10—Friday, September 29, 1967
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Arabs Revive Blood Libel
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Arab anti-
Israel agitators revived the old •
ritual murder libel to frighten
Arab parents in the village of Ja- •
haliya. in the Gaza Strip, so that
they would not send their children
to school.
Symington Discusses
U.S. Arms Embargo
With Eshkol and Dayan
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Sen.
Stuart Symington. a leading mem-
ber of the Armed Services and
Foreign Affairs Committees. left
Sunday after conferring here with
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol. De-
fense Minister Moshe Dayan and
other government leaders on a
number of issues including the con-
tinuing American embargo on ship-
ment of arms to Israel. The Mis-
souri Democrat said the "efficiency
and high morale of the army and
government" hail impressed him
strongly and that "those who see
in Israel a real friend of the Unit-
ed States are encouraged by her
readiness to reach an understand-
ing...
Longshoreman Strike
Stalls Ships in Ashdod
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV — About 300 long-
shoremen went on strike at the
port of Ashdod Tuesday in pro-
test against the enrollment in
courses for foremen of a number
of men who do not belong to the
harbor's regular work force.
As a result of the walk-out, eight
ships are tied up in the harbor,
awaiting loading or unloading of
cargoes.
Melbourne Theaters
Cancel Soviet Films
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
MELBOURNE — The Academy ;
Theaters Firm, which operates
two motion picture houses here,
announced Tuesday a ban on all
Soviet films because of "anti-
Semitism in the Soviet Union and
its East European satellite allies."
The company also announced
cancellation of arrangements for
a Soviet film festival which was
to have been held at the Embassy
Theater here in November to co-
incide with the 50th anniversary
of the Russian Revolution.
Jack Dunphy. the company's
manager, said in a letter to the
Australian representatives of "So-
viet Export Films" that the film
festival would have served simply
3,700-Year-Ohl Prince, as
"a cover and smokescreen for
Charger Found in Israel the unspeakable injustice and
HAIFA—Archeologists have dis- defamation being perpretrated
covered the 3,700-year-old grave against Jews throughout the world
of an ancient warrior prince, by the Soviets and their auxili-
buried with his favorite horse aries."
on a hillside in the Mediterranean
shore.
Sapir Seeks Expanded
Haifa City Museum excavators Israel-Argentine Trade
uncovered the skeletons and
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
bronze weapons dating from the (JTA) — Israel Finance Minister
18th Century BCE. Experts also Pinhas Sapir conferred here with
are trying to decipher the hiero- Argentine government officials on
glyphics on a scarab.
trade relations between Israel and
They say the prince lived in Argentina. He met with Minister
the Middle Bronze Age and was of Trade and Commerce Angel A.
a Ilyksos, ancient rulers of the Sola. Agriculture Minister Rodolfo
ea ster n Mediterranean who Garcia Mata and Rodolfo Baltier-
brought the first horse to the rez, Argentine ambassador to Is-
Middle East from Asia Minor. rael, who is currently in Buenos
Aires. Discussions centered on the
Theodore Bikel has sold an exchange of Israeli citrus products
original song for Robert Radnitz' and industrial diamonds for Ar-
production of "My Side of the gentine beef, tea and comesible
Mountain," in which he portrays oils. Sapir then left for Rio de
the central character of a folk song Janeiro to attend the annual as-
collector, now before the cameras semblies of the International Mone-
tary Fund and the World Bank.
in Knowlton, Canada.
On Sept. 20, when the children
were in the c las sroo m, their
parents came and hurriedly took
them away. They told the teachers
they had been told the Jews wanted
to take the children's blood. The
teachers later made a house-to-
house tour of the village to per-
suade the parents of the falsity of
the report. Most of the children
were back at school the next day.
The village of Jabaliya was cur-
fewed a week ago and four houses
were demolished after saboteurs
who had mined Israeli vehicles
were traced to the village.
Israelis Seek Jews to Offset Arab Influx
is for an immediate and substan-
tial immigration from the Amer-
icas.
"'Give us 250,000 to 500,000
young Jews from the United
States,' we were told, 'and we
could integrate all the Arabs in
the occupied areas, for such an
aliya (immigration) would assure
the next 10 years, it was reported the Jewish character of our coun-
by Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld of try and preserve a Jewish majority
Cleveland. president of the Atheri- for the foreseeable future as the
can Jewish Congress.
state's existence is made secure.'"
NEW YORK — Israeli officials,
worried that the large Arab popu-
lations now under their control
may dilute the Jewish character
of the state, are hoping to encour-
age immigration of up to 500,000
young Jews from the United States
and other Western countries over
In an eight-page "Report From
Israel" summarizing his observa-
tions as leader of an American
Jewish Congress delegation to Is-
rael following the lifting of the
travel ban to the war zone, Rabbi
Lelyveld declared:
"The most pointed and intense
appeal of Israelis to Western _Jews
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