Introducing: Israeli Women's Champ Shulamit Aloni A major surprise in the Israeli election was the triumph of a new party, the Civil Rights List, which was organized by Shulamit Aloni in defiance of the Labor Party with which she was previously associated. She had been a member of the Labor Alignment in the Knesset, in the 1965 list, and was dropped in 1969 because of her critical role of her party's attitudes. In a last-minute decision to run for the Knesset in 1973, she formed her new party and succeeded in electing, in addition to herself, two other new Knesset members, Marcia Freed- man, 35, *a. Haifa University philosophy instructor, and Dr. Boaz Maov, a Tel Aviv University biology lecturer. Mrs. Aloni, 44, a lawyer and 'a writer, is married to Reuven Aloni, an Israel Lands Authority official. They have three sons, two of them in the army. Mrs. Aloni will fully support the Golda Meir government in the peace negotiations at Geneva. Israel in Democratic Manifestation of Agonized THE JEWISH NEWS Ecstasy Vol. LXVI. No. 18 All Other Issues Affecting Commentary Page 2 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper 44ELII" 17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 356-8400 Overshadows Israel's Status A Weekly Review [41t, of Jewish Events Editorial Page 4 'Right to Live' $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30c January 11, 1974 Kissinger and Top State Dept. Diplomats on New M. E. Mission Detroit Jewry Called Upon to Help Bebuild Israel Lifeline: Tourism Postwar Israel will come as a real "revelation" to tourists who have been there before, an Israeli consul told a group of Jewish leaders last week. "Suddenly it's like 1948—and tourists are terribly welcome; there's a warmth and emotional gratitude at seeing them in their (Israelis') midst. Shaul Ramati, Israel consul general in the Midwest, told 80 local congre- gational, agency and organization leaders that the next four months will be vital to Israel. The physical presence of American Jewry will do much to dispel the feelings of gloom and loneliness that set in following the war, he said. Ramati was here to promote Operation Solidarity, a tourism program proclaimed by Israel's ministry of tourism in cooperation with El Al Israel Airlines. Benjamin Hershkovitz, director of the local El Al district office, said that several congregations and organizations have expressed interest in sponsoring tours to Israel. Last month, during the winter holidays, 300 persons from Michigan and the northern tip of Ohio traveled to Israel via El Al. But December always is a popular travel period. In the coming months, Hershkovitz said, there will have to be a redoubling of efforts to expand tourism. (Continued on Page 3) WASHINGTON (JTA)----Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger was to leave Thursday midnight with a group of top American diplomats for the Middle East to help speed the disengagement of Egyptian and Israeli military forces along the Suez Canal and in an effort to add momentum to the disengagement talks now going on in Geneva, it was revealed by the White House Wednesday. A spokesman for President Nixon at San Clemente said that Kissinger's new trip is being made at the specific request of Israel's government and on invitation of the Egyptian government. The spokesman said Mr. Nixon has informed the Soviet Union, United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim and U.S. allies in Europe about Kissinger's trip. Accompanying Kissinger are Ambassador-at-Large Ellsworth .Bunker, the U.S. representative at the Geneva talks, legal adviser Carlyle Maw and Undersecretary of State-Designate Joseph J. Sisco and Harold Saunder of the National Security Council. It is understood that Kissinger will go first to Cairo and then to Israel. There was- no immediate indication as to where Kissinger will go from Israel, although the entire trip is expected to take less than a week. State Department spokesman George Vest said that Kissinger has received "a number of ideas from Israel which form a prelude to concrete proposals." This was understood to refer to the talks last weekendbetween him and Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and the Israeli cabinet discussion with Dayan after his return to Is- rael. It was also understood that the Israeli ideas emerging from the cabinet meet- ing were transmitted Monday to Kissinger by Ambassador Simha Dinitz. Many Surprises in Israel Election; Soldiers' Vote Goes to Begin's Likud; Coalition Runs Into Snag JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel's election results gave Premier Golda Meir's Labor Alignment 51 seats in the next Knesset against 39 for the opposition Likud. The soldier voters gave a 42 per cent majority to Likud, ensuring its 39th seat which had been in doubt. The soldiers also reduced the National Religious Party mandate from 11 to 10 seats, a loss of two of its 12 seats in the previous Knesset. The big surprise was the extra seat the army vote gave Mrs. Shulamit Aloni's Civil Rights List, on the ballot for the first time, for a total of three. Efforts to form a new Labor-led coalition government gained momentum Wednesday. The Labor Party announced the appointment` of an 11-member committee headed by Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir to negotiate with potential coalition partners. Labor is seeking to re-form its previous coalition with the National Religious Party and Independent Liberal Party and the possible addition of the Aguda bloc- But it faces the difficult task of resolving the NRP's demands for greater religious control and the ILP's insistence on more liberal religious policies. In addition, NRP is continuing its drive for a national coalition that would embrace Likud. Two NRP Knesset members representing the party's "young guard"—Zevulun Hammer and Yehuda Ben Meir- ;--A with Defense Minister Moshe Dayan in Tel Aviv Tuesday to solicit his support for a broad-based coalition. Dayan reportedly told them that he deferred to Premier Golda Meir for that matter and indicated he would not initiate any (Continued on Page 10) - Professor Albert MemmL Speaks to President Muammar el-Qaddafi When President Qaddafi visited France to press the oil blackmail and to negotiate a new arms agreement, a colloquium with him was arranged by four European newspapers. This article is the text of the statement made at that colloquium by Prof. Albert Memmi, a native of Tunis, a French writer who present- ly teaches at the Sorbonne. The passages in brackets were omitted by Prof. Memmi be- cause of limited speaking time. (Continued on Page 6) Makeup of 8th Knesset JERUSALEM (JTA) — According to the final election results, seats for the eighth Knesset shape up as follows: Labor Alignment Likud National Religious Party Aguda-Poalei Aguda Independent Liberal Party Rakah Communists Labor-Affiliated Labor List Civil Rights List (Shulamit Aloni) Moked Total 51 39 10 5 4 4 3 3 1 120 Arab Jew Unfolds Historic Record for Libyan Dictator By PROF. ALBERT MEMMI Mr. President— Let me confine myself to asking you a few questions from a viewpoint which probably no one else here can adopt. I am a Jewish writer, born in a country with an Arab majority, who speaks Arabic, who left that coun- try only at the end of his adolescence, and who still has strong ties with the people who live there and with their culture. At the same time, I very early started to understand, approve and support the national revival of the Arab peoples, served it with my pen, and sometimes worked for it physically. I say this so as to show that I am one of the people here, and perhaps in the whole world, who understands you best; which also lends particular weight to my questions and, I suggest, entitles me to hope for your special attention. Is it correct that you have stated that you do not propose discussing the importance of territories to be given back or of borders to be adjusted, or even of a settlement for the Arabs of Palestine, but rather to resume the war and continue it until Israel has entirely disappeared? If that is the case, how can you so radically dispose of the Jewish liberation movement and the state which is its outcome, while you yourself are one of the exponents of the Arab national movement? Why should only the Jews not be entitled to what, after your religious conviction, you hold most sacred, to a national existence? (Continued on Page 48)