DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, January 9, 1970-17 Youth Aliya Hadassah Exhibit The premiere of Hadassah's multi-media exhibition, "We Want to Live," on view through Jan. 18 at the New York Cultural Center, depicting 35 years of Youth Aliya, attracted a glittering throng. At right are Mrs. Arthur J. Goldberg, wife of the former U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and Richard Tucker, Metropolitan Opera star. At the left are Allon Schoener, who designed the exhibition and Mrs. Max Schenk, Hadassah's national president. The magnified photographs show a few of the 135,000 children from 80 countries who have been rescued, rehabilitated and educated through Youth Aliya's program in Israel. Inflationary Threats to Israel By ELIAHU SALPETER (Copyright 1970, JTA, Inc.) The public argument over the Cooling of relations between Israel and the United States, following publication of American proposals for an Israel-Egyptian and Israel- Jordanian settlement has had re- grettable results in a non-political area—the country's serious econ- °Mk situation. Logically, if the country is wor- ried about political pressure from abroad, special attention should be given to the economic aspects of its ability to stand up to such pressure. Responsible government leaders and publicists argue along these lines. However, the broad public is too busy worrying about Washington's reported effort to de- tach itself from close association with Jerusalem, to pay much at- tention to the economic front. Peo- ple concentrate on political and military events almost to the ex- clusion of the grave economic situation. Israel's leading satirist, Efraim Kishon, some weeks ago described a nightmare he had of inadvertent- ly crossing the border and being captured by El Fatah. They are about to execute him, when sud- denly, in a flash of genius, he tells them that he is not just any Is- raeli, but an Israeli port-worker. Instanhis hands are untied, he is offere a cup of coffee and wel- comed to the campfire as a be- loved comrade - in - arms. Arafat loved (the El Fatah leader) tells him: "Continue, brother, continue; we can never do as much against the Zionist enemy as you do!" • Indeed, there was hardly a month in the past two years with- out a strike of some kind or an- other at one or all of Israel's sea- ports. Damages to the nation's economy has run into tens of mil- lions of dollars. The latest strike IS by stevedores who load Israel's citrus exports at Haifa. They have succeeded in halting shipment of the nation's second most important Ituf-POrt commodity, just as the sea- son is getting into full swing. The present strike has less to do With Haifa than with Histadrut headquarters in Tel Aviv. For the first time in recent .years, Hista- drut is not even tacitly supporting the Haifa Port Administration's proposals for efficiency measures, the root of all port strikes here. Histadrut came out against the port administration. Some observers attribute this change to the new secretary gen- eral of the * Histadrut, Yitzhak Ben Aharon, the first non-Mapai leader to hold that office. Ben Aharon belongs to the former Ahdut Avoda 'faction- (now-'merged with Mapai and Rafi in the Israel La- bor Party). He is ideologically more doctrinaire than any of his predecessors in the past two de- cades. To him, Israel is sharply divided into workers and capital- ists. Another practical reason for his tough stand may be the huge increases he is demanding in the new wage agreements about to be negotiated for 1970. Reportedly, Ben Aharon feels that one of the major reasons for wildcat strikes in recent years was the frittering away of Histadrut authority over the workers. To regain this auth- ority, the majority of the workers must be convinced that the trade unions are fighting hard for their interests. • • • Economists fear that if Ben Aharon insists on his wage de- mands—and the government gives in—Israel's economy is due for a dangerous inflationary cycle of wage increases, higher prices, higher taxes and a critical slow- down in the country's export drive. Selling more abroad—as well as increasing production at home to reduce imports—is no less crucial than the ability to purchase more tanks and planes; a further deter- ioration of Israel's foreign cur- rency reserves may gravely hurt her ability to buy vital war materiel. Israel's foreign currency re- serves are down to almost half of what they were after the Six-Day War. This is partly due to the need for heavy defense expendi- tures abroad. It is also the result of increasing imports of consumer goods, on one hand, and a lag in exports to hard-currency countries. Pinhas Sapir, who has again taken over the ministry of finance in the new cabinet, has warned of serious belt-tightening ahead. Whether Histadrut helps him may be one of the most important ques- tions of the new year. Franco to Get First Copy of Book on Jews' Rescue NEW YORK—The first rabbi to be invited by the Spanish govern- ment as its official guest, Dr. Chaim U. Lipschitz, president of the National Information Bureau for Jewish Life, Inc., will present to Generalissimo Franco of Spain the first manuscript of a book he wrote on "Franco and the Jews," a documented review of the gen- eral's role in saving 60,000 Jews of Europe during World War II. On Tuesday, Dr. Lipschitz left New York for a 19-day visit to Spain. The rabbi is carrying an ancient sacramental wine cup to be given to Franco, a gift from Rabbi Abraham Gross, president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. - - Study Finds Losses in Freedom in M.E. NEW YORK—The Middle East suffered a net loss of freedom in 1969, it was reported by Freedom House in its 18th annual "Balance Sheet of Freedom" issued last week. The nonpartisan institution de- scribes itself as an organization dedicated to the strengthening of free societies. The balance sheet, compiled from reports of area specialists, scholars and the world press, con- demned Palestinian guerrillas for stepping up their attacks around Israel's borders and the Israeli counter blows. The report also said that coups d'etat in Libya, Somalia and the Sudan had left "radical Arabs" ruling "most of Africa north of the Sahara." Repression of dissent in the Soviet Union was harsher than usual in 1969, particularly against many intellectuals and against organized religion, the report said. "The humiliation of Alexander Dubcek" in Czechoslovakia also was condemned. The study said that it was "no small achievement" that "man- kind survived the sixties with existing freedoms fairly intact." 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