Mail Slowdown Action
Is Called Off in Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The slow
down strike of Israel's postal
workers ended Tuesday. Negotia-
tions had resumed after a general
meeting of the workers earlier
rejected a proposal for arbitration
without prior acceptance of a series
of conditions, some of which were
finally accepted.
Monday night, Israel's Parlia-
ment rejected opposition motions
of nonconfidence in the govern-
ment's handling of the slowdown
by the postal workers and by gov-
ernment tax revenue officials. The
slowdown actions had been under-
way for nearly a month, crippling
Israel's mail and cable services
and tax revenue collections.
Just before this morning's de•
cision to end the slowdown, the
Israel army began a special
postal service for troops. Letters
to military personnel were to be
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sent through the military mail
service and thus bypass civilian
mail facilities which are vir-
tually useless.
During the slowdown strike air-
mail letters from the United
States have been received by re-
cipients 15 or more days behind
schedule. Express letters were de-
layed almost as long as regular
mail. Printed material is not being
processed at all.
Premier Levi Eshkol, replying
Monday night to the nonconfi-
dence motions, denied charges that
the government had neglected the
needs of the workers. He listed a
number of steps that had been
taken, including creation of a
Horowitz wages committee and
an institute for determining na-
tion output to prevent inflationary
effects from wage increases beyond
the capacity of Israel's economy.
He said the problem must be
tackled comprehensively on the
objective basis of job evaluations.
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV — While postal
workers in other cities through-
out Israel ended their month-long
slowdown strike, the Tel Aviv
postman decided to continue the
slowdown Tuesday, thus offering
little hope for much improvement
in the service which has been de-
laying mail up to two weeks.
Efforts are now being directed
at bringing the Tel Aviv postmen
in line with those in . other parts
of the country as nearly 3,000,000
letters were reported piled up in
the main Tel Aviv post office. It
is estimated that it will take almost
a month to process the backlog
after a settlement is reached here.
Postal workers in other cities
ended their slowdown early Tues-
day morning following negotia-
tionswhich resumed after a gen-
eral meeting of the workers had
earlier rejected an arbritration
proposal without prior acceptance
of a series of conditions, some
of which were finally accepted.
Hussein Pledges
Safety for Graves
at Machpelah
NEW YORK — The Cave of
Machpelah, located in Jordan-held
Hebron, will be safe from archae-
ologists' diggings, King Hussein
has promised the president of the
Central Rabbinical Congress of
America and Canada.
In a letter to Rabbi Joel Teitel-
_baum (the Satmar Rebbe), Hus-
sein said he would not permit the
graves located at the cave to be
disturbed. The burial place of
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Re-
becca and Leah is held sacred by
both Jews and Moslems.
The letter is said to be the first
of its kind from an Arab ruler to
the spiritual leaders of a Jewish
organization.
Members of the Central Rab-
binical Congress, an organization
of extremist Hassidic leaders,
had been disturbed by reports
that archaeologists from Prince-
ton University planned to ex-
amine the burial sites at Hebron,
and approached King Hussein.
Hussein replied that he shared
their concern over the possible
desecration of the graves and as-
sured them that "I will never per-
mit any disturbance to the graves
of the Patriarchs and their wives
in Hebron."
The Central Congress is com-
posed of anti-Zionist rabbis closely
connected with the Naturei Karta
extremists in Jerusalem. They do
not recognize the secular state of
Israel because the restoration of
the Jewish home was not brought
about by the c o in i n g of the
Messiah.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 29, 1964
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was now time for action since
"Buenos Aires is the operation
center of the Arab League. Assert-
ing that it was not enough "to re-
said was continuing to occur in ceive wonderful statements by
spite of the "sincere good inten- government officials," Gesang said
that "our timely reaction may pre-
tions of the government."
vent irreparable damage."
At a three-day national conven-
tion of the DAIA attended by 170
delegates from 17 Argentine com-
munities, Dr. Goldenberg de-
nounced Egypt as a center of "wel-
In Five Days
planned aggression and psycholo-
gical warfare against Jews."
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Herzl Gesang, general secretary
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of the organization, said that it
Argentine Jews Warned to Prepare
Against Any Anti-Semitic Violence
SANTA FE, Argentina (JTA)-
Dr. Isaac Goldenberg, president of
the DAIA, representative body of
Argentine Jewr y, called for a
"state of preparedness" by the Ar-
gentine Jewish community against
anti-Jewish violence, which, he
Jewish National Fund
OKs $17-Million Budget
JERUSALEM (JTA) — T h e
Keren Kayemeth (Jewish National
Fund), set its 1964-65 budget at
more than 52,000,000 Israeli
pounds ($17,000,000), Ambassador
Yacov Tzur, board chairman of
Keren Kayemeth in Jerusalem,
noted.
Dr. Yacov Tzur ,board chairman
of the actions committee, said that
60 per cent of the new budget
would be earmarked for land de-
velopment and afforestation,
while 26 per cent would be allo-
cated toward debt repayments.
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