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July 26, 1974
Israel Rescues Turkish Soldiers;
El Al Flights Unmarred
Cabinet Seen
Paying Way for
Jordan Talks
By DAVID LANDAU
JERUSALEM (JTA)—After a six-hour
discussion of the Palestinian question,
the cabinet Sunday endorsed Premier
Yitzhak Rabin's policy of not conducting
negotiations with terrorist organizations.
A resolution, proposed by Tourism
Minister Moshe Kol of the Independent
Liberal Party and Health Minister Victor
Shemtov of Mapam, that Israel should
negotiate with Jordan and those Pales-
tinian elements who recognize Israel,
was rejected.
The communique issued at the conclu-
sion of the cabinet meeting noted that
the cabinet had endorsed the statement
on the Palestinians made by Rabin when
he had presented the new government to
the Knesset June 3. The cabinet com-
munique declared:
"Israel will continue to strive for peace
agreements with the Arab states within
defensible border s, to be achieved
through negotiations without prior con-
ditions. The government will work to-
ward negotiations for a peace agree-
ment with Jordan. The peace will be
founded on the 'existence of two inde-
pendent states only—Israel with united
Jerusalem as her capital, and a Jor-
danian-Palestinian Arab state, east of
Israel, within borders to be determined
in negotiations between Israel and Jor-
dan. This state will provide for expres-
sion of the self-determination of the
Jordanians and the Palestinians in peace
and good neighborliness with Israel."
The statement hardly marked a new
departure in Israel's policy toward the
Palestinians.
Nevertheless, it contained a significant .
sentence which might well in the course
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By YITZHAK SHARGIL
TEL AVIV (JTA}--A Turkish airlines plane arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport Tuesday night and picked up 42
Turkish soldiers who were rescued Monday off the Cypriot port of Paphos by an Israeli training ship and brought to
Israel.
The first group of Israelis stranded in Cyprus, who were evacuated to London with the help of the British,
arrived in Israel Tuesday morning. The group, comprised of 37 men and women members of the Nature Lovers
Society, were lavish in their praises of the British officers and soldiers in Cyprus who arranged their evacuation from
the Platros region they were visiting. Members of the group said they did not see any fighting but did hear shooting.
The Mavo'ot Yam, a training ship for the education ministry's maritime and fishing school, which rescued
the Turkish soldiers, was in a training voyage in the Aegean Sea when the
war in Cyprus broke out. The ship was ordered to cancel the exercise and
Jews Are Victimized
return to, Israel immediately.
by Preferential Acts
West of Cyprus, some distance from Paphos, the ship encountered
three lifeboats filled with Turkish sailors saved from a Turkish naval vessel.
ADL Report Charges
The latter was believed to be a destroyer or a large landing craft, which was
attacked and sunk,reportedly in error by three Turkish planes.
NEW YORK — The Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith charged that there
Reuben Pinhassi, captain of the Israeli vessel, took the 42 soldiers on
has been federal failure "to take action
board and radioed authorities in Israel about the rescue. Israeli officials
against preferential treatment and quotas
promptly relayed the news to Turkish authorities via the Israeli mission in
systems" in college admissions and hir-
Ankara. The Turkish officials expressed their thanks to Israel for the rescue
ings despite "the prohibition against
operation and requested permission, which was granted, to send a plane to
preferential treatment in the 1964 Civil
pick
up the soldiers. The ministry of the interior provided entry permission
Rights Act."
to Israel to the rescued soldiers.
In a 32-page report documenting "a
The "Galim" of Kibutz Meuhad Maritime School also was on the high
re-emergence of racial and ethnic dis-
crimination" in colleges and universities,
seas when the war started and also was ordered home. The Galim, which
ADL declares that there is widespread
had been near the Greek islands off Turkey's shore, reached Israel Monday
misunderstanding of state and federal
night, 'cutting its 19-day exercise trip to five days.
law aided by "Such confusing ill-defined
The 37 Israelis were among a total of 45 flown out of Cyprus by the
jargon" in government directions as "af-
British
Royal Air Force and brought to London.
firmative action . . . good faith efforts
The
rest of the estimated 250 Israelis on Cyprus also are scheduled
. . . minimum standards . . and rea-
to be brought to Britain by the RAF for return to Israel.
sonable representation." A principal part
The Red Magen Dovid Association said it had notified Cypriot author-
of the problem, the report states, is that
ities of its readiness to send medical supplies and first aid equipment and
college administrators see a clear threat
made ready a shipment for immediate transport in expectation that a request
that they will forfeit billions of dollars
would be made. The Israeli Association of Surgeons announced it was ready
in government contract payments unless
specific numbers of minority group
to send physicians to Cyprus if they were needed to help victims of the war.
members are hired on university faculty
The 42 Turkish soldiers, including the commander of their unit of
and staff.
230 men, arrived at Haifa without shoes and some without shirts. The
The "Preferential Treatment and
Israelis provided them with clothes. The soldiers refused to be interviewed
Quotas" report, written by Benjamin R.
on arrival and were instructed by the Turkish charge d'affaires to board a
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lo ovs-comm unity Workshop
- Program Brings 'Elderly to Jobs
Services to the aged will be expanded by the Jewish Voca-
tional Service and Community Workshop ac the result of a
"purchase of service agreement" between JVS-CW, Michigan
Department of Social Services and United Community Services.
Bruce E. Thal, JVS-CW president, said the new program,
housed in the Arnold E. Frank Community Workshop on Wood-
ward and Canfield Ayes., will enable 4 group of senior adults
to engage in productive activities on a daily basis.
Participants will be provided daily transportation to the
Arnold E. Frank Community Workshop and receive assistance
from staff in obtaining other social and medical services
necessary to their well being.
This program is modeled after an experimental program
which the JVS-CW developed in cooperation with Federation
Apartments. In the latter program, residents of the Oak Park
facility were bused to Detroit daily to work in the activity
center of the Community Workshop.
Because participants in the program reported that these
services were instrumental in improving their sense of well-
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1st Century City,
Merot, Unearthed
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The ancient
Jewish city of Merot, which flourished
in the 1st Century CE, has been un-
covered near Safed, it was announced
here by archeological officials who began
excavations in 1970.
Merot had been mentioned by the Jew-
ish historian Josephus in his "Jewish
Wars." The dig, sponsored by the Al-
bright Institute in Jerusalem in coopera-
tion with several American Universities,
uncovered the foundations of a bastion
and synagogue and found Roman and
Hasmonean coins, farming tools and
pottery, it was announced by William
Dever, director of the institute.
Prof. Eric Meyers led the excavations.
Dever said that the archeologists were
reconstructing the synagogue to study
life in Merot.
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Israel's Wide Variety of Agonies:
Its Humor Blended With Bile
By EDWIN EYTAN
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel boils, perspires and worries
under the simmering summer sun. Worries about everyday
economic difficulties and problems which have reached new
heights: of inflation, credit shortages, price hikes and frozen
wages. The real anguish is about the future — not only the
economic but the basic political struggle into which Israel will
shortly be plunged.
Members of the Knesset from both governmental and oppo-
--
sition parties openly admit "we live the last quiet days—soon
the country will be torn asunder by Conflicting views. The Arabs,
the Palestinians will all become immediate problems with
which we will have to cope." All Israeli officials admit that
the political confrontation will probably begin in earnest next
month.
After the visit to Washington by Israeli Foreign Minister
Yigal Allan, set for late this month, Premier Yitzhak Rabin is
due to arrive in the American capital next month to put the last
touches to the preparatory negotiations which will pave the way
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