JDC Spent $24.9 Million in '71 to Aid
320,000 Jewish Needy, Report Says

NEW YORK (JTA)—The Joint
Distribution Committee spent $24,-
900.000 in 1971 to assist 320,000
needy Jews all over the world
but over 42 per cent of the total
was allocated to Israel, a reflec-
tion of that country's growing
needs, Samuel L. Haber, execu-
tive vice president of the JDC.
said in the international relief
agency's annual report released
here.
The JDC's expenditures in Is-
rael aided 103,000 persons, mostly
through the JDC-Malben pro-
gram, Haber said.
He disclosed that the JDC aided
163.000 Jews in Eastern and West-
ern Europe during 1971: 44,000 in
North Africa, Iran and other Mos-
lem countries, and about 10,000
in such countries as Australia,
China, India and South America.
Jack D. Weiler, chairman of
the JDC's national council, said
in another message appended
to the annual report that "Dur-
ing this past year, the situation
of many Jewish communities
and individual Jews has deteri-
orated, due to political and eco-
nomic developments."
The JDC report disclosed that
S8.300000 was spent in Israel dur-
in 1971 for the care of the aged.
chronically ill and handicaped:
diagnosis and treatment of ha"di-
caped children: mental health
services: socio-medical programs:
and manpower development. Over
S900,000 went to aid religious
schools and over $1,300,000 helped
finance .ORT vocational training
programs in Israel.
JDC also provided relief grants
to refugee rabbis and subsidies
for research and publication pro-
jects, teacher training and fellow-
ships. Haber said some 8.000 stu-
dents also received vocational

training in JDC-supported ORT
schools.
About 75 per cent of the JDC
funds allocated to seven West-
ern European countries in 1971
—over $1,500,000— was spent
in France, Haber reported.
"Were it not for the substantial
influx of immigrants from Al-
geria, Morocco and Tunisia in
the past decade , the French
Jewish community would un-
doubtedly have been financially
self-supporting by this time,"
he said.
The report noted the decline
of the Jewish population in North
African countries from about 650,-
000 before World War II to no
more than 50,000 today. Of these,
nearly 21,000 were beneficiaries
of JDC programs in 1971, the re-
port said.
In the Middle East, about 20,-
000 out of an Iranian Jewish popu-
lation of 75,000, were aided by the
JDC. Most of the JDC monies
spent in Arab and Moslem coun-
tries went for education and care
of children and young people.

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Boston Jewish Unit
Gets Equal TV Time

BOSTON (JTA) — In an attempt
to he "responsive to an aggrieved
segment of the community that
has a right to have a voice." WBZ-
TV has agreed to schedule four
minutes of interviews on culpa-
bility for terrorism, methods of
combating air piracy and the ef-
fect of terrorism on Israeli tour-
ism.
The television station reached
thn compromise with the Jewish
Community Council of Metronolitan
Boston, which had unsuccessfully
challenged the station's refusal to
air a rebuttal to a one-minute, 48-
second commentary by Erwin D.
Canham, editor of the Christian
Science Monitor.
Canham. a regular commentator
on the Group W (Westinghouse
Broadcasting) Service. had warned
June 4 against both Arab and Is-
raeli "terror."
The JCC had protested that
Canham equated the Tel Aviv
massacre by Arab-inspired Jap-
anese with Israel's liberation of
an A r a b hi-jacked jet.
WBZ-TV program manager Paul
D. Coss called the scheduled inter-
views — with a JCC representative
and a member of the Israel Tourist
Board — "A meaningful solution
to the nroblern" that "won't violate

the journalist integrity of our
newscast."
He said the -WC's threat to pro-
test to the Federal (7ommunica-!
lions Commission would have
and "our victory would
failed.
leave a had taste in an important
community . s mouth."
Die ,ICC wanted to charge WP,7-
TV with violation of the

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