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to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM — Premier Levi
Eshkol declared here Wednesday
night that the Middle East was
nearing "a turning point" in its
history, marked by a more realistic
z ■ rab policy toward Israel.
Speaking at a dinner in honor
of the 11th United Jewish Ap-
peal study mission, at which
Detroiter Max Fisher presided,
the premier cited the proposal
by Tunisian President Habib
Bourguiba last spring, calling for
Arab recognition of Israel's exis-
tence and urging an Arab effort
to join in a search for a peace-
ful solution to the Arab-Israel
dispute.
• The premier said that while
some elements of Bourguiba's pro-
posal were unacceptable, Israel
welcomed the appeal for recogni-
•tion and for an effort at a peace-
ful solution. The premier said he
agreed with Bourguiba's statement
.that he was not the only Arab
leader who believed in that ap-
proach,
The premier told the UJA lead-
ers that this did not mean that
Israel could relax its vigilance. On
the contrary, he stated, Israel must
enhance the strength, which he
called the pre-condition for the
new Arab realism.
He said Israel had noted that
Egyptian President Nasser's bid
for Arab dominance was stagnat-
ing and even regressing. He said
that Nasser's fight over West Ger-
many's diplomatic recognition of
Israel had proved that Nasser "can
bluster and threaten but not de-
liver" in his bid to line up a united
Arab front of reprisals against
West Germany.
The premier declared there
"we passed a turning point also in
the history of absorption of immi-
grants. I am happy to announce
tonight that, once and for all, we
are closing a chapter in that his-
tory called transit camps." He
qualified this statement by noting,
that 'thousands of immigrant fami-
lies were still living in slum-like
conditions.
He said that until recently
Israel's major effort was geared to
absorption of newcomers but that
now Israel must concentrate on
raising the country's educational
level, particularly for new immi-
grants. Commenting that "we live
in the era of a new technology,"
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he said "we must ride this crest
or fall into its backwash."
He called the Israel Education
Fund of the UJA, created to build
and staff secondary schools, second
only to the central aim of the in-
gathering of the exiles.
The premier listed three spheres
of joint responsibility of Israel
and world Jewry: saving Jews,
strengthening Israel and strength-
ening Jewish life in other coun-
tries.
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New York's Mutual Savings Banks
Charged With Bias by AJCommittee
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Amer-
ican Jewish Committee charged
that Jews have been systematically
excluded f r o m top-management
and policy-making positions in the
50 mutual savings banks in New
York City.
A survey of more than 400 ex-
ecutives and staff officers and of
750 trustees of these banks was
made public by Theodore Ellen-
off, AJCommittee 1 e a d e r, at a
press conference held here.
The report revealed that less
than 3 per cent of those surveyed
were identified as Jewish although
Jews make up one-quarter of New
York City's population and are ob-
viously prominent in the city's
life. This figure of less than 3
per cent was broken down in the
following manner: less than 2.5
per cent of the more than 400 offi-
cers were identified as Jewish
while the parallel figure for the
750 trustees was less than 3.5
per cent.
Committee researchers learned
further than no Jewish executive
officers were found in 82 per cent
of the banks while no Jewish trus-
tees were found in 60 per cent of
the banks. "The evidence suggests,"
the report asserted, "that insensi-
tivity and indifference, if not de-
liberate exclusion, have hardened
over the years into de facto dis-
crimination."
Exclusion of Jews from jobs
as officers in mutual savings
banks," Ellenoff Pointed out,
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comparatively high educational
qualifications for executive posi-
tions. In New York City, Jews
constitute aPproximately 50 per
cent of the total college gradu-
ates."
Ellenoff related the report to
nationwide studies made over a
period of years by the American
Jewish Committee on the subject
of religious discrimination in the
executive suite of American busi-
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color, or national origin."
Dr. Austin S. Murphy, managing
director of the Savings Banks As-
sociation of New York State, de-
nied the charge, asserting that
there was no basis "for an accusa-
tion that savings banks have poli-
cies of discrimination on the basis
of racial or religious background."
He said savings banks have Jew-
ish trustees and employes at all
levels, including officers. Admit-
ting he did not know how many
Jewish employes there were, he
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ance with law do not hire or keep
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was growing bitterness in Egypt
against the Nasser regime and
that thousands of Egyptians were
imprisoned and in concentration
camps for their opposition to the
Nasser "dictatorship."
Discussing Israel's ties with the
West, the premier singled out par-
ticularly the United States and
President Johnson's friendship. He
also reaffirmed Israeli-French ties,
declaring that the formal visit
earlier this month by Egyptian
Vice President Amer to Paris was
not at Israel's expense.
Reporting that Israel was rapidly
nearing the 3,000,000 point in
population, the premier said that
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