Autopsy Conflict Easing in Israel; Knesset to Receive Eshkol Proposals JERUSALEM (JTA)—The con- flict within Premier Levi Eshkol's coalition government over Ortho- dox opposition to autopsies in Is- raeli hospitals has eased by a promise from the premier that his government would submit soon to parliament proposals to meet Or- thodox objections. The premier announced those plans after a second round of talks late last week with representatives Of the National Religious Party, who included Interior Minister Moshe Sharpiro and Social Welfare Minister Joseph Burg. Previously the premier had met with leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Agudat Is- rael and Poalei Agudat Israel. The proposals will be in the form of amendments to Israel's Anatomy and Pathology Law which, in the Premier's words to the religious representatives, will combine "maximum consid- eration for the sensibilities of Orthodox families and the need for scientific progress." Autopsies without consulting fa m- The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at of Americans who had made writ- ten requests to the embassy for such exemption.) The consensus of observers here was that while public unrest con- tinued on the problem, Eshkol's government did not seem to be any real internal or parlia- autopsies that they would have facing mentary threat. Real difficulties in America." American law bars autopsies might develop, they added, if the without the consent of families ex- leftwing flank of the coalition react with hostility to con- cept in rare cases. The six Ameri- would cessions to the religious segment can Jews were accompanied by the leftwing groups would which about 30 yeshiva students, some of consider as too great. Yaacov Shapiro and Health Minis- whom carried protesting posters. Their spokesmen were Rabbi THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS ter Israel Barzilai. Jona Horowitz, former head of the At least two groups in Israel were Shmuel Yeshiva in Brooklyn, not satisfied by the proposals. One Beer and Rabbi Hersch Kohn, formerly was the Agudat Israel. Despite as- York City. A photocopy of surances given by ministers Yaa- of New a petition signed by 1,500 Ameri- cov Shipiro and Berzilai, whose cans and other foreign nationals ilies are permitted under that law when necessary to establish cause of death or for transplants to cure another person if three competent doctors have confirmed either need. Jewish religious law bars autopsies except to save the lives of others. Details of the amendments, which were scheduled to be pre- sented to the cabinet and the Knes- set in about a month, were not disclosed. The premier was aided, in his talks with the Orthodox party leaders, by Justice Minister citizens residing in Israel. The six American residents called on the United States Em- bassy in Tel Aviv where they asked for United States govern- ment intervention so that "Amer- ican citizens in Israel should re- ceive the same protection against night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at a Billiard table, or hears your voice at a Tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day. —Franklin. WRITERS N.Y. publisher wants books on alt sub- fiction, nonfiction. No fee for professional opinion. FREE: Brochures that show how your book can be pub- lished, publicized, sold; tips and article reprints on writing, publishing, MTh. tracts. Write Dept. 23-E. jects, I EXPOSITION 386 PARK AVE. S., N.V. Ni Friday, May 12, 1967-15 SCANDANAVIAN ADVENTURE ministries are directly involved in the autopsy situation. Agudat Is- rael leaders said they would con- tinue their public fight for a com- plete revision of the law. The other was a group of six Orthodox rab- bis and laymen, all United States resident in Israel on the issue was accepted by a consul who told the. delegation he would take the mat- ter up with U.S. Ambassador Wal- worth Barbour. (U.S. government legal experts said in Washington that the U.S. government could take no legal action aimed at protecting Ameri- can citizens living in Israel from present Israeli laws which allow NEW YORK (JTA)—Only about 150 Jews now remain in strife-torn Aden from which Britain decided to withdraw its troops autopsies in hospitals without the In the near future, it was reported in a communication to the World consent of the family of the de- Jewish Congress by Bentov Messa, president of the Aden Jewish ceased. (Some U.S. officials here sug- community. The community is worried about the fate of four syna- gested, however, that the U.S. gov- gogues still functioning in the city. Messa's communication, addressed to Samuel Bronfm an, chairman ernment could informally approach of the North American executive of the World Jewish Congress, was the Israeli government to ask for individual exceptions in the case presented Sunday to a meeting of the executive held here. Messa ' reported that the community had sent most of their scrolls of the Law to Israel but was faced with the problem of disposing of four' synagogues, one of which is large enough to accommodate 1,000 persons. Messa said the community had no alternative but to leave the synagogues as a monument to the community which had a 2.000-year history in Aden. The various other community facilities such as the two Hebrew schools, the rabbinical court and the Jewish hospital, have been 22 DELUXE DAYS • Copenhagen • Bergen • Amsterdam 2,000-Year History Near .End in Aden • Stockholm • Oslo • London JULY 10th - JULY 31st 1099 00 from Detroit Call for Further Information: BR 2-2400 BOOK COUZENS TRAVEL . dismantled. Riots in Aden in 1947 in connection with events in Palestine resulted in more than 6,000 Jews migrating. Some have made their homes in Israel, others in Britain. JDC to Be Assisted by Polish Govt. in Building of Jewish Aged Homes (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) GENEVA—The Joint Distribu- non Committee has arranged for new homes for the aged to be built in Crakow and Wroclaw to meet the needs of aging Jews in in the world and, as they grow older, must turn to the JDC for help, he said. 3t: Tunisia OKs Aid to Jews by JDC Poland, Charles 11. Jordan execu- tive vice chairman of the JDC. (Direct JTA Teletype Wire said here Wednesday. to The Jewish News) welfare work The projects were planned by for LONDON—Jewish the remaining 23.000 Jews in Jewish the JDC and the Central Relief Conunittee in Warsaw with the full cooperation and support of the Polish government. Jordan said, He conveyed the appreciation of the JDC for the fact that the who orders the Smooth Canadian, Seagram's V.O., Tunisia will continue with the formal approval of the Tunisian government, it was disclosed here Wednesday. An agreement has been signed by Ambassador Ismail Khelil, di- rector of international cooperation in the Tunisian Foreign Affairs Polish government has donated land for the buildings, had made labor and materials available at the lowest possible cost and was Ministry, and Herbert Katzki, dep- Joint providing equipment in addition uty director general of the agency to guaranteeing maintenance when the honies arc completed. Also participating are the Jew- I s h Colonization Association of Britain, which plans to cover the cost of one home, and the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation, which will pro- vide half of the cost of the second institution. Jordan, expressing gratitude for the cooperation of the two Jewish agencies, said "We could not have gone ahead without . the promise of their support." The two homes will ease an acute shortage of facilities for the Jewish aged in Poland, Jordan said, adding that the only home for the Jewish aged at present is Distribution Committee, the through which the Central British Fund and the OSE, an interna- tional Jewish welfare organiza- tion, channel their funds to Tu- nisia. Ten years ago, there were 60,000 Jews in Tunisia. With many of the young and healthy Tunisian JeWs having emigrated, many of those'remaining are old and ill, without resources or even enough to eat. year, nearly 1,000,000 Last pounds of supplies were provided to 8,000 such aged and ill Jews, more than one of every three of the remaining Jews. In Tunis, more than 400 families, with 1,000 members, rely on cash grants for essential food, as well as 100 in Sousse and 80 in Sfax. a 100-bed institution built by the JDC in Warsaw in 1962. Though a new annex with 50 more beds Israel Radio Forbidden is now under construction for oc- to Record Handel Work cupancy at the end of this year, JERUSALEM (JTA)—The board the Warsaw institution cannot cope directors of the Israel Radio with the hundreds of applications of system has forbidden the recording from elderly Jews from all parts of Handel's "Messiah" by the of Poland: government-owned radio's record- Jordan reported that of some ing department. The oratorio is 20,000 Jews now living in Poland, currently being performed in the it was estimated that 13,500 are Abu Ghosh music festival. The over age 50. Since so many Polish board's decision was reportedly Jews lost their entire families and taken because of the "Christian friends in the Nazi holocaust, hun- dreds of the survivors are alone spirit" of Handel's opus. CJAIADLAN WHISKY—k BLEND OF SELECTED INNISIUES. SU YEARS 01.0. 05.9 PRON.- SEAGRAM iS COMPANY, NY.C..