The defense offi-
cial replied that it would be
"senseless" for Israel to im-
pose such a self-embargo be-
cause the outcome of wars was
not determined by submachine
guns, however efficient the
Uzzi might be.

Israel Plans
More Housing
for Immigrants

National, Local Leaders to Speak
at Bar-Ilan Dinner on Wednesday

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Direct JTA Teletype wire
to The Jewish News

JERUSALEM — Nine out of
e, very 10 immigrants arriving
between April and November
were provided with housing,
Giora Josephthal, minister of
Development and Housing,. re-
ported Tuesday.
He reported that two-thirds-
of the newcomers were settled
in development areas but only
five per cent became farmers.
Disclosing that plans called
for the building of 18,000 hous-
ing units during the current
fiscal year, he said that expendi-
tures- on buildings of all kinds
rose from 500,000 pounds —
$280,000 — in 1959-60 to 800,-
000 pounds ($448,000) this year.
Some 2,000 families have been
Left to right: Inspector General Joseph Nahamias of the
moved out of the Maabarot Israel Police Force, Israel Supreme Court Justice Haim Cohen
(transit camps) during the past and Dr. Tuvia Bar-Ilan, head of the faculty of Bar-Ilan Univer-
eight months, leaving 3,500 still sity, at the session at which Justice Cohen opened the course
to be rehoused, including the in criminology with the first of a series of lectures.
10 per cent of the April to No-
vember immigration who were
With Dr. Joseph Lookstein, Wednesday dinner program will
not provided with immigrant
president of the board of gover- be Dr. Jacob E. Goldman, who
housing.
nors of Bar-Ilan University of will be toastmaster; Phillip Stoll-
1 Ramat Gan, Israel, delivering the man, national chairman of Ameri-
Alliance Israelite
ipiincipal address, at the seventh can Friends of Bar-Ilan; and Mrs.
dinner of Detroit Friends Max Stoliman, national chairman
Leader Decorated by i annual
of Bar-Ran University, at Latin of the Bar
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States.

City of Hope Doctors
Develop Test for
Drug Sensitivity'

LOS ANGELES — A simple,
rapid test to screen persons for
a potentially dangerous drug
sensitivity has been developed
by two City of Hope physicians.
The new test will be made
available by the city of Hope
without charge to doctors
everywhere.
Dr. Virgil F. Fairbanks and
Dr. Ernest Beutler described
the new test in a report to the
annual American Society of
Hematologists meeting here.
Sensitivities to certain drugs
are known to be caused by an
inherited abnormality in cellu-
lar chemistry. The test reported
provides a simple way to iden-
tify and protect people against
a specific sensitivity of this
type.
Previously available tests are
relatively complex and difficult
to perform. The test developed
at the City of Hope can be done
in any physician's office.

MRS. SIDNEY LEFF

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