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JERUSALEM — Zalman Sha-
zar, delivering his inauguration
address as Israel's third Presi-
dent to the parliament declared
Wednesday that the essential
first condition to overcoming
the dangers to Israel internally
and externally was "a meeting
of hearts among us all."
Paying tribute to Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, Israel's first Presi-
dent, the new President said
the lesson of the period preced-
ing the restoration of Israel was
"eternally given in our hearts"
and that "therefore no sacrifice
is too heavy for our people to
safeguard the peace freedom
and future of the State of Is-
rael."
"We cannot mitigate the
pangs of Israel's redemption ex-
cept by raising aloft the banner
of love for Israel by uprooting
internecine hatred and erasing
fanaticism by fostering mutual
respect and true tolerance," he
declared.
He expressed the hope that
peace would not be long de-
layed "with our neighbors and
throughout the region. Our
hand is outstretched for peace
and the day will come when
peace between the nations
and the peoples will be estab-
lished all over the world." He
added, "We, within the limits
of our strength and influence,
will be among those who
helped to prepare and estab-
lish it."
Stressing that Israel was open
to all the Jews of the world, he
added, "We shall always re-
member that we still have a
people all over the world; a peo-
ple that is our bone and flesh;
a people subject to incitement
in one corner and spiritual self-
abasement in another; doomed
to conformity and assimilation
everywhere, either through lack
of strength or lack of spirit,
whether wittingly or unwitting-
ly, but nevertheless devoted to
Israel's heritage and its hope
for redemption."
He said Israel was with the
Jewish people "in its trials and
tribulations and we long with
all our hearts to see ; its sons
share in our struggles and our
constructive endeavors" in Is-
rael.
"Like the best of states,"
he told the Knesset, Israel
guarantees liberty and equal-
ZALMAN SHAZAR
ity
ing. He attended the Acad-
emy of Jewish Sciences in
Leningrad as well as the
Universities of Freiburg,
Strasbourg and Berlin.
For a time, he studied under
the great historian Simon Dub-
now at the St. Petersburg Acad-
emy for Jewish Learning while
working on the editorial staff
of the "Yiddischer Immigrant"
published by the Jewish Coloni-
zation Association. He spent a
year in Palestine during 1911.
At the outbreak of World War
1, he was expelled from the
University of Strasbourg.
In 1916, he founded the Poale
Zion in Germany and later es-
tablished the Hechalutz Pio-
neers 'Organization. He also
founded the Poale Zion in
Poland.
He was a member of various
World Zionist Congresses be-
fore settling in Palestine in
1924. He was elected to the ex-
ecutive of the Histadrut, the
Jewish Labor Federation, in
that year and, in 1925, he joined
the staff of the newly founded
"Davar" under the editorship
of the late Berl Katznelson,
whom he subsequently succeed-
ed. He served as editor of
"Davar" until 1949, when he
was named Education Minister
of Israel. He relinquished that
portfolio in 1951 in expectation
of becoming Ambassador to
Russia but that appointment did
not materialize.
He was elected a member
of the Jewish Agency Execu-
tive in 1952 and, in 1956, was
elected acting chairman of
the Executive in Jerusalem.
He also served for a time as
a member of the Israel dele-
gation to the United Nations
General Assembly. He intro-
duced the system of free uni-
versal compulsory education
in Israel.
A man of wide interests,
Shazar has written extensively
on historical, political and liter-
ary subjects, including several
books on, biblical criticism, Ju-
daica and reminiscences. He
was awarded the Ussishkin
Prize for his book, "Light of
Personalities."
Israel's third President is an
adherent of the Habad Luba-
vitcher Movement, one of the
leading Hassidic movements.
He was named after the founder
of that movement, Shneour
Zalman of Lyady. He is married
to Rachael Katznelson Shazar, a
co-founder of the Women's
Workers Council and a leading
personality in her own right.
to all its citizens. He call-
ed for the fostering of "every
creative spark of talent and
knowledge" and the gathering
together of the "scattered
sparks of Jewish genius."
He said he prayed that he
would be able to summon all
the powers of his soul and body
to carry out his "exalted mis-
sion. With the assistance of the
entire nation and divine sup-
port may we be privileged to
witness the return of the sons
to their borders. May Israel
dwell in safety and may the
world be built on loving kind-
ness."
Speaker Kadish Luz hailed
the elect-ion of Shazar, declaring
that the new President "com-
bines the best attributes of the
people." The speaker expressed
the hope that the new Presi-
dent would be successful in the
task of bringing about internal
harmony in Israel.
Shazar, a veteran Zionist
leader, was elected Israel's
thiid President by the parli-
ament Tuesday, by a vote of
67 to 33, against Peretz Bern-
stein of the Liberal Party.
The Knesset poll was by a
roll call with 12 members ab-
sent, seven abstaining and one
place unfilled. A deputation of
all parties, including Israel's
Arabs, called on the President-
elect Tuesday night to notify
him of his election.
The new President was asso-
ciated with his immediate pre-
decessor Itzhak Ben-Zvi, who
died in office April 23, as far
back as 1905 when the then
Zionist pioneers met at a secret
IF YOU TURN THE
Poale Zion conference in Minsk.
In 1907, he was arrested with
other members of the editorial
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staff of the "Proletarischer
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Gedank" in Vilna and impris- Union Dispute Shuts
oned..
He was born in Mir Russia, N.Y. Jewish Centers
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Three
Oct. 6, 1889, and received a
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traditional Jewish upbring- of the largest YM-YWHA's in
the country—the 92nd Street
`Y,' Washington Heights and
East New York—were shut down
and 15 other Y's and Jewish
community centers throughout
New York City will be closed
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down for an indefinite period
due to a dispute between the
Associated YM-YWHA's of New
York and Local 1707 of the
Community and Social Agency
Employees Union.
Announcement of the shut-
Reg.
$6.00
down was made by Edward First,
chairman of the Joint Agencies
Negotiating Committee, with
which the union has been con-
ducting talks since last Febru-
ary in an attempt to reach
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agreement on higher wages for
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its 350 members. The members
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include professional social work-
fers as well as maintenance and
clerical workers.
According to the management
group, the professional workers
were offered pay increases rang-
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ing from an additional $1,350 a
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year to $1,480 a year, while cler-
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Meyer Obadia, Head of Casablanca
Jewry, Voted to Morocco Chamber
CASABLANCA, (JTA)—Mey-
er Obadia, president of the
Casablanca Jewish Committee,
and secretary-general of the
Council of Jewish Communities
of Morocco, was elected a
deputy to Morocco's Chamber
of Representatives, according to
tabulation of Friday's voting in
the general elections.
He ran on the royalist FDIC
ticket, which did rather badly
in Casablanca, electing only
one other member in this city-
Interior Minister Reda Guedira
Obadia obtained more than 12,-
000 votes.
Another Jewish candidate,
Warsaw Names Street
For Ghetto Fighter
Meyer Toledano, a member of
the apposition National Union
party, was defeated, leaving
Obadia the only Jewish mem-
ber of the Chamber. Before
the election, the extreme na-
tionalist Istiqlal Party distri-
buted pamphlets in Arabic as-
serting that a vote for a Jew
was treason to the homeland.
"It is for Jews to vote for
Jews," the pamphlet declared,
adding that "Moslems are unit-
ed against Jews."
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VIENNA, (JTA)—The War-
saw Town Council has named
one of the city's streets in
memory of Ephraim Funda-
manski, one of the early or-
ganizers of the Warsaw Ghetto
revolt in 1943.
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, May 24, 1963
Shazar Urges Unity in Inaugural
Address as Israel's Third President