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August 2, 1974
Russian Arms Fill Syrian Arsenals
New War Fears Spread in Israel;
Warnings by Peres, Gur, Eban
Alton-Kissinger 'Quiet
Diplomacy' Talks Mark
Their 'Search for Peace'
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Israel Foreign Minister Yigal Allon and
`—Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger met Tuesday in what one State
/— Department source said was an effort to "have some quiet diplomacy
here." Emerging after a two-hour meeting with Kissinger, Allon said
that they had begun "a month's pilgrimage in search of peace." The
Israeli official told reporters that he and Kissinger also discussed the
next round of negotiations for a Middle East peace settlement which
will possibly include the reconvening of the Geneva conference.
In a brief statement to reporters after the meeting ended late
Tuesday afternoon both Allon and Kissinger described the talks as
positive. The secretary said the talks were a continuation of a "char-
acteristically friendly fashion" in which meetings between the two
countries were held. Allon thanked Kissinger and President Nixon for
their efforts in achieving the disengagement agreements in the Mideast
and said the talks Tuesday helped "chart the course of peace in the
Middle East."
When a reporter asked about the Palestinians, Allon replied that
`Most Palestinians are Jordanian citizens and most Jordanians are
Palestinians."
According to sources, Kissinger is expected to urge Israel to begin
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liAGuard Paris
Rally Protested
By YITZHAK SHARGIL
TEL- AVIV (JTA)—Fears of a new Middle East war intensified in Israel this week.
Former Foreign Minister Abba Eban added his voice to those who have warned that an-
loptelLerrewaLcouelnddbreoafk the
Arabs Renew Boycott; Jewish-Owned
Stores in England First Targets
LONDON (JTA)—Marks and Spencer Department Stores and Sel-
fridge's are undeterred by the news that they are to be picketed by
patrols trying to enforce a boycott by Arabs because of their Jewish
ownership and connections with Israel.
The Arab boycott conference meeting at Aleih, near Beirut,
Monday decided to keep a close watch on Arab visitors abroad. Ob-
servers of different Arab nationalities "who can discreetly spot their
countrymen" will be posted in front of, or inside "blacked" stores in
Britain and other parts of Europe.
A spokesman for Marks and Spencer said of being mentioned in
the boycott: "We have no comment." Selfrigde's (a huge Oxford Street
store) said: "There is nothing very much we can do about people
standing outside the store. Inside we have some jurisdiction and our
own security staff. It would depend very much on what the watchers
did."
Meanwhile, the British Leyland Motor Corporation, Britain's largest
car manufacturer, hopes that they will be removed from the boycott,
especially following the announcement over the weekend that Iraq has
placed a 12,500,000 pound sterling order for buses from the company.
The Arab League conference is reviewing methods of tightening the
boycott which seeks to prevent firms from having any transactions
with Israel.
Akiva Day School Gets World Zionist Award
Special to The Jewish News
PARIS (JTA)—The International
League Against Racism and Anti-
Semitism (LICA) has protested to
the French government about a
meeting of the Iron Guard, the for-
mer Romanian fascist organization,
due to take place here Sunday.
JERUSALEM—The Akiva Hebrew Day School of Southfield, Mich., will be the recipient of
the 1974 Spiritual Bridges Award, it was announced here Monday by Dr. Haim Chamiel, director
general of the World Zionist Organization's department for Torah education and culture.
LICA has demanded the govern-
ment forbid this "scandalous meet-
ing."
Dr. Chamiel stated that Rabbi Joseph Shuchatowitz, principal, and his staff, have pioneered
innovative programs which have successfully built a spiritual bridge between Akiva and Israel.
LICA said that former Iron
Guard commander Viorel Trifa is
expected to attend. He was one of
the leaders responsible for the po-
groms carried out in Romania.
_Trifa, now residing in Michigan,
was recently shown in Israeli news-
papers in his Iron Guard uniform
standing beside Goebbels.
Akiva, the Jewish day school and high school established in Detroit in 1964, will be presented
with the coveted award "for its inspiring educational projects which have effectively linked the
students of this school with the heartbeat of Israel—both the land and its children."
Akiva is the first Hebrew day school in the United States to have developed a Grade 12 in
Israel Program. Its high school seniors spent their last year of secondary education at Yeshivat
Tikvat Yaakov (for boys) and Ulpanat Segulah (for girls) in Israel where they lived and studied
with their' Israeli peers.
The Spiritual Bridges Award, bestowed annually by the department for Torah education and
culture of the World Zionist Organization, upon the Hebrew day school which has met with the
criteria of the award committee, will be presented formally to Akiva, by a distinguished represen-
tative of Israel, at its 10th anniversary banquet in October.
year.
Defense Minister Shi-
mon Peres told the Knes-
set Wednesday that the
rate at which the Soviet
advisers and technicians
were arriving in Syria
had speeded up but there
was no proof that they
were manning the sophis-
ticated new weapons the
Soviet Union has been
giving Syria.
Meanwhile, the Israeli
defense force began
speeding up work on its
fortifications along the
Syrian, Egyptian a n d
even Jordanian lines.
Eban, speaking at a
memorial for the late
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Fewer Tisha b'Av
Mourners at Wall
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The plaza
in front of the Western Wall was
filled last weekend with mourners
who sat on mats and read Lamen-
tations for the destruction of the
Temple. There were fewer people
this year than last, perhaps due to
the tight security measures. Streng-
thened patrols . circled the plaza,
manning the narrow alleys and the
roofs overlooking it to avoid any
terrorist attack.
The Tisha b'Av events began Sat-
urday night with a half moon and
floodlights drenching the Western
Wall. Many thousands streamed in-
to the area, including tourists and
new immigrants from the Soviet
Union. There were no entertain-
ment events in the country Satur-
day night.