THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Dec. 7, 1973-13
Loan Fund. Hits
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JERUSALEM (JTA)—The
voluntary loan fund in Israel
to help cover war costs has
already raised some IL 920,-
000,000 ($230,000,000), the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
was told by Knesseter Adi
Yaffe, Finance Minister Pin_
has Sapir's special assistant
on fund-raising projects.
The loan fund has set itself
a target of some IL 1,300,-
000,000. Yaffe expressed con-
fidence that it will be at-
ained.
He gave the following
breakdown of the fund so far:
IL 100,000,000 from organ-
ized groups of employed
persons; IL 150,000,000 from
the Histadrut sector of the
economy; and IL 650,000,000
from private firms and pri-
vate persons.
Japan's Submission
to Oil Blackmail Hit
NEW YORK — Leaders of
the American Jewish Con-
gress picketed the Japan
Camera Show at the Statler-
Hilton Hotel to pr o test
Japan's submission to Arab
oil blackmail.
"We are not calling for a
boycott of Japanese goods,"
said Jack M. Elkin, chair-
man of the Congress' New
York Metropolitan Council.
"We are here to protest
Japan's failure to stand fast
with the U.S. in resisting
pressure to fall in line with
Arab policy."
"The best tactic would be
the mobilization of a joint
policy of resistance by the
United States, Western
Europe and Japan against
excessive and unconscionable
demands by the Arab oil
countries," Elkin said.
In documenting the charge
that "economic considera-
tions — not politics — are
behind the A r a b oil cut-
backs," the American Jewish
Congress spokesman quoted
Arab oil officials to the effect
that increased oil production,
especially at a time of dollar
devaluation, was economical-
ly harmful to the Arab oil
countries, which now had
more money than they could
spend in the immediate fu-
ture.
Su000rt for Israel
Witnessed in Tokyo
TOKYO—Japanese march-
ers demonstrated in favor of
Israel by carrying banners
protesting the Japanese gov-
ernment's pro-Arab policies
announced after that country
was threatened by an Arab
oil boycott. The marchers
bore posters of the late David
Ben-Gurion.
Scholars Back Israel
on POW Question
RAMAT-GAN — The rector
of Bar-Ilan University, Prof,
Menahem Zevi Kaddari, has
received letters from presi-
dents, rectors and other
heads of universities in the
West (Switzerland, Holland
Sweden, West Germany and
the U. S.) in which they
promise support for an ap-
peal to their governments to
intervene at the UN and with
Arab nations for the honor-
ing of the rights of Israeli
prisoners of war and the
Geneva Convention.
These letters follow an ap-
peal by heads of institutes
of higher learning here.
For twenty-five years, Israel's people have lived through five wars. But these wars
have not blighted the dreams and visions and heroism of the Israeli people. The
Yom Kippur War is the latest chapter in the two thousand year old war for Jewish
survival. And in the midst of this war, a new heroism emerged—the heroism of new
immigrants. Immigrants who not only fought oppression, and risked everything
to live as Jews—but immigrants who came boldly and bravely and proudly to a
land stricken by the destruction of war. More immigrants came in October—the
month of war—than in any single month in the past three years.
The task of building new lives for these new heroes is ours. Their determination
must be ours as well.
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William M. Davidson
Lewis S. Grossman
General Chairmen
1974 Allied Jewish Campaign — Israel Emergency Fund
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