THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 34—Friday, January 22, 1971 Rabin Coining to Pre-Campaign Dinner: St. John at Women's Rally on Wednesday 300 Egyptian Jews Take Refuge Israel Ambassador to the United campaign chairman. Mrs. Norman one of the best books written on in France After Govt. Intervention States Itzhak Rabin and Mrs. Rabin H. Rosenfeld is chairman of the Israel by a non-Jew. will be honored guests at the pre- ca mpaign dinner of the 1971 Allied 'ewis h' Campaign-Israel Emer- gency Fund, 7:30p.m. Feb. 9, at Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Southfield. _ This traditional black tie affair for contributors of $1,000 and over is one of the major events of this year's fund-raising efforts. Major General Rabin is a sabre who spent his youth preparing for a career in pioneer farming. After graduating with honors from agri- culture school, he joined the Pal- mach to fulfill his military obliga- tion. His enlistment lasted 27 years as he rose from underground fight- er to chief of staff of the Israel defense forces. During the Six-Day War in 1967, Ambassador Rabin won the admiration and respect of military leaders throughout the world for his daring and success- ful strategies. Pre - campaign chairmen are Lewis S. Grossman and David S. Mondry. Aiding in arrangements for the dinner are the pre-cam- paign vice chairmen, Paul Bor- man, Warren D. Greenstone, Daniel M. Honigman, Harold S. Victor and George M. Zeltzer. A reception will be held at 6:20 e p.m. prior to the dinner. Meyer M. Fishman and Max M. Shaye. 1971 campaign chairmen. said that many divisions of the drive are already well organized and beginning the job of assign- ments of prospects while planning their participation in the pre-cam- paign dinner. Among the division and lection meetings scheduled for the next two weeks are: Pace-Setters. St. John has spent the major portion of the past three decades traveling about Europe, Africa and the Middle East, gaining knowl- edge of the people and customs of ROBERT ST. JOHN each area and gathering informa- tion which he translates into prize- winning books. A long-time sup- porter of Israel, the author-report- er first visited Palestine in 1948, arriving as the new state of Israel was born. After witnessing the battles for independence and the uneasy peace which followed, St. John wrote "Shalom Means Peace," which many critics called Real Estate and Building Trades Division will have its workers orientation meeting, 9 a.m. Sunday at Rascal House. Irving Seligman, chairman. Richard Sloan, associate chairman, will speak on his recent Israel visit. - Treasury Gifts Section of the Metropolitan Division .will meet 10 a.m. Sunday at the Jewish Center. Robert Kasle, a member of the recent United Jewish Appeal Op- eration Israel Mission, will report on his experiences in Israel. Industrial and Automotive Divi- sion assignment meeting will be 8 p.m. Monday at the Rascal House, reports Phillip T. Warren, chairman. Women's Wear Section of the Mercantile Division will meet 9:30 a.m., Sunday at the Jewish Center. Medical Physicians Section meets 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Rascal House, for its assignment and or- ientation rally, according to Dr. Lloyd J. Paul, chairman. Lewis S. Grossman, member of Operation Israel 1971, will address the group. Food Division will meet 9:30 a.m. Jan. 31, at the Jewish Center. Pre-Campaign Cabinet will meet for a brunch meeting 10 a.m. Jan. 31, at the Jewish Center Special Gifts Section of the Met ropolitan Division will meet 10 a.m. Sunday, at the Jewish. Center, according to Morris Asher, chairman. Lewis S. Grossman will speak on "Crisis Israel: What Will Be the End?" Junior Division will hold an as- signment and orientation meeting, 11:30 a.m. Jan. 31, in Kirts Com- munity House of Somerset Apart- ments, Troy. Robert G. Slatkin, division chairman, reports that the guest will be Hyman Safran, im- These photos show Detrolters and mediate past president of the Jew- ish Welfare Federation and chair- guests at fmsd-raising functions held last week. man of its Federation executive In the upper photo, Louis Berry committee. is conversing with Joseph Feld- • • • man at the meeting that was ad- dressed by Israel Minister Pace-Setters to Hear of Communications and Posts Author Robert St. John Shimon Peres. Robert St. John, noted author Middle photo shows Samuel Hab- and lecturer, will speak at tha er, executive vice president of the Women's Division Pace-Setters Joint Distribution Committee, with meeting of the Allied Jewish Cam- Mrs. Max Stoliman, president of paign noon Wednesday, at the the women's division. home of Mrs. David Emerman, Bottom photo shows Nathan Franklin. King conversing with Isidore Win- Mrs. Morris J. Brandwine is kelman. Among his other books related to Israel are "Ben-Gurion, the Biog- raphy of an Extraordinary Man," "They Came From Everywhere" and "Tongue of the Prophets," a biography of Eliezer Ben Yehuda. Because of his particular rapport and intimate knowledge of Israel, Life Magazine commissioned St. John to write the definitive volume on that country for its Life World Library. He was recently commis- sioned to write an authorized biog- raphy on Israel's Foreign Minister Abbe Eban. The women's division first fund- raising event was held last week when -they met for their pre- campaign luncheon at the Great Lakes Club. The women present pledged a total of $630,279, an increase of 23 per cent over 1970 from the same women of $127,054. Samuel Haber, executive vice chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, told the women at the meeting that "our gifts, our con- tributions and our involvement concern the very life of Israel." "Israel represents the centrality of Jewish life," he said. "I cannot conceive of its destruction. If ever there was a year to say to ourselves 'sacrifice a little,' this is it." "If you don't sacrifice and you don't hurt yourselves then you are not doing enough. And these things must be done now — in a year of crisis." Mrs. Melvin Kolbert, pre-cam paign chairman, said that the "response of our women was beau- tiful. They doubled and redoubled their gifts of last year. Our women in Detroit understand the crisis which faces Israel and at the same time, understand the needs of our community services here at home." e St. John's Ben-Gurion Biography is Expanded Announcement was made this week by the publishers of Robert St. John, Doubleday & Co., that his biography of David Ben-Gurion will be issued in a new edition. St. John's "Ben-Gurion, the Bio- graphy of an Extraordinary Man," was translated into eight languages and has gone through 10 editions in the United States. Now a new edition is to be published by Dou- bleday with additional chapters bringing the story up to date and adding some of the former Prime Minister's predictions for the fu- ture. St. John and his wife, Ruth, spent considerable time with Israel's elder statesman at his Sde Boker home last autumn, making tape recordings and taking notes for these additional chapters. The revised Ben-Gurion book will be out in August. Meanwhile, Greenwood Press will within the next few weeks put out a new edi- tion of "The Tongue of the Proph- ets," St. John's biography of Elie- zer Ben-Yehuda, the father pf the modern Hebrew language which has been out of print for several years. Many critics consider this book, which reads almost like a novel, the best that has come from St. John's typewriter. Afro-Asian Bloc at UN in Anti-Israel Camp UNITED NATIONS (ZINS) — Despite Israel's intensive diploma- tic effort to gain influence among the Afro-Asian bloc by extending technical and material aid, the re- sults in winning friends have been almost zero. Observers note that some Afro- Asian countries have even com- mented that if Israel demands a political price for her aid, they will do without it. Furthermore, in the view of these observers, there is little hope -that the situation might change. They feel new resolutions to be in- troduced in the UN by the Arab contingents and their allies will be even more extreme and that the expected support from the Afro- Asian bloc will not diminish. riziwoL bohnU PARIS (JTA) — Three hundred Egyptian Jews have arrived in France and been taken under the wing of the welfare service of the Fond Sociale Juif Unifie, the ma- jor central Jewish communal or- ganization in France. The refugees left Egypt with travel documents delivered to Cairo authorities by the French consular officials there as part of a diplomatic intervention on the Jews' behalf by the French Foreign Ministry. Last July, it was reported that the last 73 Jewish prisoners in Egypt and 36 nonprisoners had been permitted to leave the coun- try secretly with French pass- ports. It was reported then that 1,800 Jews had left Egypt since the Six-Day War through the diplomatic intervention of the French and Spanish govern. ments. Last July, there were believed to be 900-1,000 Jews in Egypt. The FSJU welfare bureau now said that a total of some 2,000 North African Jews had reached France during the first 10 months of 1970, plus 120 refugees from Eastern Europe, mainly Poland. Most of them are stateless and have been supplied with travel documents and identification, papers by the French High Commission for Refugees. 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