Federation
Budgets '75
Allocations
The Jewish Welfare Federation has adopted its formula for distribution of the 1975 Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel
Emergency Fund. The Campaign, which is the annual fund drive of the Federation, will allocate its monies to nearly
50 humanitarian agencies, local, national, regional, and overseas.
Since the 1968 merger of the Allied Jewish Campaign with the new Israel Emergency Fund, Federation's board of
governors has set a "ceiling" for the regular Allied Jewish Campaign. Funds raised by the community above that
maximum are added to the designations for the Israel Emergency Fund. The United Jewish Appeal and its programs
thus receive income both from the regular Campaign and from IEF.
According to President Mandell Berman, this year's ceiling for the AJC funds will be $10.5 million. The pre-
Campaign formula at this amount makes available a total of $4,675,000 to be used for all domestic programs. He
pointed out that in 1974 when pledges of $23,906,000 were tallied, the overseas and Israel beneficiaries were allocated
more than $18.5 million.
UJA is Major
Allied Drive
Beneficiary
(Continued on Page 8)
Refugees in
True Perspective
U. S. Reply
to Arab Boycott:
'No Bigotry
No Sanction'
Commentary
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THE JEWISH NEWS
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of Jewish Events
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VOL. LXVI, No. 26 a'' , n71
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Crime
of Bigotry:
Lesson for
Libertarians
for All Time
Editorial
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March 7, 1975
New Tel Aviv Tragedy Reaffirms
Terrorism Non-Submission Policy
Yasir Arafat Seen Scuttled
in Sabotage Aim; Kissinger
Outraged, Mission Proceeds
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, speaking for himself and
the U. S. government, expressed outrage over the attempt by Yasir Ara-
fat, through a group of terrorists, to bring terror into Tel Aviv Wednes-
day night.
Admittedly acclaimed as an attempt to sabotage the Kissinger
peace mission because Arafat's PLO was not being consulted in negotia-
tions for new disengagement agreements between Egypt's President
Sadat and Dr. Kissinger, the latest outrage is believed to be scuttling
Arafat himself in his terrorist aims. Arafat's El Fatah boasted from
Beirut Wednesday night that it engineered the intrusion into Tel Aviv
by sea, in boats marked "Arafat."
It is generally believed that the new wave of terror inaugurated by
Arafat will not mar the approach to new agreements which may lead
to peaceful arrangements under Secretary Kissingees direction.
While the role of the opposition in the Knesset to any withdrawals
by Israel either in the Sinai or on the Golan Heights has been strength-
ened, the Rabin government seems set upon striving for an eventual
amity that will end strife and will eliminate PLO influence in Middle
East negotiations.
Saddened by the loss of life, horrified by the renewed wave of terror admittedly inaugurated by Yasir
Arafat, his PLO and El Fatah organizations, Israel's reply to the murderous incident in Tel Aviv Wednesday
night was at reaffirmation of a government policy not to yield to terrorism.
The tense six hours of threats to Israelis and to tourists in a small hotel, the Savoy, some 300 yards
from the U. S. embassy in Israel, ended when an army contingent rushed into the hotel lobby, killed nine of
the terrorists who had landed at the seashore facing the hotel in rubber boats marked "Arafat" and cap-
tured one.
Saddened by the loss of life — at least 10 tourists were killed and many wounded — Israel Defense
Minister Shimon Peres and other members of the government issued new warnings that there has not been
and there never will be submission to terror or blackmail. It is feared that at least seven or eight others were
killed, but as this issue of The Jewish News was going to press it was not known how many were Israeli
soldiers and how many were tourists.
El Fatah spokesmen in Beirut boasted of engineering the operation that ended in death for nearly all of
the terrorists and the tourists in the very small hotel. An Israeli soldier who spotted the invading murderers
and attempted to halt their entrance was killed and two other soldiers died in the skirmish with the
terrorists.
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Peres was on the scene of the terrifying occurrence immediately after it started at about 11 p.m. Tel
Aviv time Wednesday. He reported to the Israel cabinet at an emergency meeting held early Thursday
morning and the unanimity of opinion upheld the policy that there can never be submission to the inhuman-
ities preached by El Fatah and PLO.
The invading murderers, prior to the collapse of their plans, had asked for a plane to take them,
terrorist prisoners in Israeli prisons and the convicted weapon smuggler Archbishop Hillarion Capucci to
Damascus. They had asked for the Japanese and French ambassadors to act as intermediaries.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin asserted that Israel will not deal with the PLO and will continue to
strive for a normal life which must be shared by friendly neighbors.
(The Savoy Hotel where the latest Arab outrage took place was the hideout, prior to Israel's rebirth,
of Likud leader Menahem Begin when he was being hunted by the British).
Honorary U-M Degree for President Katzir of Israel;
Will be Feted by Academicians in Ann Arbor Wednesday
ANN ARBOR — President of Israel Ephraim Katzir will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of
Michigan at a special award convocation, 4 p.m. Wednesday, in the U. of M. Rackham Lecture Hall. The special presentation by U.
of M. President Robben W. Fleming will be open to the public.
Dr. William Haber, adviser to U-M's executive officers and past president of American ORT, will serve as faculty host. Dr. and
Mrs. Haber will host a dinner and separate breakfasts for the President and his wife, and a special reception will be held Tuesday
vening at Inglis House.
Thirty students in the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation's Israeli programs will meet President Katzir at 10 a.m. Wednesday, and
Dr. Fleming will host a luncheon at the University League. A special reception will also follow the presentation of the honorary
Doctor of Laws citation.
President Katzir was a visiting scholar in the University of Michigan chemistry department in 1969, and is an interna-
tionally recognized molecular biologist and biochemist. He became Israel's fourth and youngest president in May, 1973,
succeeding Zalman Shazar.
Born Ephraim Katchalski in Kiev, 'Russia, in 1916, the future scientist and president was taken to Palestine in 1925 and at age
16 joined the Hagana. He attended the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and taught there before becoming head of the department
of biophysics at the Vv'eizmann Institute of Sciences at Rehovot from 1949 to 1973. From 1966 to 1968 he served as chief scientist of
the Israel Defense Ministry.
One of the world's best known researchers in proteins and protein-like materials, he became in 1966 the first Israeli to be
elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
When Abba Eban placed Katchalski's name in nomination for the presidency in 1973, he hailed him as "a man of the people,
great scientist, and great humanist." On the eve of his election he Hebraized his name to Katzir.
Katzir arrived in the United States last weekend and addressed a Miami Beach dinner inaugurating the 1975 Israel Bond
campaign. In a wide-ranging speech, President Katzir lauded President Gerald Ford's stand against Arab discrimination in
financial dealings, and for the U.S.'s continued assistance to Israel in the areas of science, technology, the economy and defense.
President Katzir also met with Ford in Washington Monday. Detailed stories about his visit appear on Page 5.