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President Katzir Decries Social Gap in Jerusalem
aging and does not please an honor guard outside the cial problems and challenges,
saying that "Many children
any Jerusalem visitors," he Knesset building.
said.
As they entered, two army receive neither the care not
President Katzir, who was chaplains and a rabbi blew the education they deserve.
awarded honorary citizenship three long shofar blasts. . . . Communal fragmenta-
of Jerusalem by Mayor Ted- Shazar spoke briefly, refer- tion and social polarization
dy Kollek, toured the city in ring to his successor as must be reduced and the liv-
a public bus Tuesday morn- "Dear brother and blessed of ing standards of the under-
ing, accompanied by the God, chosen of our people." privileged must be raised."
mayor and members of the He prayed that President
Three thousand members
city council and with only Katzir's term would witness of the Weizmann Institute
two motorcycle policemen as the achievement of peace community — researchers,
an escort. Wearing a blue that has eluded his three students, technicians, office
suit and an open collar white predecessors.
workers, spouses and chil-
shirt, the president stopped
Yeshayahu ended the in- dren—gave a collective send-
at an elementary school, an auguration ceremony with off to Prof. Katzir.
Arab high school in East the words, "Long live the
Institute Chancellor Meyer
Jerusalem and two commun- president." They were re- W. Weisgal, alluding to Is-
ity centers, one for delin- peated by the throng in the rael's first president, Chaim
quent youth. He also visited chamber as it rose to sing Weizmann, who also was the
the 1 1/2-room apartment of the national anthem, Hatikva. first president of the Weiz-
Abed and Hanna Katan in The inaguration was broad- mann Institute, said that the
the Katamon quarter, a slum cast live on television and institute was not losing a
district inhabited by many radio.
scientist but rather regaining
of Jerusalem's poorer fam-
a president.
In
his
inaugural
speech
he
ilies.
Prof. Nathan Sharon, form-
quoted
his
mentor,
the
late
He said he was shocked by
erly one of Prof. Katzir's
Dr.
Weizmann:
"1
worked
all
the Katan family's living
star students and his succes-
conditions, feeding 10 per- my life and strove to make sor as head of the institute's
sons on a salary of about science and research the ba- department of biophysics,
$200 a month. Later, he told sis of our national enterprise. recalled Prof. Katzir's scien-
a luncheon given for him by But I knew full well that tific achievements, in partic-
the Jerusalem municipality there are beyond science su- ular his pioneering research
that Israel must make every blime values . . . of right- on synthetic polypeptides,
effort to close the social gap. eousness and justice, of proteins and enzymes, as well
President Katzir made his brotherhood and peace."
as his role as a gifted teach-
He dwelt on the importance er.
first major public appearance
of
science
and
technology
in
in Tel Aviv Monday night,
where he officially opened Is- Israel but also warned of Hebrew University Institute
rael's 25th anniversary exhi- their dangers — pollution, of Contemporary Jewry
bition at the fair grounds. ecological damage, tension Establishes "Shazar Library"
JERUSALEM—The estab-
Speaking to an audience of and noise, and stressed the
20,000, he declared that "The need to rise above science. lishment of the "Shazar Li-
time has arrived to tighten
The new president urged brary" in the Hebrew Uni-
the ties between Israeli re- close links with diaspora versity's Institute of Con-
searchers and scientific in- Jewry. "They are our allies, temporary Jewry was an-
stitutions and Israeli indus- a fount of inspiration and nounced at the residence of
trialists." He said that "Only brotherly aid," he said. At President Zalman Shazar on
such close ties will ensure another point in his speech the eve of his retiring from
an independent modern in- he referred to aliya as "the 10 years as head of state.
This library will consist of
dustry."
core of our strivings" and
Prof. Ephraim Katzir took declared, "Let us not rest un- the publications of the insti-
the oath of office at a fes- til every Jew who wants to tute's Study Circle on World
tive Knesset ceremony here come is free to join us." He Jewry under the auspices of
last Thursday. He kept both also referred to Israel's so- the president of Israel.
The study circle was es-
of his hands on a Bible as
tablished at the President's
he was sworn in
n by
b Knesset t
Speaker Israel Yeshayahu. Italy Seeks to Give house shortly after Shazar's
In his inaugural address he Jews Equal Rights election as president, and has
since then held regular meet-
called for "a blend of the
ings, with its discussions pub-
knowledge of the sources of With Catholics
Judaism with a modern con-
ROME (JTA) — Italian lished in Hebrew in six vol-
cept of the world."
Justice Minister Guido Gon- umes.
The entire Knesset was ella told representatives of
present for the ceremonies the Jewish community here
and the public and VIP gal- that the government would
leries were packed. Among like to change the law to put
NEW
the onlookers were Premier Jews and members of other
1973
Golda Meir and former Pre- faiths on the same level as
mier David Ben Gurion. Is- Roman Catholics.
rael's outgoing president,
Gonella, himself a prac-
Zalman Shazar, escorted his ticing Roman Catholic who
COUPE
successor into the Knesset used to write for the Vati-
chamber after both reviewed can newspaper, L'Osservatore
Romano, said the govern-
ment proposes to modify
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articles of the penal
Energy Need in Israel certain
code, bringing into line sen-
NEW YORK (JTA) — tences for offending any re-
Charles F. Luce, chairman ligion.
and chief executive officer of
At present, Roman Catho-
Con Edison, is on • a 10-day licism enjoys . a privileged
official visit to Israel to study status in Italian society,
common problems of power, partly as a result of the 1929
fuel and water supply.
church-state concordat.
Luce, who also serves as
Gonella said in a speech
chairman of the U.S. Nation,- to members of the Jewish
al Water Commission, is community that at present
making the trip at the invita- the penal code, with respect
tion of the Israeli govern- to religion, "is based on dis-
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and officials in charge of the ity and liberty proclaimed
nation's energy and water by our constitution."
systems. He will also tour
the country's major electric
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JERUSALEM (JTA)—Pres-
ident Ephraim Katzir spent
his fifth day in office tour-
ing Jerusalem and said he
was appalled by the condi-
tions some Jewish families
live under.
The 57-year-old biophysi-
cist was renewing his ac-
quaintance with the city
where he lived 25 years ago,
before joining the Weizmann
Institute of Science in Re-
i hovot. "I lived in Jerusalem,
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