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Purely Commentary

How America Benefits from Foreign Investments
It has served the purpose of Israel's enemies to charge that over-
seas relief is not patriotic and that Israel Bond purchases drain
America of our dollars.
Compassionate people will not make the first charge, and the
knowledgeable should know better by this time.
If saving lives and repatriating oppressed is sinful, then there
are no blessings left for mankind.
As to the Israel Bond campaigns: in the first place, the invest-
ments remain in -this country, mostly for the purchase of American
goods for Israel; and then there is the practical value of international
business._
On the latter score, we draw upon an interesting illustrated state-
ment that was' made by Industrial Press Service of the National
association of Manufacturers.
The pictorial definition and the factual statement headed "Overseas
Investments Benefit America" are:

GANGWAYS TO PROGRESS

Ben Gurion's Memoirs as Guides to. Students of
Israel's History . . . Fascinating International
Resort to Traditional Kohanic Hebrew Prayer

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Slomovitz
By Philip

Genius of Israeli Leadership Depicted in Ben-Gurion's 'Personal. Story'
David Ben-Gurion's remarkable book. "Israel: A Personal History," (published by Funk and Wag.
nails), serves a splendid purpose in understanding the leadership in Israel. While it is titled "A Personal
History," it is really the history of the Israel that has emerged under B-G's leadership and ,the sto ry 01
the Jewish people during the era of larders struggles to reach the present status of sovereignty,
B-G comments on many things. He deals extensively with , the Eiclunann trial. He devotes much
space to the Lavon Affair. He touches upon it as a "security mishap" and he comments on the "scandal
factory" that emerged in the course of that affair involving Pinhas Lavon who served as defense mi n..
ister under the premiership of Moshe. Sharett.
These are all historical details. What makes the volume especially significant — esPecially for people ,
like the delegates to the World Zionist Congress who should have searched for facts regarding the "heroes"
and the woman and the men who had risen to power in Israel—is the background offered regarding thes e
Israelis who rose from the farms into military geniuses and some as diplomatic_ experts.
Ben-Gurion himself is the greatest hero of this story. He is 85, yet he retains much of the vigor of
a lifetime and of the era of his stewardship when he was the architect of the Jewish State. That is why
his "personal story" emerges as a tale about a state and about the people Israel.

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and to work for improvement of domestic productivity so that U.S.
fiims will be competitive overseas.
Volunteer workers in the Israel Bond Organization and those
who have America's best interests at heart should find this illuminating
statement of great value. It demolishes the stupidities that have been
resorted to by the prejudiced who can't see value in the Israeli aims
for progress in human society, and the unfortunate lack of knowledge
among those who regrettably may be misled by the bias leveled at
Israel. Let the definitive statement from the Industrial Service do a
job that mere idealism found it a bit difficult to perform.

Old Hoj - Station

Found in Sinai

RAMAT GAN. — An important
architectural project executed by
the 16th Century sultan who was
the last of the Mamluk dynasty -
was recently uncovered by Dr.
a
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Shmuel Tamari, of the department
The 'Yevorekhekha' in Interdenominational Use
of Arabic at Bar-/lan University.
Leonard N. Simons undoubtedly is among the country's best public
A detailed report. of the dis-
relations men and he certainly is a keen student of every aspect of
coyerx waspublished by the Nation-
interdenominational .prasticei.
Ile'relirole slips up on anything that develops to indicate a Jewish- al Academy of Sciences in Italy.
Christian relationship or anything, for that matter, that has an effect
Sultan Qansuh al Gauri built a
on Jewish experiences.
special caravan station about 30
During the December holiday period he was struck by the message kiloineters northwest of Eilat for
that was circulated by the Historical Museum of the Detroit Historical the benefit of the pilgrims coming
Society (among the honors he had earned was the presidency of the from the west on their way- to . -
Detroit Historical Society), and he sent us this excerpt from that circu- Mecca.
lar greeting:
At this station he made a pass-
Seek the "end of the rainbow" to share with us, especially at
age cutting a path through the lime-
this season,- the treasure most sought in our world today and the
stone mountains and put up build-
wish and ancient blessing first spoken by Moses:
ings as welL'as food and water
"The Lord bless you and keep you
facilities needed for the pilgrims
The Lord deal kindly
passing through.
and graciously with you .. .
Inscriptions including a medal
The Lord bestow his favor upon you
to the sultan, as well as passages
and grant you peace."
from Koran, are found on the
Then, shortly thereafter, came a holiday greeting from distin- walls of the mountain pass. It is .
guished members of the American Bible Students, and its text was: estimated that the project was
carried out about 1510.
This is considered one of the
most interesting stations built on
the Hoj road from Agrod near
Suez, where the pilgrims from
Egypt, and even those coming from
BLESS THEE, - AND KEEP THEE:
as far away as Andalusia in Spain,
would congregate.
This great improvement of the
Hoj road also may have been
MAKE, HIS FACE SHINE UPON THEE,
meant to encourage trade.
The strangest aspect of this dis-
AND BE GRACIOUS UNTO THEE:
covery is that despite the archi-
tectural magnitude of the site, it
is not indicated on any map or
manuscript, right back to the period
of its construction, except one.
LIFT- UP -HIS COUNTENANCE UPON THEE,
Dr. Tatnari, assisted by a
AND GIVE THEE PEACE.
scholarship from the French
government, carried out three
months of research in Paris, check-
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ing Islamic manuscripts back to
the 16th Century.
found the site mentioned only
Our readers will recognize in these texts the traditional Jewish in He
the writings of Abd. al-Gani an
Kohanic blessing—the three-fold "Yevorekhekha .
Nabulsi
describes the Hoj
This is the type of emulation that brings us glory, satisfaction road, the who
station, the mountain
and great pride. If we continue to share the Kohanic message, perhaps pass,
the inscriptions . . . and re-
we will all be blessed—as individuals, as peoples and as human beings veals
vae
l.aulsrvb
the name of the place-Aqabat
place
who. crave far peace-and--fer--amity among all men.

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THE LORD

The 'international operations of American companies are increas-
ingly criticized on the erroneous grounds that they cause domestic
unemployment, contri b ute to the balance-of-payments deficit, export
U.S. technological "know how" and take advantage of tax and tariff
loopholes.
The truth is that U.S. foreign direct investment has contributed
a cumulative credit to the balance of payments of more than $11
billion since 1960. U.S. firms often are faced with the choice of
producing abroad or being forced out of the market. On the other
hand, new foreign investment in the U.S. now totals more than a
billion dollars a year. The direct investment by U.S. corporations
has opened vast world markets for U.S. high-technology products
and certainly all reputable concerns comply with the tax laws both
at home and in the host countries.
What is needed is what U.S. Steel vice chairman R. Heath Lam
calls "an equalization of the game rules." He was applauded recently
at a business meeting when he said: "I don't think it's fair trade
when another country unloads all of its products into our country at
prices far below their home-market prices.
Instead of calling for the control of the foreign investment and
operations of U.S. firms, labor unions and other groups should join
in the effort to encourage investment abroad. The challenge is to
make the competition we face from other –cosustries -mere-equitable

THE LORD

THE LORD

Ben-Gurion's Fascinating 'Israel: A Personal History'

Editor's Note: Dr. Voss,
widely
known Protestant minister, of Jackson-
ville Fla., has lectured and written ex-

tensively on interfaith cooperation. In
his many trips to Israel, he has visited
Best-Gurten frequently. Dr. Voss's next
book mitt be "A Summons Unto Men:
An Anthology 'of the Writings of John
Haynes- Holmes," late minister of New
York's famed Community Church.
ISRAEL: A. PERSONAL HISTORY. By
David Ben•Gurtaa. Translated by
Nemesia Meyers and Uzy N ystar.
Funk and Magnet and Sabra Books
(distributed by Crowell). 862 pp.
$17.50.

By CARL HERMANN VOSS
David Ben-Gurion's 85th birth-
day in October of 1971 brought
him congratulations from untold
thousands of Jews and non-Jews all
over the world.
Lan George Washington, he was
Indeed the "father of his country";

2--Frkley, Febrgery 4. 1972

like Jefferson, the sole author of
his nation's Declaration of Inde-
pendence; and as Churchill led his
countrymen to victory in 1940-45,
so did Ben-Gurion as commander-
in-chief against the Arab states' in-
vasion in 1948 and their threatened
aggression in 1956.
Some would say he was the guid-
ing spirit and influence from his
desert home in Kibutz Sde Baker
for the Six-Day War in June, 1967.
All this, and much more, is ad-
mirably related in his newest book,
a massive, but fascinating tome of
862 pages, aptly titled "Israel: A
Personal History."

As a passiosate Ziasuiat, born
in U8$ In Pismsk, Russia, Ben.
Gods yearned to migrate to

TIE DETROIT

JEWISH man

Palestine, and in 1906 he set foot
on the shore at Jaffa.
From that day forward he was
'a leader in the struggle for Jewish
statehood, first under the oppres-
sive rule of the Ottoman Empire of
the Turks (who expelled him from
Palestine in 1915), then under the
often repressive administration of
the British Mandatory, and later
as Israel's first prime minister and
minister of defehse.

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Ben4tuion without Israel
would ant be :a maid statesman;
and *dhows Bea-Genoa, Israel
might net exist today;

These Pager, so replete with his-
toric documents of those epochal
years and with generous excerpts
from I3en-Gurion's daily journals,
reflect the interdependence of the
man and his beloved Eretz Israel

and graphically tell again the dra-
matic role he played on this stage
through the years, particularly the
last 40. They illustrate the apt-
ness of the book's title.
A disconcerting characteristic of
the book is Ben-Gurion's habit of
referring to himself in the third
person throughout most of the
book, especially in formal exposi-
tion of his acts and utterances In
offices he held in the Histadrut, the

.', etc., quite in con-
tra il: to the warm, personal tone
of the long letters he sends to
such men as Charles de Gaulle
and Dwight Eisenhower or the
copious, extracts from his per-
sonal diaries.
Cesar used' the third person in
his Gallic Mari, but it seems out of
character for . David Ben-Gurion,
the•-gesdal, thoroughly democratic
Israeli_ It might be= more charit-
Jewish Agency Executive and the able to biota his research assist-
government of Israel.
ants and a careless pntdieher.
la the early pages he writes
Per more. significant is it that

directly and simply im.the first Delaiditirion , ltas-been spared long
person, lag as sass as Use official padEtite Piialmisrs span of "three-
role be assmned, he adapts the Were
years and ten" to give us
strums &view or writs( 'The thiir.sebriarb'.. eat engrossing ac-
Prime -11/isdster spoke . . .". count
of somuchwilds remarkable
'the lidnister of Defame said life. "Israel: A Personal History"
• • .1. "David illeadiankst au- Is a splendid piece of work.

