Weizmann Institute Invites Arab Scholars
to Use Its Facilities to Aid Their Countries

NEW YORK (JTA) — The Weiz-
mann Institute of Science at Re-
hovot extended an invitation Mon-
day night to all qualified scientists
and research graduates "of all reli-
gions and races, including our
neighbors in Cairo, Beirut and
Amman and elsewhere in the Arab
world" to use the institute's facil-
ities "for human advancement and
as a spur to the development of
their home countries."
The invitation was tendered here
at a dinner given by the American
Committee for the Weizmann In-
stitute of Science to celebrate the
Institute's 23rd anniversary, the
50th anniversary of the Balfour
Declaration and the 20th anniver-
sary of the United Nations parti-
tion resolution sanctioning the crea-
tion of the State of Israel. It was
made, with formal authorization
of the institute, by Dr. Aharon

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Katchalsky-Katzir, head of the in-
stitute's polymer research depart-
ment, who will be the first incum-
bent of the newly established Abba
Eban Chair for International Scien-
tific. Cooperation.
Establishment of the chair, the
gift of Harry Levine, treasurer of
the American committee, and his
family, was announced at the din-
ier by Levine. He said it would
bring to Israel, on a rotating basis,
"the greatest names in science to
help shape the course of science
as a catalyst for peace and de-
velopment in Israel, among its
neighbors and throughout the
world."
Dr. Dewey D. Stone, chairman
of the institute's board of gov-
ernors, was chairman of the
function at which contributions
of $4,000,000 were announced.
Dr. Stone noted the appropriate-

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Boris Smolar's

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(Copyright 1967, JTA Inc.)

JERUSALEM IMPRESSIONS: I am no stranger to the narrow Arab
streets in the Old City of Jerusalem . I used to stroll in these streets
years ago, when Jerusalem was under the British administration .. .
The streets are so narrow that man and donkey rub sides there and
often have to make way for each other . . . Goldsmiths and silversmiths
are working on the doorsteps of their small open-air shops, as do
cobblers, tailors and other artisans . . . Arab store owners are sitting
at the entrances to their small stores built into the stony walls that
separate one street from the other . . . In his labyrinth of dusty and
small streets—where one often loses his way—you can buy silk goods,
oriental rugs, flour, vegetables and what not.... In between the open-air
stores there are the open-air "cafe houses" where you can see Arabs
sitting leisurely for hours, chatting over a cup of Turkish coffee or
smoking their nargilla pipes.
WAILING WALL SCENE: Today, when the Old City is again reunited
by Israel with Jerusalem, one finds the narrow streets there exactly
as they were centuries ago . . . The only exception is the area in front
of the Wailing Wall ... In that area some of the narrow streets were
torn down by Israel soon after the victorious Six-Day War and the
place was converted into a huge square for crowds who come to see
the Wailing Wall . . . Thousans and thousands of Israelis and Jewish
tourists from abroad can now be seen daily—at any time of the day—
at this square . . . They come to the Wailing Wall some on foot but
most of them in huge autobuses which cannot, of course, enter through
the narrow streets . . . The autobuses bring their groups of visitors
by a route which approaches the Wailing Wall Square through a hilly
dirt road . . . The visitors then leave the vehicles at a walking distance
from the square and walk from there to the Wailing Wall ... Milling on
the square among the huge crowds of Jewish visitors are Arab children
peddling postcards, shoelaces, combs, and pestering the tourists to buy
their ware . . . They are left alone by the police and feel free to run
around and to mix with the tourists. Most of the visitors have never
before been at the Wailing Wall; this includes Israelis . . . Many of
these Israelis were small children when the Old City fell into the hands
of Jordan in 1948 . . . They now come from Tel Aviv, Haifa and from
the kibutzim, as matured men to see is holy- and historic place . . .
Women are not allowed to stand at the Wailing Wall side by side with
men, and a special place is reserved for them—like a "women's section"
at an Orthodox synagogue—fenced off from the men . . . They stand
there with their heads covered watching their husbands praying at the
Wailing Wall—men in traditional long black "capotes" with curled long
earlocks, as well as men in open shirts and short sleeves . . . A table
with prayer books and prayer shawls has been placed at the Wailing
Wall for those who wish to use them during the praying.
THE HAR HABAIS: Many Jews are under the mistaken impression
that the Wailing Wall is one of the walls that remained from the
destroyed Temple . . . This is not the case . . . The Wall is only a
remnant of one of the walls that surrounded the Temple . . . Of the
Temple itself nothing was left, except the ground where it stood . . .
These grounds are on a mountain known as "liar Habais" (The Mountain
if the Temple) and to reach them one has to climb stone stairs from
the Wailing Wall ... Orthodox Jews stand at the stairs, which start from
the Wailing Wall, and warn you not to climb them . . . "It is forbidden
to ascend," they tell you . . .They are being brushed aside by people
who know better and by Israelis who guide tourists'. . . There is no
regulation forbidding to go up to the mountain where the Temple stood,
but religous Jews believe that no Jew should stand on the soil of this
holy place before the Messiah comes ... And zealots try to impose -this
religious prohibition on any Jew seeking his way to the mountain... .
The grounds of the Har Habais in the mountain are kept immaculately
clean, and the large square where the Temple stood is surrounded by
Moslem prayer houses, including the Mosque of Omar with its Golden
dome which is considered the third holiest place in the Moslem world
after Mecca and Medina . . . For centuries Jews were not permitted
to see the actual place where the Temple stood . . . Today they not
only visit this place but they also stand in line in front of the Mosque
of Omar to get inside this shrine where you must, even now, take off
your shoes before you enter . . . Inside the Mosque—Also known as the
Dome of the Rock—you step on heavy carpets and you see the rock
where Abraham, in obedience to God's command, was about to sacrifice
his son, Isaac . . . The Moslems consider themselves children of
Abraham, but they claim that he prepared to sacrifice at this rock
not his son Isaac but his son Ismael who was born to him by Hagar,
his servant . . . The Moslems claim they originate from Israel, hence
the rock is for them a holy monument to their forefather . . . They also
claim that the sacred rock was the site of Mohammed's ascent to
heaven . . . But no ostacles are now being made to Jews to enter this
imposing building.

ness of the triple celebration,
pointing out that "the architect
of the Balfour Declaration and
the Father of the State of Israel
are one and the same man—
the founder-president of the

Paris Le Monde Discloses Tit6-Goldinann Talk

PARIS (JTA)—Dr. Nahum Gold-
mann, president of the World
Jewish Congress, was received by
Marshal Tito, president of Yugo-
slavia, on Sept. 27, the newspaper
Le Monde disclosed.
Dr. Goldmann was accompanied
by Armand Kaplan, general secre-
tary of the French section of the
WJCongress. The newspaper said
that the conversation ranged over
a number of problems, including
the Tito plan for a Middle East
solution, the East European Jewish
communities and the situation of
the Jews in the Moslem countries.
(Reached in New York, Dr. Gold-

mann eonfirmed to the JTA that
he had' .met 'with Marshal Tito hi)t
he deelined to reveal the substance
of their talks.)

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Six American donors it was an-
nounced, contributed a total of
$3,500,000. These included $1,000,-
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