THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 8--Friday, July 9, 1971 • Study Asserts Israel Far Behind Arab Nations in U.S. Military Aid WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israel lags far behind the Arab countries Acute Geriatrics Dent as a recipient of military and eco- I nomic aid from the United States, First in Jerusalem, according to figures published in Open at Shaare Zedek the current issue of Near East JERUSALEM — The first acute Report, publication of the Ameri- geriatrics department in the Jeru- can-Israel Public Affairs Commit- salem area has opened at Shaare tee here. The periodical asserts that while Zedek Hospital. The new unit is designed for elderly people with Arab countries have received U.S. acute diseases who need special- military grants of $230,000,000, Israel received none. ized facilities and treatment. In addition, according to Near With a capacity of 25 beds — divided into rooms of one, two and East Report, Israel has gotten only three beds each—the department about one-third the total U.S. eco- has many special features for the nomic aid to the Arab countries and only Located in the same newnd only one-seventh the nonmili building are the facilities of phy- tary grants. This year's proposed Foreign siotherapy and occupational the- Military Assistance Act author- rapy. _ Prof. Yaacov Menczel, head of izes military material and train- the department of internal medi- ing grants to Saudi Arabia and cine, said the population of Jeru- Jordan among other Mid East salem is today nearly three times states, but none to Israel, the re- what it was one decade ago, and port says. 'Israel has received $500,000,- it includes a large percentage of elderly people, many without fami- 000 in economic and aid cred- its for the purchase of military lies or adequate funds. During the past years, Shaare equipment in the U.S. this past Zedek's department of medicine year and is presently urgently has had some 40 beds available seeking additional credits of about —the maximum possible under $300,000,000. the physical limitations of the present hospital structure. With additional daily emergencies and always with patients lying in beds in the corridors, there has been constant pressure on the staff to release patients as soon as possible. Although the new Shaare Zedek medical center, to be built opposite Mount Herzl, will have expanded geriatrics facilities, hospital direc- tor David M. Meir and his staff felt that the problem was serious enough to warrant the construc- tion of the new acute geriatrics prefabricated unit adjoining the present hospital. The unit was built with the assistance of the JDC Malben. With the inauguration of the new facilities, the most seriously ill will not have to leave the hospital before they are fully recuperated as has happened in the past be- cause of lack of physical space. Shaare Zedek has partially al- leviated this problem with the institution of its Home Care Pro- gram. For the past three years, the hospital personnel — doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, social , Workers—have gone out into the community to care for patients in their homes. Restoration of Sephardic . Synagogues in Old City JERUSALEM (JTA) — Restora- tion work on the Sephardic syna- gogue complex in the J e wish quarter of the Old City will be completed by next Passover or Shavuot, five years after the work began, Mayor Teddy Kollek said Wednesday - on a press tour of the capital. He said the four synagogues in the complex will reopen at that time. There has been an earlier re- Near East Report's citation of the low ratio of U.S. assistance to Israel compared to the Arab countries - is believed intended to counter efforts by some sena- tors to repeal the Jackson Amendment to the 1971 Foreign Military Sales Act. The Jackson Amendment, spon- sored by Sen. Henry M. Jackson, Washington Democrat, gives the President open-ended authority to authorize military credits to Israel. ' The amendment has been crit- icized by Sen. J. William Ful- bright, Arkansas Democrat, who is chairman of the Foreign Rela- tions Committee, and most recent- ly by Sen. Mark Hatfield, Republi- can of Oregon. Near East Report takes excep- tion to what it calls recent "invi- dious utterances" by Sen. Hat- field comparing U.S. per capita aid to Israel with aid to South Vietnam. The publication charged that Hatfield "distorts the figures to fabricate an analogy between Vietnam and Israel which is de- signed to prejudice Israel's cause in the eyes of the American peo- ple." The Nixon administration's de- lay in responding to current Is- raeli requests for more arms aid, including more Phantom jet air- craft, and the congressional analy- sis and markup ,of the military sales and foreign appropriations bills are believed to have prompt- ed the response by Near East Re- port. But while Israel received only a fractional proportion of the U.S. nonmilitary grants to the Arab countries, on a nation-to- nation basis she did not suffer by comparison. American grants to the Arabs were spread be- tween 9-12 states. Sen. Hatfield's position on the Middle East has been hailed in a poit that one of them, the Yochanan Ben Zvi Synagogue, recent edition of Action, a news- would be opened in time for I paper "dedicated to the liberation Rosh Hashana this September. of Palestine." The paper called The Sephardic shuls served as his stand "courageous." the spiritual and social center An earlier issue of Action de- of the Jewish Quarter for 400 scribed the tribute the Federated years, and it was from them that Organization on Arab-American the last remnant of the Old City's Relations paid to Hatfield and his Jewish population emerged to staff for their efforts on behalf surrender to the Arab Legion in of "the people of Palestine." the War of Independence. The Action articles and other Under the Jordanian occupation, documentation of Sen. Hatfield's which ended in June 1967. the Mid East position have come to synagogues' rich furnishings and the attention of the Jewish Tele- ornamentation were destroyed or graphic Agency. They include a looted, and the building turned into statement inserted into the Con- a stable. gressional Record in which Hat- An official of the company field expressed agreement with carrying out the restoration said the proposition that "Zionism to- that 60 families and 300 yeshiva day is a form of aggressive nation- students were now living in re- alism." stored buildings in the Jewish America's Role in Mid East Quarter, and that by next year Stressed to ZOA by Peres there will be 300 families there, TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israel's half the final total. minister of transportation and communication, Shimon Peres, who is said to favor a written Israeli American friendship agreement, said Monday night that the United States must play a role in enabl- ing the people of the Middle East to negotiate their mutual problems with each other to prevent the region's becoming an extension of the Brezhnev doctrine. Speaking at the traditional American Independence Day cele- bration at the headquarters of the Zionist Organization of America, Peres declared, "We do not look to America to save us, nor to fight in our place. We do not seek American dependency so as to balance a Russian dependency (in Egypt). But America must play a role in this region." unless the U.S. supports them." for the bypassing of that country According to Rabin, the U.S. is by Vice President Agnew, who above all concerned with assur- was visiting Saudi Arabia and ing its own interests in the Mid Kuwait on "good will" calls. East and did not want a situation in which Israel's friendship was America's only asset in the re- gion. He said the U.S. sought a settlement, even if it meant strip- ping Israel of most of the ter- ritories captured in the Six-Day War. The cabinet discussed Rabin's remarks at its session Sunday and took the unprecedented step of announcing that it had discussed them. This indicated that Premier Golda Meir and Foreign Minister Abba Eban were less than happy with what their ambassador in Washington had to say publicly He explained that both the about his host country. U.S. and Israel faced the same In another development, the challenge in the Mid East and were equally determined to re- White House denied Tuesday that Merrillwood Mall presidential adviser Dr. Henry A. pel aggression there. Birmingham Walworth Barbour, who was Kissinger will visit Israel on his For Appointment . . . 645-5070 hailed at the celebration for current foreign tour to make up strengthening Israeli American friendship in his decade as U.S. ambassador to Israel, stressed that the two republics agreed on the main goal of peace, though they differed on tactics. He contended that despite press reports, there has never been a dark moment in Washington-Jeru- SO DOES salem relations. QUALITY • SERVICE • PRICE NORTHLAND FORD LEADS THE WAY GEORGE RUSKIN Israelis Take Dim View of Ne... Sisco Visit Without U.S. Policy Changes JERUSALEM (JTA) — Political circles here see little chance for success of the projected visit to Israel by Joseph J. Sisco, the American assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, as long as the Unit- ed States position on the Middle East problem remains unclear and as long as there is no change in Egypt's position. What Sisco has in mind, accord- ing to the reported contents of his recent conversation in Washing- ton with Israeli Ambassador Itz- hak Rabin, is to spend a week in Israel for comprehensive talks aimed at breaking the deadlock over an interim solution involving a reopening of the Suez Canal. State Department officials con- firmed Tuesday the possibility of Sisco's visit later this month. They said he would probably- not visit other capitals in the area and refused comment on the diplo- matic time sequence suggested by the New York Times Tuesday— that Michael Sterner, Egypt coun- try director at the State Depart- ment, and Donald C. Bergus, chief American diplomat in Cairo, re- turned to Cairo Monday for talks on the American role and Amer- ican procedure in negotiations for an interim settlement for reopen- ing the Suez Canal. The Times said that if Sterner and Bergus reported that Egypt was still interested in talks, Sisco would then go to Jerusalem. Circles here believe Sisco will try to "sell" Israel a new State Department policy advocating a more extensive Israeli with- drawal from the canal line than was envisioned earlier. There are also indications that the State Department has abandon- . ed one of the major points on which it has been in full agree- ment with Israel—that no Egyp- tian troops may cross the canal, even after an Israeli pullback. 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