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2 Civilians. Soldier Killed by Alines;
17 Marauders Mai is 0 ve• Weekend
TEL AVIV (JTA)----Two civil-
larks, officials of the' Dead Sea
potash works, and an Israeli soldier
were killed when their jeep hit a!
mine. near the potash plant May 4.
Two other civilians and a soldier
were injured in an earlier mining
incident near the same spot. They
were the only Israeli casualties of
the post-Independence Day week-
end during which Israeli forces
killed 17 Arab marauders in three
clashes in the Negev, the Jordan •
and Beisan valleys. A military
spokesman reported renewed Jor-
danian small arms and artillery
fire aimed at three Beisan Valley
settlements and at Israeli forces
near the Allenby Bridge May 4, the
ene also of some desultory shoot-
g by Jordanians. In each case
the fire was returned and there
were no casualties reported.
The civilian dead were identified
as Dr. Yehoyachin Keniatt, 43,
deputy general director of the
potash works and Benjamin Bir- •
ann. 38. an engineer who was di-
rector of manpower and adminis-
tration. The soldier was cadet
David Braheryahu, 23. They were
killed when their jeep and an
Army command car raced to the
aid of another jeep which had just
struck a mine, injuring its its
civilian and military occupants.
The mines had been laid by ter-
rorists on a road near the potash
evaporatien Bonds. Late last night
an Israeli petrol near the southern
tip of the Dead Sea encountered
a gang which is believed to have
planted the mines.
News of the battles in which 17
Arab geereiPas were killed was
withheld se as not to spoil Inde-
pendence Del- celebrations Thurs-
day and Friday. Twelve heavily
armed aueeeillas were killed by
an Israe'i nat•ol near Neot Kahikar
on the Jorden border south of the
Dead Sea Thursday night. Soviet-
made mechiee elms and hand gren-
ades were freind on the bodies.
Four raiders were killed in a clash
in the Jo•den Valley and a fifth
south of the yea of Galilee.
A military sookesmon disclosed
that three -1-azooka shells were
fired Frid-v night at the home
of the military governor of Jenin
in the northern Samaria district.
Seven moee hazooka shells with a
timing 'mechanism attached, were
found concealed under tree
branches about 400 yards from the
governor's home.
A series, of widespread terror-
ist attack - mainly with mortars,
was launnii-d by El Fatah units
(1 %yr morning in the
early la'
--Salem and Manera
Beisan,
regions. ""ivq-e were no casual- .
ties and tially no damage, A
military --a•-eeman reported, but
the attack on Kibutz Manera, in
northwest Galilee, marked the
first terrorist a c ti vi ty from
Lebanese soil in almost a year.
Kfar Ruppin and Ashdod Yacov,
in the Beisan Valley, were hit by
mortars at about 2:30 a.m. local
time. The shells exploded harm-
lessly in fields but Israeli units re-
turned the fire from the East
Bank of the Jordan. Six light mor-
tar shells were fired at the Battar-
dan religious quarter northwest of
Jerusalem. Attempts were made
to sabotage a water pumping sta-
tion at Hamadiyah. At Kibutz
Manera, six shells were fired, all
exploding harmlessly. •
Security sources reported Wed-
nesday that 43 El Fatah membera
have been killed, 11 wounded and
96 captured in various actions
since April 1 v%. hen the terrorists
began their so-called "spring offen-
sive." The sources noted that
n-ither El Fatah or any other
_Arab commando groups have been
able to take root among the
1.000,000 Arab residents of Israel
and Israeli-held territory. This has
forced them to rely on bases on
the east bank of the Jordan which
ere vulnerable to Israel's new
eolicy- of "hot pursuit."
In general, according to security
sources, Israel is militarily strong-
er than it was before last June's
N. var.
amallah Residents Lose.
Aecess to Israel,. Jordan
Visits Because of Strike
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The West
Bank town of Ramallah has not
been placed under curfew but
pr'vileges according to West Bank
residents have been withdrawn
as a result of the strike there on
Independence Day. The privileges,
rescinded by order of Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan. include
access into Israel, includine East
Jerusalem, and the denial of per-
mits for Ramallah residents to visit
Jordan or to receive visitors from
there. Such permits are granted
all other West Bank residents al-
most without restriction. The spe-
cial measures taken in Ramallah
were due to the nature of the
strike which was a demonstration
against Israel's Independence Day
narade in nearby Jerusalem. Un-
like some other West Bank towns
where Arabs demonstrated in-
dividually by shutting down busi-
nesses for the day •and keeping.
children out of schools. the Ramale
lah strike was officially organ-
ized.
News Magazine Says Soviet
Union Is Preparing Arabs
War
Militarily for
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Soviet Union is preparing the
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Arabs militarily for a.. new war
against Israel but the United States
position. now is "that Israel can
defend itself with the arms it has,
that more would upset the Mideast
arms balance," the U.S. News &
World Report. said. The magazine
quoted former , 'U.S. Ambassador
to Moscow Foy Kohler as stating
that the Soviet feud with Red
China and• the Soviet penetration
of the Mideast are "Moscow's prin-
cipal • preoccupatiaons today and
will continue to be for the historic
period immediately ahead." The
critical time . for the Mideast was
set for mid-1969 because by then
Soviet training teams in Egypt,
Syrian and Iraq will have "'trained
enough Arabs to handle new wea-
pons. •
The ratio of Arab airpower over
Israel is "four to one now and
growing rapidly on the Arab side
—thanks to Russia. The Arabs
have nearly 150 Sukhoi-7 attack
planes and some 210 MIG-21 jets.
What Israel now wants most is
supersonic fighters to restore at
least the three to one adverse ratio
—but Washington has failed to
act," the maeazine said.
Instead of establishing bases
flying the Russian flag in the Mid-
east, the report said the new
technique of base building "in-
volves saturating countries like
Egypt, Syria. Iran. with modern
Soviet arms, equinment for air-
fields, ports, repair facilities, small
armies of Soviet technicians . . .
Thus, if war comes, these Arabs
countries are themselves bases,
ready and waiting for warships,
planes, and even airborne troops of
their Soviet ally."
Palestine Buffer State
Proposed for West Bank
(Direct JT Teletyne Wire
to The Jewish News)
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Soviet Russia has altered its I
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Middle East policy from one
that was seeking a political solu-
tion of the Arab-Israel dispute I
to one with more ominous con-
notations, according to Jon
Kimche in an article published
in the Evening Standard Tues-
day.
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89 Soldiers Reburied
in Mt. Herzl Ceremony
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
Morton Cohen (right) of New York holds an airline ticket for a
two-week trip to Israel presented by Meyer Halperin, chairman of
Bnai Brith's Martyrs' Forest Committee, for selling 2,255 trees in the
Martyrs' Forest near Jerusalem. Cohen was the winner of Bnai
Brith's Double Minyan Contest celebrating Israel's 20th anniversary.
More than 18,000 trees were planted during the contest period.
a number pf Arab governments, in- ! THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
chiding Jordan, which stated thatl
Friday, May 10, 1960-13
should "Israel fail to respect the
Security 'Council. resolution" . of.
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Nov. 22, 1967, the Soviet Union
would have no- alternative , but to : •jg
consider other steps to enable. the
Arab countries to regain their lost , vg,
territory." What was meant by J.
"other steps" was not spelled out, IN
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JERUSALEM — So me 5.000
mourners attended reburial serv-
ices on Mt. Herzl Tuesday for 89
Israeli soldires killed in action in
the Sinai and Gaza Strip last June.
The bodies which were originally
buried in a temporary war ceme-
tery near Kibutz Beerin, were re-
interred in the central military
cemetery on Mt. Herzl.
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