Efforts for Syria Jews
Planned This Weekend
Tay-Sachs Screening Due
Sunday at Beth Achim
Jewish people who have not already been screened are
being urged to participate in the Tay-Sachs screening 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday and March 2 at Cong. Beth
Achim in Southfield. The simple blood test needed to find
carriers of the fatal disease is being organized by Sinai
and Ford Hospitals and area volunteers. See photograph,
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Spur 1975 AJC-IEF Drive
The week-long Phonogift drive to spur pledges for the
1975 Allied Jewish Campaign — Israel Emergency Fund,
as well as Campaign division meetings scheduled for this
week, are giving renewed impetus to the 1975 Campaign.
Stories about the Phonogift drive and 'the events of major
campaign , divisions within the AJC-IEF appear on Page 9.
HE JEWISH NEWS
The Media and
the Blunders .
in Tackling
Middle East
Situation
Commentary
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VOL:LXVI, No. 24
A nationwide campaign to publicize the plight of Syr-
ia's 4,500 oppressed Jews has been _scheduled for this
weekend amidst reports of continuing oppression and a
television show's slanted views. Stories describing the Syr-
- ian Jews' plight, local and national scheduled activities
and the recent television program appear on Pages 2 and
Phonogift and Meetings
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Kissinger's Optimism Scuttled
By Egyptian's Saber-Rattling?
Senators Move to Prevent
Spread of Arabs' Boycott
NEW YORK (JTA) I-- Attempts by Arab interests to extend their an-
ti-Israel boycott to banking firms with Jewish members were denounced
by two U.S. Senators who asked the Ford Administration to make a
prompt investigation of the development. Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R.NY) and
Sen. Harrison A. Williams Jr. (D.NJ) made the request in a letter to Trea-
sury Secretary William A. Simon. The Sen-
ators asked for a probe to determine
whether the boycott had caused religious
discrimination against "Jewish or any oth-
er Americans" and whether any U.S. laws
had been violated.
Disclosure of the extension of the Arab
boycott to some Jewish banking houses
was made initially in Britain and France
and later last week in the United States.
The Senators wrote last Friday that they
were gravely concerned about reports of ef-
forts "to discriminate against banking
firms with Jewish members from par-
ticipation in international financial trans-
actions."
They said the effort "seems to be
spreading toward the United States as evi-
Senator Javits
denced by the reported withdrawal of the
(Continued on Page 8)
PARIS (JTA) — Egypt's Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi warned in Cairo Tuesday that
Egypt would go to war against Israel if diplomacy and peaceful methods failed to gain Egypt's
objectives. Addressing the foreign relations committees of ,Egypt's Peoples Assembly (Par-
liament), Fahmi said, "If through diplomacy we find that we have reached a dead end, then
it will become inevitable for us to resort once again to our armed forces who have proved on the
battlefield their high efficiency and combat capabilities."
Fahmi said, "Our target at this stage is an Israeli withdrawal from the Mitle and Gidi
Passes and all oilfields in Sinai." He warned that "we must get these oilfields intact and in a _
productive state or else there will be no deal with Israel." Fahmi also confirmed that the Soviet
Union has resumed the shipment of military equipment to Egypt under a deal, he said, that
was concluded with _Moscow two and a half years ago. He did not specify the nature of the
weapons. According to highly reliable sources, they include MIG-23 fighter planes.
Fahmi seemed to relent slightly on thu issue of Jerusalem's future status when he said
the only way to solve the problem was to internationalize the city's,Jewish and Arab sections.
Observers said this was the first time Egypt accepted internationalization in principle. Pre-
viously Cairo had insisted that East. Jerusalem be returned to Arab sovereignty.
Fahmi also said that Egypt would not return to the Geneva peace conference unless
all of the weapons it lost in the Oct. 1973 war are replaced and unless the parties involved
— particularly the U.S. and the USSR — decide to invite the Palestine Liberation - Organ-
ization to participate at an appropriate stage.
Israeli governmen't sources in Jerusalem said the new conditions demanded by Egypt for
renewal of the Geneva Mideast peace conference indicated that Egypt, like Israel, believes that
such a meeting now would be premature. Israeli officials have said repeatedly they would not
meet with the PLO.
The Israeli sources said the arms condition might be a pressure tactic on the Soviets for a
speedup in supply of weapons. The assumption, according to the speculation, was that the
Soviet Union would step up the pace of arms deliveries because it has consistenly sought to
transfer negotiations to the Geneva conference where it is a co-sponsor.
The sources suggested that Fahmi's conditions were an effort to ex-
plain to the more militant Arab states, particularly Syria, why Egypt for
the time being prefers to go along with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissin-
ger's step by step approach.
Although Egyptian President Anwar el Sadat has said repeatedly
Egypt would not end its state of war with Israel unilaterally, Syria
remains suspicious of Kissinger's efforts to mediate between Egypt and
Israel and recently urged that the Geneva conference be reconvened in
early March.
Meanwhile, in Paris, U.S. State Department experts with Kissinger
here have begun a serious study of possible guarantees to Israel in connec-
tion with a Middle East peace settlement. The study was ordered by the
secretary, according to these sources, apparently in anticipation of a second'
stage agreement between Israel and Egypt in Sinai that is expected to be
negotiated when Kissinger returns to the Middle East next month.
(Continued on Page 6)
Knesset Members Tour Weizmann Facilities
REHOVOT — Twenty members of the Israeli Knesset are shown, at left, visiting
the Weizmann Institute of Science atomic particle accelerator during a one-day semi-
nar last week. During the orientation program, Prof. Israel Dostrovsky, president of
the Institute, said that Israel must maintain .a high competence in many scientific
fields because it is isolated by distance from the world's major scientific centers. He
added that Israel's high scientific standards have helped her through her turbulent
history.