Thus He will judge among the nations And arbitrate for the many peoples, And they shall beat their swords into plowshares And their spears into pruning hooks: Nation shall not take up Sword against nation; They shall never again know war. Prophecy inspires hopes for peace among nations Kissinger's THE JEWISH NEWS Triumph, His Tribute • to Israel I- 7 Editorial Page 4 Commentary Page 2 Vol. LXV. No. 13 A Weekly Review American .Red Cross and Mogen David Rosensafts and Bergen-Belsen Movement of Jewish Events Commentary Page 2 Michigan's Only' English-Jewish Newspaper •4 41MI• 17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30c June 7, 1974 Disengagemen . t 'Not Real-Peace' Terrorism Still Causes Concerm Signing of the disengagement pact in Geneva ended the warfare on the Israel-Syria border and will facilitate final exchange of prisoners of war. But it does not spell peace for the area. Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam stated. emphatically on Tuescly that the disengagement was "not real peace." He warned, at a press conference in Damascus, that if any Arab country concluded an amic- able pact with Israel or yielded any territory to Israel it would be "disavowed and destroyed, like the Petain collaborationist regime in Vichy, France, when they worked with the Nazis in World War II.' The return to the Middle East of Secretary of State Henry A. on on Kissinger, when he accompanies President and Mrs. Richard M. Nixon their visits to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Israel and Jordan, is th viewed as an added effort by the United States to press for a peace that is presently so elusive. Emotion of Israeli Relatives Greets Return of POWs Statements similar to Khaddam's in Damascus are heard in other Arab capitals amidst applause for Dr. Kissinger's successful efforts to assure military disengagement. Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's declaration that Israel will not approve creation of a separate Palestinian state, his assertion that - the Palestinians should be part of an existing Jordanian state and their problem should be included in a Jordanian-Israeli pact; and the rejection of guerrilla and terrorist groups' participation in the Geneva meetings have added to the tensions stemming from unending threats to Israel. United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim was in Syria Tues- day when the first members of the 1,250-manUnited Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) arrived to supervise the established buffer zone. Austrian and Peruvian soldiers were the first to arrive. Labor Party Post Slated for Eban; Rabin in PM Role Lack of Congeniality Marks Signing of Disengagement By EDWIN EYTAN GENEVA (JTA)—Israel and Syria signed a disengagement By TUVIA MENDELSON JERUSALEM (JTA)—The position agreement Wednesday laying out in detail the withdrawal of TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israel was preparing Wednesday for the troops and weapons from the front line, creating a buffer zone to of secretary general of. the Labor. return of 56 prisoners of war held by Syria since the Yom Kippur be manned by United Nations troops and providing for the ex- Party has been offered to former For- war. The exchange began Thursday, 24 hours after the signing of eign Minister Abba Eban by the pow- change of POWs and the search for bodies. final disengagement documents by Israel and Syria in Geneva. erful "Gush" leadership of Labor's The POWs landed at Ben-Gurion Airport where they were greeted The agreement was signed here at the 'UN's European head- Mapai faction, and Eban seems in- by Premier Yitzhak Rabin, Defense Minister Shimon Peres, Chief Maj. Gen. quarters at 10:05 Israel time by the Israeli delegate, clined to accept, sources - close to of Staff Gen. Mordehai Gur and other senior officers. Herzl Shafir, Syria's Maj. Gen. Adnan Tayara and the com- him indicated Wednesday. He would Because the prisoners have been without news of events in mander of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), Lt. succeed Aharon Yadlin, who is min- Israel for many months, an officer boarded the plane before they Gen. Ensio Siilasvuo. America's Ellsworth Bunker and Russia's ister of education and culture in the disembarked to inform them of the change of government and let Vladimir Vinogradov attended the meeting in their capacities of new government of Premier Yitzhak them know that the men who greet them are no less than the co-chairmen of the Geneva peace conference. Rabin. premier and the minister of defense. According to the sources, Eban has It is believed that the agreement provides for a three-phase The authorities allowed the returnees to greet their families made two conditions—that his election Israeli withdrawal which will culminate in a retreat from the waiting at the airport as they left the plane. The released men (Continued on Page 14) town of Kuneitra, occupied in 1967. UN were taken from the airport to a military base for orders and troops, supplied by Austria, Poland and information and then given 48 hours Canda, will take up posts in the buffer leave to spend with their families. zone shortly before Israel's withdrawal. On Sunday they will report to a pen- The ceremony was half private. The sion in Zichron Yaacov for medical ex- NEW YORK (JTA)—A new grant of $700.000 plus $300,000 in gifts-and-matching Syrian delegation requested that news- aminations and orientation lectures on funds has been approved for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research by the National men and cameras be barred from the developments in Israel and abroad dur- Conference on the Humanities, according to an announcement by Dr. Ronald Berman, (Contnued on Page 6) ing their captivity. Israel freed 382 Syr- (Continued on Page 10) ian POWs. chairman of the council. Twelve wounded Israeli prisoners of (Continued on Page 5) $1,000,000 in Grants Approved for YIVO by National Conference on Humanities Pinhas Sapir Endorsed for Chairmanship of Jewish Agency, World Zionist Executive; Commended by Max Fisher for 'Excellent Record' When the 300-member assembly of the Jewish Agency for Israel meets in Jerusalem under the chairmanship of Max M. Fisher of- Detroit, June 16-20, there is every indication that Pinhas Sapir, who was minister of finance in the cabinet of Prime Minister Golda Meir, will become chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive and the World Zionist Executive. Endorsed for the high role in Jewish ranks by the Labor Party, at its meeting on Sunday, his selection for the post held by the late Arye Pincus seems a certainty. The acting chairman of the two world Jewish bodies since Mr. Pincus' death is Arye Dulzin, a Likud leader. early next week, told The Jewish News that he considers Sapir "an excellent Fisher, who leaves for the Jewish Agency meetings candidate for the high post. "If selected by the Jewish Agency assembly, Sapir will be certain to continue leadership tasks with dignity," Fishcr said. "He He is ranks. ghout the world and is among the most highly regarded men in Israeli and world Jewish nities throughout known in Jewish commu would be undertaking a position for which he is among the best trained men in world Jewry. He would not be assuming a high admin- istrative position as a learner but as one who has been closely linked with the duties involved in the significant post he has declared him- . self ready to assume," Fisher added. A prominent Israeli news commentator, speaking about Sapir, before the formation of the Yitzhak Rabin cabinet, described him as Pinhas Sapir follows: office. If that popular contention had any validity before the October War, it is doubly valid fr om th e "In Israel, all doors lead to Pinhas Sapir's now. The gravel-voiced, 67-year-old finance minister—a power in Israeli 'politics ever since he inherited the portfolio in 1963 t is e late Levi Eshkol—has become even more powerful as the architect and chief strategist of Israel's economic recovery program. I Sa who ordered up the draconian but essential voluntary and compulsory war loans, Sapir who is reshuffling Israel's development and produc- tion priorities and Sapir who has set in motion the biggest overseas fund-raising campaign in Israel's history designed to raise more than $1,000,000,000 in 1974 to finance the country's war economic reconstruction."