Jewish Agency Appeals to World Jewry for $350 Million in Cash by June 16 JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Jewish Agency Board of Gov- ernors meeting closed with an urgent appeal to the world Jewish community for $350,- 000,000 in cash by the June 16 agency assembly meeting. The meeting was under the chairmanship of Max Fisher. Moshe Rivlin, the agency's director general, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency the need for cash was "ur- gent." He said the needs were principally for immi- grant absorption and for wel- fare aid to Israeli citizens. The agency's welfare and health services to needy Is- raelis have been affected by the soaring cost of living in Israel. Many new families, their breadwinners in the army for long months, have joined the agency's list of re- cipients of various aid. The call for $350,000,000 in cash within four months was an urgent appeal to con- cretize pledges to met pres- sing immediate needs. The sum is outside the $1,250,000, 000 target set by the board of governors to be raised within 18 months following April 1974. A separate $1,400,000,000 commitment was pledged during the Yom Kippur War. The United Jewish Appeal and Keren Hayesod fund- raisers will be approaching contributors in the comming weeks with two messages— Israel's needs demand a re- peat of war time pledges and the Jewish Agency's present situation demands cash now. UJA executive vice-chair- man Irving Bernstein said the first four "jumbo mis- sions" of some 400 people each are to come shortly. This is part of a "jumbo mis- sion" program intended to bring 5,000 Jews to Israel in the coming three months. Premier Golda Meir said that Israel would not retain Syrian territory it captured in the Yom Kippur War but would not negotiate a dis- engagement agreement with Syria until it disclosed the names of Israeli prisoners of war and permits visits to them by the International Red Cross as required by the Geneva Convention. . Referring to the Geneva peace conference, Premier Meir said that Israel will in- sist that it be limited to nations in the area. "Israel will not conduct negotiations with the Palestinian terrorist organizations nor would it agree to their participation in the Geneva conference," she declared. Mrs. Meir declared that she would not accept the de- mands of the National Reli- gious Party to amend the Law of Return so that only conversions performed by Or- thodox rabbis are recognized as valid in Israel. "The de- mand voiced by the religious parties would sulit the Jew- ish people in Israel and throughout the world at a time when the maintenance of national unity is impera- tive," Mrs. Meir said. The Board of Governors took up other problems some of which are expected to be resolved when the general assembly convenes here June 16. One of these is the elec- tion of a new chairman to succeed the late Louis Pin- cus. Since Pincus' death last A u g u s t, Jewish Agency Treasurer Leon Dulzin has been serving as acting chair- man of the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organi- zation Executive. It was Duzin who stressed that the new chairman should be elected by the June as- sembly, unanimously if pos- sible, but certainly by a very large consensus. He was sec- onded in that by Fisher. Dulzin also expressed con- fidence that 85-90 per cent of the $1,250,000,000 from world Jewry would be rais- ed by the time the general assembly convened in June. Fisher stressed that this goal had been established by diaspora leaders themselves, not in response to Israeli ap- peals. "This is our initiative and our responsibility," he said. Dulzin said he expected 70,000 immigrants to arrive in Israel this year and that the Jewish Agency was bud- geting accordingly. Because income is not known, the Board of Gov- ernors has approved a three- month temporary budget of $150,000,000 pending consid- eration of a full budget for 1974-75 by the general as- sembly in June. Dulzin said that Soviet immigration was continuing at a steady pace despite the seasonal drop and that he expected at least as many this year as last year when the Soviet aliya amounted to 33,000. Dulzin reported that he had personally inspected the new immigrant transit facili- ties in Austria two weeks ago and found them quite satisfactory in terms of effi- ciency and security. The new facilities replaced the old transit center at Schoenau Castle which the Austrian government shut down last Lear. It was apparent that the question of who will fill the Jewish Agency-WZO chair- manship was a subject of considerable discussion be- hind the scenes at the board of governors meeting. The post is probably the most prestigious outside the high- er echelons of government. Many Israelis and overseas leaders feel Dulzin would fill the bill admirably. He is considered to have done a creditable job as act- ing chairman since Pincus' death and is actively cam- paigning for the chairman- ship. The main obstacle is that Duzin is a leader of the Lib- eral Party, one of the fac- tions cmoprising the Likud, whereas the Jewish Agency chairmanship has been a La- bor fiefdom since the 1930s. However, the reconstitu- tion of the Jewish Agency has introduced diaspora lead- ers into its ranks and while they are loath to interfere in an Israeli sphere or in- fluence, they have made it known to Premier Golda Meir that they expect the Jewish Agency chairmanship to be filled by a person of the highest caliber. Some diaspora leaders have have suggested Foreign Mini- ster Abba Eban or Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, but r 1, i this year's campaign to raise 51,000,000,000 in Israel Bond sales. He said the $1,000.000,000 goal "representing the big- gest loan in the history of the Jewish nation" was in- tended to lay the economic foundations for an Israel at peace. Rothberg announced the formation of a "Prime Minis- ters Club" to which persons buying a minimum of $25,000 in Israel Bonds would be admitted. Before the dinner ended, the "club" had its first sub- scriber — James Ross of Youngstown, Ohio—who said that he and his wife were buying bonds in the amount of $2,500,000. neither wants the job. The name of Hebrew University President Avraham Harman, a former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. has been ad- vanced. Knesset gossip has it that Deputy Speaker Yitzhak Na- von, chairman of the Zionist General Council, is being urged to forward his can- didacy. But neither he nor Harman are considered like- ly to command the very broad consensus that the new chairman ought to have. Fisher announced that Al- bert B. Adelman, United Jewish Appeal national chair- man from Milwaukee has been named chairman of the absorption committee of the Jewish Agency. Adelman, a veteran cam- paigner, is chairman of the 1974 UJA study conference planning committee, vice president of the UJA • and a member of the Jewish Agency Board of Governors. In another action, the agency's board appointed Sam Morgenstern, an inter- national manpower expert, as a permanent adviser for a new project to create job opportunities for college- trained immigrants. Mrs. Meir: Disengagement With Egypt 'May Be First Cautious Step Toward Peace' TEL AVIV (JTA) — Pre- mier Golda Meir said last weekend that Israel had "dared" to assume a certain amount of risk in entering into its disengagement agree- ment with Egypt "because we belive that this may be, and I repeat, may be, the first cautious step toward a possibility of peace." Addressing 500 U.S. and Canadian Israel Bond cam- paign leaders at the closing session of the Prime Minis- ter's Bonds Conference, Mrs. Meir stressed, "We must not for a moment lull _ourselves to believe that our wish for peace means that we have peace already." Sam Rothberg, general chairman of the Israel Bond Organization who presided at the closing dinner, announced that over $102,600,000 in bonds, "a precedent-shatter- ing beginning" was sold dur- ing January in preparation for the official launching of 1974-75 Budget Under Study; Hiked from IL 20 Billion to Record IL 32 Billion JERUSALEM (JTA)—The cabinet devoted several hours sunday to what was termed as "first thoughts about next year's budget." Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir discussed ideas for the 1974-75 record budget, and promised no economic slow- down was in sight. Details of the budget as being discussed by the minis- terial economic committee. It is to be submitted by the government to the Knesset by March. The extent of the new budget was not revealed, but it is assumed to be more than IL 30,000,000,000. I THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS This year's budget was or- 110—Friday, February 8, 1974 iginaily set at IL 20,000,000,- 000, but because of the war IF YOU TURN THE was increased to IL 32,000,- 000.000. In his presentation, Sapir said the greatest portion of the next budget will be for security. The proportion of security expenditures to the gross national product rose from 12 per cent in 1965 to AT'S*1.11 UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T FIND A FINER WINE THAN Milan Wineries, Detroit, Mick. 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