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 11E) 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 OLDSMOBILE INC Sales • Service on all makes 28000 TELEGRAPH AT TEL-TWELVE MALL 'SOUTHFIELD. 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