28—Friday, September 19. 1969
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Vreniier Joins El Al Celebration
6-Cent Tour of Israel's Capital
Zinism at
JERUSALEM — Six cents does I straddles the road. The bus coin-
buy. much these days,. but in puny is thinking of importing'
mud-
the Crossroads not
the
_ run. htseeing
Israel's capital city, it can •get a buses for oth
BY AVRAIIAM SCHENKER
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20 . cen- '
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Israel — has tended to place tin- ' lerusalem route number one.
tends getting a clear picture of its
- ' For 20 years, during the separa- development throng
World Zionist Organization in th.
who s.1;
in
shade. Yet it is the very sticci-ss
of the city, the route number is a mad dash that moves in a
of the Zionist achievement in all lion
had been saved and only recently matter of minutes mist medieval
its [accts — in aliya, in educathin. re - introduced. The bus connects fortresses, Old Testament shrines,
in agricultur4 settlement, in pot- the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old Byzantine churches and Christian
Is
itical and economic suport of
State City with the Western (Wailing) sanctuaries. It is a roller coaster
rael that hias raised the
Wall and returns by way of Mount ride through a labyrinth of. the
higheSt
level
of
authority
to the
civilizations and religions that
sh disper Zion to the Jaffa Gate.
he Jewish
in the eyes of the
The bus serves pilgrims to the make up the fabric of this city.
sion. The verwhelm ing
Straight ahead is the Western
are "friends Western Wall, and also those who
of Jews the vi5irld over
as live along its route—black-hooded
Wall that enclosed the Temple
of Israel" but this must be seen
the
Monas-
of King Solomon, above it the
1rmenian priests from
the fulfillment of Zionist aim and z tery of St. James, skull-capped golden cupola .of the Dome of
purpose and it is a serious. Perhaps
this students from the rebu ilt yeshivot the Rock, behind that the Mount
historic error to interpret
in the Jewish quarter, and brown- of Olives, and beyond that, on
longed-for development as implying
from the Dormi- the other side of the Dead S Sea,
fathers
the end of "the function of the cassocked
tion Abbey on Mount Zion.
the mountains of Moab.
Zionist movement.
The vehicles that carry them • After the Western Wall stop
The Zionist Organization has
seem to do their best to fit into there is more in store, for the bus
.
been a prototype of a voluntarism
the ancient surroundings—they follows a circular route. It leaves
.
Prime Minister Golda Meir attended a special El Al Israel 20th
and self-awareness. Its starting have been brought back from re- the Old City proper through the
the
Jewish
annivesrary celebration, during which she addressed over 6,000 El Al
always
been
point has
tirement because newer buses Dung Gate, winds it way up Mount
condition in the Diaspora. And the
employes, their families, VIP dignitaries and ministers. In her
are too big to negotiate the nor- Zion and down again into the ori-
address, Prime Minister Meir 'tressed her personal affection for and
nisi Organization is needed now,
row alleys and archways of the ginal Gehenna, and then past the
identification with El Al. Shown with her are (from left) El Al Presi- ' as in the earliest days of its exis- Old City.
city walls of Sultan Suleiman back
dent Mordechai Ben-AA, an El Al ground hostess and Transport
tence in ordeo to "move" the Jew-
Even the vintage ,buses have had to Jaffa Gate.
Minister Moshe Carmel.
ish people and to lead them to
Zion — to Israel. This is the mean- to be stripped of their roof railings
It's what a fellow thinks he L
ng of Jewish national liberation. in order to squeeze under the arch
state of Israel has become of the Armenian Patriarch that knows that hurts him.
How Israeli Intelligence Foiled Threat The
i
the great instrument of Zionism,
of Annihilation Told in Tadmor Book but it cannot -replace the World
Zionist Organization. No other
In 1959, President Gamal. Abdel her to make her father stop his
iii Jewish life is pre-
Nasser of Egypt launched a rocket work. She agreed to meet Yoklik framework
to accept the obligation which
pared
Israeli
"or-
manufacturing program with the and a member of the
the WZO imposes on itself. It has
aid of Nazi scientists to destroy ganization" in Switzerland.
Israel in one blow.
Stunned Israeli officials appeal-
ed to Washington. London, and
Paris, as well as to the West Ger-
man government, but met only
with indifference. They then decid.
ell to solve the problem them-
selves.
Joshua Tadmor in "The Silent
Warriors," published by Macmil-
lan offers the first complete ac-
count of how Israel, through its
security and espionage agencies,
managed to defend its existence.
Israeli intelligence learned the
names of the over-all directors of
the research and manufacturing
programs — Professors Sa n g e r.
Gorcke. Pilz. Krug, and Klein-
•achter—all known rocket experts
who had faithfully served the
Nazis.
According to "The Silent War-
riors" the Israelis undermined
Nasser's plan by terrorizing the
German scientists and through
subtle use of public opinion.
In September 1962. Krug mys-
teriously disappeared. Shortl 3 ,
thereafter, Pilz received an explo-
sive letter which blinded his sec-
retary. The following February,
Dr. Kleinwachter was threatened
by an armed stranger who ap-
proached his car. Sanger had al-
ready resigned because of public
opinion aroused by the German
press= coverage of the program.
In February 1963. Dr. Otto Yok-
lik, an Israeli agent, met with
Gorcke's daughter Heide telling
her that he had been working on
Heide informed the German po- therefore become essential for a
lice and Egyptian intelligence, who three-cornered partnership — the
notified the Swiss secret police. leadership of Israel, the World
The night after the second meet- Zionist Organization and organized
ing, the two men were arrested Jewry — to ,be maintained and
for "violating Swiss neutrality and strengthened. The Zionist General
engaging in illegal activity on be- Council, which is the highest leg-
ffslative body of the movement be
half of a foreign state."
The Israeli identified himself as tween congresses, at its recent
Yosef Ben-Gal, though his true session approved two major pro-
identity, according to Tadmor, is posals introduced by the World
still an official secret. As the Zionist Executive. The first was
newspapers began to pick up the the decision for the expansion of
story of the arrest and forthcom- the Jewish Agency to include the-
ing trial; the details of Nasser's representative's of the fund-raising
plans were exposed to the public. -instrumentalities: the United Jew-
During the trial, Yoklik dis, ish Appeal in the U.S.: the Keren
closed specific details and evi- Heyesod-United Israel Appeal and
dence of Egypt's plans to anni- other fund-raising bodies through-
hilate Israel, and his testimony out the world which provided a
captured headlines throughout major channel for the unprece-
ELKIN
TRAVEL
Wishes to thank our many clients
for making the year 5729 the most
successful yeai in my nineteen years
in the travel business.
We extend to them and their families
a year of
the world. Th two men were dented outpouring of Jewish soli-
given token su pended sentences. darity with Israel during and fol-
[Peace,
Israel's parliament passed a re- lowing the Site Day War. The sec-
solution demanding that Bonn halt and was a decision to undertake
the activities of the West German a world-wide drive for Zionist
scientists, and the West German membership slit each country in the
WealtA and
government finally passed special year 1970, accompanied by a Zio-
legislation restricting German citi- ist counter-offensive against anti-
zens from serving Egypt's war Zionism from whatever source and
machine. The German press final- in whatever form, and to conduct
ly conceded that Israel had "good democratic elections for the 28th
. World Zionist Congress in 1971.
cause for concern."
The effect of the trial was to
The enemies of Israel have
cripple Nasser's plan, Tadmor seized on Zionism as the focus of
writes. The German and Swiss their ideological attacks on Israel
companies involved embarked on and the Jewish people. The pro-
a more cautious course, and sev- , ponents of anti-Semitism, of anti-
eral announced they would no Israelism, of anti-Judaism under
longer deal with munitions. Dr. stand that we are in the midst of
Kleinwachter broke off his Egyp- a great ideological struggle. Will
tian connections along with Gorcke the Jews of .he Diaspora led by
the rocket installation and begged and Pilz.
the Zionist movement, understand
equally that
is the ideological
struggle which will be decisive?
The structural and organizational
changes that the World Zionist Or-
ganization and the Jewish Agency
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are introducing in order to gather
the Jewish world more unitedly
and securely around Israel will
mean little if they are not accom-
panied by a deepening of the ideo-
PLEASE -NOTE: We will be closed Monday. September
of the Jewish national liberation
22nd.
logical foundation and awareness
movement. The expansion of the
Zionist movement will serve as a
trenchant repay to the attacks that
are being levelled at Zionism and
the Jewish people.
LIFE FROM THE DEAD SEA
The Dead 'Sea, whose salt con-
tent kills most forms of sea life, is
being mined for life-giving fertil-
izers by the Israel government.' t
Academic training in Mizrachi Women's many high schools pre-
pares some who will go on to university education, others who will
utilize scientific background in careers.
Large-scale evaporation pans yield
unrefined salt which in turn yields
potash, one of the basic ingredients
of chemical fertilizers.
OUR SINCERE CONGRATULATIONS
TO EL AL ON THE OCCASION OF
THEIR
20th ANNIVERSARY