THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6—Friday, February 16, 1968
Hadassah Leader Rejects Idea Zionist Must Live in Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The con-,
cent that only a person committed i
to living in Israel can be a Zionist
was challenged here by the head
of the largest single Zionist organ-
ization in the world.
In remarks at the opening ses-
sion of its mid-winter conference
Saturday nigh t, Mrs. Mortimer
Jacobson, of New York, national
president of Hadassah, declared
that Jewry outside of Israel "has I
a significant role to play in the
collective survival of the Jewish
people and we will not accept the
definition or philosophy that a
Zionist is only one who is com-
mitted to living in Israel."
She went on to say that "it is
our job to create the atmosphere
for Aliya (immigration), but it is
only the realties of life in Israel
that will get Olim (immigrants)
to stay. . . . The repudiation of
Zionism, unless it means personal
Aliya, will not only fail to bring
one more Jew to Israel, but will
discourage those who are working''
to help Aliya."
Mrs. Jacobson spoke before 150
Hadassah leaders representing the
organization's 318,000 members in
the United States and more than
2,000 in Israel. The gathering here
is the first major Hadassah confer-
ence to be held in Israel. The open-
ing session was attended by Presi-
dent Zalman Shazar a n d Mrs.
Shazar.
non-belligerence. The notion that
Israel relinquish t h e occupied
territories without a firm peace
treaty is a "prescription for re-
n e w e d hostilities," Eban de-
clared.
She asked: "W i 1 l the future
Meeting with newsmen before
needs of Israel and the Jewish the conference, Mrs. Jacobson an-
cation a n d encouraging Jewish
students to learn about Israel at
first hand through work and study
programs. It does not mean that
we do not understand Israel's need
for Western Aliya."
people be better served with, or
without an organized, identifiable
Zionist movement? No one is more
critical than Hadassah of the vexa-
tions and frustrations of Zionist
organizational life. "Nevertheless,"
she said, "we are convinced that
a candid and objective evaluation
will yield an affirmative answer."
Hadassah leaders attended
ground-breaking ceremonies here
Sunday for the new 6,000,000
pound ($1,700,000) Moshe Sharett
Institute, an addition to the Ull-
man Center for cancer and allied
diseases at Hadassah Hospital.
The ceremonies followed the first
working session of Hadassah's
mid-winter conference.
Half of the money for the Sharett
Institute, named in memory of
Israel's first foreign minister and
later prime minister, was con-
tributed by the Ullman Foundation.
Hadassah will raise an additional
1,500,000 pounds ($430,000) for a
building maintenance fund.
Israel's minister of health, Israel
Barbilai, who attended the cere-
monies, noted that cancer accounts
for 1.8 per cent of all deaths in
Israel.
Mrs. Jacobson outlined in de-
Earlier, Prof. Kalman Mann, di-
tail Hadassah's contiiming ef-
forts to promote immigration and rector general of the Hadassah
the success it has had among Medical Organization, announced
the organization's young adult that the .Hadassah Hospital's open
and youth sections. Of those heart surgeon, Dr. Joseph Borman,
members preparing to settle in will be sent to Cape Town, South
Israel, she said "we didn't force Africa, to study heart transplant
them. They came to this decision techniques, probably with Dr.
themselves. However, we feel Christian Barnard whose surgical
that it would be a great disserv- team performed the first human
ice to make those who decided heart transplant operation in medi-
not to come to Israel feel that cal history. Dr. Borman was born
there is no important Zionist in South Africa.
Foreign Minister A b b a Eban,
mission to fill in American life."
"Zionism," Mrs. Jacobson said, addressing the opening session, de-
"is being attacked by the extreme clared that the Middle Eastern
left and the extreme right, by the nations must cooperate more
Soviet government, by Arab poli- among themselves and depend less
ticians, by the militant New Politics than they traditionally have on
Movement in the United States. outside powers to determine the
When Israel leaders also attack— fate of the region. He sharply criti-
though their motives are far dif- cized President Tito of Yugoslavia,
ferent—it takes real conviction to for his attempts to promote a
hold on to our beliefs." Organiza- Middle East peace formula at vari-
tions, like individuals, the Hadas- ance with the United Nations
sah leader said, should not be re- Security Council's resolution of
quired to prove "a uniqueness" in Nov. 22, 1967.
The -Tito plan is a version of
order to justify their existence.
"It is the task of Zionists to' the non-aligned nations' formula
which
was rejected by the UN
translate the concepts of Jewish
last summer. It called for un-
unity and the centrality of Israel
conditional
Israeli withdrawal
into an action program," Mrs.
from occupied territories in re-
Jacobson said. "This means in-
turn for an Arab statement of
fluencing the course of Jewish edu-
Pope John, as Aide, Issued Passes for
Jews; False Baptism Papers Denied
wounded Israeli soldiers during the
June war and to the Rothschild
family of France which has long
been associated with the organiza-
tion's medical services.
nounced that a Youth Center will
be opened among the Hadassah
buildings now being restored on
Mt. Scopus to cater to American
college youth. These young people,
she said, would spend a year of
study there in courses accredited
by American universities. Some of
them may stay on in Israel and
others will return to the United
States to become Zionist leaders,
she said. The Mt. Scopus buildings,
the original site of the Hadassah
Hospital and the Hebrew Univers-
ity, were cut off from Israel for
nearly 20 years following the occu-
pation of Mt. Scopus by the Jor-
danian Arab Legion during the
1948 war.
Mrs. Jacobcson also described
an adult movement recently es-
tablished in the United States by
college graduates who want to
settle at Tsur Hadassah, near
Jerusalem. Most of them are music
graduates, she s a i d, and want
teaching jobs in Israel. She also
noted that Hadassah is devoting
greater efforts to place Youth
Aliya children in kibutzim and
establishing proper educational
facilities for them.
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The conference was told Wed-
nesday that Youth Aliya is sorely
in need of funds to meet the
needs of orphans and children
from deprived homes who wish
to come to Israel.
Yitzhak Artzi, head of the agency
which is maintained jointly by
Hadassah and the Jewish Agency,
said that Youth Aliya accepts 2,000
children a year but must reject an
additional 3,000 applicants because
of lack of funds. He said that pri-
ority was given since last June's
war to 350 orphans who came to
Israel as a result of anti-Semitic
demonstrations in their own coun-
tries and the aftermath of the war.
Y. Ginat, director general of
Youth Aliya, said that children
from the Soviet Union who were
permittd to emigrate to Israel be-
fore the Six-Day War showed few
effects of the Communist educa-
tion they had received, although
they had some initial misconcep-
tions about Israel. They expected
to find Israel an "imperialist coun-
try" but had no idea what that
meant, he said. Whatever illusions
they might have had about Russia
were quickly dispelled by the So-
viet's anti-Israel propaganda of
last May and June, he said.
Two Henrietta Szold awards, the
highest honor bestowed by Hadas-
sah, were presented at the mid-
winter conference by Mrs. Rose
nalprin, chairman of the Ameri-
ROME (JTA) — An American papal nuncio in in Budapest for the can Section of the Jewish Agency
author's statement that Msgr. An-
gelo Roncalli. who later became
Pope John XXIII, issued thousands
of false baptismal certificates to
enable Jews to escape from the
Nazis during World War II, was
denied Sunday in a newspaper re-
port which said that he used other
means for that purpose.
The denial was made by Luciano
Bresciani who served in the secre-
tarial office of
Monsignore Ron-
calli when the
latter was papal
delegate in Sofia,
Bulga ria and
later in Istanbul,
between 1930 and
1944. Brescia.
ni said, however,
that the future
Pope had in-
structed him to
issue "Iaisser
Pope John passer" ("allow .
to pass") docu-
distribution to Jews was made by
Arthur D. Morse in his book
"While Six Million Died" just pub-
lished here.
Bresciani. who provided Morse
with information for his book, said
that "Monsignore Roncalli was too
dedicated to truth to say even one
lie or to resort to subterfuge."
Bresciani told of one episode in
which Monsignore Roncalli's per-
sonal intervention saved the lives
of some 20 Jew who had suceeded
in escaping to Bulgaria in 1944.
Their extradition was demanded
by the Germans. Roncalli in a per-
sonal letter to King Boris of Bul-
garia, asked that the ruler refuse.
The king cooperated and helped
the Jews obtain Turkish transit
visas.
Bresciani insisted that he never
mentioned baptismal certificates
to Morse.
ments to Jews in the Balkan coun- Latin Parley Postponed
tries on the basis of which they
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — The
could receive transit visas to Pal- fifth conference of Latin American
estine from the Turkish govern- Jewish communities, scheduled to
ment.
open here on March 30, has been
The assertion that Monsignore postponed because the date con-
Roncalli sent false baptismal cer- flicted with the Israel Emergency
tificates "by the thousands" to the I Fund campaign.
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They went collectively to the
nurses at Hadassah Hospital for
their outstanding service to
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