IsraelBudgetSoarsPast$1.5Billion,
Brings Tax Increases, Public Outcry

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel's
government presented to the Knes-
set (Parliament) Monday its 1966-
67 budget, calling for expendi-
tures totaling 4,633,000,000 Israeli
pounds ($1,544,333,000).
It is the highest budget ever
drawn up by an Israeli govern-
ment, exceeding the current budg-
et by more than 10 per cent. To
raise the monies to be needed to
cover the budget, the government
proposed increases of 20 per cent
in direct and indirect taxation.
Income taxes are to be raised
from 1 per cent to 2.5 per cent,
beginning with incomes of $200
monthly. Compulsory loans will be
extended for two years. Loans for
immigrant absorption will be cal-
culated in accordance with the in-
come tax, amounting to 18 per
cent of the tax. Each year's loan
is to be repayable in 12 yearly
payments.
Despite the high general budget,
the government has proposed a
cutback in the development budg-
et and reduced subsidies to agri-
culture and industry. The govern-
ment will also increase tariffs for
certain services which it provides.

Defense expenditures will rise,
the budget shows, by almost 10
per cent. The over-all budgetary
increase was caused, it was ex-
plained, by the rise in salaries
paid to government employes
and by the expansion of health
and education services provided
by the government.

With a drop in foreign resources,
Israel will have to provide for
more than half of its development
budget, which will be reduced by
15 per cent. Funds for develop-
ment projects will come mainly
from compulsory loans and
through transfers of money from
the general budget.
Israelis have been expecting for
a number of weeks that a "tough"

Georgetown U. Issues
Apology for 'Custom' of
Nazi Impersonations

NEW YORK (JTA) — An offi-
cial of Georgetown University ex-
pressed regrets Tuesday to New
York University officials about a
custom of the Washington school
of having students dressed as a
Nazi soldier and an Arab doing
impersonations at the school's bas-
ketball games.
But Father Anthony Zeits, direc-
tor of student personnel at George-

town University, insisted there had
been no anti-Semitic remarks made

during the NYU game

with

Georgetown on Feb. 5.
Father Zeits made his statement
in response to a protest from a
group of students, who sent their
complaint to Georgetown presi-
dent Rev. Gerard J. Campbell-and
to NYU president James Hester.

John Geis, NYU sports publi-
cist, described- the incident, as-
serting that during the first half
of the game, two youths came
out in front of the Georgetown
student body. The one dressed
as a - Nazi soldier held up his
arm in a Nazi salute and shout-
ed "Sieg Heil," the publicist
said, adding that the George-
town students replied "Sieg
Heil."

Father Zeits also said that "we

have a large Jewish population" at

Georgetown, and he added "I think
it was unfortunate that the thing
ever occurred." He said he was
sending letters of apology to all
persons writing to the school on
the incident;
He declared that the impersona-
tions had "been a bit of fun" at
most games during the past two
or three years and that when it
was done at the game with NYU
"none of us thought much of this
until we began to get the feeling

of NYU, particularly of their man-
ager, Herschel Fink." He added
that when "we realized they were
quite distressed, we became dis-
tressed."

budget was in preparation, and the
details revealed to the Knesset
Monday corifirmed all expecta-
tions. In addition to a rise in di-
rect taxes, Israelis will also have
to pay more for certain daily nec-
essities.

The sharp increase in direct
and indirect taxation has already
caused a wave of discourage-
ment among the general public
and particularly in financial cir-
cles which view the new devel-
opments as the start of an infla-
tionary trend.

Residents of Tel Aviv's poorer
districts held an "emergency"
meeting to protest against the tax
increases, particularly in munici-
pal taxes.
Steep price rises for most prod-
ucts followed the Knesset an-
nouncement, with cigarettes and
spirits increasing 20 per cent and
gasoline rising 30 to 40 per cent of
regular and premium grades and
diesel fuel 150 per cent. The lat-
ter item had previously been un-
taxed.
Taxes on automobile spare parts
increased from 35 to 80 per cent
and the taxes on imported trucks
rose by the same percentage. Tax-
es on services, which previously
applied only to auto driving
schools, will now be extended to
automobile rentals, clubs and serv-
ice guarantees on electrical appli-
ances. The cost of automobile reg-
istrations and transfer fees are

budget, but no major changes were
anticipated. The strongest opposi-
tion to the budget was being reg-
istered not by opposition party
members but by rank-and-file
members of Mapai's coalition part-
ners, who are challenging their
ministers' support for the budget.
The rank-and-file of Mapam and
the Independent Liberals have
asked for meetings of the execu-
tives of those parties to reconsider
the situation.

Meanwhile, the executive com-
mittee of Histadrut, Israel's fed-
eration of labor, voted unani-
mously here to call upon the
government to stop the wage
spiral and to take "urgent steps"
to halt inflation.

Allegiance to South Africa Defended
by Zionist Chairman in Weekly

JOHANNESBURG (JTA)-
"There is not the slightest in-
compatibility in being a good Jew
and a good Zionist at the same
time as being a good South Afri-
can: we shall continue to be both,"
Edel Horwitz, chairman of the
South African Zionist Federation,
said in reply to a letter signed
"Jodeboer" (Jewish Boer) which
questioned whether Zionists could
have full loyalty to South Africa
and which was prominently fea-
tured in a recent issue of the lead-
ing Afrikaans weekly, "Dagbreek."

Horwitz referred to the letter

No RSVP for Rockwell—
Collegians Cancel Talk

NEW YORK (JTA)—An invita-
tion to George Rockwell, leader
The unanimity, however, broke of the American Nazi Party, to
down along party lines when the speak at the Rockland Community
committee considered the causes College, at Spring Valley, N.Y., on
of the current inflationary trend Feb. 25, was rescinded last week-
and the steps to be taken to stem end by a vote of student leaders
of the college.
the trend toward inflation.
No reason for the students' ac-
A majority of the executive
adopted the wage proposals made tion was announced, but several
by the members representing the students at the meeting warned of
Mapai Party-Ahdut Avoda align- potential disorders as they report-
ment. These proposals call for ed on first-hand observations made
wage increases ranging from 5 per at Columbia University Feb. 9
cent to 10 per cent in 1966, and, when Rockwell did not speak after
additional 5 per cent hikes next having been arrested on an old
year for workers in industrial pro- disorderly conduct charge. Pro-
tests and threats had poured_ in to
duction and for service workers.

in the course of an address to
the Johannesburg Zionist Lunch-
eon Club, saying: "I don't think
this letter — so prominently
placed — merits much attention,
and it ought perhaps to be treat-
ed with the contempt it deserves.

But `Dagbreek' is a prominent
newspaper, and articles and letters
have appeared in that paper dur-
ing the past few months which
have given a completely false im-
age of the Zionist Movement;
which have been calculated to sow
dissension in the Jewish commun-
ity and to question the loyalty to
South Africa of Jews and Zionists.
"I should have thought the
statement issued some time ago by
the South African Jewish Board
of Deputies in reply to an article
written by the editor of 'Dag-
breek,' and the letter written by
Chief Rabbi Casper explaining
the Zionism — the attachment of
the Jewish people to the Holy
Land — is indeed an act of faith
and has been part of the Jewish
religion for thousands of years. I
should have thought they would
have been sufficient to lay the
ghost which is being set up that
Zionism is a sinister bogey. It is
impertinence for anyone to ques-
tion my loyalty to South Africa
or the loyalty of my colleagues."

the college authorities and the Hebrew Corner
student body in the last few days.
Ashdod Port Open; Rockwell was released in. New
York Feb. 10 on $100 bail and was
Eshkol Intervenes ordered by Criminal Court Judge
Hyman Skolniker to return for a
to be doubled.
The first settlers in Eretz Yi'srael
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israel's new hearing on March 10. He was de- established
new types of settlements.
Income tax increases ranged
port
of
Ashdod,
closed
since
Feb.
*Moshava—a rural settlement based on
fended
in
court
by
a
Jewish
attor-
from the equivalent of 13 cents on
private
ownership.
Some of the settle-
10 because of a labor dispute be-
ney, Martin Berger, who acted on ments grew and became towns (Petach-
monthly incomes of $200 to $8 on

monthly income of $500. Company
income taxes were raised from 28
to 30 per cent. Postal services and
all license fees will also be in-
creased.
Although the average personal
income tax will be increased by
only 2.5 per cent, the actual rise
will be much higher because the
minimum taxable incomes will be
lowered, while the pound's pur-
chasing power has fallen steeply
in recent months.

The higher income taxes plus
increased corporation taxes and
the compulsory loans will in-
crease the government's revenue
from these sources by 20 per
cent. Financial circles here said
that the government had to
choose between inflation and
semi-austerity," and chose the
latter course.

Addressing the Knesset, Finance
Minister Pinhas Sapir told the
parliament that the budget pre-
sented is one intended "to strength-
en the basis of achievements, in-
stead of increasing expansion."
He also took the Israeli workers
to task for what he called "low
morale," criticizing "frequent
strikes which threatened the coun-
try's economy in the last year."
Price increases forced by new
tax rates must not be used as an
excuse for raising prices in other
fields, Trade and Industry Minis-
ter Haim Zadok warned Tuesday
night in a radio speech.
A 7 per cent increase in
freight •charges, affecting all im-
ports and exports, was announced,
and even nightclubs and bars an-,
nounced they would raise their
prices because of the increase in
liquor taxes.

In a pre-dawn exercise de-
signed to prevent evasion of the
new tax rates, customs inspec-
tors descended on storehouses,
filling stations and retail shops
to register stocks of cigarettes, .
fuel and spare motor parts. The
action frustrated the last-minute
rush by importers on Monday to
clear goods through customs at
the nrior rates. In that action,
importers virtually cleared ware-
houses of stocks.

The finance committee of par-
liament continued its examination
Wednesday of the proposed record

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
40—Friday, February 18, 1966

Agriculture
in Israel

tween the facility's 300 stevedores
and the Israel Port Authority, re-
opened- Monday due to Premier
Levi Eshkol's personal interven-
tion.
An agreement between the au-
thority and the workers was for-
mulated here last weekend at a
top-level meeting of all concerned
parties convened by Histadrut, Is-
rael's federation of labor. The pact
also wiped out the threatened res-
ignations of Gen. Chaim Laskov,
director of the Port Authority, and
Enrico Levi, manager of the fa-
cility.
Under the agreement, most of
the major disputes at the port
have been solved. Work conditions
at the port of Haifa will prevail
at Ashdod. They will apply to the
stevedores at Ashdod only with re-
gard to wages and fringe benefits,
but not to the Haifa work norms.
The authority won its claim that
the work norms at Ashdod be de-
termined in accord with special
conditions prevailing at the highly
mechanized Ashdod facility.
The Port Authority held an
emergency meeting last weekend,
deciding to accept the Histadrut's
formula. It is understood that the
stevedores will also abide by the
Histadrut ruling concerning their
work conditions and that these
terms will be included in their
labor contract. The authority had
closed down the port of Ashdod
after the stevedores had imple-
mented a work slow-down, fol-
lowed by a strike.
The faculty of the Weizmann In-
stitute of Science expressed a will-
ingness to go along with a propo-
sal of the academic staffs of the
Haifa Institute of Technology and
the Hebrew University to forego
part of their retroactive wage in-
creases. However, professors at
Tel Aviv University decided not
to relinquish any part of their
retroactive pay.
In Haifa, workers heard a stern
warning from a top leader of the
Histadrut that continued pressure
for wage increases had opened the
"abyss of runaway prices" for all
Israelis.
Aharon Becker, Histadrut secre-
tary-general, voiced the warning
in an address on the Histadrut's
new wage policy to a plenary
meeting of the Haifa Labor Coun-
cil. He said the policy was part
of Israel's effort to dampen in-
flation.

Rechobot, etc.), but most re-
behalf of the American Civil Liber- Tikvah,
tained the characteristics of a village.
ties Union which takes the atti- (The first Jewish settlements in the
country were Moshavot.)
tude that Rockwell has a • constitu-
*Kibbutz, or Kevutza—a cooperative
settlement
where the production and
tional right to proclaim his anti-
consumption are shared among all. Each
Jewish views. Berger was sharply member takes part in the work of the
criticized by other Jews when he settlement and is remunerated for his
work with all his requirements—main- -
left the court.
tenance, housing, education, and medi-

Brazil Buys Art Works

RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) —
Paintings by three Jewish artists
in this country — Abraham Palat-
nik, Feige Ostrover and Rubens
Gershman — were included among
other works of art purchased by
the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. The ministry announced
these works, among others, will be
displayed in a number of Brazilian
embassies around the world.

O

cal services. Life is conducted on the
basis of sharing everything: Dining
Room, Infants' House, etc. (The first -
Kevutza, Degania, was founded in 1909.)
*Moshav Ovdim—an agricultural set-
Cement in which each member has his
own farm, but the entire settlement is
organized in one cooperative Society , and
represents one settlement unit extern-
ally. A new member is admitted to the
village and the society with the agree-
ment of all the other members.
*Moshav Shitufi—in this settleme-pt,
the Zarrnlands are jointly owned and all
the members • cultivate them, but each
family has its own house.
Translation and Hebrew column
Published by the Brit Ivrit Olamit
With the Assistance of the Memorial
Foundation for Jewish Culture.

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