Edward C. Levy s' Gift Provides for All-Faiths Chapel at Sinai Hospital Detailed story of new con- struction plans on Page 5 Hillel Day School Starts $1,000,00 Building Campaign Stories about Shaarey Zedek, League for Labor Israel on Page 7 Ford Maddox Ford Plans for drive, Kasle statement on Page 6 JEWISH NE as Zionist Advocate . • . Other Book c) -r Reviews A Weekly Review Pages 2 and 4 La Interest in Art Shown Here and Nationally in Communit y Exhibitions NAICHtGA, Adult Education Programs * Balfour Anniversary N f Jewish Events Fair Political Campaign Practices Editorials Page 4 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. L, No. 10 October 28, 1966 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—Detroit 48235—VE 8-9364 Per Year; This Issue 20c El Fatah Commandos Halte UN Keeps Deferring Actio Nassel s' o, os to Peace, Critical Developments Multiply Threats LONDON (JTA)—President Nasser of Egypt said, during an interview on the popular British television program, "Panorama," Monday, that he would never consider peaceful co-existence with Israel. Asked whether he could fore: any circumstances in which such relations with Israel might occil,r, • he replied: "No, no!" Asked whether another war between Egypt and Israel might break out, he said "Nobody knows. It might happen tf...morrow." He implied that. if it did happen, Israel would be the Iggressor, as it was "10 years ago," a reference to the 1956 Sinai campaign. Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) JERUSALEM—Abba Eban, Israel's foreign minister, had a round of talks Tu ,,.- uay with ambassadors of five countries, including the United States . Britain and France, in a review of the UN Security Council's heainag on Israel's complaint that Syria is responsible for the current v: ,ave of El Fatah guerrilla incursions against Israel. The other envoys with whom he met, in the first of a series of such talks this week, were those of Belgium and Holland. The foreign minister also discussed with the five envoys Israel's need for closer ties with the European Economic Community. Israel's current limited pact expires next June and Israel has formally applied for either a wider agreement or for associate status. In related developments, Syrian authorities refused permission to United Nations observers to continue an investigation of a mine laying incident involving detonation of a mine last Sunday by an Israeli command car, and—according to reports from the Syrian press--Jordanian troops killed three El Fatah commandoes in the last few days. Well-informed Israeli sources meanwhile were quoted as believing that the continued Syrian-based and Syrian-backed sabotage actions presented both an immediate threat to Israel's security and the danger of stimulating similar by other Arab states and, for that reason alone, required speedy actions Israeli action to halt the incursions by all available means.. The Syrian .bar to the UN observer occurred after the observer, accompanied by an Israeli officer and trackers. followed footprints of marauders in the demilitarized zone from the scene of the planted mine toward the Syrian position at Tel Azzaziat.. The group halted its investiga- tion when darkness fell. Tuesday morning, when the officials sought to resume the tracking, they were notified of Syrian opposition to the investigation. It was assumed that when the Syrians learned that the footprints led to Tel Azzaziat they did not want the UN to obtain clear proof implicating the Syrians and hence barred continuation of the probe. The UN Truce Supervision Organization then called off the tracking cause of rains later Tuesday morning. Even if the Syrians reversed emselves and allowed the investigation to proceed, the effort would be useless because the rains probably washed out the traces. , reports on the clash between members of the Jordanian Legion and The the El Fatah commandos did not indicate where the incident (Continued on Page 15) Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News JERUSALEM — Reports from Syria Wednesday indicated that the Damascus regime has ordered commanders of the El Fatah commando organization to halt temporarily sabotage raids into Israel. The reports said that the Syrian regime also had ordered the El Fatah not to undertake any new initiatives without advance approval from the Syrian authorities. However, observers here said it was not yet known whether the shaky Damascus regime's orders would be accepted by the commando organization. The observers said that while the Syrians apparently were convinced that Israel would not engage in any reprisals while Israel's complaint against Syria on the El Fatah raids was before the United Nations Security Council, the Syrian regime had suddenly decided to curb El Fatah activities. * * * UNITED NATIONS—For the second day in succession, a scheduled session of to Security Council to continue consideration of Israel's current grievance against Syria, in connection with the recent spate of terrorist incursion into Israel under the encouragement of the Damascus government, was postponed Wednesday. The United Nations announced officially that the council will meet Thursday. The issue has been on the Security Council's agenda for more than two weeks. A meeting was to have been held Tuesday but was postponed because, as yet, there had been no resolution prepared to lay before the 15-member body. The issue could be resolved only by a resolution, even if it is one that might face a Soviet veto. Tuesday the delayed session was rescheduled for Wednesday when a draft resolution had been prepared by the United States and British delegations. That draft would have mentioned. Syria by name, would have adopted the Israeli thesis to the effect that Syria's government was responsible for the El Fatah raids into Israel, and would have called on Damas- cus to prevent such raids in the future. Eshkol Popularity Hits Wednesday's further delay, it was be- Low of 17 Per Cent lieved, was due to the fact that the U.S. and Britain could not line up sufficient (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) backing even for a relatively mild draft JERUSALEM—Results of a recent public opinion poll, disclosed Wednesday, show that that would have avoided outright con- Premier Levi Eshkol's popularity has slumped demnation of Syria. from an election eve peak in 1965 of 55.5 Paul Beaulieu, Canada's representa- per cent to a current low of 17 per cent. tive to the United Nations Special Politi- The poll, conducted by Israel's largest cal Committee, indicated in an address advertising agency, polled the views of the to that body Monday that recognition of same sample interviewed on election eve. Respondents were presented a second time Israel by the Arab states was essential with a list of names of nine Israeli political to a peaceful solution to the refugee personalities and asked to name their choice problem. for the premiership. Other names included In an obvious reference to the Arab former Premier David Ben-Gurion, Herut attitude towards Israel, Beaulieu said: leader Menahem Beigin, former Chief of Staff "The realization of peaceful conditions, Moshe Dayan, Foreign Minister Abba Eban and the achievement of progress to- and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir. Results on their standings were not disclosed. wards the resolution of the refugee The findings were shown to the premier. problem, would only come about if there He reportedly decided to stage more public was a general recognition of the right meetings sponsored by the alignment of his of all members of the United Nations Mapai Party with Ahdut Avoda. (Continued on Page 9) Israel's Message' Represented by Nobel Prize Winners Nelly Sachs "Agnon represents the State of Israel. I represent the tragedy of the Jewish people." Nelly Sachs summed up the message which she and Shmuel Yosef Agnon bring to the world, and for which they have been named the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature. Miss Sachs, who will be 75 Dec. 10, is a refugee from the Nazis, living in Stockholm. Agnon, 78, resides in Jerusalem. The two were chosen for the prize by the Swedish Academy as "two outstanding Jewish authors, each of whom represents Israel's mes- sage to our time." Miss Sachs, who fled Nazi Germany in 1940, writes her poetry in German. She was honored "for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength," but Miss Sachs prefers to think of her work as universal. Her early postwar poems were laments over the suffering of the Jews: now her work expresses sympathy for the suffering of all men, and there are tones of forgiveness. She paid a visit to Germany on her 70th birthday, and said that, even though most of her family had died in concentration camps, she could believe in the new generation of Germans. Her first writings as a teen-ager in prewar Berlin, attracted some attention, but most (Continued on Page 2) Shmuel Yosef Agnon