TIM DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 14—Friday, March 15, 1968 Israel Rejects Jordan Charge of 'Desecration' East Jerusalem Ex-Mayor Is Deported UNITED NATIONS (JTA) —Israel presented to Secretary- General U Thant, documentary and photographic evidence of 20 years of wanton destruction, des. ecratiOn and vandalism by Jordan against Jewish property and holy places in Old Jerusalem and sur- rounding areas which it occupied in the 1948 war against Israel. The JERUSALEM (JTA)—The former mayor of East Jerusalem has been expelled to Jordan on charges of provocation, illegal dealings and attempts to organize Arab resistance to Israel authority, the defense ministry announced. The ministry said that Rouhi el Khatib was the man behind the Arab teachers' strike last year and that he agitated among East Jerusalem merchants to keep their shops closed after the reunification of Jerusalem last June. According to the defense ministry, Khatib maintained contact with Jordanian authorities in Amman and served as a pipeline for the illegal transfer of funds. He was also charged with spreading false reports of Israeli mistreatment of East Jerusalem residents. evidence, submitted by Ambas- sador Yosef Tekoah, Israel's per- manent representative to t h e United Nations, was accompanied by a letter challenging Jordan's right to complain about Israel's efforts to clear uninhabitable slums in the area and erect modern housing for Jews and Arabs alike. Ambassador Tekoah's presenta- tion was in direct reply to letters and documents submitted by Mu- hammed H. El-Farra, permanent representative of Jordan, to the secreary general on Feb. 23 and Feb. 28. The Jordanians charged that Israel was destroying the character of "Arab Jerusalem" and was sullying Moslem holy places by its clearing operations and archaeological excavations in the vicinity of the West Wall. Ambassador T e k o a h accom- panied his documents with a 54- , Navies of 4 Nations Pay Tribute to Dakar Crew tribute broadcast to the nation by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol who said that Israel's mission was to strengthen its naval forces. Aboard the destroyer Yaffo and the escort submarine Tanin, bugles sounded taps and flags were low- ered to half mast as seven wreaths were cast into the sea in memory of the lost men. Four of the wreaths were sent by the United States, British. Greek and Turkish navies which had helped the search. Present on deck were the Deputy Naval Attache of the U.S. High Court Reserves I Embassy and Air Vice Marshal R. G. Knott, chief of staff of the Decision on Aid for British Mediterranean Command. page book containing scores oft With them were Defense Minister photographs of Jewish homes. syn- Sectarian Schools Moshe Dayan, Chief of Staff Maj. . agogues and cemeteries wilfully WASHINGTON (JTA)—The U.S. Gen. Chaim Bar-Lev and other damaged or destroyed by the Jor- Supreme Court reserved judge- high ranking officers of Israel's danians. The booklet was published in English, French and Spanish. ment after hearing arguments in armed forces. "With regard to the West Wall," a major test case on the right of Ashore, Rabbi Shlomo Goren, Ambassador Tekoah wrote, "it is taxpayers to challenge the consta- chief chaplain of Israel's armed to be observed that it is the most tutionality of government expendi- forces recited the Kaddish with rel- Holy Place f all to Judaism." He tures for sectarian schools. Wives of the lost men. An Army said that archaeological excava- Leo Pfeffer, special counsel of cantor chanted the traditional "El tions near the West Wall and the the American Jewish Congress, Moleh Rahamin," prayer for the Temple Mount area, had always argued in behalf of seven New dead. taken place . . . "during the period Yorkers seeking to upset certain of the Mandate and during the Jor- provisions of the Federal Elemen- ' Tests Find 'Creative' danian occupation . . . Approval tary and Secondary Education Act I Students More Likely has been granted for the continua- of 1065. He urged the high court to Be of Jewish Origin , tion of these excavations, outside to accept jurisdiction in the case. WASHINGTON (JTA)—The more the area of the Temple Mount, that He said the controversy Wa•S creative students among high scor- is outside the walls surrounding "particularly fitted for judicial res- I ers in the Westinghouse Science the Haram esh-Sharif." The Israeli olution" and warned that if the' Talent Search are more likely envoy noted further that "a clear court did not grant the individuals than the less creative ones to be distinction exists between the taxpayer standing to sue in First i Jews, according to a study by the Haram esh-Sharif and the Western Amendment cases, "there would be. National Institute of Mental Health Wall which were recognized as two separate Holy Places" by the no way, for example, , to challenge ' of the Public Health Service. a SI.000.000 federal grant for the' , The study covered attributes and construction of a church." backgrounds of 1,039 teen-age boys Oldest Hagada Shown The American Jewish Congress ' and was made by Dr. Loisellin in Philadelphia Exhibit attorney was joined in his pleading Dotto and Morris Parloff, Institute PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — The by Senator Sam J. Ervin. Democrat psychologists. For the study, the oldest Hagada in existence, a of North Carolina, who told the youths were divided into two fragmented medieval manuscript court: - Every American has a', groups—the mote and the less cre- dating back to the 8th Century, right not to be taxed for the sup - ative — according to how the talent went on public exhibit at the Free port of a religion in violation of ' search judges had rated the origi- Library here, as part of an exhibit the First Amendment. It is this nality of their science projects en- of about 1,000 Hagadas presented precious right that is at stake in tered in the contest. by the Dropsie College for Hebrew this cafe." The study found the two groups and Cognate Learning. The exhibit, Friend of the court briefs sup- had many similarities. Slightly' which will continue until April 12. porting the AJC position were filed more than half had fathers in pro- was arranged in connection with by the National Council of fessional occupations, the boys the Passover festival. Churches. the Council of State, were similar in scientific aptitude, The manuscript, kept in a School Officers. Protestants and reported similar interest in becom- vacuum vault at the college, shows g mg scientists and a ez1 high the Passover ritual in its very Other Americans United For Sep - aration of Church and State. United scores on scholastic aptitude tests. early state, with many important Americans for Public Schools and But the more creative students variations from the traditional all of the national member agencies were found more likely to come I text currently used. by of the National Community Rela- from the northeastern states, HAIFA (JTA) — The navies of four nations which aided Israel in the vain search for the lost sub-1 marine Dakar in January, joined in paying final tribute to the un - derseacraft's 65 officers and crew. The occasion was the end of the shiva, the traditional seven - day mourning period which began when the submarine was officially declared lost last week. It was; marked by solemn ceremonies: ashore and at sea and by a last lions Advisory Council with the ex- 44 versus 38 percent; from metro- ception of the Union of Orthodox! politan areas, by 51 versus 41 per- Jewish Congregations of America. cent, and from Jewish families by46 versus 38 percent. 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Lufthansa German Airlines, DepL 410 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022 to The Jewish News) York and the National Jewish BRUSSELS—Paul Struye, Commission on Law and Public Affairs, an Orthodox - supported man of the Belgian senate, Tues- day reiterated his appeal to the agency. affluent nations of the world to contribute toward a "Marshall Plan" for the Middle East as a means of rehabilitating the peoples of that region and achieving last- ing peace. Struye, leader of the Libre Begique Movement, made the United Nations. Concerning Israeli slum clear- ance operations in the Mughrabi quarter of the Old City, a Jewish quarter, Ambassador T e k o a h pointed out that though it faces the West Wall it is not a holy place but secular property. "No modern civilized government or municipal administration would have tolerated the slum conditions which the Jordanian government created in this quarter," he said. Noting that the Jordanian repre- sentative complained about plans to construct new housing in the modern part of Jerusalem, includ- ing the former "no man's-land" and areas occupied by Jordan in 1948, Ambassador Tekoah wrote that "this complaint refers to va- cant land of which about two- Phone My Travel Agent MI 4-1930 Lufthansa Res. 357-0326 For the Finest in Home Remodeling Residential and Commercial 358-2488 • I • II I • I• • I I Nr tt S• t. • • • •. t • / • • t' 1 re • • •