Syrian Jews' Status Deteriorates

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The secret police maintain
headquarters in the Jewish
sections of Damascus, Aleppo
and Qamishli, checking the
residents to make sure they
observe a 10 p.m. curfew,
the committee s aid.
Its information on the cur-
rent situation of Syrian Jews
was obtained from several
who recently fled the coun-
try and reached Western
Europe.
They stated that relatives
of Jews who manage to get
out of Syria were beaten in
an effort to get information
about the means of escape.

The Syrian military was
reported to be holding Albert
Elia, the 69-year-old secre-
tary-general of the Lebanese
Jewish community, who was
kidnaped in September 1971
by the secret police as he
was walking to the Beirut
synagogue. It is believed that
Elia was suspected of aiding
Jews who had escaped to

four young Jewish women
from Aleppo, Henriette, Re-
nee and Yvonne Gindi and
their cousin, also named Re-
nee Gindi, all on charges of
either having attempted to
leave Syria "illegally" or of
having aided other Jews to
do so.
The escapees confirmed
reports of the virtual total
ban on travel by Jews out-
side the country. They cited
the case of a Jewish boy,
Simon Khabas, 16, who needs
special treatment for a heart
ailment that is not available
in Syria.
His parents have repeated-
ly asked permission for him
to go to Beirut for medical
treatment. They offered to
deposit 20,000 Syrian pounds

($5,264) as a guarantee of his
return, but the authorities
refused permission for the
boy to leave the country.
The reported response of
one Syrian official was, “So
he'll die—there'll be one JeW
less."

Allon to See President

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Deputy Premier Yigal Allon
will go to the United States
early next month to attend
an Israel Bond meeting in
New York and to meet with
President Nixon.
Allon's visit was timed to
take place several weeks
after the U. S. elections to
give Israel its first chance
to assess the attitude of the
administration.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Yiddishites Invite Soviet Jewish Writers

LONDON (JTA)—The As-
sociatton of Jewish Journa-
lists and Authors in England
has invited 44 Soviet Jewish
writers to a joint meeting in
a neutral country "such as
Finland or Switzerland" to
consider ways and means to
preserve Yiddish.
Among those invited were
such pro-Soviet writers as
Aron Vergelis, Sonia Frei
and Uzi Miller, several Jew-

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