▪ ▪ THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 5, 1969-23 Defense Dept. i1ide Took Cairo List of U. S. Enai ■ i res iam Israel Forces WASHINGTON (.ITA I—Robert S. Pranger, deputy assistant s•cre- tary of defense, was in Ca iro re cently to convince the Nasser re gime that U. S. military person- nel are not serving in Israeli arm ed forces as Egypt has alleged. military hold dual American- Israel citizenship, the sources said. It was noted that Pranger met with the two officials said to be most responsible for spreading the The Defense Department official allegations about American mili- went to Cairo, after visiting Israel tary men serving in Israel. They Mohammed Hassanein Hei- and Jordan to ask the Egyptians to were accept America's word that there kal, editor of the semi-official Al Ahram, and one of newspaper, The Pranger visit, well-informed is no official involvement of U. S. sources here reported, was made personnel in Israeli forces. It was Nasser's closest confidants, and at the bequest of the State Depart- hoped. the sou rces said, that pre- with Foreign Minister Mahmoud ment, which was said to be ex- sentation of a list and personal Riad. Cairo Radio said that 48 Ameri- tremely concerned about the alle- assurances would convince Presi- gations. dent Nasser and his top aides of cans were piloting Israeli jets while 136 more were serving in U. S. sincerity on that issue. Pranger was said to have de- radar and ground crews. The alle- livered a list of all known Amer- The main point of the Pranger • gations were termed "complete ican olim (new immigrants) visit was said to emphasize that nonsense" by an Israeli military serving in the Israeli forces as the U. S government looks with spokesman. He said, "We are fly- draftees or volunteers. The list disfavor at the limited voluntary ing our own planes and manning may have been prepared by the involvement and is concerned our own ground facilities. We don't about the credibility of American need foreign pilots or ground crews U. S. Embassy in Israel to dem- onstrate that a relatively small assurances about it, the sources and have have them." number of persons in the Israeli said. The Cairo visit of Pranger and consultations with two of Col. State High Court Overturns Decision on Benton Harbor Synagogue Pledge LANSING—Retrial of a 10-year', dispute over a Benton Harbor synagogue's building fund has been ordered by the State Supreme Court on the basis of a pre- ' cedent in the Shulhan Arukh. Hebrew U. Honors Med School Grads From. Africa, Asia The court thus overturned a de- cision by a Berrien County Cir- cuit Court judge and the State Court of Appeals, who ruled that Nlorris Martin, a member of Cong. Bnai Sholom, owed $25,000 which he informally pledged in 1959 to the synagogue's building fund. The Supreme Court held that Martin and his family had not been allowed to assert that "the custom of their religion . . . requires disputes between the synagogue and its members JERUSALEM—Eighteen medical over religious matters to be re- students from Africa, Asia and • solved according to Jewish law." Cyprus, who have completed a six-year medical course at the Ile brew University-liadassah Medical School, were guests of honor at a dinner in Jerusalem's King David Hotel, hosted by the Israel Minis- try of Foreign Affairs and the medical school. This brings to 47 the number of students from developing countries who have finished the medical course set up in 1961 jointly by the foreign ministry's division of in- ternational cooperation and the Hebrew University-Hadassah Med- ical School in cooperation with the United Nations World Ilcalth Or- ganization. The study p r o g r am was launched eight years ago in re- sponse to requests from several newly independent countries of Africa and Asia. Hebrew is essential when the students come in contact with pa- tients during clinical studies, and all the graduating students today Speak fluent Hebrew. In addition to this year's grad- African countries and four from Cyprus) who have completed one year of internship at hospitals in Israel following their medical stud- ies in Jerusalem, attended the din- ner. U.S. Gives $182,000 to 2 Projects Pushed by Gerald L. K. Smith WASHINGTON—A "tourism com- plex" project promoted by hate peddler Gerald L. K. Smith has been awarded a $182,000 federal grant from the Commerce and Transportation departments. Jack Anderson wrote in his syndicated column in the Free Press. The gift will go toward new roads to improve access to the "Christ of the Ozarks" statue and the "Passion Play" near Eureka Springs, Ark., both the work of the Etna M. Smith Foundation. organized by Smith and named for his wife. Anderson states that it is "in- conceivable" that the federal government didn't know who %%as behind the Eureka Springs proj- ects. The Commerce Department said the federal funds "will help stiniti late growth in tourism and create new jobs." Under the Shulhan Arukh, a rabbinical court is the only body which may hear civil suits between a synagogue and its members. However, in an opinion by Justice Paul L. Adams, the high court said it still viewed most charitable contributions as bind- ing on donors. Hebrew With a Brogue JERUSALEM — Israel's new audio-visual methods for teaching the Hebrew language to new grants, successfully used by emis- saries of the Jewish Agency in ' their "Hebrew Language Labora- tories" abroad, have aroused great interest among education authori- ties in several European countries. The government of Eire sent a special television team to film and record Hebrew language teaching methods at the Inter-1 national Hebrew Seminar now tak- ing place at Cranfield in English. Nasser's closest associates were NEED WALLPAPER ? CARS TO BE DRIVEN To any state. Also drivers furnish- ed to drive your car anywhere. Legally insured and I.C.C. licensed. SEE PAGE 18 DRIVEAWAY SERVICE 9970 Grand River Detroit, Mich. 48204 WE 1-0620-21-22 England invades Detroit! the first by a high-ranking U. S. official since Lucius W. Battle, former assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, went in 1968. State Department officials would say only that Pranger was on an "orientation" visit. U. S. diplomats in the Spanish Embassy, which handles American interests in Egypt, said he came to "gather informa- tion and answer any questions the Egyptians might put to him." 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