lie Salute Our Con firinands,Conserrants and Graduates
The Jewish News dedicates this issue to our youth who have consecrated themselve -s to Jewish studies, with the hope that they will re dedicate
List of 1962 Confirmands, Consecrants and Graduates on Page 20 and 21.
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Delaying Action Sought by
Servatius in Eichmann Case
Israel, Arabs Agree on
Refugee Funds Release
UNITED NATIONS, (JTA)—After long and complex nego-
tiations—most of them involving technicalities—four Arab
Governments and Israel have agreed on a United Nations plan
whereby Israel will release an additional $700,000 of cash
deposited in small Israeli banks by Arab refugees.
The monies are part of cash: deposits left in Israel by the
Arab refugees, covered in an agreement made in 1953 between
Israel and the United Nations Palestine Conciliation Commis-
sion. Under the 1953 pact for the unfreezing of Arab refugee
accounts, to which Egypt, Syria, Lebandn and Jordan agreed
with the PCC for the refugees' acceptance of the funds, Israel
released $8,400,000 on deposit in Barclays Bank in Israel and
in the Ottomon Bank. However, there were additional Arab
refugee deposits still frozen in smaller Israeli banks. It is this
additional sum, amounting to $700,000, that Israel has now
unfrozen.
Dr. Joseph E. Johnson, the PCC's special envoy charged
with trying to ease the disagreements between the Arab states
and Israel regarding the general Arab refugee problem, will
return here this week, after five weeks of diScussions he held
in the Middle East with the leaders of all the governments
concerned.
70 Guests fromn. Arab Countries
Had Permit Entries to Israel
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM—Some 70 Arabs from neighboring countries
were permitted to enter Israel as visitors for humanitarian
reasons during the past year, the government reported Tues-
day. Most of them came from Jordan and Lebanon.
The visitors came for special medical treatment, attendance
at funerals and similar reasons. In the previous year, some 50
requests from Arabs for permission to come into Israel were
approved-.
COLOGNE, (JTA)—Dr. Robert Servatius, Adolf Eichmann's West
German defense attorney, disclosed he had started action in a Cologne
court which could have the effect of delaying final disposition of the case
of the former Gestapo colonel. The Israel Supreme Court will announce
on May 29 its ruling in Eichmann's appeal from a death sentence imposed
by a Jerusalem district court last Dec. 15.
Dr. Servatius told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he had filed
In the Cologne Administrative Court a complaint against the West German
Foreign Office for failing to intervene on Eichmann's 'behalf.
The attorney said that, according to the United Nations Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, kidnaping was a violation of international
law. He added that "since the Federal Republic signed the charter and the
United Nations condemned Eichmann's abduction. the Foreign Of-
fice was asked to i n t e r v en e but refused to do so." He expressed
the hope that the court would order the Foreign Office to demand Eich-
mann's extradition. However, he acknowledged that it may be difficult,
since there are no diplomatic relations between Germany and Israel.
He said that, if the Cologne court rejected his complaint. he would
file suit in a Federal court. Then, if necessary, he would carry the case to
the Council of Europe's Commission on Human Rights.
Nazi Who Slew 11,445 Jews Uses 'Eichmann Doctrine'
BERLIN, (JTA)—A defense argument which Adolf Eichmann used repeatedly
in his Jerusalem trial—that he acted under orders which he could not disobey in
transporting millions of European Jews to their doom--was heard again in court here
from Albert Filbert. a former Nazi SS officer.
Filbert, who has admitted he headed a Nazi cranmando unit which operated in
German-occupied areas of Russia in 1941. told the court that "only a few thousand"
victims were shot on his orders. He is on trial on charges of participation in the
slaughter of 11,445 Russian Jews, and faces a possible life sentence.
An SS report was read, indicating Filbert had been recommended for an Iron
Cross for his part in the "liquidation of Jews. Communists and guerillas" in the
Vilna-Grodno-Vitebsk region. The report said Filbert's unit had the greatest proficiency
in shootings committed by his special extermination battalion. Filbert insisted the
figure of 11,445 was incorrect.
He stressed repeatedly that he had been acting under orders at the time of the
slaying. Asked by the judge whether he agreed that 'these were criminal orders,
which no "decent citizens" were forced to obey, Filbert replied: "We had no choice.
He insisted it was not true that the victims had to remove all their clothes
before they were killed. He explained that "all their belongings -were taken from
them and sent to Berlin. They had to take off their underclothes. Then they had to
lift their shirts over their heads and tie the sleeves across their eyes."
Asked whether he had witnessed the shooting of Jewish women and small
children on his orders, he said "I attended only two or three shootings of men. That
is, nearly all the victims were men." He added that it was "difficult" to find volun-
teers to command shooting squads when the victims included women and children.
400 Nuptials, Hundreds of
Haircuts in Israel on Lag
b'Omer Sefira Intermission
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)
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TEL AVIV—Some 400 marriages took place Monday
night and Tuesday morning. throughout Israel as the inter-
mission of the Sefira ban on weddings was marked on Lag
h'Omer.
Thirty-five rabbis were recruited to perform 127 mar-
riages in Tel Aviv. In Meron, meanwhile, dancing con-
tinued through the night around a huge bonfire kindled
on the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai. •
The rejoicing reached a new peak Tuesday morning
with the ceremony of the first haircut for hundreds of
children who had reached the age of three. That ceremony
began with dancing and singing.
Menorah Plaque for the Presidenf:-.
a White
House visit, during the Bnai Brith convention in Washington last week, BkairAiith president
Label A. Katz presented President Kennedy with an ornamental wall plaque containing a
Menorah design and other symbols of Judaism. Others in the Bnai Brith delegation at the
White House reception were, from the left: Frank Goldman . of Lowell, Mass., honorary
president of Bnai Brith; Mrs. Moe Kudler of Los Angeles, president of Bnai Brith Women,
and Maurice Bisgyer of Washington, who was honored at the convention on his comple-
tion of 25 years as executive vice president of Bnai Brith.
The crowd at Meron, the center of the countrywide
observance of the holiday, swelled through the night and
reached a record total of 400,000 celebrants. They arrived
in more tban 3,000 vehicles.
Throughout Israel, children kindled bonfires that
turned the skies red for much of the night. Toward morn-
ing, fire brigades toured the empty lots throughout Tel Aviv
to put out still smouldering fires.