Israelis Keel Under Highest Price Increases in History
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was up more than 80 per cent, is forecast before the end of dian .Jewish civic, business during a period of heavy de- American people feel for you
and your country."
bread, butter, margarine, oil, from IL 1.14 to IL 2 per kilo; the year, although Sapir said and professional leaders ar- fense expenditures.
eggs, sugar and milk than it eggs were up from 16 to 26 he hoped the present prices rived in Israel to participate
Daniel Parker, administra-
Parker added that Israel's
did the day before.
Israel tor of the Agency for Eco- "exemplary management" of
agorot: margarine from 32 on essential foodstuffs would in an international
50
ag.;
milk
from
64
to
100
hold
"unless
there
is
a
world
Bond
conference,
convened
by
nomic Development, and Is- previous United States grants
The blow was softened to
somewhat by the govern- per half liter; flour from IL price earthquake." Premier Golda Meir and Fi- rael Ambassador Siinha Din. induce "a high level of confi-
ment's announcement that it 450 to IL 850 per ton; bread Monday afternoon, police nance Minister Pinhas Sapir itz formalized the iii..;recnient dencg in your government."
, the grant in a brief
would pay its employes an from 32 to 55 ag. per loaf cordoned off the Central Bus to formulate plans whereby conveyin 4
Referring to the cost of the
additional 4 per cent cost-of- (and expected to go higher) Terminal and arrested five the Israel Bond Organization - ceremony Friday at the State
Yom • Kippur War, Parker
living allowance—above the and halla from 40 to 60 ag. persons in dispersing a dem- will seek to sell $1,000,000,000 Depart men!
said it was "indeed remark-
14.5 per cent paid earlier this Hard cheese went from IL 7 onstration against the food in Bonds to finance recon-
Israel ■ vii1 use the s5o,000,-
month. It has urged private to IL 11 per kilogram; edible price hikes. The demonstra- struction and development ef- 000 to import industrial and able" lhat Israel is surviving
in view of the "unusual bur-
employers to do the same. oils from 75 to 105 ag. per tion was conducted by sever- forts in Israel.
den on you'r economy." Not-
S a m Rathberg, general other commodities fron.-the
Families with more than bottle. (There are 100 agorot al score Black Panthers who
I
I
U. S. The products
he ing the influx of Soviet Jews,
two children, pensioners and to one Israeli pound. $1 IL were joined by an undeterm- chairman of the Bonds Or-
sold in Israel, and the pro-
families on social welfare 4.20.) - fined number of local house- ganization and head of the ; ceeds in Israeli pounds will he said "we certainly wish
to assist in this effort as
In addition, public trans- wives.
delegation, said "We have
will receive increased grants
be applied to support Israel'
well."
The
demonstrators
trooped
come
tq
commit
ourselves
to
to cushion the impact of soar- portation is due for a 50 per
cent fare increase to go into through the bus station carry- the strengthening of Israel national budget.
ing prices.
Related U. S. services also THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
ing signs that read, "They during this period of momen-
But angry trade unionists effect within two weeks.
The next items expected to eat cake and let us eat dry tous decisions. In the light of may be derived from the Friday, February 1, 1974-5
demanded Monday night that
"--- government pay a larger go up are products made bread," and "War on pover- Israel's u r g e n t economic grant. •
needs today, this conference
Parker told Dinitz that the
of-living allowance than from the essential commodi- ty, not on the poor."
ranks as one of the most cru- new grant illustrated "the
'4 per cent it announced ties. These include cakes, 500 North American
RED
cial ever held. We must think very substantial empathy the
to meet -skyrocketing food sweets, juices, jellies, ice Jewish Leaders Pledge
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in terms of heightened needs
cream and restaurant prices. to Help Israel's Economy
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prices.
TEL
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(JTA)
—
More
and
assure
Israel
maximum
A
general
increase
of
10
WE
CAN
FIT
YOU!
The Histadrut central com-
DAVID
mittee, meeting in special per cent in the cost of living than 500-American and Cana- economic strength in the dif-
-
ficult year of the Geneva
session, heard spokesmen for
NEEDS MONEY FOR
peace, negotiations."
workers committees all over
MEDICAL SUPPLIES
$
the country express bitter in-
$50,000,000 Grant
LONG, SHORT, PATIO
dignation that the subsidy
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to Israel Made by U. S.
• - STYLES. SIZES 6 to 44
cuts were made without con-
WEDDINGS, BAR MITZVA S -
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A
PARTIES. SIZES 6 to 44
sulting Histadrut on the ex-
third grant of $50,000,000 in
"It
will
no
longer
do
to
NEW
YORK—"Ecumenical
tent of compensation for
THANK You
good manners" have con- claim that the Middle East three years was made by the
wage-earners.
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MURRY KORIN ADV.
They also demanded that cealed the "stark if iinpleas- raises only political issues, United States to Israel to help
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the government continue to ant truth that Islam harbors and that only in the overly it maintain economic stability
sensitive
imagination
of
Jews
subsidize public transporta- a deeply anti-Judaic hostil-
tion to avoid further hard- ity," it was c h a r g-e d by does the Middle East have
. . . From the Desk of
ships for the working popula- Rabbi Irwin M. Blank of ; anything to do with anti-
Jerry Glassman
Brookline, president of the ' Semitism," Rabbi Blank de-
tion.
Synagogue
Council
of
Amer-
Glared.
"Faisal
has
made
it
Additional increases ex-
pected within the next few ica. abundantly clear that the
Commenting on a speech Middle East has everything
days would nullify the 4 per
cent additional COL allow- made by Kirrg Faisal of Saudi to do with anti-Semitism."
Arabia, in which he said
ance.
Rabbi Henry Siegman, ex-
The Central Bureau of Sta- Jews have been "accursed ecutive vice president of the
tistics calculated that the by God" and therefore have Synagogue Council of Amer.
price increases posted so far no right to Jerusalem, Rabbi ica, said Rabbi Blank's re-;
will require a family of two Blank, suggested that inter- marks also were intended as I
to add IL 40 (about $10) to national Christian b o d i e s, a response to a prominent!
its monthly budget; a family such as the World Council of Christian writer, M a l a c h i
of four will need an addition- Churches and the Vatican Martin, who asserted that "a
al IL 56; a_family of six will have avoided the problem of majority of Americans — in-
have to spend an additional Islam's religious hostility to eluding Catholics — are corn-
IL 75. The national average I Judaism for fear that it ing to realize that the pres-
per family is an IL 55 in- might jeopardize their efforts ent Middle East situation has
crease per month for basic to achieve the good will of nothing to do with anti-Semi-
products. Arab countries and of the tism."
The price hikes posted Mon- r Third World.
Statistics prove beyond the shadow of a doubtjhat you really are gambling when you are
Writing in the January
day were unparalleled in Is- I Speaking in Mecca in his
driving a compact or a foreign car. Don't lose your life trying to save a few gallons of gas,
rael's economic life. Sugar role as protector of Islamic issue of Worldview maga-
its not worth it, and can- so easily happen to you if you have a major accident while driving
zine, Martin asserts that "the
holy places, King Faisal said substantive basis for the
one of the smaller cars.
that "Jews have deviated former dialogue (between •
from the teachings of Moses Catholics and Jews) has
I have to think that life is worth more than a few extra miles per gallon.
and attempted to murder evaporated::
Jesus Christ because they
Play it safe ... Buy a car with your life in mind.
Rabbi Siegman said that
did not want the directives of
Oldsmobile was designed for your comfort and safety. If you drive in a 50 M.P.H. zone you will
"in light of Faisal's blunt ex-
God to be achieved."
get good gas mileage. I think if you are going to buy a car of any kind, play it smart, and keep
Rabbi Blank stated that pression of the anti-Jewish
all these facts in mind.
"the primitive sensibilities views that lie at the heart of
Shevat
expressed in these remarks the Middle East problem,
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