Heads of Two. Israeli Delegations to USSR
Report Cordial Treatment, but a Third . .
PARIS (JTA) — The heads of gion of the victims, Prof. Mozes
two Israeli delegations that arrived reported, but the Intourist guide
here after attending international who accompanied them said the
conferences in the Soviet Union victims included 40,000 Jews and
reported that their groups were 50,000 others. "At no point did
treated with utmost cordiality and he seem to want to hide the iden-
friendliness by their Russian hosts. tity of the victims," Prof. Mozes
Prof. Mark Mozes, whose nine- said.
Asked to comment about the re.:
man group of Israeli doctors spent
two weeks in the USSR, told the cent arrival in Israel of human
JTA that "if anything, we were bones, allegedly the bones of Jew-
given friendlier and more cordial ish victims of Babi Yar brought
treatment than the other delega- to Israel by four American stu-
dents, Prof. Mozes said: "This
tions."
Prof. A. Pines, whose three- simply seems to be impossible. It
member delegation attended an is absurd. The bones of the victims
international conference on the were buried by the Nazis who
history of science in Moscow, re- poured chemical substances over
ported that the organizers — the them until they disintegrated. The
Soviet delegation—had asked him site itself is covered with flowers
to chair one session and that the and trees and it seems out of the
Israeli flag, along with flags of question that human bones could
other nations, was flown outside be found here."
the conference building through-
(The students who brought the
bones to Israel claimed to have
out the gathering.
However, the three Israeli dele- found them at Babi Yar and smug-
gates to the 40th international gled them out of Russia. The bones
meeting of the International Co- were buried in Israel with full
operative Movement did not at- religious rites by the Chief Rab-
tend the opening session of the binate, which apparently accept-
conference on Sept. 2. The three ed the story without question.)
Israelis, members of the Histad- Israeli Political Delegation
rut, Ehud Shilo, Yehuda Cas•i and Repudiates Tass Report
Naphtali Ushpiz, had their pass-
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A mem-
ports presented to the Soviet con- ber of the Israeli delegation cur-
sulate in London which was sup- rently visiting the Soviet Union
posed to grant the visas. However, as guests- of the Russian Peace
the granting of the entry permits Committee has denied that two
was delayed. The president and of his colleagues had told their
the secretary of the ICM in Lon-
don sent cables of protest to the
organizers of the Moscow meet-
ing.
Prof. Mozes refused to speculate
on the political implications of the
Soviet attitude toward the visiting
Israeli doctors who attended a
conference of surgeons and toured
parts of Russia.
He said that the Soviet hosts
at times seemed to go out of
their way to extend "as friend-
ly an attitude as possible" to
their Israeli colleagues. He re-
ported that he was invited by
the dean of the medical school
to be his luncheon guest.
"The dean and his three top as --
sistants took me to lunch and dis-
cussed with me freely, without
the slightest inhibitions, all the
subjects which I raised, medical
or more general," Dr. Mozes said.
As far as I know, no other foreign
delegate received such a personal
invitation."
Dr. Mozes described his delega-
tion's visit to the memorial at
Babi. Yar in the Ukrainian village
where 40,000 Jews were among
those massacred by the Nazis dur-
ing World War II. He said his
group was accompanied on the tour
by 20 other delegates from differ-
ent countries. An inscription on the
memorial in Russian states: "To
the memory of the 90,000 people
murdered here by the Nazis."
There is no mention of the reli-
hosts that Israel must withdraw
from the occupied Arab territories.
According to Tass, the Soviet
news agency, such statements
were made by Yaacov Riftin, a
former Mapam leader, and Ruth
Luvitch, a member of Israel's New
Communist Party.
Riftin was expelled from Ma-
pam recently for holding views
too far left. But according to
James Jacob Rosenthal, for-
mer parliamentary correspond-
ent of Haaretz, no such state-
ment was made by Riftin or
Luvitch.
The group visiting the USSR
are members of the Israel Peace
Committee. They are the first
non-Communist delegation invited
to tour the Soviet Union since
diplomatic relations were broken
off during the Six-Day War.
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