Cabinet Approves 5-Member Judicial
Committee to Probe Yom Kippur War
By DAVID LANDAU
JTA Jerusalem Bureau Chief
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
cabinet decided Sunday to
appoint a five-member judi-
cial committee to investigate
the Yom Kippur War.
The announcement of that
decision immediately pro-
voked a new storm of con-
troversy because a judicial
inquiry by its nature must be
carried out in secrecy, ac-
cording to law.
The panel, to be headed by
a justice of the Supreme
Court or a district judge, will
operate under the laws of
sub/judice, meaning that the
public debate surrounding
the war issues will have to be
severely curtailed during the
Knesset election campaign.
Haim Landau, of the oppo-
sition Likud, has already an-
nounced in a radio interview
that his party would demand
public freedom of speech on
the central issue which he
said with the government's
failure to mobilize the re-
serves in time when it was
apparent that the enemy was
about to attack. Uri Avneri
of the opposition Meri fac-
tion seconded Landau.
The government said it
would raise the blanket of
secrecy only as regards the
actual appointments to the
committee and that it would
retain the option whether or
not to publish the panel's
final report.
Officials stressed that the
investigating panel would not
delve into the actual conduct
of the war beyond the "con-
tainment" stage following the
initial attack. They noted
that the army itself was con-
ducting a far-reaching in.
quiry into the tactics and
strategy employed.
According to the commis-
sion of inquiries law of 1968,
the judicial panel will be ap-
pointed directly by Chief
Justice Shimon Agranat of
the Supreme Court. It was
considered likely that Justice
Agranat would assume the
chairmanship although he
may appoint another Su-
preme Court justice or a dis-
trict judge.
UAHC Program to Enhance Life of Aged
NEW YORK—A program to
bring new life for the aged
has been launched under the
aegis of Reform Judaism's
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations.
The program, said to be
the first of its kind ever
sponsored by a religious or-
ganization, was described by
Rabbi Sanford M. Shapero,
its director, to delegates at-
tending the centennial UAHC
convention at the Hilton
Hotel.
The report is the result of
an intensive study initiated
by a mandate from Rabbi
Alexander M. Schindler,
UAHC president, to develop
new attitudes toward the re-
tired and aging, based on a
positive reaction to their
value as individuals and
reservoirs of experience and
wisdom.
The immediate develop.
ment is the founding of the
Institute for Human Living,
which will be located on the
campus of Christian College
adjacent to the University
of Georgia at Athens. The
long-range goal is establish-
ment of the National Geron-
tological Center for Jews in
the United States, which will
be principally a service or-
ganization. Initial efforts will
take place in the south.
The Institute for Human
Living will train gerontology
specialists, religious school
and youth groups leaders and
Charges That Israel Pursues
Policy of Annexation Debunked
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)
—The comparatively modest
extent of Jewish settlement
in the administered Arab
territories since 1967 was
cited to refute "allegations
of a policy of annexation and
settlement" contained in the
report of the three-nation
Special Committee to Investi-
gate Israeli Practices Affect-
ing the Human Rights of the
Population of the Occupied
Territories.
Addressing the General As-
sembly's special political
committee, Israel Ambassa-
dor Jacob Doron noted that
since 1967, 42 Israeli settle-
ments with a combined pop-
ulation of 4,200 have been
established in the adminis-
tered areas.
Of the Jewish population,
1,050 are in Nahal—military-
agricultural settlements—and
are soldiers on active duty,
Doron said. "So far only
3,150 Israeli civilians have
been allowed to take up resi-
dence in the area" and these
constitute 0.3 per cent of
the population which consists
of over 1,000,000 Arabs, the
Israeli ambassador pointed
out. The committee which
submitted the report consists
of Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Yugo-
slavia and Somalia.
The Israeli envoy said
that since 1968, the Arab
population in the adminis-
tered territories has in-
creased by 87,300 — more
than 27 times the number of
Israeli civilians who went to
live there in the same period.
"Since mid-1967, Israel has
permitted some 50,000 Arabs
to return to the areas as
permanent residents," Doron
said.
In the area near Hebron,
800 Israelis have re-estab-
lished two former Jewish
settlements, one at Kiryat
Arba and the other in the
Etzion bloc. He noted that
the Et z ion settlers were
mainly the children of those
killed when the Jordanian
army overran and destroyed
the settlements in 1948.
The settlers at Kiryat
Arba, adjacent to Hebron,
are restoring a Jewish com-
munity that had lived in the
region continuously for more
than 2,000 years until massa-
cred by Arabs in 1929, Am-
bassador Doron said.
clergymen and laity that have
contact with the elderly, to
launch a shift in thinking,
theory and practice that one
day may revolutionize atti-
tudes in America toward the
aging process.
Rabbi Shapero said the
center will offer college-level
education to the elderly in
their homes; it will publish
legal and medical directories
for the guidance of the aged;
and will sponsor construction
of a model-home prototype in
Florida planned by the elder-
ly with their specific needs
in mind.
Total funding of these
projects, Rabbi Shapero said,
is coming from grants, foun-
dations, industries and in-
surance companies that have
expressed interest.
It was learned that the pro-
posal for a judicial inquiry
was presented to the cabinet
by Premier Golda Meir, who
said she was determined to
have a completely impartial
body not prone to outside in-
fluence and therefore had re-
jected other options such as
a Knesset committee or a
public panel of nonjudicial
character.
Defense Minister Moshe
Dayan said the Israeli gov-
ernment and military firmly
believed, up until the morn-
ing of Yom Kippur (Oct. 6)
that there would be no war
and for that reason mobili-
zation of the reserves was
not ordered.
Addressing army officers
on the northern front, Dayan
said that he himself did not
expect war to break out and
he had heard no one else say
that war was imminent.
Minister of Commerce and
Industry Gen. Haim Barley,
addressing a Labor Party
meeting, said there was no
basic deficiency in the Israeli
army when war broke out.
Barley, a former chief of
staff who was .recalled to
active duty and served on the
Egyptian front, said the Is-
raeli army on the whole was
in a state of readiness on
Oct. 6 but was caught at a
moment when not all of its
components were fully pre_
pared for battle.
He said the initial suc-
cesses scored by the Egyp-
tians and Syrians were due
to surprise and not to defici-
encies of the Israeli army,
incorrect strategy or poor in-
telligence as to the enemy's
strength and capabilities.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14—Friday, Nov. 23, 1973
The way of goodness is at
the outset a thicket of thorns,
but after a little distance it
emerges into an open plain;
while the way of evil is at
first a plain, but presently
runs into thorns.—Sifre on
Deuteronomy.
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