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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel's Orthodox rabbinate permits bigamous marriages in certain circumstances. Dr. Zerach War-
haftig, minister for religious affairs, told the Knesset since the establishment of the state in 1948 the rabbinate has granted 802
Jews the rightto take a second wife though they were neither divorced nor widowed.
Israeli criminal law defers to religious law in this matter. It states that a man shall not be prosicuted for bigamy if his .
bigamous marriage was entered with the approval of a three-man rabbinical tribunal legally constituted.
Warhaftig said that 24 such marriages were authorized by rabbinical tribunals last year alone. Permission to take a second
wife hds been granted In cases where the man's first spouse is an incurable lunatic incapable of signing divorce papers; where she
refused to cohabit with her husband, or in cases where the wife could not conceive and would not accept a divorce.
(In New York, Rabbi Emanuel Racknian pointed out that in the year 1000 Rabbi Gershom Ben Judah established a prohibi-
tion against polygamy for Ashkenazi Jews. That prohibition provided for special rabbinical sanctions for polygamy under entenuat-
ing circumstances. Rabbi Rackman added that Israel extended Rabbi Gershom's prohibition to include Sephardic—Oriental—Jews,
except in cases where they came to Israel with more than one wife in accordance with their previous social customs. Israeli rabbini-
cal tribunals have authorized special polygamous relationships for both Sephardim and Ashkenazim.)
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State Dept. Firm on Negotiations
.5 Rift Seen in Waldheim
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n of 'Proximity' Talks
A serious rift in United Nations and United States attitudes on the proposals for
"proximity talks" between Israel and Egypt was foreseen this week in conflicting state-
ments by UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim and Assistant U. S. Secretary of State
Joseph J. Sisco. In a statement made in Rome, Waldheim said the UN would reject U. S.
mediation and would insist upon continuation of mediation through Gunnar Jarring. In
a speech at a Technion Society function in Miami Beach, Sisco spoke of a strong link be-
tween U. S. and Israeli positions on projected peace talks. Secretary of State William
P. Rogers also endorsed the "proximity talks" and said he was pleased with Israel's
endorsement of the proposal. Moshe Dayan and Abba Eban implied a lack of confidence
in the future of the Jarring mission.
ROME (JTA)—United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim declared here
Saturday that the American initiative to promote close proximity talks between Egypt and
Israel for an interim Suez accord was doomed to failure and claimed that the "only pos-
sibility" for a peaceful solution of the Middle East conflict lay in UN mediation through
the instrumentality of the secretary general's special Mid East envoy, Ambassador Gun-
nar V. Jarring.
Waldheim made his remarks at a press conference following an audience with
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Pincus to Address Allied Drive Dinner
Wednesday; Sapir Spurs Bond Activities
Forward steps were taken this week through Greater Detroit projects to assist Is-
rael philanthropically and by means of investments to provide vitally needed help for
settlement and integration of increasing numbers of immigrants who are arriving in Is-
rael. - Allied Jewish Campaign tasks for the 1972 fund-raising efforts reached new heights,
with $7,170,000 already pledged—marking an increase of $1,300,000 over gifts from the
same people last year. At the same time, the visit to Detroit on Monday of Israel Finance
Minister Pinhas Sapir inspired purchases of $700,000 in Israel Bonds, boosting the first
six weeks' total for 1972 to more than $2,000,000.
Old Jewelry, Silver Treasure
tinearthed Eshternoa; Israel
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A silver treasure from the days of the First Temple—some 3,000
Yeats ago—has been found in the village of Eshtemoa in Israel The
treasure consists of five jars filled with piece of jewelry and un-
shaped silver, weighing approximately 57 pounds. It is the largest
early treasure discovered in Israel. The jars, eight inches high, bear
the marking "live" in ancient Hebrew, an apparent indication of
measurement.
The Eshtemoa treasure was uncovered by Ze'ev Yeivin, an Israeli
army staff archeologist, during his work on the restoration and
preservation of a synagogue from the days of the Mishna and the
Talniud (4-6 Century CE). The filled jars lay below a floor in this
village to the south of Hebron.
The silver treasure of Eshtemoa was brought as a special exhibit
to the Roddellnr Museum in Jerusalem, now managed by the Israel
ItU3eunt.
Scholars ditethe treasure to the 8th Century BCE. Yeivin has
noted a Bible history, Samuel I, Chapter 30, of 200 years earlier.
Here the Bible recounts how David, not yet king, sent a war-booty
from the enemy Amalekites to the elders of Eshtemoa.
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Louis Pincus to Address
Campaign Dinner Feb. 16
Israel Bond Chairmanship
Assumed by David Pollack
Fund activities will be climaxed with the tradi-
tional black tie dinner, at Cong. Shaarey Zedek,
next Wednesday.
Samuel Frankel, campaign chairman, an-
nounces that the guest speaker that night will
be Louis A. Pincus, chariman of the Jewish
David Pollack has assumed the chairman-
ship of the Detroit Israel Bond Organization, it
was announced at a reception held in honor of
Israel Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, at the
Standard Club, Monday. Sapir was here for a
one-day visit in the interest of Israel Bonds and
the United Jewish Appeal.
Sapir, frequently referred to as the most
likely successor of Golda Meir as prime minis-
ter of Israel, displayed great confidence in Is-
rael's abilities to confront difficulties on all
fronts.
He was asked, for example, how Israel could
possibly handle a million tourists who may travel
to the Jewish state in 19'73 to participate in its
25th anniversary. He replied that more than 5,000
more rooms are being provided for visitors in
hotel construction projects, and then he com-
mented: "Even if there should be a million immi-
grants, not tourists, we'll welcome and settle
them. We are not without problems. Life is
marked by problems. But we have faced chal-
lenges before and we'll confront them again."
Sapir emphasized the seriousness of the
Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency
Agency for Israel and of the World Zionist Ex-
ecutive.
Frankel expressed confidence that the great
needs in Israel, especially Jewry's responsibil-
ities to assist in the settlement of tens of thou-
sands of Jews from the Soviet Union, will assure
the needed response for large increases over last
year's gifts.
Trades and professional divisions and sec-
tions of the drive will follow up Wednesday's din-
ner with preliminary fund-raising events the last
week in February and will continue through the
first two weeks in March, prior to the official
campaign opening on March 22.
The real estate division has scheduled a
dinner meeting on Feb. 29, at Raleigh House.
-The same day, the junior division's women's
pre-campaign meeting will be held at 12:30 p.m.
at Bonwit Cellar, Somerset Mall.
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