Lady Parliamentarians Cardinal Cushing's Credo: Friendship
for Israel Because 'I Seek Justice'
A cross-section of Israel is rep-
resented in the Knesset by seven
women. The leading member,
Prime Minister GoIda Nfeir is the
only one who does not conceal her
age.
Ada Sereni-Feinberg, Zena Har-
man, Chaya (Chaika ) Grossman,
Nlaltilda Gez, Esther Raziel-Naor
and Tova Sanhedral are the other
lady :1f Ks.
After the establishment of Is-
rael, the U.S.-reared Mrs. Meir
was the first ambassador to the
USSR. On her return to Israel, she
became labor minister, then for-
eign minister, then in the spring
of 1969 following the death of Levi
Eshkol, she became prime minis-
ter.
Ada Sereni-Feinberg, a member
of Kibitz Yiron, feels her place.
first and foremost, is in the kibutz,
where she was a teacher. She is
reluctant to make statements about
her policies, but her main interest
is education. "This is an area
which I understand and in which I
feel at home."
Zena Harman, wife of Avraharn
Harman, president of Hebrew
University, promised voters she
would concern herself especially
with family problems. Mrs. Har-
man plans to propose over-all
family planning for education,
health and housing. One of the
most important problems, she
feels, is housing for young cou-
ples and released soldiers.
A member 'of Kibutz Evrcn,
Chaya (Chaika) Grossman be-
lieves that women must be equal
partners in political decisions.
When asked -what she thought of
women's representation in Israeli
institutions, she said: "I am of the
opinion that women representatives
in the. Knesset must be given a
guaranteed number of seats, on
the condition that these seats
should not include those women
who would enter the Knesset be-
cause of their active role in public
The present anxieties we share about the Jew-
ish homeland should not be permitted to separate
us; they should rather bring us together in common
cause. The state of Israel must have its rightful
place among the family
of nations, and it must
be allowed to develop in
dignity and honor. In
saying this we do not seek
to deprive any other peo-
,- ple of their lawful rights:
we ask only that the rights
of all be respected. If
there is any place in
GOI.DA HEIR
God's world that should
life."
Knesset member Matilda Gcz have peace it is the
told voters she will concentrate on Promised Land, the Holy
aliya and absorption, especially Land, the land made se-
from Oriental countries. "We must cure by God's own inter
consider every newcomer as if be vention into the history
were the first newcomer." Mrs. of mankind. We must be-
-
Gez is also interested is helping lieve that Christian, Jew
Cardinal Cushing
large families, aiding retarded and Moslem can find a
children and caring for the elderly harmony worthy of their own heritage, consistent
and blind. with their own greatness, and faithful to their best
Esther Raziel-Naor, the only traditions. It may be the task of our time to bring
woman member of the Gahal all of this about; if it be so — and let us pray that
party in the Knesset, has been it is — let us not shrink from it. Let no sacrifice
a parliamentary figure since the be too great, no effort too demanding, no road we
first Knesset. She is active in the will not walk, no hand we will not grasp — so that
area of education, being a for- a blessed and enduring peace will come to all of
mer teacher by profession. She Palestine. Meanwhile, it is well for us to know the
feels she has made a great con- basic facts that lie at the roots of all the troubles
tribution to abolishing the party between Israel and the Arab countries of the Mid-
system of education and intro- dle East.
ducing a unified government sys-
I am certainly a friend of the Jewish people,
but I speak now not only as a friend but also as
tem.
Tova Sanhedrai ran on the Na- a seeker after justice, as one who would render
tional Religious Party list and has every man his due. This means that I am in no
been a member of the Knesset for sense opposed to the Arab peoples or to their leg,iti-
the last 10 years. She feels that mate rights and aspirations, even if during the
men putting Knesset lists together present struggle I must be more concerned with
feel it their duty to propose just those of Israel.
one woman candidate from their
Israel remains in peril. Due to a double standard
party. "But the fact is that once of appraisal, she has been severely judged by public
a woman is elected to the Knesset,
opinion and, I believe, unjustly.
there is no discrimination against
She is still suspected by many of having in the
her. From now on, it is only a mat-
ter of personality and ability, as past stolen the land of Palestine from its rightful
owners.
in all other areas of life."
Israel Stainps Honor Pioneer, Anniversary
She is accused of callous indifferences toward'
refugees who left their former homes in Palestine.
She is accused of atrocities and terror, of expan-
sionist designs.
These suspicions and accusations are false.
The facts, to my mind, are as follows:
1. The land of Palestine was not stolen by Jews
from the Arabs but was both purchased in part
anti allotted in international law to the Jewish peo-
ple according to a partition plan by a large majority
vote of the United Nations by reason of her con-
tinuous historic tie with the land.
Z. On several occasions Israel has made clear
her desire to solve the refugee problem equitably
but has had her efforts rebuffed every time by her
enemies. Moreover, every reasonable person knows
that this grave problem cannot be resolved before
there is peace.
3. Israel is the prey of a massive campaign of
terror and atrocities against her citizens, despite
a cease-fire agreed_ to by both sides. Since the end
of the Six-Day War a short time ago, some 230
Israeli citizens have lost their lives in terrorist
raids and 870 have been wounded.
4. Time and time again Israel has called for
peace negotiations with the Arab countries of a
kind that will produce a durable peace, but to no
avail.
5. Previous to such a peace she is unwilling to
withdraw to the boundaries of May 1967 because
she rightly considers such a move suicidal. Should
she do so, the Arab armies, fully re-equipped by
Russia and with thousands of Russian technicians,
would be poised in the Gaza Strip, 28 miles from Tel
Aviv. The Jordanian army, strengthened by 10,000
Iraqui troops, would occupy the edge of the West
Bank, less than ten miles from the Mediterranean
Sea. The Syrian army would occupy the Golan
Heights, there to take up again its 20-year barrage
on the Jewish settlements of northern Galilee.
Jerusalem would once again be a divided city, and
Moslems as well as Jews of the New City would
be refused access to their sacred shrines in the
Arab Old City — in place of the open access of all
bel:evers have under the present Israeli occupation.
It cannot be stressed too much that the central
issue of the Arab-Israeli conflict is a genuine con-
cession on the part of the Arab countries of Israel's
right to exist and develop in peace. The failure to
concede this is at the root of the entire conflict.
Israel's Exports See
Changes in Past Year
By MAIM SHACHTER
half the quantity exported (about
In 1969 Israel exported about 11,000,000 units) going to Iran.
34,000,000 pairs of tights or panti- Iran was also an important im-
hose. About 18,000,000 went to the porter of chicks from Israel. In
United States and the remainder 1969, 1,700,000 chicks were sent to
to most West European countries Iran whereas all other countries
—Hong Kong, South Africa, Zam- put together imported only some
bia, Kenya, Canada and Australia. 2,000,000 chicks.
This is one of the many interest-
Of the total increase in exports to
ing items gleaned from the latest Romania amounting to $5,000,000
Export Review brought out by the in 1969, phosphates accounted for
Israel Central Office of Statistics,
$1,000,000, buses and trucks for
as a quarterly addendum to the
$800,000. Among other East Euro-
Foreign Trade Journal issued by pean countries, increased ex-
the same office.
ports went also to Bulgaria and
A thumbing through this publi- Czechoslovakia. The increased ex-
cation shows that while Israel's ports to Bulgaria, to the figure of
tire exports increased by about $1,500,000, were accounted for
one-third in 1969 as compared with mainly by chemicals and synthe-
figures for the previous year, tic fibres and fabrics while the
marked changes took place in the increase of exports to Czechoslo-
composition of these exports and vakia, to the figure $500,000, was
A new .series of Israel stamps adds immensely to the Jewish state's efforts to extend the countries to which the product due mainly to larger consign-
its philatelic services. Of special interest is the commemorative marking the centenary of the was sent. Whereas Germany, Yu- ments of citrus fruits and knit-
establishment of the famous Mikve Israel agricultural school near Rishon LeZion—between goslavia and Iran showed a dras- wear.
Tel Aviv and Rehovot. Accompanying that stamp is a companion issue honoring the memory tic cut in tire purchases (from
There was a marked increase
of Charles Netter, the eminent French-Jewish leader who devoted the last years of his life 42 per cent in 1968 to 13 per cent in in exports to Spain which in 1969
11826-1882) supervising the establishment and development of Mikve Israel where he died. 1969), exports to the United States amounted to 911,000,000, almost
increased three-fold, to Canada
These two stamps are shown on the left. Another series of three stamps marks the 22nd
from $5,000 worth in 1968 to $3,- double the figure for 1968. Almost
anniversary of Israel. The last stamp in the series shown above on the right is dedicated to 000,000 worth in 1969, and to Ni- the whole of this rise is accounted .
the 1970 Memorial Day — a traditional observance on Israel's Independence Day.
geria from $20,000 worth in 1968 for by increased exports of copper
ore. The 30 per cent increase in
to over $1,000,000 in 1969.
The 20 per cent rise in exports exports to Greece ($3,000,000) is
of leather coats and suits is ac- accounted for by larger consign-
ments of most of the products sold
Thus the idea was evolved of es- counted for entirely by a rise in to that country—livestock feed,
the
already
famous
Dead
Sea
the export of men's leather coats
By ODED MESSER
tablishing a chemical manufactur-
Any tourist in Israel today who, potash works were reactivated
to the United States which in 1969 chemicals and medicines, plastic
having visited Beersheba, decides and improved. Then began the ing complex around the great phos- amounted to $1,000,000 (33,000 goods, textiles, clothing and cop-
to go on to the Dead Sea, cannot mining and marketing of phos- phate field that exists between units) as compared with $270,000 - per ore.
but be impressed by the prodigious phates, and later on the pumping Arad and Oron, about 25 miles (8,000 units) the previous year. To
Australia figured prominently
construction activity he Will come of the newly-discovered oil and to the southwest, and the potash the United States were exported among the purchases of Israel
in 1969 also about 40,000 leather goods, exports rising by almost
across when he has covered about natural gas. But it was not until
25 miles of his eastward journey. comparatively recently, in the works at Sdom, the southernmost coats for women and about 2,000 50 per cent. This rise is accounted
Here, between the two develop- early '60s, that the Ministry of tip of the Dead Sea. The project leather suits.
for mainly by increased exports
The export of edible eggs which of textiles and clothing ($1,000,-
ment towns of Dimona and Arad, Development, together with va- was named "The Arad Complex."
in
1968
amounted
to
$1,200,000
and
he will be in the center of a re- rious chemical undertakings and
000) as well as of food commodi-
It took some time for the govern-
severalindividuals
with
a particu-
gion whose natural resources have lar
in in the
chemical
in-
1967
to $3,000,000,
came to an ties, chemicals and tires.
right partner
for
find the
ment
to in
transformed it into Israel's num-
this important enterprise, and it almost complete stoppage in 1969,
In 1969 exports to Turkey dropped
dustry, came to the conclusion that
ber one development area. .
was not until 1965 that an agree- Turkey being the only country
Israel began to exploit these Israel did not have to confine
and ment was reached with an Ameri- which continued to import them by about 40 per cent (S1,600,000).
to the mere extraction
This is due to decreased consign-
resources immediately after the herself
export of the minerals. can corporation, the Madeira Com- from Israel. On the other hand,
establishment of the state. First,
pany of Delaware, to form the the export of incubation eggs rose ments of most of the products
by about 18 per cent in 1969, about sold to Turkey, especially yarn.
Friday, May 15, 1970 — A - 3 Arad Chemical Industries Co.
New Chemical Industries in the Negev
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