Israel Denies Building Five Nuclear and Bombs
from Arab guer-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Foreign
Ministry officials vigorously denied
foreign press reports that Israel
had built five nuclear bombs. They
called such reports "speculative,
unauthorized and unfounded." The
report in the Montreal Gazette
which was re-published in the
London Evening Standard was at-
tributed to an as yet unpublished
article in Der Spiegel, the West
German Weekly.
The officials said such reports
"crop up from time to time" but
that "Israel is not a nuclear state."
The government's policy remains,
they said, that Israel will not be
the first nation to introduce such
weapons into the Middle East. The
denial here corresponded word for
word with a similar denial issued
here last January when the Na-
tional Broadcasting Co. reported
that Israel had built or would soon
build nuclear weapons.
The Montreal Gazette story,
written by Peter Lust, its foreign
affairs specialist, said that exis-
tence of the alleged bombs was
discovered by a group of Der Spie-
gel journalists. The Gazette de-
scribed the bombs as 20 kiloton
atomic bombs similar to those
dropped on Hiroshima and Naga-
saki in the closing days of the
World War II. It said the bombs
were produced at a nuclear testing
station in the Negev Desert 11
miles from Dimona, site of a plant
where Israel is experimenting with
nuclear power, reportedly for
peaceful purposes. The story said
when the bombs were completed
they were rushed to an unknown
destination "whose exact location
is Israel's best kept military
secret."
The Gazette said that Egyptian
noted that nuclear reactors had
been developed at the Weizmann
Institute of Science in Rehovot.
at Dimona and at Nahal Soreq.
The Gazette report said the re-
actor at Dimona was capable of
producing both atomic and hydro-
gen bombs and was built with the
help of France in the years when
France was a close ally of Israel.
Lust claimed that the atomic
bombs were completed last Feb-
ruary, only 18 days after the NBC
report. He said Israel could deliver
the bombs either with its A-4 Sky-
hawk jets or with the F-4 Phan-
tom jets which the United States
will start delivering next Septem-
ber. The writer said the Dimona
site was so closely guarded that an
Israeli plane that strayed over it
during the 1967 Six-Day War was
shot down by Israeli rockets and
its pilot killed.
In Johannesburg, the reports !
were described as "nonsense" by •
visiting former Premier David
Ben-Gurion at a heavily attended
press conference.
Ben-Gurion used the same com-
ment on allegations by other
foreign press sources that Israel
was hiding figures on losses from
Egyptian attacks across the
Suez Canal
rilla raids. Ile said Israel's pot.
icy was to stick to the facts and
its casualty reports were always
accurate. lie also said he did not
12—Friday, May 16, 1969
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israel Immigrant 'Week' Observed
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Deputy
Premier Yigal Allon has appealed
to Israelis to extend a warm wel-
come and a helping hand to new
immigrants arrived during the first
four months of 1969 compared to
at a meeting of the Journalists
Club that only cultural and social
absorption would make it possible
for the newcomers to strike roots,
even with the material help they
Israel as possible.
receive from the government and
lie repeated earlier statements from Diaspora communities.
and entertainment programs in 12
immigrant absorption centers. A
expect any radical change in
France's Middle East Policy as
a result of Gen. Charles de
7,765 in the corresponding period
last year. He said Absorption Week
immigrants. Allon, who is minis- would feature meetings between
ter of immigrant absorption, said veteran Israelis and newcomers
Gaulle's resignation as Presi-
dent, but he considered an even-
tual change more favorable to
public opinion poll taken last
month showed that some Israelis
were resentful of new immigrants
and believed that those from Wes-
tern countries in particular do not
that he regarded Arab-Israel peace
"Absorption Week" was observed need or deserve government
as more important than terri- in Israel last week. He said 10,562 assistance.
tories and added that while Israel
wanted peace, that could come
only by the interested parties
meeting in talks which the Arabs
have until now refused. He said the
Berard Statement Denied in Paris
!Despite the Debre denial, Reuters
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present Big Four talks at the UN of defeating the referendum upon stuck by its story. The diplomat
could not make decisions for Israel which the former president had was later identified as Berard.
Earlier, the International League
or the Arab countries, which were staked his office, the source said.
sovereign states.
French Foreign Minister Michel Against Anti-Semitism and Racism
insisted Monday that Debre open
Some 4.000 pupils of the Jewish Debre labeled as "lying" reports a thorough investigation into the
day schools in Johannesburg, Pre-
toria and elsewhere feted the visi-
tor at a mass rally at the King
David high school here. They pre-
sented him with a check for the
Paula Ben-Gurion fund named in
memory of the former Premier's
wife. The pupils had collected the
money since the June 1967 war.
that Berard had said "Jewish
gold." The denial was made to
Pierre Bloch, president of the
International League Against
Racism and Anti-Semitism. It fol-
lowed publication of a Reuters UN
dispatch attributing to an un-named
French diplomat the words "pro-
Israel circles" and "large sums."
reports that Berard had made an
anti-Semitic remark.
The League based its charge
against Berard on wire service
reports.
The world's largest limestone
quarry is located at Rogers City.
intelligence learned of the bombs
last February and that President
Nasser appealed urgently to the
Soviet Union to station nuclear
weapons in Egypt. "Moscow re-
fused, but strengthened the So-
viet Mediterranean fleet to in-
clude ships equipped with nu-
clear warheads," the Gazette
reported, adding that simultane-
ously the Russians sent notes to
Washington, London and Paris
setting up the present Four
Power talks on the Mid East.
The NBC report was called er-
roneous at that time by United
States officials who expressed con-
fidence that Israel would live up
to its pledge not to be the first
nation to introduce nuclear wea-
pons to the Middle East. But
scientific authorities and knowl-
edgeable journalists in the U.S.
and Britain insisted that Israel
had the know-how and technology
to produce a nuclear bomb. They
Jewish Groups Hit
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efforts and resources if our moral
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taken seriously." The Synagogue
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izations. The NCRAC, in addition
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civic organizations and 81 Jewish
councils in cities throughout the
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The Black Econmic Conference's
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in "reparations" was endorsed
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approve the tactics announced by
Forman and employed at River-
side Church. Rabbi Marc Tannen-
baum, director of the inter-religi-
out affairs department of the
American Jewish Committee, who
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personal statement, rejected the
"revolutionary ideology and racist
rhetoric" of the manifesto and
the "tactics of disruption of
churches and synagogues." Rev.
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of the foundation, said it would
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