Jewish Business in Curacao Down
but Not Out in 535,000,000 Riot
By EDNA AIZENBERG
CARACAS, Venezuela (JTA)—
Most Jews in the Netherlands
West Indies colony of Curacao are
prepared to salvage the damage
done to their business establish-
ments in last Friday's rioting even
though it may take as long as
three years to recoup the losses put
at $35,000,000, according to Lionel
Capriles, a leader of the Island's
Sephardic community and presi-
dent of the Curacao Chamber of
Commerce.
The rioting, which stemmed
from a wage dispute at Curacao's
oil refineries, devastated the busi-
ness and shipping center of Wil-
lemstad and resulted in the over-
throw of the government of Prem-
ier Ciro de Kroon.
The latter agree Tuesday to dis-
solve parliament and call for new
elections in a few days, as de-
manded by local labor leaders.
Caprile's was credited with an im-
portant role in averting a threaten-
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Book on Israel Spy
Misses Its Mark
By JACK SIEGEL
(A Seven Arts Feature)
Eli Ben-Hanan, an Israeli jour-
nalist, has written a book called
"Our Man in Damascus: Elie
Cohen" (Crown Publishers).
Unless it is fiction, I generally
approach a spy story with a little
aversion; have a tendency to avoid
this kind of activity.
Elie Cohen, in this book, is
credited with getting information
which helped Israel in the Six-Day
War. There is no reason to doubt
it, except that the way the book is
written, it is too easy.
The author also has a tendency
to glamorize Cohen and his wife,
and give them imaginary dialogue
which movie actors used in the 30s.
What is also hard to accept is the
author's statement that Cohen was
witty and clever when he offers
no evidence of such attributes.
What is apparent is that Cohen
had access to money and with a
glad hand was able to obtain
sycophants with access to gov-
ernment and press information.
As an Egyptian Jew, he could
speak Arabic and came to Dam-
ascus in a roundabout way from
Argentina. What is also difficult
to see in the book is how the
Syrians suddenly began to sus-
pect him. Perhaps there is more
to the book than meets the eye
and certainly more to the story
than can be revealed.
There is little of the Arab psyche
revealed or the tension and torture
Cohen must have experienced. He
was hanged publicly in Martyr's
Square in Damascus and left be-
hind a wife and two children. Per-
haps the personal loss was worth
the effort at writing, but nothing
in Ben-Hanan's book makes you
feel it so.
A good marriage, if there is
such a thing, rejects the company
and conditions of love. It tries to
imitate those of friendship.—Mon-
taigne.
Altough Jewish-o w n e d shops
were among the hardest hit by
looting and burning, Jewish ob-
servers described the rioting as
mainly a reaction of "have-nots
against the haves." They said they
saw no anti-Semitic overtones
although there are strong anti-
white elements among the rioters.
Jewish and non-Jewish shops
were hit indiscriminately. A high
proportion of Curacao's business,
particularly that catering to tour-
ists, is Jewish-owned.
In addition to the physical dam-
age sustained, they now face the
loss of the tourist trade. Friday's
outbreak, which labor leaders
claimed were caused by profes-
sional agitators, virtually emptied
Curacao's tourist hotels.
Unofficial estimates said 70 per
cent of the island's businesses was
destroyed. Tourist trade, apart
from the oil refineries, is the
mainstay of Curacao's economy.
The island, 40 miles off the
coast of Venezuela, a duty-free
port, attracts large volumes of
tourists and is visited by many
cruise liners. Its shops, which are
to a great extent Jewish-owned,
are located mainly on the narrow
Heerenstraat shopping center.
They depend almost entirely on
tourists to whom they offer per-
fumes, jewelry, liquors and handi-
crafts from all over the world.
have completed their army serv-
ice. The four basic disciplines to
be studied are electronics, me-
chanics, chemistry and nuclear en-
gineering.
JERUSALEM—The establishment
of an ORT technical college on the
campus of the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem is "an attempt to
bridge the two Israels of the highly
trained engineer and the skilled
worker," Prof. William Haber,
president of World ORT (Organiza-
tion for Rehabilitation through
training), said at a ceremony in
Jerusalem.
Prof. Haber, a member of the
Hebrew University's board of gov-
ernors, was speaking at the signing
of a preparatory agreement be-
tween ORT and the university.
The college, which will be ready
in three years, will have room for
600 students from all over the
country, including both those of
high school age and others who
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Synagogue said Wednesday that
the Jewish community was pre-
'pared to begin anew on a "new
social basis." He hoped the
upheaval, the worst in the
colony's 400-year-history, "would
serve the purpose of social
justice." Mikve Israel was un-
harmed. Nor was the 16th Cen-
tury Jewish cemetery hit by the
rioters.
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