There It Is . . . the Promised Land .. . Eager for a new start in life, this immigrant family looks hopefully toward the shores of Israel and the opportunities that await them for a new life . . . Happy but anxious about the future awaiting them, they have come to the shores of Israel with the aid of the United Jewish Appeal, with the encourage- ment of the Detroit Allied Jewish Campaign. The Jewish News dedicates this issue, and the Special Supplements on. Pages 1 to 12 in Section B, between Pages 18 and 19 in the Main Section, to the 25th anniversary of the United Jewish Appeal and to the annual Allied Jewish Appeal to be officially inaugurated next Tuesday evening. . Campaign Funds Allocations HE EWISH * Annual Music Month – Mo'os Hitim Tradition • Editorials Page 4 MORE URGENT THAN EVER ! A r P201 "T- UJA MICHIGAN f Jewish Events Weekly Review Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. XLI I I, No. 3 Printed in a 100% Union Shop GIVE TODAY . 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE 8-9364—Detroit 35, March 15, 1963 $6.00 Per Year; Single Copy 20c Blame 'Blind Eye' to Nasser Ambition for M.E. War Danger Syrian Gunfire: For Fun?' (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) TEL AVIV—Syrian gunners opened fire Monday on three tractors working in the demilitarized zone between Ein Gev and Tel Katzir in the Lake Tiberias area, in the first border incident since the latest coup in Syria. The shooting against the tractors, which were preparing fields for summer crops, lasted about ten minutes. Then, when the tractor drivers were preparing to leave the area, the Syrians again started shooting. The firing was not returned and the tractors were finally removed from the danger area. It was the first gunfire in the sector for almost six months. Israel entered a complaint with the Mixed Armistice Commission, but United Nations observers did not conduct an investigation because "this was not requested by Israel." Israeli sources indicated a belief that the only reason for the attack might have been a desire of Syrian commanders to let their troops "have some fun" or a possible desire of Syria's new regime to have a record of having made an attack on Israel to benefit its standing with other Arab countries. Threats that the unified Arab armies will 'aim at Israel's destruction and the gains made by Abdel Gamal Nasser in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, again have forced major world attention on the Middle East, with Israel as a possible target in a war-threatening situation. A JTA report from Washington states that while State Department officials declined to comment on the developments, assurances were voiced that the United States was devoted to the preservation of Israel. Pro-Israel sentiments in Congress were emphasized and hope for preservation of peace was centered in Secretary of State Dean Rusk's emphasis on America's interest in the security of Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Nevertheless, the proposed unified military command embracing Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Algeria, reportedly suggested by Iraqi Deputy Premier Ali Saleh Saadi, head of the Baghdad delegation at the meeting held in Damascus, capital of Syria, is believed now to be pointing to threats to the security of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, which still are backing the Continued on Page 3 Allied Jewish Campaign Opens Formally Tuesday; Dr. Wm. Haber, Joseph Meyerhoff Guest Speakers Two distinguished national Jewish leaders; Prof. William Haber, of the department of economics at the University of Michigan, president of World ORT, and Joseph Meyerhoff of Baltimore, national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, will be the guest .speakers at the dinner that will mark the formal opening of the 1963' Allied Jewish Campaign, at 7 p.m. next Tuesday; at the Jewish Community Center, Charles H. Gershenson, campaign chair- man, announced. Dr. Haber, one of the nation's foremost economists and a keen analyst of the Jewish scene, has played a leading role in advancing the objectives of ORT and in spurring the expansion of the movement for the establishment of vocational - training schools and centers for many thousands of young Jews who would otherwise have been totally declassed in the lands where they have -been deprived of economic opportunities. Prof. Haber is a member of the executive board of the American Jewish Committee and of the national council of the Joint Distribution Committee. In his professional field he specializes in manpower, industrial relations and social security problems.. He has been chairman of the Michigan Emergency Relief program, special assistant to the U. S. Director of the Budget and a member of the Federal Advisory CoUncil on Employment Security, and has been an advisor to Michigan Governors. Meyerhoff has been a leader - in national American Jewish affairs for more than 20 years and has held many importnt communal posts in his native city of Baltimore. He has helped mobilize support for UJA since 1940, - served as chairman of the Jewish Welfare Fund in Baltimore, was a member of-the UJA Leaders' Mission to Israel in 1949 and witnessed, at the time, the arrival of refugees who had begun to pour into the State of Israel. "I saw those who had known oppression and the worst kind of suffering living in tent cities," Meyerhoff recalls, "and I determined to do everything I could to help them rebuild their lives and to assure a future for their children." Special 12 -Page Supplement • • Dedicated to 25th Anniversary of United Jewish Appeal and - . to Current Allied Jewish Cam- . • • 7;2 ie edloentivBee, npages 1 to Pages 18 Seettons Of and 19 of.Main Section. Meyerhoff is a vice-chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc., which has the responsibility for selecting those pro- grams in Israel for which UJA's philanthropic dollars are spent. A vigorous advocate of helping Israel to reach economic viability, in 1950 he joined the board of the Palestine Economic Corporation, and has been serving as President of the corpora- tion since 1957. Meyerhoff has served as president of the Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore, the operating and planning body for all local Jewish health, welfare, group and social casework agen- cies. He is the honorary president of the Jewish Welfare Furid which allocates funds to national and overseas Jewish agencies: He is prominently known as a home-builder and real estate developer of imagination and enterprise. Formerly a member of the State Board of Public Welfare, since 1957 he has been chairman of the Maryland State Plan- ning Commission. This Is Section A Two „iginns nrtse . DR. WILLIAM HABER . JOSEPH MEYERHOFF