Dramatic Story of Nazi Hunter

World of Tuvia Friedman

BY ROBERT SLATER
JERUSALEM — The world
of Tuvia Friedman compris-
es the hunted and the, hunt-
ers. At 50, and in the busi-
ness for the past 25 years,
Friedman is one of the hunt-
ers of the Nazi criminals who
managed to escape capture
and trial in the days immedi-
ately following World War

II.

The short, bald resident of
Haifa takes credit for the
discovery of 2,000 Nazi crimi-
nals. In 200 separate trials
in Germany, these criminals
faced eye - witnesses who
swore to their misdeeds.
However, finding eye-witnes-
ses was no easy task, and
only 500 criminals actually
went to jail, serving sent-
ences of between five years
and life.
Born in Poland, and a resi-
dent in Israel since 1952,
Friedman has adopted a
judgment about the most
famous of the Nazi leaders
still thought to be alive:
"Martin Bormann is a dead
person as far as I'm con-
cerned," he said.
Referring to a thick file
his Nazi Documentation Cen-
ter keeps on Bormann, Fried-
man emphasizes that there is
ample evidence of Bormana's

TUVIA FRIEDMAN

death on May 1, 1945, to dis-
pute all the counterclaims
that have arisen since then,
the latest coming only in the
last few weeks.
On top are the reports of
several SS generals who es-
caped from Hitler's bunker,
stating that Bormann died
from bullet wounds inflicted
by the invading Russians as
they stormed Berlin.
But, what if Bormann were
still alive today? What then?
"I am against trying him in
Germany," says the Nazi
hunter, "because they will let
him go free after the trial.
The trial itself will take five
to eight years, and then Bor-
mann would be 80. You can't
put a man in jail at that age.
lie will get a doctor to certify
that he is not in good enough
health."
What is more, says Freid-
man, a trial in Germany will
only awaken the instincts of
the former Nazis that have
lain dormant for the past 30

Conscience No Basis
, to End Duty: Dayan

JERUSALEM (JTA)—De-
fense Minister Moshe Dayan
said that he did not favor re-
lieving reserve soldiers from
duty in the administered ter-
ritories on grounds of con-
' science.
Dayan spoke in reply to a
question in the Knesset by
Communist MK Shmuel Me-
kunis.
Ile said he would not inter-
vene on behalf of Yossi Ko-
ten, a reservist sentenced to
35 days in jail for refusing to
serve in the administered ter-
ritories.

48-Friday, Fob. 2, 1973

Israel's West Bank Policy Aids Arab Farmers

BY ROBERT SLATER
(Copyright 1971 JTA, Inc.)
years. "They will make him
JERICHO—The newcomer
into a hero, a holy man to
to
the
Middle East had lis-
the Nazis. After all, he was
Hitler's deputy." But, if not tened intently for a while to
Germany, then perhaps Is- Israeli agriculture officials
recite the dramatic success
rael should try him.
"No," says Friedman em- story of farming on the West
phatically. Bormann engaged Bank since the Six-Day War.
in acts against all the people, Afterwards, the newly-
all throughout Europe. His arrived visitor turned to a
is an international case, and friend and remarked that it
the former Allies should deal was still unclear why the
with him, as they did with Israelis worked so hard to
better the life of the Arab
the others in Nuremberg."
If Bormann is alive, and farmers in the Jordan Valley.
the Israelis do manage to
Avraham Brum, director-
capture him, adds Friedman, general of the Israel Ministry
"then I believe that they will of Agriculture, introduced
take him to the U.S., and not
to Germany, because the
Americans are a responsible
people when it comes to
things like this."
In May 1946, while work-
ing for the Hagana in track-
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Further
ing down Nazis, Friedman
obtained a file on Adolf Eich- information has been dis-
mann, and began inquiring closed on the activities of six
about him from friends and suspected members of a Syr-
ian-directed Arab-Jewish soy
acquaintances.
Thirteen years later, a ring indicted by a Haifa dis-
blind German refugee living trict court last week.
The six, including two Is-
in Argentina identified his
next-door neighbor as Eich- rael-born Jews, Ehud Adiv
and
Dan Vered. are expected
mann in a letter to Friedman.
Upon receiving the letter to go on trial Feb. 11.
It is not certain whether
from Lothar Hermann, the
70-year-old neighbor of Eich- the suspects will be tried sep-
arately
orScollectively, as the
mann, Friedman put the mat-
ter to the then Prime Minister charges contained in the in-
David Ben-Gurion. Ben-Gur- dictments ary.
The pr cution is report-
ion put the intelligence people
onto it, and Eichmann was edly pre a ring charges
eventually captured by the against the{ remaining 24 sus-
pects whtave been held in
Israelis.
Friedman, always interest- custody lace the ring was
ed in Elchmann's capture, broken dp early in Decem-
even before the arrival of ber but have not yet been in-
Hermann on the scene, dicted.
A study of the charge
sought out Dr. Nahum Gold-
mann, head of the World sheets indicated that Israeli
Jewish Congress, to pledge authorities may have learned
a reward for Hermann, if of the spy ring on a tip from
he was found to be correct. a Jew who the ring leader,
Friedman also went to the Daoud Osman Turki, tried
to recruit.
Israel government to ask for
According to the charges,
a reward for Hermann.
Turki attempted to recruit
But, when the time came
more people for the ring but
to reward Hermann for ac-
some refused.
tually pointing out Eichmann,
The charge sheets also in-
the money was not forthcom-
dicated that the Syrian au-
ing. Friedman had promised
thorities who ran the ring
Hermann he would get the from
Damascus did not have
money, but now no one was complete trust in its Jewish
willing to turn over the cash. members.
Friedman made a personal
The Syrians rejected Tur-
appeal to Golda Meir, after ki's proposal to name Adiv
she became prime minister as his deputy. Although Adiv
in 1969. Months dragged by, allegedly was put in charge
while the Israel Intelligence of the ring's Jewish section,
Service insisted that Her- the No. 2 post was assigned
mann did not deserve the to Simon Hadad, an Israeli
money, since information Arab who is one of the six
about Eichmann had come indicted last week. The Syr-
from other sources. Fried- ians apparently wanted to be
man recounts that just six sure that if anything hap-
months ago, he received a pened to Turki, the ring's
letter from the prime mini- documents would not fall in-
ster's office assuring him to Jewish hands, one official
that the matter had been said here.
settled. But, he does not
The Syrians also insisted
know if Hermann received that the Jewish members of
the money, about $10,000, for the ring should not meet or
he has not received a letter
from him.
Friedman thinks that the Hebrew Corner
Israel government and the
Jewish people owe Hermann
more than the reward. He is
In the Diaspora
appealing for the government
and world Jewry to donate
Associated with 2,000
enough money to Hermann to
Jewish schools in 37 coun-
have him move to Israel,
tries.
buy him an apartment in Jer-
Trained thousands of
usalem and live comfortably
Hebrew teachers from
here for the rest of his days.
abroad in Israel.
"Once in a lifetime, does a
Sent hundreds of teach-
man make history like. he
ers from Israel to the Dia-
has," says Friedman. As an
spora.
aside, Friedman notes that
Organized a World As-
Hermann has been forced to
sembly of Jewish Teach-
risk much because of the
ers and a World Congress
Eichmann affair, and he is
of Jewish Youth.
still hounded by former Nazis
Supports pioneer youth
who try to make life difficult
movements having 83,000
for him.
members.

the subject of Israeli goals
and purposes in a recent talk
to a group of newsmen, but
he delivered his words in a
low, often understated tone
that appeared to reflect Is-
raeli policy of not pushing its
goals too much.
"We shall continue to de-
velop this area (the Jordan
Valley), and to bring more
of a variety of crops to the
farmers, so that we might
try to equalize the standard
of living between the farmers
of the West Bank and the
farmers in Israel," said the
short, but solidly-built, white-
haired official.

Syrians Didn't Trust Jews
in Spy Ring, Charges Show

know any of the Arab mem-
bers except Turki. The Syri-
an authorities arranged that
the Jewish members should
meet their contacts only in
an Arab country. This was a
form of insurance against the
Jews defecting, an official
said.
The Syrians believed that
any Jew known to have vis-
ited In an Arab country would
face espionage charges at
home if he tried to defect.
One of the six suspects in-
dicted last week. Anis Kara-
wi, was reportedly trained as
a frogman and was to have
been assigned to sabotage
missions against Israeli ship-
ping. the charge sheets indi-
cated.
Karawi underwent training
with underwater explosives
in Syria, according to his in-
dictment.
Israeli sources said here
Friday that the determina-
tion of the Cypriot authorities
to maintain absolute neutral-
ity in the Arab-Israeli con-
flict was turning Cyprus in-
to a base for terrorist ac-
tivities. They asserted that
Greece, too, was becoming a
terrorist base.
The sources claimed they
had definite information that
several Cyprus-based terror-
ists attempted to sabotage Is-
raeli ships at ports on the
island. Sources said that ter-
rorists on Cyprus also aided
a group of terrorists who
planned a suicide raid on
Haifa.
Earlier this month, four
suspected Arab terrorists
traveling to Israel on Afgha- raeli guards carefully weigh
nistani passports were re- each truckload before the
moved from an Italian pas- Allenby Bridge crossing to
senger ship at Famagusta,
Cyprus, the night before they
were to land at Haifa.
The four were apparently
taken off the vessel on the
basis of information provid-
ed by Israeli intelligence and
flown to Lebanon.

make sure a farm owner
isn't trying to sneak a few
extra loads onto his invoice
to take advantage of the sub-
sidies. According to Joseph
Naveh, representative of the
ministry of agriculture in the
Jordan Valley, still some 10
per cent of the truckloads
are caught In discrepancies.
For the most part, he ex-
plained, farm owners who
only use the bridge crossing
Infrequently get caught.
But up until last year, the
Israelis had not permitted
West Bank farmers to export
their agricultural produce to
Israel, where the prices are
traditionally higher at cer-
tain times of the year and
where transportation costs
are obviously smaller than
the trip to the East Bank and
farther points,
The Israelis. from the very
beginning of their occupation
of the West Bank, had con-
cern that the West Bank
farms would be developed at
the expense of the Israel
economy by West Bankers
bringing their produce across
the Green Line and selling it
cheaply.
Now a new policy is in
practice with Agriculture
Minister Haim Gvati permit-
ting the Arabs to export to
Israel without a license or
any type of permit. The sys-
tem is in the early stages,
and Israeli agriculture offi-
cials were unable to say
with precision how much of
the West Bank produce was
finding its way to Israeli
markets. It seemed that they
did not wish to encourage this
westward-bound export traf-
fic too much.
Thrust upon the Israelis in
an abrupt way, without time
for advance planning, the
West Bank, with its large
Arab population and its rich
agricultural areas, presents
one of the largest challenges
to the Jewish state.
In the absence of a firm
policy on what to do about
the West Bank's future, the
Israelis are proceeding as If
peace had already broken
out, as if Jews and Arabs
had already pledged to live

together in peace.
It is an assumption that

has in its makings perhaps
the seeds of just the peace
that everyone on the Israeli
side is seeking. That, at
least, is the hope of the Is-
raeli officials who bring their
talents and their ideas to the
farmers of the West Bank.

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

There is no doubt that a
number of Arab farmers, like
Shafik Bali, the new mayor
of Jericho, have reaped a har-
vest of profit from the Israeli
conquest of the West Bank.
Bali dresses well, he speaks
nicely of his new acquaint-
ances, the Israelis, and be
has learned to speak to them
frankly, even in public.
Every once in a while be
still lapses into calling the
Israelis "they," but his Is-
raeli friends in the agricul-
ture ministry correct him
and point out that it is "we"
who have built up the West
Bank during the past five
years,
But there is no way of
knowing how many Shafik
Balis exist up and down the
beautiful Jordan Valley
which stretches from Bet
Shean in the north to Jericho
in the south, and which pro-
vides the Arabs of the former
Jordan-owned territory with
potentially the richest and
most profitable land in the
area.
What the Israelis like to
dwell on is the sudden leap
in progress that has occurred
throughout the West Bank.
One can look at the total
agricultural produce, which
rose from IL 135,000,000
($33,750,000) in 1968 to IL
280,000,000 ($70,000,000) this
year. Or one could look at the
farmers' daily wages, which
increased from an average IL
14.20 ($3.55) per day four
years ago to IL 31 ($7.75) per
day in 1972.
Every day one can watch
truckloads of farm produce
make the slightly compli-
cated and drawn-out trip
from the Israeli checkpoint
on the West Bank side of the
Jordan River before it
crosses the Allenby Bridge
near Jericho into Jordan. The
trucks—their drivers routine-
ly latching on Jordan license
plates over the Israeli ones
a few yards from the bridge
—take the West Bank farm
goods to the East Bank to be
distributed to parts of the
Arab world or to be sent on
to European markets.
The Israelis are glad to
watch this process in eco-
nomic recovery take place.
They encourage it. Each
truckload of goods going
across the Jordan is subsi-
dized by the Israelis to the
tune of 20 cents or so to the
dollar's worth of goods. Is-

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from 100 countries.
Taught the Hebrew lan-
guage in special courses
to 38,000 immigrants.
Induced investments of
40 million dollars.
Stored in the Central
Zionist Archives over 70,
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photographs.
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settlements.
Planted 48,000,000 trees.

Translation of Hebrew column published by Brith Ivrith Oliunith,
Jerusalem.

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