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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 2, 1968-9
Festive Stamps Issued in Israel
Jordanian Charge That Israel Is Expelling
Refugees From Gaza Refuted Before Thant
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
The 50th anniversary of the Jewish scout movement and 1968
Jewish festivals are depicted in the latest stamps from the Israel
postal ministry, to be issued Aug. 21. The multicolored and gold
festival stamps show various scenes in the Old and New Cities of
Jerusalem, The legends underneath quote passages from Isaiah
and Psalms.
Hebrew U. Jubilee Draws Guests
From Throughout World to Scopus
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jews
throughout the world were repre-
sented here July 24 with all ele-
ments of the state of Israel in
Marking the 50th anniversary of
the establishment of the Hebrew
University.
The major celebration was on
Mount Scopus, original site of the
university, restored for use by
Israel in the Six-Day War after
access had been blocked by Jordan
for nearly 20 years.
Here, in the presence of Presi-
dent Zalman Shazar, -Prime Mini-
ster Levi Eshkol, members of the
cabinet, the Supreme Court, the
chief rabbis, the university faculty
and the intellectual elite of the
country, honorary degrees were
conferred on Arthur J. Goldberg,
former United States Supreme
Court Justice and ambassador to
the United Nations, and Dr. Joseph
J; Schwartz, executive vice presi-
dent of the Israel Bond Organiza-
tion.
In other functions marking the
anniversary there was a symbolic
laying of 16 cornerstones for
projected new dormitorie& and
the restoration of buildings on
Mount Scopus unused sinee1948,
And a mass meeting of 'the -uni-
versity's alumni, headed by Min-
ister of Transport Moshe Carmel,
class of 1953.
In his address, Eshkol said the
Hebrew University had faithfully
reflected every phase of Jewry's
struggle for existence in this coun-
try. Its students, he said, had been
in the forefront in the country's de-
fense. Ambassador Avraham Har-
man, president of the university;
Prof. Nathan Rotenstreich, its rec-
tor; and Samuel Rothberg, chair-
man of the board of governors,
also spoke. Two octogenarians,
Dr. Helen Kagan-Hauser, who
founded the first hospital for
children in Jerusalem in 1916,
and Prof. Norman Bentwich, who
was attorney-general of Palestine
in the British Mandate, as repre-
sentatives of the generation that
founded the university, handed
over a scroll to two university un-
der-graduates. .
Mendes-France Quits
Unified Socialists
Former French Premier Pierre
Mendes-France, having been de-
feated for the National Assembly
in the election last month by . 132
votes, this week quit the Unified
Socialist Party.
UNITED NATIONS — Jordan's
allegations to the effect that Israel
is expelling Palestinian refugees
from the Gaza area and particu-
larly from the. large Jabalia camp
in the Gaza Strip "are false," Is-
rael's permanent representative,
Yosef Tekoah, told Secretary Gen-
eral U. Thant Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Jordan has refused
entry permits to a large number of
Gaza Strip residents seeking to
cross the Allenby Bridge on the
West Bank in recent days.
According to reports from Am-
man, Jordan started a propaganda
campaign last week claiming that
Israel's Gaza Strip military gover-
nor intends to deport 50,000 Pale-
stinian refugees in the Jabalia
refugee camp to Jordan within two
weeks.
Some Gaza residents denied en-
try permits said that Jordan is
afraid Gaza will become a perma-
nent part of Israel and that refu-
gees entering JOrdan will remain
there, thus adding to its already
high refugee population.
According to Tekoah, those
charges had already been answer-
ed in a letter given in Jerusalem
Monday to the commissioner-gen-
eral of the United Nations Relief
and Works Agency, Laurance
Michelmore, by Michael S. Comay,
the political adviser of Israel
Foreign Minister, Abba Eban.
In that letter, Tekoah informed
Thant, Comay.. stated:
"I am now in a position to as-
sure you that there is no sub-
stance to the charge conveyed to
you that a concerted effort is
now being made to expel num-
bers of refugees from Jabalia on
the ground that the heads of
families are abroad. The policy
of my government remains as I
have previously indicated to you,
namely that no pressure is exert-
ed on Gaza residents to leave nor
are they prevented from leaving.
They are free to remain or de-
part, in accordance with their
own wishes. Nothing has been
done by the military government
Rehovot 'Quake' Study C
Gets Grant by USAF
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Weiz-
mann Institute of Science reported
that the European office of aero-
space research of the U.S. Air
Force awarded a grant of $20,000
to an institute researcher for study
of earthquake recognition criteria.
The institute received a grant
of $40,000 for the study. in May
1966.
WE ARE ON
THE. MOVE
authorities in the Gaza Strip
which is inconsistent with that
policy."
Tekoah said Comay also had
noted, in his letter to Michelmore,
that only last Thursday, Israel's
Defense Minister Gen. Mose Day-
an, visited the Gaza Strip and held
a meeting with the town mayors
and other representatives of the
local population. "In the course of
a 2-1/2 hour discussion," Comay
repOrted, "these Arab' notables
were encouraged to raise every
question of concern to -them and
did so with the greatest freedom.
The allegations regarding Jabalia
camp were not even mentioned as
they undoubtedly would have been
if there had been any basis to
them.''
Tekoah asked Thant to circulate
the Israeli letter as an official doc-
ument of the General Assembly
and the Security Council.
Gen. Dayan reported after the
talks July 27 with leaders and
tribal chiefs in the Gaza Strip and
Sinai Peninsula that efforts were
being made to equalize wages for
Arabs in the Gaza with those of
the West Bank area. Labor facili-
ties and pay scales were the prin-
cipal topics of the talks.
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