Israel Ma'-Ls Mers Anniversary of Wa
Yemenite Jews in Israel are marking the
15th anniversary of "Magic Carpet," the
air-lifting operation during which the Joint
Distribution Committee and the Jewish
Agency brought 50;000 Yemenite Jews to
Israel. The photo on the left shows the
early airlift from Aden which began in
December 1949 and ended 21 months later.
The photo on the right shows Yemenite
Jews in the village for the aged at Shaar
Menashe, one of 14 JDC Malben institu-
tions supported with UJA funds through
Detroit's Allied Jewish Campaign.
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Lowdermilk's
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Cornmand-
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Water as a
Gift for All
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U Thant Revises Fears Over M.E.
Explosive Condition; Sen. huts
Warns Against Threats' by Arabs
(Direct Jewish Telegraphic Agency Teletype Wires to The Jewish News)
WASHINGTON—Sen. Jacob K. Javits, New York Republican, warned in a
Senate speech Monday that Congress should not take
an "ostrich-like" attitude toward Arab threats against
Israel developing from the dispute over Israel's
Jordan River irrigation project.
"I do not want our government caught by surprise
again as it was in Panama," he declared. "I hope the
United States will be forewarned with respect to its
policies in Arab capitals, its policy toward President
Nasser" of Egypt, "its policy in the United Nations."
He added the hope_ the United States "will push hard
now to head off this threatened collision."
Referring to possible UN action in the Jordan
River controversy, Sen. Javits urged that this proposal
"not wait until there is an armed attack when the
whole world could be put into flames because we have
not taken notice of this warning."
He urged the State Department to "give attention
Sen. Javits
to the Middle East in terms of the warning that the Arab states are set on a
collision course."
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UN Action Asked Against
USSR Anti-Jewish Bigotry
UNITED NATIONS — Joel Barromi, Israel's deputy per-
manent representative at the United Nations, on Monday after-
noon openly accused the USSR of depriving Soviet Jews of cul-
tural rights and opportunities and of other officially condoned
actions against Jews. However, he did not name the Soviet
Union, speaking only of conditions "in a certain country." He
made his address at the session of the Subcommission on Preven-
tion of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities which cur-
rently is debating a draft convention for elimination of all
racial intolerance.
Barromi suggested that the proposed convention include a
clause guaranteeing that "spiritual patrimony and cultural
values of an ethnic group" must be given legal protection and
that no ethnic group be discriminated against because of race
or cultural origin.
"We have before our eyes," he said, "the case of a Jewish
community which is deprived of its cultural rights. Schools are
closed, cultural institutions shut down, national languages pro-
hibited, historical, philosophic and moral thinking of their ances-
tors are discriminated against.
"The once rich cultural life of that Jewish community is
discriminated against," he said, "and newspapers, theaters,
literature and educational network are stilled."
He alluded to trials for economic crimes, referred to
"harsh criticism" against the Jewish religion in the press, often
accompanied by "scornful" mention of Jewish names. He quoted
from Khrushchev's letter to Bertrand Russell—without, however,
naming either Khrushchev or Russell.
Boris S. Ivanov, Soviet representative on the subcommission,
answered Barromi briefly and mildly. He quoted another letter
from Khrushchev to Russell, denying anti-Semitism.
A three-pronged attack on Soviet discriminations against
Jewish religious rights and practices was launched here in
the subcommission..
The discriminations against the Jews of the Soviet Union
in the religious sphere were stressed by: 1. The introduction of
a new draft declaration for elimination of all religious bias
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UNITED NATIONS—Secretary General U Thant expressed the opinion here
Tuesday that, following the summit conference of 13
Arab heads of state and other leading officials, in
Cairo, last week, to deal with Israel's plans for drawing
Jordan River waters, "the situation in the area is not
as explosive as I had anticipated."
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U Thant was asked during a press conference
whether he still thought that the Middle East situation
now was "threatening." He had voiced such a pre-
diction during an address in Columbia University
three weeks ago. Tuesday ; Thant said:
"When I expressed my concern about prospective
developments in the Middle East, I had in mind
the Arab-Israel situation as well as Cyprus, which
is, of course, also in that region. We are dealing
with the Cyprus situation in another context. But
after conclusion of the Cairo summit conference, I
U Thant
am not so sure that my deep concern regarding
Arab-Israel issues was warranted. From the news reports I am not so sure
of that."
Eshkol Rejects Arab Claims, Exposes Their
Lust for Aggression; Pleased with Public
Awareness of Cairo Aim to Destroy Israel
JERUSALEM—Warning that Israel would not be deterred from carrying out its Jordan
River irrigation project by Arab threats, Premier Levi Eshkol declared Monday night that under
international law the refusal of one party to reach agreement
with another on such regional programs does not give the refusing
party the right to prevent a neighbor from proceeding.
The Premier, addressing Parliament, noted that Jordan had
been drawing water from the Yarmuk River, a Jordan River
tributary, for more than two years, in a program which "enjoys
the support of international development agencies." He pointed
out also that Syria and Lebanon were drawing all their require-
ments from the Jordan River headwaters.
Rejecting Arab propaganda charges that the Israel irrigation
project was "illegal and unilateral," he reviewed the regional
water plan developed ten years ago by the late Eric Johnston as an
emissary of then President Eisenhower. In that plan he empha-
sized an agreed allocation of Jordan River waters had been
determined against which the parties concerned made no objec-
tions at the technical level. He said Israel undertook to remain
within the framework of those allocations "and we will honor
this undertaking."
The Premier outlined Israel's position in a review of the
five-day Arab summit meeting in Cairo last week which was
called to map a unified Arab plan to prevent the Israeli irrigation
project.
He said that Israel would tap water from Lake Tiberias into
which the Jordan flows "within the limits of the quantities laid
Levi Eshkol
down in the unified plan" worked out by Johnston. He noted that
the Arab rulers had rejected the plan which their technicians had accepted "on the deliberate
principle of opposing any cooperation even indirect with Israel." He said it was important that the
world "should be made aware of the deplorable decisions" adopted at the Cairo conference.
He said that in a time when the world was striving toward relaxation of tensions, 13 Arab
heads of states, all members of the United Nations and signatories to its charter, "openly and
expressly proclaim that they planned acts of aggression against another state and announce their
intention to revive these plans and carry them into effect."
The Premier recalled a statement at the opening session of the Cairo meeting made by
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