Mrs. Meir Predicts Russia
Will Tell Truth About Jews
JERUSALEM (JTA) —Premier
Golda (Meir predicted that "a day
will come soon when Soviet leaders
as well as intellectuals and youth
will stand up and tell the truth
cwout Jews in the Soviet Union and
will apologize to us for the suffer-
Kigf they have caused the Jewish
people." She spoke at an emerg-
ency meeting of the Israel Council
of Women's Organization's called
to protest the treatment of Jews: .I..,
Russia and in the Arab states.
- Another speaker was Mrs. Herz-
liya Lakai, a recent immigrant
from Iraq who was imprisoned
there for two years. She described
the torture of Jews held for inter-
rogation in Iraq and Syria. She
'hat Syrian Jews are forbid-
- to move beyond three miles
of their homes and cannot possess
elephones or driving licenses. She
aid many have been fired.
rges Congress to Pass
ills for Yiddish Broadcasts
- NEW YORK (JTA) — Citing
"the more than 3,000,000 Jews in
e Soviet Union who have been
deprived of their cultural heritage
nd who would welcome support
from abroad in their struggles to
retain their ethnic identity," the
chairman of the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith urged that
Congress pass two pending bills
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to authorize the Voice of America
to beam Yiddish and Hebrew
roadcasts into the USSR.
The official, Seymour Graubard,
also asked the State Department
to initiate two such weekly broad-
casts — one in Yiddish, one in
iebrew — "for the culture-hungry
Jewish audience in the USSR."
Said Graubard: "It is time
that the Voice of America truly
became the 'voice of American
conscience' with regard to the
agony of Soviet Jews. The Jew-
ish ethnic group, singled out
by the Soviet authorities for
special harassment and denial
of rights, has never been repre-
sented (by the VOA)."
(Anatoly Dobrynin, Soviet am-
bassador to the United States, told
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that he did not think Voice of
America broadcasts in Yiddish to
ews in Russia would neither help
nor harm Soviet-American rela-
tions.
(In a conversation with the JTA
on the admission of newsmen to
trials of Soviet Jews, the ambas-
sador said that news correspond-
ents already in the Soviet Union
"Jan attend trials the judge declares
Ito be open, but that admitting
additional newsmen widens pub-
Alcity the trials do not merit.)
Charges of criminal trespass and
disorderly conduct against 14 Jews
who handcuffed themselves to the
United States Mission on June 14
were dismissed in Criminal Court
by Judge Leon Becker.
After a 2 1/2-hour hearing, the
judge said the government had not
proved that its allegations were
true. The defendants were 11 rab-
bis, two professors and Glenn
Richter, national coordinator of the
Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry.
They were protesting what they
called State Department inaction
on aid to Soviet Jewry, specif-
ically in regard to the initiation
of Yiddish and Hebrew program-
ming into Russia on the Voice
of America. They were also call-
ing on the White House to issue a
strong protest against the treat-
ment and prosecution of Soviet
Jews and to declare support for
the bill to provide 30,000 emergency
visas for Soviet Jews.
A three-day "Speak-out for Sov-
iet Jewry" was held at the Isaiah
Wall, opposite United Nations
headquarters, under the auspices
of the Center for Russian Jewry
and its youth affiliate, the Student
Struggle for Soviet Jewry. Seventy
persons attended.
The speakers included Mrs. Riv-
ka Aleksandrovich, whose daugh-
ter, Ruth is serving time in Riga
for alleged "anti-Soviet activities"
and Robert F. Leonard, the dis-
trict attorney of Genesee County,
Mich., who recently visited Russia.
Librarian Sentenced
to Two Years in Detention
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jewish
librarian Roiza Palatnik has been
sentenced to two years in a regu-
lar detention camp, Jewish sources
reported.
The female prosecutor, sur-
named Tipunova, summed up for
an hour and a half, calling Miss
Palatnik a "traitor," influenced
by "Zionist propaganda," who
had engaged in "very dangerous"
activities, having distributed
"anti-Soviet materials" as a
member of an "ideological front"
that had made use of the nature
of her job to further its designs.
In her 40-minute defense, Miss
Palatnik, who was 36 on June 23,
denied the charges and said the
trials of Soviet Jews were meant
to intimidate Jews into relinquish-
ing their attempts to migrate to
Israel.
She had not been influenced by
"Zionist propaganda,' she said,
but by ther own conscience, and
would remain "strong and digni-
fied" so as not to let down her
fellow Jews. "I allowed myself
the pleasure to think, which
is still forbidden in the Soviet
Union nowadays," she stated. The
three judges deliberated five hours
before rendering their decision.
Relatives of Miss Palatnik called
out: "We are with you, Roiza.
All the Jewish people are with
you. We will meet in Israel." Of-
ficers of the KGB (secret police)
evicted the relatives from the
courtroom for their outburst, the
sources said.
Shapira Bill Would Compensate Arabs
for Property They Had Held Before 1948
JERUSALEM (JTA)—What ap-
pears to be Israel's first major
step toward paying compensation
to Arabs for property they once
held within the borders of the
present Jewish state was an-
nounced Tuesday by Minister of
Justice Yaacov Shapira.
Shapira said that a bill he has
submitted to the government, with
Israeli Leaders
Charged Ignoring
Poverty Sufferers
JERUSALEM (JTA)—An Ameri-
can rabbi has accused "Israeli
leaders, rabbis and intellectuals"
of "indifference" to the plight of
20 per cent of the families in Israel
who live below the proverty level,
most of them of Oriental origin.
Rabbi Authur Hertzberg of Tem-
ple Emanuel, Englewood, N.J., a
member of the Jewish Agency Ex-
ecutive, made the accusation in a
lecture at the American Culture
Center here. He is currently teach-
ing at the Hebrew University.
The Conservative rabbi said he
was disappointed by the Israeli
society's reaction to the appear-
ance of the Black Panthers, a
group of Jerusalem slum youths
of North African and Asian origin,
who have been demonstrating
against inadequate housing and
lack of jobs. He said the reaction
was the same as the American re-
action to the , original Black Pan-
thers, a Negro militant organization
whose name and style the Israeli
youths have adopted.
"Here, like in the United States,
everybody says that the whole
thing was overplayed by Leftists
and that the leaders of the Pan-
thers care only about themselves,"
Rabbi Hertzberg said. "Even if
there is some truth in these as-
sumptions, they are of no practical
meaning." He observed that ac-
cording to government statistics,
20 per cent of the families in Israel
live below the poverty line.
"It is difficult to understand the
indifference of Israeli leaders,
rabbis and intellectuals," he said,
and warned Israel against repeat-
ing the mistakes of the U.S. "Solv-
ing the proverty problem is no less
important than the defense of
Israel," Rabbi Hertzberg declared.
the approval of the premier and
the minister of finance, would ob-
ligate Israel to pay an estimated
minimum of $100,000,000 to Arab
residents of East Jerusalem for
immovable property they possessed
in Israeli territory prior to 1948.
The East Jerusalemites became
official residents of Israel follow-
ing the 1967 Six-Day War.
Under the proposed bill, the
East Jerusalem Arabs, whether
refugees or not, will be compen-
sated' on the basis of the value
of their property in 1947 as de-
termined by a United Nations
commission, plus 25 per cent,
the total to be multiplied by the
factor of 8.4 to allow for infla-
tionary value increases over the
past 24 years.
The formula for compensation is
in accordance with the recommen-
dations of the UN Palestine Con-
cilation Commission of Oct. 2,
1961.
Compensation will be in the form
of nontransferable Israel govern-
ment bonds redeemable in equal
yearly installments over a period
of 20 years commencing in 1975.
The bonds will bear 5 1/2 per cent
interest and will be linked to the
cost-of-living index.
They will be identical to the
State of Israel Bonds sold abroad,
except that the latter have a 17-
year maturation period. The Arabs
will not have the right of choice
between compensation and the ac-
tual restoration of their property
under the Shapira bill. Claims for
compensation will have to be sub-
mitted within two years from the
commencement of the law.
In outlining his measure, Shapira
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said payment would be made in
the form of bonds because the bur-
den on the treasury consequent
upon the obligation to pay compen-
sation will be onorous, and the
treasury cannot make the pay-
ments at once.
Another consideration, he said,
was that the flow of large sums
into the market at one time would
hold peril for the economy.
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