UJA Officials Confer With Israeli Leaders

TEL AVIV—Commencing the celebration of Israel's 25th anniversary, the 300 members of the
United Jewish Appeal mission to Israel, including n ny Detroiters, participated in a program here at-
Mann Auditorium. Prior to the curtain rasing, Paul Zuckerman of Detroit, general l'JA chairman second

from left), who headed the mission, conferred with (from left), former Israel Prime Minister David Ben
Gurion and Prime Minister Golda Meir. On the right, joining in the discussion, is l'JA Executise Vice

President Irving Bernstein.

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October 20, 1972

U.S., Interpol Act to Combat
Arab-Inspired Terror Acts

Postmarks on bomb letters being received in many large cities in democratic
countries point to the spread of Arab-inspired terrorism on an international scale. While
the first letters were postmarked Amsterdam, the latest casualty, loss of a finger by Wil-
liam Figueroa, a mail clerk in a Bronx post office, was in handling a letter postmarked Ma-
laysia.
It was addressed to Charlotte Jacobson, chairman of the American section of the
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Congress on Tuesday night passed a
Jewish Agency for Israel, who had moved to another address, and the letter was trans-
$3,650,000,000 foreign aid bill that contains $50,000,000 for use by the
ferred to a Bronx address.
State Department to help resettle Soviet emigres—mostly Jews going
In an earlier instance, a bomb letter addressed to Rose Halprin, Mrs. 'Jacobson's
to Israel, and a $50,000,000 grant in economic supportive assistance
predecessor in the Jewish Agency position, was marked as coming from Malaysia
to Israel. The measure cleared the House by a 188-80 vote and was
That letter was detected and harm averted. Both are Hadassah leaders. Another Nadas-
voted by voice vote in the Senate. It now goes to the President for
sahite to whom a bomb letter was addressed but was not opened, averting tragedy, was
signature which is considered certain.
Mrs. Hannah Goldberg.
The foreign aid bill also contains a $400,000,000 authorization for
While all Jewish leaders and heads of Zionist organizations have been warned to
over all military purchase credits. While the recipient countries are
not specified, testimony by the administration to the Congress and the
be on guard, it has been revealed in Rome, by what is reportedly an unimpeachable
authorization legislation already adopted by both houses indicated
source, that Arab terrorists were concocting a scheme to assassinate Pope Paul
that the intent of Congress and the administration is to provide Israel
VI and to leave an impression that it was a Jewish act, in order to create an anti-
Jewish sentiment. El Tempo of Rome carried the story, claiming that the French Se-
cret Service thwarted the plot. El Tempo reported that Arab Black September agents
kansom Lifted on 20 Soviet Jewish Familles
had come to Rome to engineer that planned murder and that new security measures have
as 'Gift to Nixon,' See Page 18.
been adopted to protect the Pope at the Vatican and wherever he may travel.
with $300,000,000 in credits for military purchases. Israel will also
The terrorist threats have created anxiety in many quarters, and Interpol is espe-
share — though to what extent is unknown — in a $25,500,000 alloca-
cially devoting its energies to tracing the source of the mailings of the bomb letters.
tion for U.S. hospitals, schools and other institutions in foreign
Eugene T. Rossides and Martin R. Pollner, representing the U. S. Treasury Depart-
countries.
ment as assistant secretaries for enforcement, addressing the national executive commit-
An effort led by Sen. J. William Fulbright (D. Ark.) to shelve
tee of the Zionist Organization of America, in New York. Saturday night, gave assurances
the entire foreign aid package was defeated 41-22 prior to the voice
that special measures are being taken to protect Israelis traveling in this country.
vote in the Senate.
In Jerusalem, a foreign ministry source denied a report
that the U. S. government had hinted to Israel that it would
like to see fewer Israeli VIPs visiting the U.S. because they
present security problems. According to a story sent from
Washington by the correspondent for Yediot Ahronot, the
Nixon administration was "fed up" with providing massive
security for frequent Israeli visitors.
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Rabbi Shlomo Goren and Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, both of Tel Aviv, on
The American Civil Liberties Union asked Attorney
Sunday were elected Ashkenazic and Sephardic chief rabbis of Israel, respectively.
General Richard G. Kleindienst to pledge that the U S.
Rabbi Goren, the Ashkenazic chief rabbi of Tel Aviv and former chief chaplain of Israel's
would not institute dragnet "investigation, interrogation and
Armed Forces, easily defeated the 87-year-old incumbent Isser Yehuda Unterman by a vote of 89-57
surveillance" of Arabs living in this country.
college.
cast by the 150 members of the electoral
It was reported that the State Department has initiated
Rabbi Yosef won a closer contest against the incumbent, 75-year-old Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yit-
a stringent new screening policy to prevent the issuance of
zhak Nissim,beating him by a vote of 81-68.
American visas to persons with possible ties to terrorism.
Rabbi Yosef is 51 and Rabbi Goren 56. Both are regarded as relatively liberal in their inter-
(Nine Arab sailors aboard the Kuwait Horizon were
Both have served as chief rabbis of their respective communities
religious
law.
pretation of Halakha,
restricted to the ship last week when it arrived in Detroit's
in Tel Aviv for the past three years.
Harbor Terminal. Visas of the nine had not been cleared.)
The balloting was conducted at the Aekhal Shlomo, the chief rabbinate center here, wider the
More "spectacular" actions by Palestinian terrorists are
member and chairman of the election committee. The
supervision of Mordechal Surkiss, a Knesset
Chief
predicted
by the Palestinian Liberation Organization, accord-
the
for the chief rabbis and for the 10 members of
150-member electoral college which voted
ing
to
Anita Evans, Beirut correspondent for the London
and five Sephardim—consisted of 80 rabbis and religious court
Rabbinate Council—five Ashkenazim
Sunday Times. According to her, Shafik el Hout, PLO leader,
Judges and 70 mayors and heads of local religious councils.
stated that "We have to shock the West out of its guilty
chief rabbi shook hands when they arrived at the election hall but
The four candidates for
conscience about the Jews, and into recognizing the plight
did not converse, Rabbi Goren and Rabbi Nissim, who campaigned on the same ticket, were greeted
of the Palestinian people. That's why Lydda and Munich
by singing youths. But the biggest cheers went to Rabbi Yosef, who is highly popular in the Se-
were such tactical successes. They showed we were prepared
phardic community. Rabbi Unterman was greeted by polite applause.
The voting process lasted about two hours. As each elector was called in alphabetical order to
to die for our cause."
booths, tension mounted and at some stages pandemonium broke out as supporters of
Ambassador George Bush, the U.S. envoy to the United
enter the voting
Nations, said that he thought the UN was "off to a good
one or the other candidates electioneered for their choice. Surkiss angrily called for order on sev-
start" in efforts to combat international terrorism.
eral occasions..
without a hitch and there were no complaints of irregularities.
West Germany's apparent crackdown on possible
The counting of ballots went off
As Surkiss tallied the vote, he was watched intently by four members of the supervisory committee
sources of Arab terrorism has been praised in Israel. It was
each
of
the
candidates.
assailed in Arab quarters.
and four "observers" representing
Rabble Goren gained an early lead over his opponent, but the race between Rabbi Yosef and
A resident of a Jewish home for the aged in Dusseldorf
Rabbi Nissim was touch-and-go until the counting neared its end and the younger rabbi from Tel
had her suspicions about a letter, and police bomb experts
Aviv drew ahead by 13 votes. A loud cheer went up when the results were announced.
found a lethal device inside.
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