THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 18, 1975 19
Israel's Leaders' Roles in War for Independence Remembered
By MOSHE RON
Jewish News Special
Israel Correspondent
TEL AVIV — On May 14,
1948, when David Ben-Gur-
ion proclaimed the estab-
lishment of the state of Is-
rael in the museum of Tel-
Aviv-, the present Israeli
leaders did not play a spe-
cial political role in Eretz Is-
rael. They were not present
in the ceremony.
The present Premier, Yit-
zhak Rabin, had been the
commander of the Palmach
brigade Harel which fought
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The present Minister for
Defense Shimon Peres had
been at the "Red House"
of Mapai in Hayarkon St.
in Tel Aviv. It was the
headquarter of the Ha-
ganah. Peres was one of
the assistants to Ben-Gur-
ion who procured arms for
the Haganah soldiers. He
was 24 years old when he
listened on the radio to the
proclamation on the estab-
lishment of the state.
In the evening Ben-Gur-
ion watched through the
windows of the Red House,
how people were dancing
merrily in the streets. Ben-
Gurion was very sad. Peres
asked him, why he did not
join the joy of the people?
Ben-Gurion answered:
"They are dancing, and do
not know that a war is ap-
proaching."
The present chairman of
the Jewish Agency Pinhas
Sapir was then a major with
the General Staff. With the
establishment of the state
Ben-Gurion appointed him
General Director of the
Ministry for Defense.
The present Minister for
Religious Affairs Dr. Yit-
zhak Rafael was in besieged,
Jerusalem. He was a mem-
ber of the Commission for
Emergency Times and dealt
with distributing oil and
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in the area of Jerusalem. He
had returned from a fierce
battle on the roads leading
to Jerusalem and had a
short rest with his soldiers
in the rest-home of the Ki-
butz Maole Chamishe. It
was the command-post of
the Harel brigade. Rabin
remembers that when he
had listened to Ben-Gur-
ion's proclamation over the
radio: one of his soldiers
asked him: "Please turn out
the light, I want to sleep
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benzine to the population of
Jerusalem. He tried to listen
to the proclamation on the
radio but the broadcast was
disturbed by atmospheric
interference.
The present Minister for
Police Shlomo Hillel was
then on an important se-
cret mission in the Arab
countries. When the estab-
lishment of the state of Is-
rael was proclaimed he
was in one of the main
streets in Beirut. He
learned about it when he
witnessed the organization
of a demonstration in the
streets of Beirut against
this act. Hillel took part in
the demonstration in order
to disguise his under-
ground activity, which in-
cluded illegal emigration
of Jews to Israel.
The present Minister for
Internal Affairs Dr. Josef
Burg was then in Europe on
a mission to recover Jewish
children from monasteries
where they had been hidden
during the Nazi period.
He wanted to listen to the
proclamation in the center
for illegal immigration to
Israel in Victor Hugo St. in
Paris, but he could not find
the place.
The present Minister for
Tourism Moshe Kol who in
1948 was already a member
of the temporary Parlia-
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The present Minister of
Justice Chaim Zadok cele-
brated his daughter's
sixth birthday on May 14,
1948. In the early morning
after the establishment of
the state he watched from
his apartment in the Ros-
seo quarter Egyptian
planes bombing Tel Aviv.
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The present Minister for
Absorption of Immigrants
Shlomo Rosen heard the
proclamation in his Kibutz
Sarid, He was then busy
organizing new Kibutzim.
Former Foreign Minister
Abba Eban was in the U.S.
as assistant to Moshe
Sharett and heard from the
late Zionist leader of the
U.S. Abba Hillel Silver on
the proclamation of the
state in Tel Aviv. Half an
hour later he was informed
by the American U.S. repre-
sentative Phillip Jessup that
President Truman had rec-
ognized the state of Israel.
The present Minister for
Commerce and Industry
Haim Barlqv was then com-
mander of the 8th Batallion
of the Palmach in the Ne-
gev. It was the first Israeli
army unit which clashed
with the invading Egyptian
troops.
Abdallah of Jordan was pre-
paring an invasion of Eretz
Israel. He heard this news
from Golda Meir, who had
returned from her secret
meeting with King Abdal-
lah in Jordan.
The present Minister for
Agriculture and Telecom-
munication Ahron Uzan
lived then in Maknin in Tu-
nisia and was very active in
Jewish national and social
life. He was ordained a
Rabbi and worked as a ri-
tual slaughterer. A year
later he came to Israel and
started to organize immi-
gration from North Africa.
He became a leader of the
Moshav movement and in-
spired the establishment of
many Moshavim of immi-
grants from Norht Africa.
The former Minister for
Information Aharon Yariv
was then responsible for
aviation in the Haganah. He
was present in the Red
House in Tel Aviv when the
establishment of the state
was proclaimed. The former
Chief of Staff Yigal Yadin
informed him that King
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RAMAT-GAN — One
who was not surprised by
the recent economic unrest
in Egypt is Prof. Eliyahu
Kanovsky, of Bar-Ilan Uni-
versity.
Prof. Kanovsky, who spe-
cializes in the economics of
the Middle East, claims, in
fact, that the shortcomings
are so basic and continuing
that even the great influx of
financial aid from the oil
rich countries now pouring
into Egypt will not improve
her situation appreciably.
This applies to Syria as
well, he says.
The basic causes, he says,
are: poor human resources,
a faulty and inflated bu-
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These shortcomings
have existed for a long
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sky, and a similarly long
period of time will be
needed to overcome them,
regardless of the infusion
of large amounts of money,
whether in the form of
grants from the oil rich
countries or investments
from the West.
NEW YORK — The
American University in Bei-
rut, Lebanon, reported that
two men attacked an Amer-
ican coed and carved the
word "Jew" on her arms,
legs and stomach after she
admitted visiting Israel.
The 20-year old student
from Sarasota, 41a., was
treated for shock at the uni-
versity's hospital.
He cites an actual lower-
ing of per capita agricul-
tural production in recent
years in Egypt by 7 percent
because of an inability to
'modernize archaic methods
or to increase appreciably
the cultivated land area.
This occurred despite the
construction of the Aswan
Dam which resulted in a
major increase in the poten-
tial cultivated land.
During the three years
preceding the Six-Day War,
Egypt's industrial growth
rate actually declined from
11.7 percent to 0.9 percent
annually. Since then, except
for a brief rise, the econo-
my's growth rate again dec-
lined and President Sadat
acknowledged that Egypt's
economy registered a zero
growth rate just before the
Yom Kippur War.
Since then evidence has
mounted of severe short-
ages in basic commodities,
sharp price increases, a
burgeoning black market
and a breakdown in public
transportation as well as
in other facets of the coun-
try's infrastructure.
Prof. Kanovsky believes
Egypt needs a "funda-
mental restructuring" of its
economy and "the training
of a large cadre of manager-
ial and technical personnel,'
in order -to put its house
in order and reverse the --
present trend.
"As long, as the Egyptian
leadership accepts the the-
sis that capital investment
is the basic solution to its
economic problems," says
the Bar-Ilan Professor,
"there is not much likeli-
hood that the far more fun-
damental and far more dif-
ficult structural, insti-
tutional and manpower
problems will be dealt,
with."
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the besieged Jerusalem and
Tel Aviv. He was in the
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