THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 12 — Friday, August 19, 1966 Young GOP Rules No More Rat Finks CHICAGO (JTA) — The execu- tive committee of the national . Young Republican Federation voted here to cleanse itself of the Hebrew Corner • Abraham Shapira Abraham Shapira, the elder Jewish watchman in Eretz Israel, died at the age of 95 at his home in Petach Tikvah. With his death, the hero of one of the most beautiful stories of our generation passed away. When Petach Tikvah was founded in 1880, Abraham Shapira was ten years old. His father had immigrated from the Ukraine at the time, and went to found the first Jewish settlement. Malaria fever raged in the settlement. Tens of people died from the fever. But the young Abraham grew up and became a sturdy youth. The strong young man became a watchman in the young settlement. The Arabs of the surrounding villages who tried to steal from the settlers learned to know his strong arm. Even the Bedouins of the Gaza strip and the Flattrani of the Syrian mountains were "honored" by visits from Abraham Shapira. He would go there in search of a stolen horse. As long ago as Turkish times, the man Abraham Shapira became a legend, a living legend in the Middle East where his name was mentioned with respect and fear. In 1917 the British conquered the country. Abraham Shapira was then one of the well-known leaders of the Jewish community in the country. In 1911' there were disturbances in the country. Abraham Shapira, who was then in his fifties, was head of the Watehmen of the Jewish settlements. He. organized the defence of the Petach Tikvah settlement and succeeded in reimilSing the Arabs who had come to destroy the settlement. During the War of Liberation. Abra- ham Shapira was approaching the age or. 80. Officers of TZAHAL. (Jewish Defence Force) used to come to his luirne for good advice. In the groups of' •TZAHAL. the man of _ 80 used to,. appear, galloping on a white horse. Abraham Shapira died in Petach Tik- vg/h, in the house where he had lived for, 85 years. The old song, "Old soldiers never die, they only fade aWafc" surely applied to him. (Published by the Brit Ivrit Olamit, with the assistance of the Memorial FoUticlation for Jewish Culture). ; Material in vowelized, easy Hebrew, can be obtained by writing direct Brit Twit Olamit, P. 0. Box 7111, Jerusalem, Israel. Rat Finks, a faction of the New Jersey Young Republicans. The Rat Finks had been accused of being anti-Semitic and anti-Negro. In a resolution adopted by the committee, it was decided that seven county units in the New Jer- sey organization, allegedly control- led by the Rat Finks, must disso- ciate themselves from the Rat Finks, the John Birch Society, the Exterminators and all other fac- tional groups. The Exterminators is a faction formed in the New Jersey group last year for the purpose of rid- ding the organization of Rat Finks. The executive committee also ab- solved Richard F. Plechner, leader of the Rat Finks, of charges of racism and bigotry. But, as part of a compromise, Plechner resigned his vice chairmanship of the Na- tional Young Republicans. The controversy over the Rat Finks arose last year when the group inside the New Jersey Young Republican organization issued a song book containing lyrics which were anti-semitic and anti-Negro. Members of the group had sung these lyrics set to well-known melodies, at conventions of the New Jersey Young Republicans. Milton Escrow's Expose: 'The Art Stealers' One of the most fantastic stories of the last war is the manner in which Nazis — Josef Goering was a chief culprit among them—stole art treasures. Stealing of art works has a long history and in "The Art Stealers," published by Mac- millan, Milton Eserow, assistant to the cultural news editor of the New York Times, offers a fas- at Kibbutz Feared Lost Over Syrian Border 2 Foreign Students TEL AVIV (JTA) — Two young foreign students who have been working this summer at Kibbutz Shamir, near the Syrian border, disappeared last Friday and are feared to have wandered inadver- tently across the frontier into Syria, Israel reported to the Syrian - Israeli Mixed Armistice Commission. The students are Jeanette Archer, 19, of England; and Gil Hirschner, 21, of France. Mem- bers of their kibbutz last saw them on the edge of the Syrian frontier last Friday. When they failed to return by nightfall, a search was started, but brought no results. Israel 2,000 Zealots March in Protest to Autopsies JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two thousand religious zealots demon- strated Monday night in the center of Jerusalem against autopsies. 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How introduced to the great art col- easy it is to steal a white ele- phant but how hard it is to get Staying rid of it." And the text of "The Art Steal- ers" proves the practicality of such asked the United Nations Mixed a warning to thieves of art or Armistice Commission to try to other objects. Milton • Eserow's is an excellent see whether the two young people work well worth reading for the can be traced in Syria. A Syrian was placed under information it offers, the stories arrest by Israeli police after he it relates, its humor and its les- crossed the border and asked sons. members of Almagor settlement for asylum. The settlers brought House Parent Wanted the Syrian, Mohamed Garida, to Part time relief house parent, one police, who detained him on or 2 days a week for Agency's charges of illegal entry. He told David children's homes. 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