Zeev Jabotinsky Comes 'Home'
as Thousands of Israelis Watch
Hero Brought to His Final Rest
TEL AVIV—Vladimir Jabotinsky "has come home at last
to his mother country," Menahem Beigin, leader of the Herut
party, declared Tuesday night as head of a group of 300 per-
sons which received the coffins of the late Revisionist founder
and of his wife at Lydda Airport.
The remains were brought
to Israel by an El Al plane on sky's memory. Leaders of the
a special flight from New American Zionist movement, dele-
York via Paris. When the cas- gates from all major Jewish organi-
zations as well as representatives
kets were brought down from from
the Israel government and
the plane, all 300 recited the Jewish communities abroad parti-
prayer for the dead. The Kad- cipated in this ceremony, and later
dish was recited by a group attended the special memorial
service at the Young Israel Syna-
of cantors.
Men who led Jewish underground gogue.
Following the memorial service,
movements during the British Man-
date then placed Jabotinsky's the funeral procession departed for
Kennedy Airport from where the
remains were taken by El Al-Israel
to Israel.
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The hangar at Orly Airport in
Paris in which the coffin of Vladi-
mir Jabotinsky was placed briefly,
sword — which had been kept in was decorated with hundreds of
the Jabotinsky Museum — on the Israeli and French flags. Eshkol,
coffin.
visiting Paris was among the many
Rahel Ohevet Ami, the first Israeli and French Jewish person-
woman to be sentenced to life im- alities participating in the special
prisonment in the underground memorial service at the airport.
fight against the manatory regime, French generals. deputies and mini-
placed a wreath of flowers on the sters also attended.
coffin of Jabotinsky's wife.
The coffins then were placed on
a black wrapped car and the pro- Moroccan Law Takes
cession then began its trip to Tel Complete Autonomy
Aviv. Participating were the presi-
dent's military aide de camp. the From Rabbis' Courts
CASABLANCA (JTA) — Mo-
commander of central sector,
colonels of the air force and the rocco's parliament adopted by a
navy, who also represented the large majority a new law which
army veterans of the Jewish Le- provides for "uniformity of Mo-
gion, Herut, the Revisionists, Rus- roccan justice." The new legisla-
sian Jewry and representatives of tion will affect particularly the
the Maccabi.
rabbinical tribunals in this coun-
Thousands of persons lined try which have had complete au-
both sides of the route of the tonomy,
Until now, the rabbinates, gen
procession to pay homage to the
erally located in the Jewish
Revisionist founder. At Ramat
quarters of Moroccan cities,
Gan, the coffins were placed
have administered justice in the
briefly near the monument of
name of the King of Morocco.
Dov Gruner, a member of the
Completely independent, t h e
underground Irgun Zvi Leumi,
rabbinical courts have been
who was hanged by the British.
Parents of members of the Irgun recognized as competent to deal
with all matters affecting the
and the Stern group, another un-
derground who were executed by personal status of Moroccan
the British, placed flowers on the Jews.
Under the new law, the rabbini-
coffins. The convoy then continued
to Tel Aviv with all roads cleared. cal judges will be subordinate to
Thousands of onlookers crowded regional tribunals and to t h e
the sidewalks as the coffins passed pashas conducting those tribunals.
The rabbinical tribunals will be
by.
The coffins were placed in state transferred to the Moslem tri-
on the seashore where the people bunals.
Nonetheless, it was pointed out
passed by in long lines.
About 2.000 policemen were as- here, the rabbinical courts will
signed for the three-day ceremo- still be able to continue function-
nies.
ing in accordance with Jewish law
In New York huge crowds had on matters of personal status
participated in the funeral pro- among Jews.
cession of the coffins prior to be-
ing placed on the plane for Israel.
The remains were exhumed from Harry Blitz Elected
their gravels in Farmingdale, L.I.
at NW Yount). Israel
Ambassador Katriel Katz, Israel's
Harry L. Blitz, former president
consul-general in New York, repre- of the Young Israel Council of Met-
sented President Shazar, and read, ropolitan Detroit, was elected presi-
the Israel government's order for dent of Young Israel of Northwest
the reinterment at the service. Detroit at its recent election meet-
Leaders of the Herut party, who ing. A charter member of the
same to the funeral services from movement, Blitz
Israel, were also present.
also w a s prin-
Many Jewish dignitaries and cipally responsi-
representatives of Latin Amer- ble for the begin-
ican Jewish communities partici-
nings of the Wy-
pated in the service, which cul- oming Ave.
minated in the reciting of the
kaddish by Prof. Eri Jabotinsky, branch.
Elected with
the son of the late Zionist-Revi-
sionist leader. A rendition of the Blitz were Sam
"Kol Berama Nishma" (Jeremiah S. Novetsky, vice-
31:15-) by 40 New York cantors, president; H y -
man M. Beale,
highlighted the service.
Israel Premier Eshkol was laud- treasurer; Theo- Blitz
ed at a press conference by Dr. dore Weiss, Norman B. Sukenic
Jabotinsky, who said that Eshkol's and Abe Korchak, secretaries.
Members of the board are Dr.
decision to reinter Jabotinsky was
taken despite the fact that the Isra- Oscar Bigman, Nathan Butrimovitz,
eli premier and the Herut leader Milton Duchan, Albert Friedman,
were bitter adversaries in the past. Ernest E. Greenfield, Rudolph Kar,
When asked if he was satisfied Itharnar Koenigsberg, Emanuel
with the arrangements made by Mittelman, Dr. Harry Portnoy, Abe
the Israel government for the re- Rosenshine, Arthur Selman, Mar-
burial, he replied: "The arrange- vin Siligson, Sam Shoenig, Sam
ments satisfy the requirements of Sukenic, Ben Tushman, Sol Wain-
my father's will."
er, Harry Weiss and David Zwick.
Times Square was renamed "Ja-
botinsky Square" for the day in THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 10, 1964
7
tribute paid by the city to Jabotin-
Dean Rusk Presses Congress to Ease Immigration Laws
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sec-
retary of State Dean Rusk told the
House Immigration subcommittee
that the archaic and racist immi-
gration laws were, in effect, offi-
cial U.S. discrimination against
more than half the world's popula-
tion.
Rusk urged Congress to liberal-
ize the laws, stating that they
were "Indefensible from a foreign
policy point of view." He called
for enactment of the administra-
tion's bill to eliminate the national
origins quota system. The bill would
end the ethnic bias now prac-
ticed, but would not permit any
great increase in the over-all num-
ber of immigrants.
Rep. Michael Feighan, Ohio
Democrat and chairman of the
subcommittee, condemned Pres-
ident Johnson's request for lib-
eralized immigration statutes,
charging that the bill would
amount to "usurpation" of con-
gressional authority by the
executive branch. Jewish organi-
zations are on record as demand-
ing the liberalization of the
existing immigration laws.
Sec. Rusk said that "we in the
United States have learned to
judge our fellow Americans on
the basis of their ability, industry,
intelligence, integrity and all the
other factors which truly deter-
mine a man's value to society. We
do not reflect this judgment of
our fellow citizens when we hold enter this country come in under
to immigration laws which classify special patch-up laws which the
men according to national and geo- Congress has passed."
graphic origins."
The quota system, established in
the 1920s and perpetuated by the
McCarran-Walter Immigration Act,
assigns the largest quotas to coun-
tries in Northern and Western
Europe. The administration bill
would eliminate this system grad-
ually, by reducing all established
quotas by 20 per cent annually for
Dan Koblin, well - known
five years. Reductions would go
grandfather was quoted "For
into a worldwide "pool" from
the ultimate in great adver-
which all immigration would be
tising call Murry Koblin."
allocated by the fifth year.
UN 1-5600 18039 Wyom-
ing.
Rep. John Dingell, Michigan
Democrat, denounced the quota
system. He said "it is so unrealistic
that two thirds of persons who do
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