Heart V Greetings to Israel and the Israelis on their 21th annirersary Inspiration from DAVID BEN-GURION, Architect of State of Israel on the State's 24th Anniversary Commentary Page 2 VOL. LXI, No. 5 THE JEWISH NEWS Review of Jewish News Michigan Weekly Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper 17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 356-8400 $8.00 Per Year; This Issue 25c A Salute to Israel on 24th Anniversary . Christian Attitudes Toward Israel Editorials Page 4 April 14, 1972 French-lsrael Diplomatic Clash Seen in 'Discourtesy' to Kollek Complicated USSR Emigration Role, Difficult Integration Processes Revealed in Israel JERUSALEM (JTA)—There is neither rhyme nor reason to the way some Russian Jews are granted exit visas without delay while others must wait.years for the desired papers, a Jewish Agency official told a group of journalists Tuesday on their press tour con- ducted by Jewish Agency and Keren Hayesod officials. They traced the processing of new immigrants from their arrival at Lydda Air- port to the absorption center at Ashkelon. They came at 4 a.m. to watch a chartered El Al Jet arrive on a special flight from Vienna with a capacity load of Jewish emigres from the Soviet Union. Georgian Jews comprised more than half of the new arrivals. A few came from the Bokharian region and other parts of Soviet Asia and the rest from European Russia and Latvia. According to Yehuda Donitz, deputy director of the Jewish Agency's immigration and absorption department, Jews from Georgia and other Soviet republics bordering on Turkey and Persia account for a much larger proportion of Soviet Jewish immigration now than they did last year. In some places they make up two thirds of the passengers, whereas last year they usually accounted for about one third, Donitz said. But the Georgian republic has only about 80,000 Jews, compared to close to 3,000,000 throughout the USSR. In the Baltic states alone there are 200,000, and why the Georgians are being let out now is anyone's guess, Donitz said. He said it was possible that the Soviet authorities wanted to get rid of the least assimilable elements. Geor- gian Jews live in clans and jealously guard their way of life and Orthodox religious practices, he said. But the official could not account for the seemingly catch-as- catch-can policy by which Soviet authorities issue visas. He said the theory that ,"trouble makers" are being let out does not hold be- (Continued on Page 23) JERUSALEM (JTAi---A major diplomatic clash between Israel and France loomed Tuesday over the French government's attempt to avoid any implication that it recognizes Israel's sovereignty over a unified Jerusalem. France has suggested that Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem appear as a "private guest" rather than in his official capacity at a Paris exhibit scheduled to open later this month. As a result, the event which is part of a French cultural week here may be canceled. Foreign Minister Abba Eban said Monday night that it was "intolerable" that France should try to lay down the law as to %%h .() should receive the mayor of Paris and in what capacity. The mayors of the two cities are supposed to open the exhibit jointly at the Jerusalem Municipal Theater after a gala performance by Comedic Francaise. Speaking on television Monday night. Mayor Kollek rejected a French suggestion that an opening ceremony be dispensed with and the two mayors visit the exhibit in- formally. Meanwhile, a visiting French good-will delegation headed by Alain Poher, presi- dent of the French Senate, clashed publicly yilth French Ambassador Francis Hure over their government's attitude. The clash occurred after ceremonies naming a Jerusalem street in honor of the late French General Pierre Koenig, a World War 11 resistance hero and staunch advocate of F .anco-Israeli friendship. In view of the audience, two members of the French delegation, Gaullist General de Benouville and Jacques Soustelle, engaged Ambassador Hure in a heated discussion. Later they invited the ambassador to their hotel and continued the dispute there,according to Fred Goldstein, a French-speak- ing journalist who was present. Goldstein, who recounted the incident in the Jerusalem Post Tuesday, said visit- ing French leaders labeled their government's attitude "preposterous" and an Insult to a friendly nation. They accused the French Foreign Ministry of refusing to acknowledge reality, meaning Israel's sovereignty over united Jerusalem. Eban, in a radio broadcast Monday night. said that any visitor to Jerusalem who refused to pay an official call on the mayor would not be received by him either. The for- eign ministers of Italy, West Germany, Belgium and other countries have all called on the mayor of Jerusalem, and anyone doing so should regard it as an honor and a privilege. Campaign Reaches $11,598,852; 9,000 More Contributors Yet to Be Tapped for Allied Drive Campaign leaders reported reaching pledge totals to date in the amount of $11,598,852 at the first workers' rally of the 1972 Allied Jewish Campaigo-Israel Emergency Fund held last Sunday at the Jewish Center. This is $800,000 more than reported at the opening dinner meeting two weeks ago, but Samuel Frankel, campaign chairman, urged a faster pace from the volunteer solicitors following the Passover season lull in activity. The 150 workers who attended the meeting picked up the challenge to reach more than 9,000 contributors who have not yet made pledges. This must be done before the May 3 Victory Dinner. "For those who have yet to make a pledge, the Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emegency Fund has not begun. They have not been approached. The have not been asked," William Avrunin, executive vice president of the Jewish Welfare Federa- tion, told workers. "We have reached a total of 92 pr cent of last year's campaign total, but this is not this year's goal. The need grows every day. Just to cite one exam. ple, as more and more Soviet Jewish emigrants reach Israel so must our response increase because we recognize the need." A Hundred Percenters Recognition report meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m., April 23 at the Jewish Center. Workers in Campaign sections which have reached 100 per cent or more of their 1972 final figures will be honored. Chaim Tarsieski, a Soviet Jet.' who recently migrated to Israel, will he a special guest at the meeting. lie will speak on his experiences and the needs of his fellow immigrants in Israel. (Detailed Campaign Scoreboard on Page 371 Council of Federations Otis Guideline Formulating Financing of Day Schools The first guidelines for the relationships between Jewish federations and Jewish day schools have been approved by the hoard of directors of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. The guidelines were drafted and recommended by the CH' committee on federa- tion planning for Jewish education under the leadership of Mandell Berman of Detroit and I. Jerome Stern of Philadelphia. Approval of the guidelines was hailed as a landmark action by Max M. Fisher, CJFWF president. Fisher had called for a reassessment of-these relationships in his keynote address to the CJFWF general assembly last November in Pittsburgh. In presenting its recommendations, the CJFWF committee noted that there are more than 70,)00 children enrolled in Jewish day schools in the United States and Canada. As evidence of federations' increased concern for the quality Of Jewish educa- tion these children receive, federation allocations for day schools have increased more than 60 per cent in recent years. In large cities. day school allocations represent about 20 per cent of the funds spent by Jewish federations on Jewish education, and in inf.ermediate-sized cities, about 40 per cent. Among the key, recommendations are these: day school education should be oriented "to developing effective future members of the total Jewish community", as in other schools, achievement tests should be applied and further developed to-assure the high quality of Jewish education to students, enrotiiment for an effective four-grad• school must be at least 50, for an ei.:ht-grade school. at least 1(X), in the interm•di:,• , • and small com:nunities. organizations should be 4.11Coura god to svmsor pont schoo,; without ideological cimiprizruses, and in 50nie• 3n.ti,nres. schools of nearby lard i'..•• shipild he utilacil