Did Lack of Vision Halt Integration? LA, Ramla Occurrences I ntolerable, Here and in Israel Commentary Page 2 VOLUME XLVI I—NO, 3 An Ignored Augury of 1923 Will HE JEWISH NEWS Qf= — r c: —r A Weekly Review Auschwitz Remain 'Forever a Warning'? I-1 I GA. NI I of Jewish Events Analyzed in Purely Commentary P e 2 on Pa Editorial Page 4 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Printed in a 100% Union Shop 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit 48235—VE 8-9364—Sept. 10, 1965 $6.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c Israel's rotective Acts Against El Fatah Worry 3 Arab Nations Dr. Herzog Withdraws From — • British Chief Rabbinate Post (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) LONDON — The office of the British Chief Rabbin- ate Council declared in a formal statement Tuesday that Dr. Yaacov Herzog had informed the council that for rea- sons of health he would be unable to assume the post of British Commonwealth Chief Rabbi. He was named to the post last May. The announcement, contained in a statement issued by Alfred H. Silverman, secretary of the council, said that the council declared "with deep regret" that "a com- munication has just been received from Dr. Yaacov Herzog, intimating that, owing to the serious deterioriation of his health, he is unable on medical advice to undertake the post of Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth of Nations to which he was appointed last May 31." There was no indication as to the nature of Dr. Her- zog's illness. He had resigned from the Israel foreign service to accept the appointment. JERUSALEM — Dr. Yaacov Herzog's surprise de- cision not to accept the post of Britain's Chief Rabbi was taken after medical tests in Switzerland confirmed a medi- cal diagnosis here that he needed prolonged treatments and recuperation from surgery, it was reported here Wednesday. Cc—aplications developed after an appendectomy and doctors here advised the former Israeli envoy to avoid the strain of public life. Dr. Herzog left last week for Switzerland to convalesce. There he received similar ad- vice, leading him to inform the Chief Rabbinate Council in London that he had decided not to accept the position. He was to have taken up those duties in November. Israel Helps Build $333,000 Moslem Grand Mosque of Peace in Nazareth (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) ACRE — The Israel government has built during the last few years 10 mosques in Arab villages and contri- buted 200,000 pounds ($66,000) for a million-pound ($333,- 000) Grand Mosque of Peace now under construction in Nazareth, Dr. Zorah Warhaftig, Israel's religious affairs minister, reported Wednesday. He revealed the information at an Israel-Moslem conference here at which he also said that the government was ready to provide full assistance to its Moslem citizens to enable them to make pilgrimages to Mecca. He warned, however, that there was little the government could do as long as the neighboring Arab governments re- fused entry to Israeli Moslems. (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) PARIS — The influential Le Monde reported Monday from Beirut that government officials of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria were worried over the implications of Israel's raid Saturday night against Jordan bases in reprisal for raids by the El Fatah terrorist organization against Israeli settlements. The daily newspaper said that the reprisal raid caused "great anxiety" in Amman, Beirut and Damascus over the apparent certainty that future Israeli responses "to Arab terrorist attacks will consist of direct military action against the territory of the state from which the attacks are launched." Le Monde reported that the security forces of Jordan and Lebanon were seriously worried also by the activities of El Fatah and planned repressive measures against it. Syria was reported to be the only Arab country which backs El Fatah, whose members consist mainly of Palestinian Arab refugees. The newspaper reported that the other Arab countries were doing their best to discourage El Fatah activities which might provoke a serious clash between them and Israel. French political circles were understood not to have been surprised by the Israeli reprisal raid. In recent weeks, the Israeli embassy here has maintained continuous contact with the French foreign ministry, keeping it informed of terrorist attacks on Israeli territory. French officials were understood to have presumed that Israel might launch an operation to discourage future raids on its territory. A tremendous explosion that rocked the entire border area occurred Sept. 1 at Kibbutz Eyal, northeast of Kfar Saba, about a half mile from the Jordanian border. The blast wrecked the settlement's water pump, but there were no casualties. It was the second case of sabotage in this kibbutz in the last six weeks. Both attacks at Kibbutz Eyal were almost certainly the work of terrorists belonging to El Fatah. After last night's explosion, footprints of one person were found leading from the scene of the blast to the Jordanian border. Israel filed a complaint with the Jordan-Israeli Mixed Armistice Commission, holding the government of Jordan responsible for the action. Prime Minister Eshkol Expresses Hope for End to El Fatah Raids JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Levi Eshkol expressed the hope Sunday that the Jordanian government would take all possible steps to prevent the continuation of the infiltration of saboteurs from her territory. The terrorists have been operating against Israeli water installations, culminating in the blowing up last week of a pumping station at Kibbutz Eyal, near Kfar Saba. The Premier voiced the warning at the weekly Cabinet meeting which also heard a report by Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin on the reprisal attack by Israel army units late Saturday night against 11 pumping stations and irrigation installations on the Jordanian side of the border, near Kalkilia. Eshkol explained that the Kalkilia action was aimed at impressing the Jordanian gov- ernment and populace of the extreme seriousness of Israel's attitude to the continuous infil- trations by the Arab terrorists. The Cabinet expressed appreciation of the efficiency of the Israeli military operation, and particularly paid tribute to the extreme caution exercised by the Israeli troops to ensure that no loss of life occurred. In announcing the raid earlier Sunday, the Israel Army spokesman said that all Israeli troops returned safely from the operation, explosions from which were clearly heard as far away as Petah Tikvah. Jordanian positions had opened machine gun fire on Kibbutz Eyal, but were silenced by return mortar fire. The 11 water pumping stations blasted in the Israeli raid were all situated in orange groves in the Kalkilia district. The Army spokesman said that the Israeli troops left printed leaflets, addressed to Jordanians living in the border area, urging them to refrain from help- ing saboteurs to cross into Israel. Noting that all the targets in Jordan were within about a half-mile of the border, the spokesman said that the entire operation lasted three quarters of an hour. He said the Israeli soldiers were ordered not to cause casualties to Jordanians, although Jordan claim- ed that one of its soldiers was slightly wounded and one civilian was fatally wounded. Templars Refunded for Israel Property (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) SYDNEY, Australia — Israel has undertaken to pay $14.400,000 in compensa- tion to the Templars, a German Christian sect which had migrated to Palestine in 1939 and was later resettled by the British in Australia, for property taken over by the Israel government, it was reported here Tuesday. The members of the sect, which today numbers about 1,500 persons, are descen- dants of a group that broke away from the Lutheran Church in Germany more than 100 years ago. After emigrating to Palestine, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, the Templars established flourishing farming communities. In 1941, they were sent by the British to Australia as German national internees. After the war, they were joined by other members of the sect who migrated from Germany and most of them became naturalized Australians. Each member of the sect will receive nearly $9,000 in compensation from the Israeli government. (Continued on Page 5) Strong, Amended Ecumenical Draft Will Be Adopted—Archbishop Hakim (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) TEL AVIV — Archbishop George Hakim, head of the Greek Catholic community in Israel, expressed the belief Tuesday that the draft declaration on Catholic-Jewish relations would receive final approval at the fourth and last session of the Ecumenical Council opening Tuesday. A strong document, explicitly denying any guilt for the Jewish people, past and present, in the death of Jesus, was provisionally approved by an overwhelming majority at the close of the third session. Archbishop Hakim, who will leave this week for the final session, said that the document would probably be amended somewhat but that the "essence of the satis- factory text adopted last year will be maintained." . (Publication of the Ecumenical Council draft points to a delay in enforcing Catholic-Jewish declaration until next year. Detailed story on Page 3.)