Herodian Burial Vault Found on Mt. Scopus Campus JERUSALEM-.A well preserved burial cave dating back approximately 1,900 years was found accidentally a few weeks ago on the 'Hebrew University's Mount Scopus campus. Prof. Naham Avigad, Hebrew University archeologist studying the discovery, ascribes its importance to the fact that seldom has a grave been found in the Jerusalem area with such elaborate masonry and elaborate sarcophagi. Just before the six-day war broke out. policemen stationed on Mount Scopus were digging a pit when they came across what seemed to be an archaeological find. Prof. Avigad was summoned and came up by the (then) fortnightly armored convoy and, Israel Needs Chance to Solve Refugee, Other Problems In the tombs were a number of small assisted by archaeology students, began to unearth the site. Yair Goren, representa- stone ossuaries, decorated with rosette pat- tive of the university's maintenance depart. terns. These contained bones which had ment on the Mount Scopus campus, helped been collected in 'accordance with Jewish arrange for the actual digging which was burial rites from the time of the Second Temple. done by a number of policemen. While tension mounted on Israel's borders , One of the ossuaries bears the Hebrew .-words "Hanania, the son of Yonathan" en- and the police garrison on Mount Scopus prepared for battle, the excavation was graved in the soft stone. In addition. two man-sized sarcophagi nearly completed. Approximately 3-4 meters under the were found, one of them remarkable for its ground, a burial cave comprising one larger exceptionally rich ornamentation carved in chamber (2.4x3.0) and three smaller ones the hard stone. On the front side are vine was located. The walls of the rock-cut tendrils with clusters of grapes, while the chamber are faced with finely dressed lid is decorated with ivy leaves. Prof. Avigad considers the find to be a stones and roofed with carefully built bar- burial vault of a noble Jewish family from rel vaults. the time of King Herod the Great. approxi- mately the beginning of the 1st Century CE. This is the first archaeological discovery on the university's Mount Scopus campus area, the best known being the Nicanor Tomb which was discovered in 1902. One of the ossuaries discovered in that tomb bore a Greek inscription mentioning Nica- nor of Alexandria ,who had made (i.e. donated) a gate to Herod's Temple. The evaluation of this discovery was completed by the .Hebrew University department of archaeology in 1929. Prof. Avigad will shortly_publish a report on the recent discovery. THE JEWISH NEWS c=o Vatican Negotiations — r 1=20 t —r I\./I I C 1--I I GA IV A Weekly Review Editoriails Page 4 of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle VOLUME LI—No. 18 -417 r'.§.?KoamtP:;:ntl.wwws.:%:::.: , ::: '' - ::, :: -ii , ,-:: --.::-,-.-- — 27 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit 48235—VE 8-3964—July 21, 1967 :%,*::a!A3V; ,?:::.,,::*::::::M%::::*::Wi,iMM .::,':::W,9*:.',:,:, %':...•WW.,::WWW:zAW:, :VP:%:::7-.M.:0A''':'::::.::'. Variety of Factors Affecting Middle East Commentary Page 2 $6.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c : ..:.: United Jewish Charities Allocaies $500,000 Endowment Fund to Israel Emergency Fund A contribution of $500,000 from the endowment fund of the United Jewish Charities brought the total of the Israel Emergency Fund of the Allied Jewish Campaign to more than $6,000,000. Announcement of the half-million dollar gift was made jointly by Louis Tabashnik, president of the United Jewish Charities, Hyman Safran, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation, and Paul Zuckerman, chairman of the Israel Emerg- ency Fund. The UJC had previously acted to make a cash advance of $500,000 to the Emergency Fund early in June. By action of its board on July 13 the advance was converted to an outright gift. In announcing the gift Tabashnik commented: "The UJC has been building its endowment fund for the purpose of meeting urgent emergencies in Jewish life. The crisis in Israel is certainly such an emergency. We are pleased that the growth of undesignated funds in the UJC made this gift possible." Louis Tabashnik Max M. Fisher, national general chairman of 0., •• •{. • NY, • • • . .... •• • • the United Jewish Appeal. pointed out that Detroit's action is the third instance among the organized Jewish communities where a signi- ficant grant has been made from reserve funds to the Israel Emergency Fund. The other two cities are Cleveland and San Francisco. "The grant by a leading community like Detroit will serve as an example to other cities and organizations." he said. - Meanwhile contributors continue to respond to a mail appeal for broad community participation in the Israel Emergency Fund and spe- cial efforts are under way to continue the accelerated payment of pledges. Participants in the Israel Emergency Fund include non-Jews as well a a as Jews. Children have sponsored parties to raise small sums, and their interest is indicative of the spontaneous response to the appeal that has come from all quarters. William Avrunin, Federation executive director. reported that more than $6,500.000 had been forwarded to the UJA since May 18 in behalf of both the regular Allied Jewish Campaign and the Emergency Fund. He commended the special collection campaign under the chairmanship of Irwin I. Cohn. Pledges and payments are to be sent to Allied Jewish Campaign headquarters, 163 Madison, Detroit 48226. .................................................................................................................................................. 'One-Sided M. E. Arms Race' Is Seen as New Danger to Israel U.S. to Continue Arms to Sonic Arab States, Rusk Tells Senators WASHINGTON, July 16 (JTA)—Foreign Minister Abba S. Eban of Israel said he had no comment on the issue of possible United States supply of military equipment to Israel. He said his meeting here with Secretary of State Dean Rusk was a periodic and normal exchange of views and involved a "general discussion chiefly on the political aspects of the Situation on how to get peace." Following the meeting at the State Department. Eban. accompanied by Ambassador Avraham Harman, had a further meeting with Assistant Secretary of State Lucius Battle and other officials. Rusk had appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Friday in a session which dealt largely with Middle East developments. He defended the American policy of providing arms to some of the Arab states and predicted that it would be continued. Members of the committee, disturbed because American weapons had been used against Israel rather than against Communist or pro-Communist elements, asked Rusk if he believed arms sales to the Arabs had turned out to be "wise policy." The seeretary snapped: "Yes, I do." He said the administration wanted to avoid a "polarization" in the Middle East in which all Arab arms would be Russian and all Israeli arms would be American. Rusk predicted that the policy of providing arms to the Arabs would be continued. He held that a reason that American munitions supply to the Arabs should not be halted was that it helped prevent cohesion of the Arab states. He said the Arab states were not in complete accord on policies toward Israel and the rest of the world. Israel Ambassador to the U.S. Avraham Harman expressed deep concern Tuesday over the new arms race and the reports that armaments again would be provided to Arab countries. He warned against a "one-sided arms race" in a speech at the National Press Club and expressed the hope that the Johnson admin- istration would relax its freeze on shipments of arms to Israel. The U.S. Defense Department meanwhile admitted in Washington on Tuesday that hundreds of Arab military officers. including some from the states that attacked Israel last month are still receiving training at bases in the United States. Army sources disclosed that 47 Israeli soldiers are currently being trained at Fort Bliss. Fort Leavenworth. Lackland Air Base, the Quantico Marine Base and Cecil Field in Florida. A Defense Department spokesman said that 57 Jordanian Army officers and pilots are still receiving training at more than 15 bases and airfields around the country. The Jordanians are being trained in artillery, armor and the aerial techniques perfected by American flyers in Vietnam. Although Syria broke off diplomatic relations with the One-Fourth of Israel's United States and expelled War Dead Were Officers American diplomats from Da- LONDON (JTA)---Brig. Chaim Herzog, first mascus, a Syrian officer is military governor of the Israeli-occupied West still receiving advanced train- Bank of Jordan. declared here that 23 per cent of ing at Fort Lee, Va., the U.S. the Israelis killed in action in the June war had Army confirmed. While Iraq been officers. Speaking at a meeting sponsored has broken off relations with by the Anglo-Jewish Association, Brig. Herzog the United States and partici- cited the figure to support his statement that one pated in the war against Is of the principal reasons for Israel's overwhelming rael, six Iraqi Army officers victory was the quality of the leadership of its (Continued on Page 32) armed forces.