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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
criticism among several
cabinet -ministers and
The Ministry of Justice has
commentators. Some
recently prepared new legis-
lation on wire-tapping. Un-
argued that the Military
til now, Israel has had no
Censor and the Chief of the
specific law on wire-tapping
Mossad should be omitted
and the official explanation
from the list of agencies
to the new bill is that it is
entitled to initiate a wire-
designed to protect the indi-
tap. Inclusion of the cen-
vidual from encroachments - sor, it was felt, might viol-
upon his privacy and at the
ate the principle of free-
dom of the press.
same time to enact an offi-
cial procedure for wire-tap-
Other reservations and
ping when it is needed in the
counter-proposals expressed
interests of national secu-
over the bill are: a Supreme
rity.
Court justice --- not the
The bill lays down a term
premier — should be the au-
of three-years imprison-
thority to grant permission
ment for illegal wire-tap-
for a wire-tap where secu-
ping. It also designates two
rity reasons require it: ad-
categories of permissible
ministrative regulations
tapping: the first, for secu- stemming from the wire-tap
rity reasons, the second, for
law should need to be en-
preventing or investigating
dorsed by the Knesset For-
crimes. Under the new bill,
eign and Security Affairs
the Premier would be the
Committee; and the Minis-
sole authority empowered ter charged with imple-
to permit a wire-tap for se-
menting those parts of the
curity purposes.
law. that concern crime pre-
Authority to permit a
vention or detection should
wire-tap aimed at preven-
be the Minister of Justice
tion or investigation of and not the Police Minister,
as proposed.
crimes is vested in the presi-
dent of the local district
court. The permit issued by
New Film, Tour
this senior judge could spec-
ify the identity of the per-
NEW YORK — The com-
son to be tapped and the plex task of absorbing So-
means of tapping. In urgent --viet Jews into Israel's demo-
cases, the Police Minister cratic society is the subject
can issue a temporary per- of "The Longest Wave," a
mit for a short time.
new film released by the
The bill has met with
United Jewish Appeal.
Directed by Dutch film-
maker John Ferno, "The
Longest Wave" shows new
arrivals coping with the
pressures of learning a new
'language, developing profes-
sional skills and establish-
ing homes in a vastly
changed environment. Their
- efforts are aided by the ab-
sorption programs of the
Jewish Agency, funded by
UJA.
The film is 26 minutes
long and is available free of
charge to groups who con-
tact the Film Library,
United Jewish Appeal, 1290
Avenue of the Americas,
New York, New York 10019.
Meanwhile, the next
- session of the World Union
of Jewish Students
(WUJS) Institute for He-
, brew and Jewish Studies,
will start April 9 in Arad,
Israel. This program ac-
cepts college graduates
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NEW YORK — The Na-
tional Federation of Jewish
Men's Clubs, an organiza-
tion of brotherhoods con-
nected with the Conserva-
tive movement, has
launched a widespread cam-
paign aimed at affiliating
additional men's-clubs in
Conservative synagogues
throughout the U.S. and
Canada. Jules Maybloom of
Los Angeles, vice president
of the federation, was ap-
pointed to spearhead the
drive.
Citing the need for all
Conservative Jews to stand
together, I. Murray Jacobs
of Birmingham, Mich., pres-
ident of the 375-club federa-
tion, called upon unaffi-
liated brotherhoods to join
the national organization.
In addition, the Knesset
Foreign Affairs and Secu-
rity Committee should be
informed of the applications
of the variwis intelligence
agencies -for wa;re-tap per-
mits; otherwise there will be
no public or parliamentary
control of the agent: in
this delicate field; e-?.., binet
ministers and the Knesse-
ters are not immune under
the bill from a wire-tap; and
the bill makes no provision
for appeal to the courts
when one feels that a legally
permitted wire-tap has vio-
lated one's civil rights.
In 1962, the then Justice
Minister Dov Joseph drafted
a bill but shelved it because
of sharp criticism. Ag- • in
1966 Justice Ministei., .a-
coy Shimshon Shapiro asked
the Knesset to revive Jo-
seph's bill but his initiative
also petered out. More . re-
cently two Knesseters pre-
sented private bills concern-
ing the wire-tap problem
but the coalition voted them
off the Knesset agenda.
Promote Aliya
from abroad, and is de-
signed to encourage young
professionals to spend a
year in Israel learning
Hebrew and Jewish stud-
ies.
Subsidised by the Jewish
Agency, the WUJS one year
program offers five months
of intensive Hebrew lan-
guage study and a variety of
courses in Judaica.
Students participate in
three in-depth guided tours
of the country in addition to
spending one week working
on a kibutz and one week
on a moshay. After the com-
pletion of the five month
course, graduates will be
guided in obtaining jobs
suited to their qualifica-
tions, where they must
work for at least seven
months.
Nine professionals con-
templating aliya, from dif- ,
ferent parts of the U.S., left
last week for Israel on a
- subsidized pilot tour. In Is-
rael, the group will investi-
gate job opportunities and
housing facilities.
These pilot tours are di-
rected towards profession-
als and are partially subsi-
dized by the Jewish Agency.
They are organized by the
Israel Aliya Centers.
Teachers Register
for Jewish Studies
NEW YORK — Thirty-
two teachers from Jewish d,„
congregational schools in'
Houston,. Tex., have rr,‘--
tered - for courses it. –11
American Jewish Comikilt- --
tee's Academy for Jewish
Study Without Walls, which
offers home study courses
in Jewish history, literature
and thought.
The mass registration
was the result of a com-
munal effort on the part of
the Houston Commission
for Jewish Education, an
affiliate of the Jewish Com-
munity Council of Houston,
and five - Houston syn-
agogues in whose schools
the teachers are employed.