Spiritual Revival' Growing in .the ilsrael. Arm y .
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TIIVNETRENT JE11 1514 NEWS
26—Friday, November 17, 1971
- By MOSHE, RON
1 - unusual elated • atmospbere:.and carp iie Order to pray:' `Let it be
to Receive
Jewish ' New; Special , ,,,, spiriL -'_. For • many , .soldiers, to make 'us:heads and not tails.:."'-
YORK;
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,.1sraell.. Corrispondent especially members - of -kibutzini, Sephardi; soldiers.' are served viiiii7
TEL, AVIV ---. The new chief these days are their first. meet- white cocks for the prayer on' the 'Minister Abbas. Eban was name&
,`ZioniSCOrgainizi
recipient of " the
rabbi of the Israeli Army, Gen. ing..with.:Jewish religion.
eve- of Yom -Kippur, according thin
'of dimerica's Theodor 'Virg
Mordecai Piron, has -developed a
Rabbi Piron has ordered a totheir custom.
Award. - "-
new system to revive religious special stress on - individual talks
The
detailetrorders
of
the
mill-
The gold medal will be PreSented -
tit /cell: . tga atkl_thought of the soldiers with ,the, soldiers:. He himself has .Ltary-"Oldef rabbinate on how to
on the frontline during the days kept -a' sPeCial meeting-. with , the observe the Hely Days, include to Eban by 'Ildrrnaift. Weismair,
New IttiriClireaident 'Of the
"tif
of awe. .
generalt -of the general staff and also an elplatiatiOn that in -case
For the first time he sent mobile their families and informed them the .enemystaits an attack dur- ZOA, at the organiiation's annual;
' synagogues, with Torah scrolls, about the meaning and import-- „ ing ,Prayers - and services, theite 'dinner, Dec_ 12, at".rthe New York
religious books, ram's horns, ance. of the Holy Days. He sent, a must belinniedisitely interrupted
prayerbooks and prayer-shawls to personal- letter to each soldier in' and the .sOldiers are allowed le,- the Heril- Award is given by
all frontline positions. Each car which he stressed the necessity of take part in any military action the ZOA to "persons of , great dis-
was accompanied by a rabbi and searching his' soul and repenting: and to strike back with all their tinction who have - 'helped shape
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Zionist and Jewish history."
cantor. They entered the fortified
This year was one' of great arms.
positions, stayed and prayed with prosperity for cantors in the army.
The ZOA announced, enlarge-
Gen.
Piron
was
sure
that
-this
the soldiers.
ment of its Israel summer youth
They are mostly metnbers of
It , vi as the former chief rabbi of yeshivot who recognize the state year, owing to the cease fire, it program to accommodate . 400
the . rmy, Shlomo Goren, who of. Israel and serve in the army. would be possible to execute 'the
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's
termed the 40 days between the Some months before the "fearful traditional custom of "Tashlich"
first of Elul until Yom Kipur as days" special courses were held on the Suez Canal without inter- a valuable asset if you're poor and
• Kin Hubbard.
a period for "religious maneuv- for' military cantors. A unified ference. But, unfortunately, exact- fiaven't any sensey
ers" in the army, in order to prayer service wasAaid down for ly on the eve of the New- Year;
the
peaceful
atmosphere
on
the
enhance the . moral and spiritual all soldiers, - whether Ashkenazim,
canal was disturbed by the Egyp-
qualities of the Israeli soldiers.
Sephardim Or - Yemenites.
attack in which seven Israeli
The military' rabbis talk to
Main attention. was directed to tian
pilots died: Al the last minute,
many thousands of soldiers In all the fortified front positions on the the
military chief rabbinate had
camps' 'and front-line positions Suez Canal„ A military cantor is
change a lot of things and to
during the "fearful days" in sent to each such position, where to
make
new arrangements for the
order to arouse religious feelings there is a minyan. A soldier blows soldiers
station ed- on ' the canal,
In them. During this time, even the ram's horn.
who
were
put in a state of alert.
the non-religious soldiers feel an
Orthodox soldiers get -heads of
After Yom Kippur, all soldiers
receive a Inlay and an' etrog,
which were sent to all military
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camps and frontline positions.
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British Truck Firm Bankruptcy
Classified' Ads Get Quick Results
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Is- most idle two years ago when lo-
rael- subsidiary of the British Ley- cally assembled Ford Escorts ap-
land Motors' Corp., which went peared on the market and became
into receivership, may have been overwhelmingly preferred by Is
abandoned because of pressure raeli consumers. Leyland's debts
from Arab countries.
run to more than 40,000,000
Since establishing its assembly pounds ($9,800,000) on annual
sales
of 180,000,000 pounds ($42,-
plant in Israel, Leyland had been
on the Arab boycott list. But sales 900,000).
in the Arab world had been -small
A representative of British Ley-
anyway, and Israel buys sophis- land, Jack Plane, left Israel after
ticated automobiles in greater informing the government and the
, quantity than all the Arab coun- creditors that Leyland could not
tries - combined.
provide $1,220,000 for working cap-
Observers noted that since the ital and buy a controlling inter-
British firm owned 20 per cent est, as the creditors—five banks—
of the shares of the Israeli plant and the government have demand-
and controlled 45, the additional ed. The subsidiary is controlled by
per cent needed for majority con- Itzhak Shubinsky„ its managing di-
trol should have been easy to ob- rector. Shubinsky, a 57-year-old,
tain, considering that the govern- native of Poland, holds 55 per cent
ment and the creditors were will- of the shares, and is also active in
food and shipping.
ing to underwrite loans.
Political motives are cited by
commentators--and, privately, by Lindsay Census Decree
government officials—as the ex-
planation for yesterday's decision. Challenged by Garelik
Another explanation being offered
YORK (JTA) — City Coun-
is that British Leyland did not be- cil NEW
Sanford D. Garelik
lieve its cars could compete on the said President
that he would have the City
open market; the government is CounCil
committee
on civil service
gradually reducing the tariff pro- and labor "fully explore"
questions
tection granted to locally assem- raised by Mayor John V. Lindsay's
bled cars, which in the near future executive order calling for a racial
will have to be sold on their merits and ethnic census of city employes.
instead of on their inexpensive-
In a letter to the American Jew-
ness.
ish Congress — which in a tele-
Despite the development, the
directors general of the trans-
. portat1on and commerce-and-in-
dustry ministries 'expressed the
belief that the plants inquestion
—in Haifa and Ashdod—can, be
reactivated. - They said some of
the debts could' be 'paid ;Cif; if
more efficient methods werejn-
traduced and seperfluout --expee-
ditures eliminahAL
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The three' plants ; •ere: Closed to
allow for inventorieS:by: -the three
receivers—two 'accountants and a
lawyerappointed on 'behalf...1A
the' creditorv, by a district, Court.:
The more than 1,500 workers, were
given a week's leave ..follotving
• wilt -.'') :detisions - will 'hei:-MOrle on
. lion. - ',fittqL 7reenfplqi:'Hitekir L ua
- Israel : -aborfeileration.7derna
gram to Garelik had voiced "anxi-
ety and concern" about the census'
possible "use to "destroy the civil
service merit system" -- Garelik
wrote, "I concur wholeheartedly
with your comments and I share
your concert."
- Responding : to Theodore. .L
-Rolish, _chairman of the Congress'
Council — who had ,
, Metropolitan
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sent the protest telegram calling
for public -hearings -by the city
council Garelik wrote, "The
ethnic -tenses called for by .rea-
son ,of Executive Order No. 49
bas raised many questions and is
susceptible to misuse that could
adversely affect the Civil Service
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to*CciiiiinisSioner Elea-
. that th : be no disMissals while nor- Holnies Norkin, chairman of
- the_rk.•. ' ra try to'reactivate - the the City Commission on—Human
'plants * as is .
apparent in- Riglits,. -Garelik -stated that while
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"eqUalitY of opportunity and the
British Leyland has a monopoly elimination of eMployment discrim-
on truck-selling in Israel that will ination" were "worthy and neces-
be in force for another year. That sary" objectives, "we must be cer-
Part of its operations is said to be tain that in our zeal we do not
, profitable. But the car-assembly infringe upon or do violence to
operation, which produces the Tri- existing safeguards to individual
umph 1300, and 1500, became al- rights."
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