El Al Seeks More Landing Rights
•
to Offset Rivals' Growth in U.S.
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
After four years of worsen-
ing competitive position, Is-
rael's El Al Air Lines is
pressing hard for additional
landing rights in the United
States to stop its slide back-
wards in the growing com-
petition for air passenger
traffic between the two coun-
tries.
landing rights to avert sev-
ere difficulties.
On Thursday, therefore,
when Israelis and Americans
get together here again to
discuss the air traffic prob-
lems, the Israelis hope to
convince the State Depart-
ment and the Civil Aeronau-
tics Board to grant El AI au-
thorization to pick up and
The last time Israel sought discharge passengers in at
what it considers to be least one more American
necessary changes in the Is- city.
raeli-American a i r trans-
In 1950, when the U.S.-Is-
port agreement was in 1968.
rael agreement was conclud-
Those negotiations ended in
ed, trans-Atlantic travel in-
no change.
volved about 300,000 passeng-
Now the Israelis see a er crossings a year.
desperate need for more
Today, the traffic between
No-Confidence Motion Defeated
in Wake of Failure of 2 Firms
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The
Knesset voted 58-31 with two
abstentions Tuesday night to
defeat an Opposition motion
of no confidence in the gov-
ernment over the financial
failure of two state-owned
corporations, the Vered Wa-
ter Resources Development
Co. and Arad Chemicals.
spokesmen accused the gov-
ernment of "criminal negli-
gence." In a series of de-
velopment projects involving
Vered. Yigal Horowitz, of
the State List, alleged that
the government squandered
public funds amounting to IL
$250,000,000 in various proj-
ects, enough, he said, to
have solved the housing
Vered was the subject of a
shortage.
highly critical report issued
by the state comptroller re-
Haim Goad, minister of
leased last week. Arad, in agriculture and minister of
addition to its financial diffi- development, who replied for
culties, was reported Wed- the government, said its suc-
nesday to have halted opera- cess in many other projects
tions as a result of a break- vindicated the admitted fail-
down that could take nine ures of Vered and Arad. Ile
months to repair.
denied that the foreign min-
The no-confidence motion istry had pressured Vered to
was introduced by Gahal, undertake extravagant proj-
the State List and the Free ects abroad for political rea-
Center factions, whose sons, a denial supported by
the state comptroller's re-
port.
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The report placed t is e
blame for Vered's failure
entirely on that company's
management. It said losses
amounting to some 20,000,000
dollars were the result of
Vered undertaking construc-
tion projects a n d other
projects in foreign countries
in fields in which it lacked
experience and without both-
ering to calculate the likely
profits and costs.
British Jews Align
With Uganda Asians
LONDON (JTA) — The
Board of Deputies of British
Jews has taken an official
the U.S. and Europe and Is- position on the plight of the
rael is close to 10,000,000. Uganda Asians.
Nevertheless, Israel is re-
In a resolution "on behalf
quired to conform its opera, of the Anglo-Jewish commu-
tions to the circumstances nity," the board expressed
dating back almost a quar- its "abhorrence at the expul-
ter of a century.
sion of the Asians frcin
Uganda and at the manner
At present, El Al's Ameri-
can landing rights are re- in which the government of
stricted to Kennedy Airport Uganda is carrying this out."
The board informed the
in New York. It wishes to
Co-Ordinating Committee for
have similar rights in a Mid-
the Welfare of Evacuees
west or West Coast urban
From Uganda "that it de-
center as well.
sires to associate itself with
The only American flag the committee's activities and
carrier to Israel is TWA, to proffer all the assistance
which has rights for traffic it can."
to and from Israel in eight
large American cities on Classifieds Get Quick Results
both coasts and in the Mid-
west.
To fly El Al to Israel,
American passengers must
make their way to Kennedy
by another service and face
the discomforts of crowds,
urban transport and loss of
time. The same difficulties
face passengers on return
flights from Tel Aviv.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS .
Friday, Nov. 3, 1972—S
Dayan Is Most Popular to Succeed Golda
JERUSALEM (JTA) —De-
fense Minister Moshe Dayan
is the choice of a majority of
Israelis to succeed Golda
Meir. Pollsters asked Israelis
to choose between Dayan and
Deputy Premier Yigal Allon,
and 68.9 per cent said they
preferred Dayan, while 20.7
per cent said they supported
Allon. The rest had no pref-
erence between the two.
Asked to choose between
Allon and Finance Minister
Pinhas Sapir, the Israelis
chose Alban, giving him 61.8
per cent and Sapir 18.5 per
cent.
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TWA, however, has single-
plane service for Tel Aviv
from New York, Los Ange-
les, Chicago, Boston, Wash-
ington and Baltimore.
In addition, TWA has ser-
vice in St. Louis and Detroit
with a change of planes en
route to Israel. These eight
centers form a nucleus em-
bracing much of urban
America.
Despite these obvious ad-
vantages to TWA, however,
Israel actually is not asking
to reduce TWA's operations.
El Al feels choked from
the expanding pressure from
nine third-country flag car-
riers, all based in Europe
and capable either on their
own or through connecting
services to transport passen-
gers between most major ur-
ban centers in the United
States and Israel via their
own countries. These are
Lufthansa, BOAC, Alitalia,
KLM, SAS, Britis h-Euro-
pean, Air France, Olympic
and Swissair.
Since the Israelis and the
Americans discussed t h e
problems in 1968, most of
t h e European companies
have received additional
landing rights in the United
States and thereby improved
their services for flights to
and from Israel. Meanwhile,
El At was left standing
still.
Prepared for American Jew-
At the time of Vered's
ish Press Assn. by World
failure, it was engaged in
Zionist Organization's depart-
ment of education and culture road building and other con-
struction work in Nigeria,
Iran, Kenya, Uganda, Ivory
A weekly quiz, marking Coast, Peru, Honduras and
the 25th anniversary celebra- Brazil.
tion of the birth of Israel,
has been prepared for this
and other member papers of
the American Jewish Press
Association by the depart-
ment of education and cul-
ture of the American Section
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QUIZ FOUR
1. What happened on Nov.
29, 1947?
2. Who is Eliezer Ben
Yehudah?
3. Who is Israel's ambass-
ador to the United States?
4. What does "Yom HaAtz-
maut" refer to?
5. What Is an ulpan?
6. What is Heishal Shlo-
mo?
7. Who is the present for-
eign minister of Israel?
8. What is the name of the
scientific research center at
Rehovot?
9. What is Gadna?
10. What is Chen?
Answers to the above ques-
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6 of this issue.
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