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June 16, 1972

National Council of Churches Calls
on Its Members to Travel to Israel

NEW YORK (JTAJ—The National Council of Churches asked its
members Sunday to engage in "continued travel to the Holy Land . . as
a direct way for Christians to witness with courage for peace there and
to stand against the isolation of Israel."
Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, interreligious affairs director of the
American Jewish Committee, an official observer at the council's national
board meeting, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency the appeal was "un-
precedented" for the council.
The unanimous resolution was keyed to the Lydda massacre, which
the council called an "act of terror" that "shocked the world community."
Such "slaughter," it said, "cannot be tolerated either as a technique for
discouraging travel .. . to a Holy Land sacred to the three world religions
or as an appropriate strategy in the struggle to find a solution to the
problems of the Middle East."

families and for Israel and her people in this time of sorrow for all of us."
The measure called on the United Nations, world governments and airlines
to "devise and maintain more effective security measures."

In one passage, the resolution said that "As Christians we cannot
justify any terrorist attacks regardless of the provocation" in Vietnam,
Northern Ireland, the Middle East or elsewhere.
It was reliably understood that this passage—implying Israeli re-
sponsibility for the Lydda Airport shootout—was a gesture to the Syrian
Orthodox Church, which put "tremendous pressure" on the council for a
strong anti-Israel measure.
Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv, plans for more "Lydda style" massacres at
air terminals in New York and in Europe were disclosed by Kozo Okamoto,
the Japanese gunman captured in the May 30 massacre at Lydda
A Japanese Embassy official, Jun Matsufuji, who visited Okamoto
The council urged "all Christians" to "join in prayer for the victims'
in jail, confirmed that the prisoner had related the plan to his interrogators.
The Japanese diplomat also confirmed that Okamoto. and his two fellow gunmen slain dur-
ing the airport shooting, trained in Lebanon together with two other Japanese. At least one of
them, identified as Osamu Maruoka, returned to Japan shortly before the Lydda massacre, re-
portedly on an assassination mission whose victims were to be the Israeli ambassador in Tokyo,
Eitan Ron. and other prominent persons.
Switzerland' became the focal point in an international manhunt for Maruoka.
The Swiss federal prosecutor's office issued a statement saying Maruoka was in Bern as
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
recently as June 5 after spending. one night at a hotel there. Swiss police were put on alert for
TEIIRAN—An impressive lesson in the historic values
the 21-year-old Japanese. Maruoka was identified as the leader of the Japanese team by Okamoto.

JOINT, ORT Spell
Life for Iran Jews

of American Jewry's philanthropic aims and standards
is best taught by the tasks of our representatives in Iran.
When the American Jewish Joint Distribution Com-
mittee first began operating, as a great relief movement,
during World War r, there were the antagonists, the
skeptics, those who did not trust the rich and the yahutrun
who were at the helm of this relief effort. Because the
Schiffs and the Warburgs and the Rosenwalds and the
leaders of the so-called German-Jewish stock were the
leaders of this movement, the Orthodox posed many
questions; labor—then very strong through the Jewish
unions—wanted relief conducted its way, the People's
Relief Committee was formed, and other groups functioned
through the then strong landsmanshaften.
Who would have believed, then, that the move-
ment that was judged, more than half a century ago,
as assimilationist, would today serve the major Jewish
spiritual and cultural needs in a land like the one where
we are learning a new lesson in Jewish involvements?
In spite of the negatives so long ago, AJDC, or JDC,
gradually became the beloved movement among im-
poverished Jewries who needed our help. "Joint"
a symbol of generosity, the interpretation of highest gz., -
in relieving the needs of oppressed. When "Joint" was
uttered, it expressed respect and admiration for •vr-
petuated humanitarianism. Yet few could have imagin
that a relief movement would in the course of time become
the spiritual rescuer of a community that has because
both spiritually and scci3lly impoverished.
Iran is Exhibit One in a serious effort to assure
identity in a community that at times lives in tit' ,
fear of its eventual security—because the population.
Muslim—and at the same time suffers from a lack
traditions which would give its.strength for Jewish so
vival. JDC has stepped in to perform the herculean t: r..
and its role becomes more easily understandable 351- .
it is realized that Iran has no ordained rabbis, tha'
hahamim are elders with a modicum of knowledge:
the hahamim are the shohtim, mohlim, haste tefila, is
knowledgeability is meager, and without the link emit , I
by JDC there also would be isolation from world Jew,.

Morris Rombro. country director of the Arne, o
Joint Distribution Committee in Tehran for the p p.r I s , .
years, supervises a chain of functioning ageri.iit- rt
has raised the standard of living among man. Iranian
Jews, has helped eradicate infectious diseases through
the services provided by the K.K.K. (Kanune-Kheyr-Khahl
Hospital it supports and is assuring a Jewish education
for thousands of the country's Jewish youth.
It is the latter function that deserves deepest app7e-
elation from world Jewry. Starting with the kindergartens
supported by JDC—for children 3 to 5—the Jewish spirit
is brought into the homes.
One would imagine that in the land of Mordecai and
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All West European airports have been put on a state of alert following reports that a
small group of Japanese kamikaze volunteers were preparing an attack against an Israel-bound
plane, authorities reported Monday in Paris.
In Copenhagen, Danish authorities were informed that a group of members of the Japa-
nese Red Army were planning to attack an Israel-bound plane at the Copenhagen Kastrup Airport.
Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban was due on a plane from Norway.

Officials expressed fear that terrorists would try to seize Eban as a hostage for Okamoto.
In response to the threat, authorities ordered armed guards, police and soldiers to be sta-
tioned throughout.
At Paris Orly Airport, hundreds of airport police and border guards have been checking
all passengers and luggage. Passengers are required to pass individual personal checks during
which their pockets are searched and luggage opened for examination.
A Jewish Telegraphic Agency reporter who flew in yesterday from Geneva reported that
such checks were being applied to all Air France paseengers, including those flying on European
lines only.

At Geneva and Zurich airports, passengers are required to pass a metal detecting device. Po-
lice armed with submachineguns surround all planes from the moment they land until they take
off. Customs officials and police search all passengers and luggage at Rome's Fumicino Airport.

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Israeli-Japanese Pact Termed
Major Economic Breakthrough

TEL AVIV (JTA)--Israel's largest industrial holding company, the Ilisladrut-owned Koor
Industries. has signed an agreement in Tokyo with the giant Japanese firm of Koichi Ishikawa for
the establishment of a joint trading company, to develop commerce between the two nations and
expand their commerce in other parts of the world. particularly Africa.
The contract was signed by' Meir Amit, general director of Koor, and Koichi Ishikawa.
oresii!ent of the Japanese concern.
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Israeli circles hailed the deal as a major economic and political breakthrough for Israel.
The Japanese firm has connections with large steel plants and will enable Israel to import steel
:it much lower prices than it pays now.

Economic circles here said the agreement would result in doubling Israeli imports from
Japan to about 5100.000.000 as -early as next year.

Another immediate effect of the agreement will be to increase the importance— and hence
the development—of Eilat. Israel's Red Sea port and its major outlet for trade with Africa. Asia
and the Far East.
Eilat will serve as the port of entry for raw materials purchased by Israel in .lapan and as
the shipping port for the re-export of finished products.
The Japanese connection is expected io assist the entry of Israeli products into the
Japanese market. Koichi Ishikawa has commercial outlets in 32 'Japanese cities.
It is especially interested in breaking into .African markets where Koor Industries already
has substantial outlets.
Politically, the agreement was seen here as breaching the Arab League boycott of Is-
rael which has hitherto kept many Jar-l•se firms from entering into large-scale business rela-
tions with Israel.