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JERUSALEIT (JTA) —
Finance Minister Pinhas
Sapir is vigorously and voci?
ferously defending his "spe-
cial projects fund" from at-
tack by opposition Knesset
factions.
There was nto the slightest
stain on the fund's record,
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Sapir asserted.
Sapir's special projects
fund was attacked by Uri
Avneri, who demanded that
a special government com-
mission should be appointed
to investigate it. But his
Knesset motion to this effect
was defeated by a vote of
33-17.
Coalition and religious par-
ties rallied around Sapir.
The left- and right-wing op-
position groups combined to
muster the 17 votes.
A public debate on the
fund has been proceeding for
some time. Sapir has had to
defend his activities before
the Knesset's finance com-
mittee which -.after hearing
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detailed reports from the
minister himself and his
senior fund-raiser, Knesset
member Aviad Yaffe, en-
dorsed the fund's activities
by a majority.
The cabinet, two weeks
ago, also issued a statement
expressing satisfaction and
admiration at the fund's suc-
cesses.
Sapir declared that in two
years the fund has raised
$280,000,000 from foreign and
local donors for educational,
health and welfare projects
in Israel. The contributions
were solicited over and
above the donors' regular
United Jewish Appeal or
United Israel Appeal contri-
butions, Sapir stressed.
He also reported fully on
the fund at close intervals to
the state controller and to
the Knesset's finance com-
mittee.
Criticism in the press and
elsewhere had been leveled
particularly • at Sapir's soli-
citing from local entrepre-
neurs. It was said that there
was an ethical flaw in hav-
ing the same man soliciting
donations and allocating
loans and grants to the same
donor/manufacturer.
Sapir stressed that only 10
per cent of the fund's reve-
nues were solicited locally
and that even many of the
so-called local donors in fact
had their businesses outside
Israel.
In the Knesset, Sapir re-
called that a majority of the
finance committee, including
some Gahal members, had
been satisfied that all was
above reproach. He repeated
that all projects were pro-
posed by relevant govern.
ment ministries to potential
donors.
The funds themselves were
channeled through the Jew-
ish Agency whose internal
comptroller supervised the
transactions.
Avneri, charging that the
fund was "Israel's Water-
gate," demanded a commis-
sion to investigate if pres-
sures were exerted on donors
and whether donors received
benefits in return for gifts,
and whether any of the
money was passed to politi-
cal parties. He charged that
Gahal was in league with
Sapir.
This prompted Gahal lead-
er Menahem Begin to reply
that a man like Avneri, who
had "ruined a generation of
Israeli youth with his maga-
zine (Haolam Hazeh) for
filthy lucre," has no right to
preach to anyone.
Moral conduct is a prepara-
tion for intellectual progress,
and only a man whose char-
acter is pure, c a 1 m , and
steadfast can attain. to intel-
lectual perfection — that is,
acquire correct conceptions.
—Guide
Anarchist Bomber Nabbed in Italy
Spent 2 Years on Kibutz in Gaza Strip
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Gian-
franco Bertoli, an Italian an-
archist arrested in Milan for
throwing a grenade that
killed one person and injured
more than 40, spent two
years on an Israeli kibutz as
a volunteer.
The members of Kibutz
Karmiya, a Mapam kibutz
in the Gaza Strip, had no
idea that he was a fugutive
from Italian police who had
entered Israel under a false
name with a stolen passport.
Italy, meanwhile has asked
police agencies in Israel.
France, Switzerland and
Britain for help in finding
out whether Bertoli's act was
part of an international con-
spiracy to create disorder in
Italy.
A 35-year-old Arab be-
lieved to• be from Yemen
was arrested in Venice Sat-
urday on suspicion of being
linked in the alleged plot.
According to Israeli offi-
cials, Bertoli, 40, arrived in
the country two years ago
and was directed to Karmiya
by a central office that di-
rects all volunteers from
abroad to kibutzim. The ki-
butzim are selected without
regard to their political af-
filiations.
The officials said that Ber-
toli carried a valid passport
and that he was never sus-
pected or questioned because
there was no Interpol bul-
letin out for a man of his
description.
When his one-year volun-
teer term expired, he signed
up for a second year, saying,
"I love the kibutz way of
life."
Meanwhile, Hilmar Bud-
dee, a 28-year-old former
mathematics student, was
charged in West Berlin with
planting explosives at the El
Al office there in December
1969. The explosives were
discovered and defused.
3 Terrorists to Be Tried
by Military Tribunal
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A mil-
itary tribunal will try three
Arab terrorists captured last
month after they crossed the
Lebanese border and were
on their way to Safad to
attack civilian targets. The
three will be charged with
attempted murder.
A Safad magistrate issued
an additional 15-day deten-
tion order for them.
Under interrogation, the
terrorists admitted that they
planned to attack the Safad
bus terminal, a nearby res-
taurant and a gasoline sta-
tion. They also admitted that
they crossed the Lebanese
border with the knowledge
and good wishes of Lebanese
soldiers.
They said their mission
was intended as a reprisal
for Israel's shooting down of
a Libyan airliner over Sinai
Feb. 21.
Syria, Iraq Hit
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CARACAS (JTA)—Strongly
worded resolutions calling on
Syria and Iraq to end what
was termed the "anguished
emergency situation" of Jews
remaining in those countries
were unanimously passed
here by the first Latin Amer-
ican Symposium for the Hu-
man Rights of Jews in Arab
Lands.
The delegates representing
Argentina, Bolivia, Costa
Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala,
Mexico, the Dominican Re-
public, Uruguay and Venezu-
ela also urged governments
of Latin America to take
measures "to facilitate the
immigration" of Jews from
Arab lands to this part of
the world.
Among its other recom-
mendations the parley ap-
proved the formation of per-
manent committees in each
South American country with
a secretariat in Caracas to
keep abreast of the situation
of Jews in the Arab coun-
tries and to coordinate cam-
paigns on their behalf.
Uruguay Zionists
Oust Mapam Faction
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay
(ZINS) — The Zionist Fed-
eration of Uruguay has ex-
pelled the extreme leftwing
Mapam contingent after Ma-
pam representatives sought
to excuse the massacre of
the Israeli athletes at
Munich, perpetrated by Arab
terrorists.
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