THE DETlialt Mishkan Israel, Has Breakfast Cong. Mishkan Israel will serve a free breakfast following its 7 and 9 a.m. daily morning services. For information, call the synagogue, 548-2666. You're invited 20% Off • •invitations •centerpieces •stationery Phyllis Billes 559-4343 # CATERING FOR ALL OCCASIONS Seating Up to 400 Call Our Banquet Manager 682-4300 Shenandoah Country Club ,,,,.....040.,wmvxmomamesimem ineez JEWISH NEWS 17 - Friday, February 14, 1975 India, Korea Bar Israeli Table Tennis, Handball Teams TEL AVIV — Israel has of- be due to the South Korean gov- ernment's financial problems fered to host the Asian prelimi- and improving relations with naries for the fourth World Handball Champions for Arab states. The move follows India's re- Women after South Korea re- fusal to allow Israel to partici- fused to stage the event last week because Israel is among pate in the World Table Tennis Championships in Calcutta. the entries. The Jerusalem Post reported The International Sports Feder- ation is presently studying both that the change in the tradition- situations. ally warm relations between Israel was originally sched- South Korea and Israel might Levi Is Attorney General WASHINGTON (JTA) — _Edward H. Levi, the son and grandson of rabbis in Chicago, was sworn in Friday as Attor- ney General of the United States, the first Jew ever chosen to head the Department of Jus- tice. Levi, who resigned as presi- dent of the University of Chi- cago to accept President Ford's nomination, took the oath of of- fice with his left hand resting on an Old Testament Bible held by his wife. Supreme Court Jus- tice Lewis Powell Jr. adminis- tered the oath. In the presence of an overflow audience in the department's great hall, Ford lauded Levi's legal ability and integrity not- ing that the Senate last week had confirmed him swiftly by voice vote without debate. No dissent was raised against him in the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee either. The new attorney general's maternal grandfather was the late Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago's Sinai Congregation and nationally known as a leader in the Reform Jewish movement. His father was the late Rabbi Gerson Levi of Tem- ple Isaiah, Chicago. Exquisite Israeli Imports uled to meet India in the handball matches, but India withdrew because of "tech- nical" reasons." India barred both Israel and South Africa from the table tennis championships, and po- lice detained the non-white South African delegation after they tried to enter the tourna- ment as spectators. Most of that delegation is of Indian de- scent. The advisory council of the International Table Tennis Fed- eration did allow a Palestine Liberation Organization team to participate, but they were told they must represent Pales- tine (Gaza) and not the PLO. Meanwhile, Bnai Brith ap- pealed to the U.S. Table Ten- nis Association to withdraw from the international cham- pionships. Bnai Brith president David M. Blumberg, in a letter to Jack Carr, head of the U.S. associa- tion, charged that India's action was related to an Arab cam- paign "to squeeze Israel out of all forms of international sports competition and to even- tually strip this sovereign state of her legitimacy in the family of nations." Israeli Army Deserter Confesses Natanya Blast A TEL AVIV, (JTA) 19-year-old army deserter con- fessed that he threw a hand grenade into a Natanya discot- heque Feb. 5 which killed five people and wounded 21. Ezra Avraham told a magis- trate in Natanya that he had in- tended to frighten the discot- heque owner with whom he had quarreled. Avraham was one of five men arrested by a special police unit investigating the grenade at- tack. The five allegedly stole the grenades and other weapons from an army supply depot. Meanwhile, a fire that was started by an explosionin a clothing store Tuesday in Ash- dod's shopping center destroyed five stores. There were no cas- ualties. Police attributed the explo- sion to either faulty electrical wiring or to an underworld "protection" gang. They dis- - counted a report from Beirut by the Palestinian News Agency WAFA that the blast had been caused by terrorist activity. Another explosion Tuesday in the northern town of El Ar- ish killed' a six-year-old Arab boy and injured three other children. The cause of the ex- plosion in an Arab house could not be immediately determined. In an unrelated development, Israeli security sources dis- closed that they have uncovered -a terrorist network operating in the Tulkarem region of the West Bank, not far from Na- tanya. About 11 persons suspected of membership in the terrorist ring have been arrested in the past few days. The gang is be- lieved responsible for several acts of sabotage in recent months. Syria Jo ur al -Blasts Regime TUNIS (ZINS) — A Syrian Army publication carried an outspoken indictment of the regime by a woman journalist, Seham Terchman, who writes that government bigwigs stu- Israel Prof Gets Housing Award Handcrafted jewelery and ancient objets d'art in contemporary settings representing many of Israel's most prominent artisans. Marilyn L e vin Imports 825 EglintolI Avenue West Suite 201 Tonna°, Canada 416/781-3111 74• _ HAIFA — The Eugenio Men- doza Prize of the International Rural Housing Association has been awarded this year to Prof. Emmanual Yalan of the faculty of agricultural engineering at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology. Prof. Yalan, a world re- nowned architect, received the prize for his influence on the planning of rural settlements throughout the world. He has trained architects of many na- tions and has published numer- ous research works. A member- of the Technion faculty since 1935, Prof. Yalan has contrubuted to the creation of new kibutzim and moshavim in Israel, and has served as an adviser to the Venezuelan gov- ernment on its program of rural housing. Hamburg Fears Influx, of Arabs diously avoid the hard decisions that must be made to solve the difficult problems of life, "which daily shatter the nerves of every Syrian person; destroy his productive potential, and kindle the fire of scorn in his heart." Among other charges, the journalist writes: "The high cost of living spreads out of con- trol. There is seemingly no an- swer to the communications mess. Urban conditions are frightful. The shortage of food becomes more acute; our medi- cal students complain that they have been alienated from a scientific climate and are re- garded by their medical col- leagues abroad as no more than first-air attendants." The author paints a general picture of demoralization. "How then," she asks, "can one prepare for the impending war if it will be forced upon us?" in light of all these circumstances.- Western diplomats explain that this public indictment may, in fact, be only a camou- flage since the authoritarian re- gime in Syria would never per- mit such an article to be pub- lished. Anti-Arab Feelings BONN (JTA) — The Ham- on Increase in U.S. burg state immigration author- ities are worried about the in- creasing number of Arabs NEW YORK — Anti-Arab applying for political asylum. feelings are increasing in the They put the figure at 77 over United States, according to a the past five months. recent Harris Survey. Most say they are either Fa- Resentment against the oil- tah persecutees or Fatah sym- producing countries has grown pathizers under coercion from to a point where three of every their own national govern- four Americans blame the pe- tropowers for the inflation and ments. About 3,000 Arabs are recession. The poll also found registered in Hamburg, and the that sympathy for Israel has authorities fear that the two risen from 39 to 52 percent main groups could begin fight- since November 1973. ing in the city.