Clashes Continue on All Mid East Fronts:
Numerous Is r neli Casualties Are Reported
TEL AVIV (JTA) — At leas
Bank Leumi Announces
Rise in Aggregate Assets
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 9, 1969-11
NEW YORK—An increase of 23
per cent aggregate assets has been
t Syria demarcation line.
Israeli
forces
on
Irbid
the
duel
three Egyptian commandos were
announced by Bank Leumi le-
believed to have been killed Toes ' In Cairo, the semi-official news- lasted several hours and was Israel, Tel-Aviv—parent company
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paper Al Abram again repeated broken off by the Jordanians when of First Israel Bank and Trust
day night while trying to cross the - its
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forecast
that
Israel
would
Israeli
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Forces
jets
appeared.
Suez Canal, Israeli officials re
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- launch a "major blow" against
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ported. An Israel patrol spotted Egypt. The paper said that it was Ashdod .Yaacov came under
In addition, a dividend of 13 per
the boat which the raiders were imminent because of the "failure" shell fire soon after sunset.
cent was announced at the annual
using in an apparent attempt to of the April 30 Israeli commando
Esther Yacobson, 77, was seri- general meeting of Bank Leumi
land on the canal's East Bank. The raid on the Upper
ously injured and was flown to a Tel Aviv.
Nile Valley.
patrol opened fire and later three
Bank Leumi le-Israel is the larg-
at
hospital
for surgery. Katya Lurie,
Israeli Air Force jets struck
bodies were seen floating in the saboteur
bases in the Araba wild- 72, was hurt but was treated in the est banking organization in the en-
water.
tire
Middle East, with 176 offices
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Settlers
rushed
erness region of Jordan south of
children to bomb shelters when the in Israel, and subsidiaries and of-
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Earlier
in
the
week,
six
Israeli
Lake. The officials said that corn
mandos are equipped with life - Arab guerrillas were killed in a jets blasted guerrilla bases in Jor-
brief but fierce gunfight in the re- dan in two separate raids as Is-
jackets which keep them afloat sort
town of El Hamma near the
raeli and Jordanian ground forces
when they land in the water. They southeast shores
of the Sea of fought with artillery, mortars and
reported also that commando boats Galile e
on ri ay . Th ree Israelis tank guns south of the Sea of Gal-
are linked to shore by a rope which
makes it possible to pull the boat and two Arabs were wounded in flee. One Israeli soldier was fatally
the fray which lasted three wounded in the counter. Five other
back after it is -hit.
soldiers were wounded. The tar-
The Egyptians opened a day long , minutes.
Last week an Israeli worker was gets of the jets were reportedly
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cross canal barrage Tuesday morn-
killed and 20 others were injured Wadi Al Yabess, Tel Al Sukkar and
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guerrillas detonated a mine Mashareh, all located in the north-
mortars and anti-tank guns. The when
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from which echoes of explosions
and shooting exchanges were
heard. through the night, appar-
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It was reported by Beirut Radio
that Syrian backed guerrillas at-
tacked a Lebanese army base;
Wednesday in the second day of
such clashes. The commando raid
on the Lebanese base came amid
indications that the guerrillas
might be Syrian army regulars
seeking to open a new front against
Israel from Lebanon. The fighting
Wednesday reportedly was in the I
town of Hasbayeh about six miles
from the Israeli frontier and west
of the occupied Golan Heights.
In a related development, an
Israeli army spokesman ridiculed
a Damascus report that the "front
for the liberation of Eritres" had f
captured three Israeli officers al-
legedly training Ethiopian com-
mandos. The front is supported by
Syria.
Jordanian regulars fired rockets
and mortars at three Israeli set-
tlements in the Jordan and Beisan
valleys Monday night. A military
spokesman reported. He said the
targets were Tel Katzir, Hamdiya
and Neve Urr.
Israeli return fire silenced the
Jordanian batteries.
.
Clashes occurred in the Suez
Canal zone and along the Israel-
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Israeli standards. The total turn-
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