New French Cabinet Seen as Liberal Toward Israel; Talks Already Begun
PARIS (JTA) — Gideon Rafael,
director-general of the Israel For-
eign Ministry, met with his French
counterpart, Herve Alphand, sec-
retary-general of the French For-
eign,Ministry, in the first high-level
meeting between Israeli and
French diplomats since November,
1967.
It is believed to mark the re-
sumption of the Franco-Israeli
"dialogue" which was interrupted
when the de Gaulle government
imposed an arms embargo on Is-
rael following the June 1967 Arab-
Israeli war.
The composition of the new
French government, announced
by President Georges Pompidou
Sunday, indicates that Israel will
not have too much trouble re-
opening its desired dialogue with
Jewish Groups Split on Issue
of Tax-Exempt Church Land
By WILLIAM SAPHIRE
JTA Correspondent
NEW YORK (JTA) — Several
Jewish organizations plan to op-
pose a challenge to the constitu-
tionality of state laws exempting
church property from real estate
taxes which the U.S. Supreme
Court has agreed to hear next fall.
The Supreme Court agreed to
hear a complaint from Frederick
Walz of New York City against the
city tax commission. Walz, a law-
yer acting as his own attorney who
owns property on Staten Island,
claims be is being forced to sup-
port churches against his will be-
cause their tax exemptions in-
crease his property taxes.
The Synagogue Council of Amer-
ica, national coordinating agency
for the lay and rabbinic aims of
Reform, Conservative and Ortho-
dox Jewry. is considering action.
Its president, Rabbi Solomon J.
Sharfman, named a six-man corn-
the UAHC counsel in anticipation
of such an attack.
He said that if the paper is ap-
proved, the UAHC will argue that
the denial of such tax exemption
violated the First Amendment for-
bidding the government to estab-
lish a religion, on the argument
that "the power to tax is the power
to control." He said the Central
Conference of American Rabbis,
the rabbinic wing of Reform, for-
mally adopted the position paper
at its last convention.
Rabbi Joseph Karasick, presi-
dent of the Union of Orthodox Jew-
ish Congregations of America, is-
sued a statement charging that the
Walz suit was a "secularist" at-
tack on religious institutions. He
said the UOJCA would file a
"friend of the court" brief to be
presented to the Supreme Court
Marvin Schick, president of the
National Jewish Commission on
Law and Public Affairs, told
mittee to study the matter and
JTA that the Orthodox lay group
. would submit a brief based on
recommend action.
the First Amendment.
Rabbi Henry Siegman, SCA
executive vice president, said the
He said COLPA supported re-
SCA had been "grappling with moval of tax-exempt status from
the issue" for some time be- nonreligious affiliated church prop-
cause of earlier taxpayer suits erty and businesses and added that
against exemption for nonreli- he knew of no Jewish denomina-
gious-affiliated church property. tion which owned property or busi-
The Walz suit attacks exemp- ness unrelated to its religious
tions of such property used ex- functions.
A spokesman for the American
clusively for religious purposes.
Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, executive Jewish Congress said it was "con-
vice president of the Rabbinical
Assembly, the association of Con-
servative rabbis, told the JTA the
RA normally does not involve it-
self in such issues and that if it did
this time, it would be in associa-
tion with other agencies.
The Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, the Reform congre-
gational body, may enter the case.
Albert Vorspan, director of the
UAHC committee on social action.
said that a position paper on the
issue was developed a year ago by
Hoax Revealed
at White House
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The White House and the U. S.
State Department Monday affirm-
ed the Egyptian claim that Hilmi
was shot down in the war. It was
also disclosed that President Nixon
wrote to Nagla Hilmi saying. "If
we can achieve peace, we will not
be losing great men like your
father in future battles." The young
girl's visit to the White House,
where she was greeted by the
President and his daughter, Mrs.
Julie Eisenhower, was widely pub-
licized in the press and on tele-
vision. In the brief ceremonies,
Mr. Nixon sought to avoid politics
and said the teen-ager would "have
a great time in Disneyland and
Hollywood."
(Arrangements are being made
for the girl and her mother to
visit Cape Kennedy, the U. S. mili-
tary rocket and space center.
Sources in Washington claimed
that Capt. Hilmi's widow and
daughter would visit several Amer-
ican cities in a carefully planned
effort to elicit sympathy for the
Arab cause and general opposition
to the sale of U. S. weapons to
Israel. According to these sources,
the Hilmis' trip was financed by
Egyptian authorities through the
newspaper Al Ahram and by addi-
tional contributions solicited from
the Pan-American Oil Co., a sub-
sidiary of the Standard Oil Co.
.of Indiana and the Phillips Petro-
leum Co.)
France. This is the consensus of
observers her e who say that
President Pompidou's cabinet ap-
pointments demonstrate that he
has successfully resisted pres-
sure from orthodox Gaullists.
The new French foreign minis-
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former Education Minister Edgar
Faure and former Defense Minis-
ter Pierre Messmer were not in-
cluded in the new government. All
had approved Gen . de Gaulle's Mid
East policies.
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Debre, regard e d as less than
friendly toward Israel, was re-
moved irom that post, reportedly
against his will, and installed as
defense minister, succeeding Mess-
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