22—Friday, December 13, 1968
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Announce 3 Scholarships at Rehovot
Maurice Gordon (right) and Dewey D. Stone, chairman of the
Weizmann Institute of Science board of governors, shake hands on a
deal, establishing three scholarships totaling $150,000 for worthy stu-
dents seeking PhD degrees. The scholarships, in the name of Maurice
and Dorothy Gordon, will be offered at the Feinberg Graduate School
of Weizmann Intitute in Rehovot. Looking on are (left) Robert Gor-
don, son of the Boston philanthropist, and Donald Jacobson, Gordon's
son-in-law.
Israel Heart Transplant Patient
in Coma; Jewish Law Up in Air
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV—Israel's first heart
transplant pa tien t, 41-year-old
Itzhak Sullam, remained in a coma
Wednesday for the sixth day since
he underwent surgery at the Beil-
inson Hospital in Petah Tikva.
A hospital bulletin reported that
he spent a quiet night and that he
was receiving food directly, and
his digestion was normal. His wife
was permitted to see him briefly
and said he looked fine.
Neurologists who examined the
patient said his state of uncon-
sciousness may continue for sev-
eral days without harm to his body.
A proposal to lay down legal
rules for heart transplant opera-
tions was presented to the Cabi-
net by Dr. Josef Burg, minister
of social welfare, a member of
the Orthodox National Religious
Party. Dr. Burg said he thought
rules were important because the
issue was too important to be
left to the discretion of "pro-
fessionals alone.'?
Another NRP member, Dr. Zor-
ach Warhaftig, minister of reli-
gious affairs, proposed that a com-
mittee of rabbis and doctors should
convene to rule on transplant
cases.
A mystery surrounds the identity
of the donor of the heart that was
transplanted into Sullam's body in
an eight-hour operation performed
by a team headed by Dr. Morris
Levi last Friday. For undisclosed
reasons, Dr. Levi and hospital
authorities have kept it a closely
guarded secret.
Press reports that the donor was
a traffic accident victim gave rise
to claims from at least three
families that the donor was their
relative. One family wrote to the
ministry of health and to the chief
rabbinate alleging that the heart
was taken from a relative without
their knowledge or consent.
The attitude of the chief rabbi-
nate was still obscure. Nothing was
said to indicate approval or dis-
approval of the operation as far as
Halakha — Jewish religious law —
concerned. Observers recalled that
the ministry for religious affairs
asked the chief rabbinate six
months ago to appoint a committee
to study the issue and make a
clear statement on heart trans-
plants. Nothing was done however.
The Sullams have four children.
Sullam, an immigrant from Al-
geria who settled in Israel in 1948
and was employed as an elevator
operator in the Bank Leumi build-
ing in Jaffa, became the world's
99th heart transplant patient.
When his body apparently started
to reject the new heart, a special
anti-rejection serum was flown
from .France. A medical report
said later the drug had been used
as a precautionary measure.
The Sephardic chief rabbi,
Yitzhak Nissim, expressed best
wishes for the patient's recovery
without taking a special position
on whether Jewish law permitted
such an operation.
The Ashkenazic chief rabbi,
Isser Unterman, also expressed
good wishes but said that from
the Halakhic (religious law)
point of view, there are reserva-
tions and restrictions that could
make heart transplant surgery
unacceptable.
Arabs Jealous of Israel's
Symbolic Star of David
HEBRON (ZINS)—A controversy
Rabbi. Untermann said trans-
is going on between the local Arab plants are permitted on condition
leaders regarding the history of the
Star of David, throughout centuries
the symbol of the Jewish people,
and since 1948, the emblem of the
State of Israel. According to the
Moslem Bulletin, published here,
the Egyptian Ministry of Religion
announced that the Mogen-David is
an old Arab symbol, appropriated
by the Zionists at the end of the
19th Century. "The Zionists—the
Egyptian Foreign Minister reveals
—were not satisfied with wresting
Palestine from the Arabs; they
have also expropriated their sym-
bol—the Star of David."
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that there is no shadow of a doubt
that the donor is dead when his
heart is extracted. Discussing the
matter several weeks ago, the
chief rabbi said a man should be
considered dead when he stopped
breathing.
But the question of the exact
moment when death occurs is one
on which all medical authorities
have not yet agreed.
Forty-two-year-old Dr. Levi, who
performed the eight-hour operation
on Sullam, was born in Bulgaria
and studied medicine in Israel. He
trained in Tokyo, and between 1961
and 1964 he studied at the Minne-
sota Medical School in Minneapolis
where he was a classmate of Dr.
Christian Barnard of South Africa,
who performed the world's first
heart transplant operation in Cape
Town a year ago. Sullam had been
suffering fro,azi. a. severe heart ail-
ment for inbie- than a year.
You cannot give me an instance
of any man who is permitted to lay
Commons Refuses to Permit Starting
of Bill Abolishing Kosher Slaughter
out his own time, contriving not to
have tedious hours.
—Samuel Johnson.
LONDON, (JTA)—The House of the suggestion of the RSPCA
Commons, by a 219-60 vote, refused
Tuesday to permit the introduction
of a bill to amend the Animal
Slaughter Act in a manner that
would abolish shehita Jewish ritual
slaughter.
The bill, which David Ensor,
Labor MP, wanted to present, had
the backing of the Royal Society
for the Prevention of Cruelity to
Animals and the Council of Justice
for Animals. It was apposed by the
Board of Deputies of British Jews.
The measure would have re-
quired the stunning of animals
prior to slaughter. Ensor defended
it and said he received over 700
letters and 8,000 signatures of
which only 15 were opposed. Peter
Archer, another Labor M?, said
he had witnessed slaguhter by
stunning and kosher methods, and
if had seen anything "distressing
or foul" he would side with Ensor.
A six-year-old pamphlet reissued
by the RSPCA in connection with its
campaign against shehita may be
sent to the Race Relations Board, it
was announced in Commons. The
pamphlet was denounced by the
Board of Deputies of British Jews
for its allegedly "inaccurate and
tendentious statements of a' tech-
nical nature" as well as its implied
slur to Jews.
Allan Lee Williams, a Labor
member of Parliament, said he
may refer the matter to the Race
Relations Board unless the Royal
Society deleted the offensive para-
graph. The paragraph reads:
"People whose practices contra-
vene moral requirements of a host
country ought to accept pre-stun-
ning" of cattle prior to slaughter-
ing. The reappearance of the
pamphlet coincided with the intro-
duction of a private member's bill
to abolish shehita. Another Labor
MP, Erich Moonman, who is' a
member of the RSPCA called it "a
shame and outrage" and said the
society had been "led astray."
Allan Joiner, deputy secretary of
the RSPCA, claimed there was
nothing anti-Jewish in the pam-
phlet.
Victor Mishcon, vice president of
the Board of Deputies, issued a
statement on behalf of the board
which noted that the pamphlet's al-
legations about shehita had been
"strongly rebutted by many lead-
ng non-Jewish scientific experts."
The statement said that "the Jew-
ish community particularly resents
a
pamphlet that Jews are 'a people
whose practices contravene the
moral requirements of the host
country.' Whatever the intentions
of the RSPCA and the Council (for
Justice to Animals) in conducting
their present campaign against
shehita, the Board of Deputies de-
plores the introduction of inaccur-
ate and irrelevant arguments which
are already being exploited by an-
ti-Semitic and racialist elements."
(Alderman Michael Fidler, pres-
ident of the Board of Deputies, who
is now visiting in this country, told
JTA he had consulted with Ameri-
can defense organizations as to
methods employed in this country
to deal with attacks on shehita
which might be utilized by the
British Jewish community.)
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