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This Week in Jewish history Visible Empire—Adjustments in Israel
(From the files of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency')
By MURRAY ZUCKOFF
10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK: 1962
JTA News Editor
'WASHINGTON—President Kennedy announced (Aug. 29) the resig-
nation of Associate Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and the
appointment of Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg to the Supreme Court.
British Jewry opposed as "extreme provocation" a planned march
through London's Jewish community led by Sir Oswald Mosley.
The Jewish War Veterans asked the Justice Department to regis-
ter George Lincoln Rockwell as a foreign agent.
Nine rabbis and 61 other religious leaders were arrested in an
anti-segregation protest at City Hall in Albany, Ga.
—
JERUSALEM—The possibility that the growing inter-Arab rifts
might bring "an unplanned and unpredictable incident" on Israel's
borders was stressed by Chief of Staff Zvi Tsur.
Jewish organizations resented an editorial in the Jesuit weekly
America warning Jews that their support of the Supreme Court ban on
public school prayers might hasten an anti-Semitic furor.
Mapai nominated Itzhak Ben-Zvi, 78, for a third term as Israel's
president.
Egypt threatened to quit the Arab League unless it took action
against the "campaign of insults and lies" directed at President Ga mat
Abdel Nasser by Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
President Kennedy signed a congressional joint resolution designat-
ing April 21, 1963 as Warsaw Ghetto commemoration day.
The JWV urged President Kennedy to act to curb anti-Semitism
in Argentina and Uruguay, where Jews were "in grave danger" and
"the possibility of a Nazi rebirth is not remote."
"The uneasiness which has been growing in South America and
abroad because of developments, most of which are of a general char-
acter and some of which pertain to the position of Jews particularly,
must be acknowledged but not exaggerated," said Charles Jordan.
overseas director of the Joint Distribution Committee.
Israel's Supreme Court rejected entry by a Cleveland Jew indicted
but not yet convicted in the U.S.
Arrives Without a Visa
Israeli Leads U.S. (:alters to Russia
By H.A.SKEIA. COHEN
ly of Brown University, and a JTA
(Copyright, 1977, JTA loc.)
While Mrs. Gavriel Silver Sha-
piro found it impossible to crack
the Iron Curtain barrier without a
visa, an Israeli coaching an Amer-
ican basketball team accomplished
this very feat, much to the conster-
nation of the Soviets.
Hon Zohar, who shepherded an
American basketball team from
Nassau County on Long Island, un-
der the sponsorship of the U.S.
I Committee for Sports for Israel,
flew to the Holy Land last month
with his All Stars to play against
the Israeli national team.
The purpose was to prepare the
Israelis for the Olympic trials,
scheduled for two weeks before
the actual games in the city of
Augsburg, Germany.
The Amateur Athletic Union of
the U.S . upon learning of the pro-
posed junket to Israel, contacted
Zohar and asked him to represent
the United States with his team in
the third annual Yuri Gagarin Me-
morial International Tournament
scheduled for Tbilisi in Georgia.
Although the AAL' had applied
for a visa for Zohar, it didn't come
through in time, so that when the
All Stars left Israel late in July.
coach Zohar was without a Russian
isa Furthermore. as a temporary
resident of the United State, he
was tra,cling on an Israeli pass-
port. Uum the arrival of the team
in Tbilisi, the coach was detained
Within a day, a visa was provided
for Zuhar, so that actually he was
separated from the team a total
of 30 hours. catching up with his
boys in the Georgian capital.
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•
Incidentally, the Israeli part of
the tour w as a smashing success,
with four successive triumphs
over the Israeli national team.
In Georgia. the U.S. quintet won
its first three games against the
Russian alternate Olympic team,
the Georgian national team and
Finland. losses were sustained
at the hands of the Russian
Olympic 5 and Czechoslovakia's
Olympic squad.
Zohar and associate coach rid
Krin , ky report that their guide
wiis a young Musko‘ite named
Leon Zarakovich who is the off-
spring of a Jewish father and a
non-Jewish mother.
In touring the city. Zarakos ich
taunted out the largest synagogue
to the Americans, and Krinsky, to
gether with Arnie Berman. former-
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All-American selectee, decided to
return to the. synagogue after the
entire team had returned to the
hotel.
Krinsky says: "As soon as we
made ourselves known as Ameri-
cans of the Jewish faith, the whole
community surrounding the syna-
gogue turned out and didn't know
what to do for us. Unfortunately,
we had a language barrier. How-
ever, between ourselves and a
group of 20 citizens, we managed
to communicate and were invited
to return for the Sabbath services
two days later.
"When we arrived at the syna-
gogue, we were ushered to the front
and given places of honor. When
it came to the reading of the
Torah, they asked Zohar if he
would read a portion of the weekly
sedra. At the conclusion of the
service. Zohar spoke Hebrew to a
gentleman well up in his 805, who
got excited and explained, 'Thi's
is the first time I have spoken
Hebrew to anyone in. over 60
y- ears ' •
Druze Gets Israel
Consul Post in NY
(Copyright, 1977, JTA tor.)
JERUSALEM — If Israelis are
generally hostile toward American
ohm and tourists, olim are no less
embittered by what many of them
refer to as the "visible empire of
bureaucracy."
The Israeli bureaucracy is a
special type of social organism not
to be found in the United States,
explained Frieda Beck of New
York, a former sociology student
at Columbia University currently
studying for her masters at He-
brew University.
Frieda (not her real name) ex-
plained that the bureaucracy is an
elusive and difficult phenomenon
to deal with because each ministry,
each level of government, has its
own self-sufficient turf which
makes it almost impossible for the
immigrants to appeal to a "higher
authority" to correct a clerical
error, to obtain a response from
an unresponsive official or to
change a decision of some minor
clerk.
Frieda came to Israel about a
year ago skeptical about the "em-
pire" she was told about. She says
she is no longer skeptical. "Every
pakid (clerk) seems to establish an
empire of his own, investing it with
absolute power." she observed.
"Each desk, each counter, each of-
fice becomes the pakid's kingdom
and each person dealing with him
is ultimately reduced to the status
of a serf or a knave."
"After a while you either refrain
from appearing at the office and
suffer in 'silence or it becomes an
unending war of screams and
threats between the pakid and the
oleh," Frieda said. Worst of all,
she added, is that the American
oleh is criticized and frequently
ostracized for being temperamen-
tal, boorish, demanding and arro-
gant "when all we want is to par-
ticipate on a human level to help
build and defend our homeland."
In a recent letter to the Jerusa-
lem Post, Jacob Weinberger of Bat
Yam lashed out against the "sys-
tem" wherein "the bureaucrat ad-
mits to a poor system (but) puts
the blame on the Americans."
"What," he wrote, "is wrong
with the American immigrant? He
looks for an apartment. lie finds
overpriced and undersized apart-
ments. He finds that the govern-
ment has. through design or inac-
tion, allowed the cost of housing
to get completely out of hand. He
possibly decides that he is unwill-
ing to spend his hard-earned dol-
lars to line the pockets of specu
lators and builders for an apart-
ment that might be ready in two
years if the contractor is not so
greedy as to go bankrupt."
Continuing. Weinberger stated
that when the immigrant "uses
his initiative' . and refuses to "coun-
tenance this rapacious system and
turns to his protector—the absorp-
tion ministry . . . the bureaucrat
gives him the run-around to all the
corners of Israel and makes him
feel like a lazy ungrateful beggar."
In the end, he wrote, the "sys-
tem" has "squeezed much more
money out of the immigrant than
he ever knew- he had.. It has taught
him his place in society and once
and for all has stripped all vestiges
of the Zionist myth he cherished."
A young couple from Toledo
recently found that all the
ideals they cherished were grad-
ually being stripped by the "in-
efficiency- and indifference of a
system and its workers and pro-
tectsia."
also
ZAIDAN ATASIIE
TEA, AVIV ---The Israel Minis-
try of Foreign Affairs has named
Zaidan Atashe. a Druze from the
Carmel sillage of Ussifiyeh, as
its consul in charge of informa-
tion in New' York.
A 32-year-old lecturer at Haiti
University- . Atashe is the first of
his ethnic group to receise a
foreign ministry. position.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Several days ago, they called me
to say they had decided to remain
in Israel. Said he: "We still don't
have an apartment. But we've de-
cided that we aren't going to run.
We are going to stay and fight.
We refuse to allow important life
decisions and a life-style to .be
dictated by bureaucratic indiffer-
ence."
There are more like them arriv-
ing each day. Somewhere along the
line there is every indication that
they will win and that the pakids
and super-pakids will be replaced
with the humanistic institutions
that Zionism started out to build
many decades ago.
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Translation of Hebrew Column
Doctor on the Battlefront
Jad is a young doctor.
Before the Six-Day War began, the soldiers were not aware of him
But when everything all around became hell, when bombs fell all
around and people lay on the ground and actually dug foxholes for
themselves with their finger nails, everyone suddenly became aware
of Jad. He went around the battlefield at night with a flashlight in his
hand, in order to be able to treat the wounded properly.
Jad was not an ordinary doctor who gave injections which put the
wounded to sleep.
He spoke to all of them. He treated the wounded under all circum-
stances. He gave them the feeling that they were being looked after
and treated.
We returned from the battle, the unit reached the collecting sta-
tion. The helicopters that were supposed to transfer the wounded did
not turn up. There was a feeling that we would never succeed in get-
ting out of there. Jad tried to give mouth-to-mouth breathing to the
wounded. At the same time, he stationed two men beside Gadi, who
had lost a leg. lie told them, "Don't let him sleep. Talk to him. Don't
let him fall asleep. If he falls asleep, he will never wake up." "We
never had a more difficult order," the men said. "Terrible sounds came
from Gadi's throat, and we kept speaking to him all the time. It was
terrible. 'Gadi: we said to him, `the helicopter will come soon. Gadi,
you will be all right. Gadi, don't worry. Gadi, where do you come from"
Gach, speak to us. Gadi, do you want to drink something? Gadi, do
you remember the blond? Gadi, don't sleep now. You'll sleep enough
at the hospital. Say something, Gadi.' . . ." Suddenly Gadi began to
shiver. Jad said, "Cover him up." The group took off their shirts, and
covered him with camouflage nets and with whatever they could find,
and he shivered and shivered.
Finally the helicopter came. Jad put Gadi in last so as to be able
to take him out first at the hospital. Before the door of the plane closed.
I saw the doctor pat Gadi's head and his forehead.
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