Mrs. Meir Appeals for End to Harassment
of Pathologists; Doctors Go on Strike

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier
Golda Meir appealed to the public
Sunday to assist police in their
investigation of a campaign of
harassment and death threats be-
ing waged by religious zealots
against pathologists who perform
autopsies in public hospitals.
The problem was discussed at
Sunday's cabinet meeting.
A statement issued in Mrs.
Meir's name declared that all
necessary steps would be taken
to "root out this phenomenon."
The statement pledged that the
government would bring the full
weight of the law to bear against
"hooligans engaged in terror."
The Medical Association of Is-
rael has decided that if the threats
do not end, it may consider a na-
tionwide strike, which would par-
alyze the country's health services,
affecting governmental, municipal
and private hospitals.
The Hebrew University Senate
last week expressed support for
the university's recent statement
on the matter of the pathologists.
The university had stated its con-
cern with the issue of the patholo-
gists in Israel and had protested
emphatically against the perpe-
trators of criminal acts which en-
dangered the quality of medical
care in this country.
Prof. Aharon Beller, dean of the
faculty of medicine, in a press con-
ference, has protested strongly
against what he termed insuffi-
cient attention to this problem on
the part of the government authori-
ties.
The medical staffs of the valious
hospitals have decided on an auto-
matic 24-hour strike wherever its
pathologists are threatened. The
large Hadassah Hospital in Jeru-
salem thus was closed Nov. 24
except for emergencies, as a re-
sult of receipt of a bullet attached
to a note reading: 'This time it is
through the mail. Next time—if
dissection of the dead is continued
—it will be through your head." An

Survivor of Nazis
Honors Memory of
Son He Had to Kill

TEL AVIV—In memory of the

18-month-okl son he smothered 29

years ago, a survivor of World
War II donated a Torah scroll to

a synagogue here Tuesday.
in tears, Josef Kramer recalled
at the dedication how he was forced
to murder his son so that 47 other
Jewish fugitives might live.
Kramer, Ms son and other mem-
bers of the Jewish community of
Dublinow, Latvia, were hiding in
an underground bunker as German
soldiers searched for Jews. As they
approached. the hideout, the infant
broke into uncontrollable sobbing.
So that the entire group would
not be given away .by • .the, noise,
Kramer smothered kW son with his
hands. •
All of the group later joined par-
tisans - in East. Europe, and a large
nuither settled- In Paketine. Many
of them attended the Torah . dedi-
cation.

Mapam Opposes Total
Israel-USSR Break

TEL AVIV (JTA)—Mapam re-
fused to %close all doors to better
relations between Israel and the

Soviet Union.
The party's general council re-
jected an outright anti-Soviet reso-
luL3n which appeared certain to
pass, and adopted a more mod-
erate one,
The resolution, following three
days of debates by Mapam lead-
ers, expressed only strong reser-
vations over the present character
of the Soviet regime and the So-
viet attitude toward the Jew'
question.

anonymous telephone call to the
Pathological Institute here, warn-
ing that bombs would go off if the
institute did not relinquish its
corpses for burial, was determined
after a police search to have been
a hoax.
The Beilinson Hospital near here
—largest hospital of the Histadrut
sick fund — was manned by a
skelton staff Nov. 23 as is physi-
cians maintained a 24-hour strike.
Also closed down were the Tel
Hashomer Hospital in Tel Aviv,
the country's largest hospital, and
the Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hedera.
Authorities estimated that at least
60 pathologists are threatened or
harassed each day in hospitals all
over the country.
Meanwhile, Police Minister Shlo-
mo Hillel appeared before the
Knesset's health and civil services

committee to answer charges by
the Physicians Association that the
police are not dealing -with the
threats ,against pathologists with
sufficient vigor. Hillel said every
possible action was being taken
and reported the detention of sev-
eral suspects. But he was unable
to report any investigative success.
A spokesman for the Patholo-
gists Association sharply rejected
a "mediation" offer by Avrabam
Verdigger, a Knesset member of
the Orthodox Poalei Agudat Israel
faction. He told the Jewish Telegra-
phic Agency "The offer is like that
of a burglar who calls on you to
negotiate a compromise after he
has forced entry into your home."
He said the attacks on pathologists
were a crime and it was up to the
police to bring the guilty parties
to justice.

10—Friday, December 3, 1971

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