Anierican Entertainers Boost Israelis' Mora
DANNY KAYE
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
"It's so lovely to be home,"
said Danny Kaye when the
applause died down in Tel
Aviv's Mann Auditorium,
where he appeared as sur-
prise guest conductor Sunday
night.
Conductor Z u b in Mehta,
Indian-born musical adviser
to the Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra, w a s conducting
his last performance before
returning to the U.S. He an-
nounced:
"A world-famous conductor
who has led the greatest or-
chestra, including Los
Angeles, Cleveland, Chicago,
London and even Israel"
would take over the podium
for the last piece.
"He, too, as so many here,"
said Mehta, "is an oleh but
an oleh to America — Daniel
Kaminsky."
Kaye, dressed very in-
formally, stepped out, went
into a huddle with Mehta be-
hind the podium and re-
appeared in black tie to con-
duct Rossini's "Stealing Mag-
pie Overture," with Mehta
playing the double bass.
Kaye, who had said "I'll do
whatever I can do. I feel like
a soldier who's been called
up from the reserves," was
not the only American enter-
tainer to boost Israel's war-
time morale.
Kaye visits hospital after
hospital, ward after ward,
and performs and makes sol-
diers laugh.
Actress-singer Liza Min-
nelli was suggested by Cairo
newspapers for the Arab
blacklist because she an-
nounced she was going to
Israel to entertain the troops.
Film star Elizabeth Taylor
contributed $100,000 to the Is-
rael Emergency Fund and
conducted a campaign of her
own among Hollywood stars.
A telethon for the United
Jewish Appeal in New York,
which raised $4,000,000 in
four hours, drew such names
as Herschel Bernardi, Leon-
ard Bernstein, Allen Funt,
Richie Havens, Shelly Win-
ters, Tony Curtis and Soupy
Sales.
Ex-Detroiter Mike Krause,
former producer of the Mike
Douglas Show, conceived the
idea for the telethon.
Haim Topol was among the
first to offer to do anything
for the soldiers that go to
the front. Enrico Massias ar-
rived on the first plane avail-
able to perform before the
soldiers in the sites nearest
to the front line.
Isaac Stern came over as
did Pinhas Zuckerman, both
with their violins. So did
Daniel Barenboim. Mehta
continued to conduct the or-
chestra though he was
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ZUBIN MEHTA
scheduled to be somewhere
else. (Mehta was in Israel
during the Six-Day War as
well.)
Dalia Lavie and Esther
Of arim also entertained.
George Brant
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NEW YORK (JTA)—Post-
, age stamps are a significant
anti-Israel tool in coordinated
propaganda efforts by Arab
nations, it is revealed in a
study at Yeshiva University,
part of a master's thesis
prepared by Harvey Woli-
netz of Monsey, N. Y.
Wolinetz studied all phila-
telic issues by Arab countries
from 1947 to mid-1972 re-
lating to Israel. He reported
this included more than 150
stamps from 14 Arab coun-
tries.
He said in his study that
the first issues were postal
tax stamps of Iraq, Jordan,
Lebanon and Syria which not
only raised funds but also
served to publicize the war
with Israel. He cited stamps
commemorating the alleged
massacre at Deir Yassin as
evidence of philatelic coor-
dination among the Arab
post office systems.
From 1965 to 1968, Arab
countries ,issued 17 stamps
dealing with Deir Yassin. All
but one showed a dagger
dripping blood stabbed into
a map of Palestine.
Algeria issued a stamp
showing people .falling down
into a pile—suggesting they
were being gunned down —
superimposed on a map of
Palestine.
A similar propaganda unity
was seen in the 1960 World
Refugee issues of Egypt,
_Syria and Yemen.
Many of the stamps dealt
with Palestinian guerrillas.
Among the examples cited in
the thesis are a set of three
1962 Kuwait stamps entitled
"P ale s tine Commandos."
They show a young boy, a
male guerrilla and a woman
holding a submachinegun in
front of the Mosque of Omar
in Jerusalem. Wolinetz com-
mented that since the Mosque
was in Israeli control when
the stamps were issued, "the
message of the stamps seems
to be a rallying cry to Arabs
that the mosque — and per-
haps the whole of Palestine
— will be recaptured."
The desire to evoke im-
pulses toward revenge, as
well as pity, were found to
be among the primary mo-
tives for the design of the
stamps. Reflecting such emo-
tions are such legends on the
stamps as "We Must Drive
Out Our Enemies Wherever
They Are"; "Aggression
Against Civilian Installa-
tions"; "Criminal Burning of
DISTRIBUTORS FOR
Al-Aqsa Mosque"; and "The
Tragic Plight of the Refu-
gee."
The study did not cover the
recent Egyptian stamp this
spring on the downing of a
Libyan airliner by --Israeli
fighter planes, which carried
the legend "killers." After
protests in the British House
of Lords, further distribution
was stopped by. the Crown
agents. Wolinetz said that the
Egyptian stamp was typical.
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