1 8—Friday, December 29, 1967
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Menora Kindled at the Western Wall
First Time Since Bar Kokhba; Find
Slab Felt to Be Part of South Wall
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM — Hanuka lights
were kindled at the Western Wall
Tuesday night, site of the temple
Rabin Salutes Navy
in Farewell, Refers to
Streamlining of 'Tools'
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
HAIFA — Maj. Gen. Yitzhak
Rabin, retiring chief of staff of
Israel's armed forces, told the
officers and crewmen of two Is-
raeli naval units here Tuesday
that they now "have new tools
which you did not have hitherto"
and that their ability to use those
tools "will make the navy an im-
portant factor if another war
breaks out."
Gen. Rabin made his remarks
during a farewell visit to the sub-
marine Leviyatan, recently ac-
quired from Britain, and the de-
stroyer Yaffo. He will be succeed-
ed as chief of staff on Jan. 1 by
Gen. Chaim Bar Lev.
Referring to his retirement, Gen.
Rabin told the navy men: "Genera-
tions come and go, and every gen-
eration has its task to perform.
No war is like any other war in
form and character. What was, is
a matter for historians. The pres-
ent must be devoted to prepare the
forces that will be able to act when
they are called upon."
Israel's small navy received a
severe blow when one of its two
destroyers, the Elath, was sunk
with heavy loss of life by Egyp-
tian missile craft off the Sinai
Peninsula in October. The radar-
guided missiles were of Russian
manufacture. Since then it was
reported that measures were being
taken to strengthen and modernize
the navy which hitherto has been
the smallest branch of Israel's
armed services.
Berlin Asked to Give
Villa for Nazi Studies
or Swiss Will Be Favored
NEW YORK (JTA) -- A leading
Jewish archivist and historian of
the Nazi era announced here that
the West Berlin municipal govern-
ment has been advised that, unless
it makes the notorious Wannsee
Villa in Berlin available as a docu-
mentation center on the Nazi cam-
paign to exterminate the Jews, the
center will move to Switzerland.
Thus, said Joseph Wulf, head of
the center, Germany will be de-
prived of a vital institution for
research and information that
would attract scholars and histor
ians from all over the world.
Form Group to Export Bonn May Be Eyeing Ways to Ban NPD
BONN (JTA)—Two members of declaring that the only way to deal
Engineering Services
West German government dis- with the party was through politi-
of Israeli Technicians the
agreed Monday on how to cope
TEL AVIV—A national program
to supply Israel development know-
how for projects throughout the
world was presented last week in
in old Jerusalem, for the first time Tel Aviv to the first World Con-
since the Second Century when gress of Engineers and Architects.
More than 1,000 architects and
the Holy City was last under Jew-
engineers, approximately half from
ish control,
gountries outside Israel, were re-
A huge menora, set hp on the vealed a new plan by which Israel
site, was kindled by Dr. Zerah intends to enlarge its "export" by
Warhaftig, minister of religious thousands of man months of en-
affairs, Other torches, kindled at ginneering, architectural and
Modiin, gravesite of the Macca- technical services for planning and
bees, were flown from Lydda executing projects in developing
airport to 33 countries around the countries and as subcontractors
world where they were received for Western engineering firms.
hy youth organizations and rep-
A central management body
resentatives of Zionist groups and
called Institute for Planning and
Jewish communities.
Development, it was announced,
The kindling of the light at the has been commissioned to pool
We-t- Wall, an act believed last Israel's talent resources, make
carried out when Bar Kokhba and contacts with overseas clients, both
his warriors were defending Jeru- private and governmental and su-
salem against the legions of Rome, pervise the conduct of new engi-
coincided with the discovery an- neering projects for overseas de-
nounced Wednesday of a stone velopment.
slab said to he part of the south-
This nation of 2,500,000 contains
ern wall of the Second Temple more than 8,000 graduate engi-
which was destroyed by Titus in neers, it was disclosed, or three
70 CE.
to every 1,000 persons; a propor-
The existence of a southern tion much higher than in most
wall was long suspected, but dig- other countries.
ging began only recently. Some
rabbinical authorities say the Jerusalem City Govt.
southern wall is as holy as the Accepts Unified Party
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Jeru-
Western Wall.
salem municipality has a united
Israel ushered in Hanuka , labor party following the formal
with parades, public candle-
merger of the Israel Workers
lighting ceremonies and the
Party (Rafi) with the Alignment,
traditional torchlight relays
consisting of Mapai and Ahdut
which saw youngsters and
Avodah. Unification of the three
sportsmen racing over the coun-
labor factions on a national scale
try side in the manner of the
will take place next month. Teddy
Maccabaean heroes of old.
Kollek, of Rafi, will remain mayor
Eighteen youth groups partici-
of Jerusalem. His immediate prede-
pated in a torchlight relay from
cessor in that office, Mordechai
City Hall here to the Hebrew
Ish Shalom of the Alignment, is
University and Hadassah Hos-
expected to be appointed deputy
pital buildings on Mt. Scopus,
mayor.
which is part of Israel for the
first time in 19 years.
I Hotels in both West and East
Jerusalem were packed with pil-
grims and tourists to mark the
CALL
holidays, This caused the Knesset
(Parliament) to adjourn at an
earlier hour than usual so that
members could return to their
! homes in other parts of the coun-
try, there being no accomoda-
tions left for them in the capital.
Hundreds of visitors, turned away
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in Israel and on the West Bank,
—TRAVELING—
YESHIVATH
BETH
YEHUDAH
with the neo-Nazi National Demo-
cratic Party.
Herbert Wehner. minister for
German affairs, said that prohibi-
tion of the NPD would be a legiti-
mate measure, adding that it was
vital that the terrible horrors of
the Nazi regime would not recur.
But a few hours later, Kai Uwe
von Hassel, minister for refugees,
said he opposed banning the NPD,
cal discussion.
Political observers here specu-
lated that the federal government
was taking steps to ban the NPD
whose increasingly anti-democratic
statements and nostalgia for the
Hitler era are causing embarrass-
ment at home and abroad. But a
spokesman for the interior minis-
try would not confirm that a for-
mal motion to ban the NPD was
being prepared by the Constitu-
tional High Court in Karlsruhe.
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Dec. 31 has been set as the
deadline for an affirmative re-
sponse by the Berlin govern-
ment.
Wannsee Villa, now a chil-
dren's center, is the building
where Rudolph Heydrich and
other Nazi leaders met on Jan.
20, 1942, to plan the "final solu-
tion," the destruction of Jewry.
According to Wulf and to Dr.
Joachim Prinz, chairman of the in-
ternational affairs commission of
the American Jewish Congress,
under whose auspices Wulf met
with the press, the Wannsee Villa
is the most appropriate, and in fact
the only effective site in Germany
for a documentation center on the
Nazis.
Wulf said that the center is not
seeking funds and is in a position
to erect a new children's center on
the 90,000 square foot site of the
villa. But, he said, there is political
opposition in the Berlin adminis-
tration to turning over the build-
ing.
Wulf is the Berlin correspondent
for the Jewish Telegraphic Agen-
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