THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 30, 1975 23
Striking Israel Oil Workers Clash With Police in Ashkelon
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Striking workers of the Ei-
lat-Ashkelon Oil Pipeline
Co. clashed with police in
Ashkelon Wednesday pre-
cipitating a general strike at
both ends of the pipeline.
The strikers accused the
police of firing on workers
during a bizarre boat-ram-
ming incident in Ashkelon
Harbor. Police said they
fired into the air to warn off
strikers who they claimed
were trying to sink a police
boat.
The management of the
ipeline company an-
)unced the suspension of
all operations until tempers
are calmer.
,
line, went on strike at the
same time in a dispute over
wages.
Histadrut dissapproved
both strikes but its injunc-
tions to return to work were
ignored. The Eilat workers,
however, agreed to media-
tion and ended their strike
on Saturday.
But the Ashkelon em-
ployes defied two back-to-
work orders issued over the
weekend by a Tel Aviv dis-
trict labor court. The cabi-
net, at its regular weekly
session Sunday, Authorized
the finance workers to in-
voke emergency measures
against the Ashkelon work-
ers to keep the oil flowing.
Wednesday's episode
The Eilat-Ashkelon
was the first incident of vi- pipeline has been de-
olence in the wildcat strike scribed as Israel's "land
that began 12 days bridge" from the Red Sea
ago when the pipeline to the Mediterranean,
company announced the providing an alternative to
engagement of an outside the Suez Canal for the
contractor to moor and shipment of oil from the
service tankers in Ashke- Persian Gulf to Western
Europe.
lon.
The move resulted in the
dismissal of several em-
ployes of the pipeline com-
pany's marine department.
Workers at the oil terminal
and tank farm in Eilat at
the Red Sea end of the pipe-
The
trouble
began
Wednesday when police
boats escorted three service
boats belonging to the con-
tractor company to the
tanker moorings in Ashke-
lon harbor. Two boats
Arabs Confiscated Jewish Property
WASHINGTON (ZINS)
— Israel has been grossly
negligent, according to pol-
itical observers, in failing to
call attention to the fact
that Arab countries have
confiscated Jewish property
to the tune of about $7 bil-
lion over the years. The
losses were borne by those
Jews who could no longer
live in Arab lands and who
left for Israel or other coun-
tries.
Before 1948, 1,100,000
Jews lived in the Arab coun-
tries, including North Af-
rica. According to the statis-
tics gathered by Prof.
Yehezkel Hadar, a Jew of
Iraqi origin who lives in
New York, 794,000 Middle
East Jews arrived in Israel
up to 1962.
Dr. Edmund B. Roth, a
settlement specialist, as-
sessed the stolen property of
Arab Jewry, including real
estate properties, movable
belongings, money and busi-
nesses at $7 billion accord-
ing to 1962 prices.
Israeli Debt
Hits $10 Billion
Priest Is Cited
for Saving Jew
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
According to data released
by the state Bank of Israel,
the nation has accumulated
dollar-linked debts totalling
$10 billion. This sum in-
cludes outright loans as well
as bond issues floated on
local and foreign markets.
Financial experts believe
that Israel will have to ex-
pend all of the receipts from
its fund-raising campaigns
abroad merely to cover the
interest costs alone.
BONN — Georg Bern-
hardt, a German parish
priest, has been awarded
the Order of Merit of the
Federal Republic of Ger-
many for saving the life of a
concentration camp es-
capee.
Bernhardt hid the man
for two weeks behind the al-
tar of his church. The man,
whose life he saved, is now a
chemical engineer and has
written several letters to the
chancellor and German
newspapers attesting to
Bernhardt's deed.
Yeshiva U. Event
to Honor Workers
;NEW YORK — Stanley Z.
olegel, of Washington, D.C.,
Bernard Wulkan of Scars-
dale, N.Y., and Eli Zbo-
rowski of Forest Hills, N.Y.,
will receive the Yeshiva Uni-
versity Heritage Award at a
dinner to be held June 8 at
the Americana Hotel, Man-
hattan.
The university's highest
accolade for volunteer lead-
ership, the Heritage Award
will be presented to the hon-
orees in recognition of
"outstanding achievements
in both professional affairs
and in endeavors on behalf
of educational and philan-
thropic causes."
Yadin Praises
General Sharon
LONDON (ZINS) -- Ad-
dressing a press conference
here, Professor Yigael Ya-
din expressed great admira-
tion for General Arik
Sharon.
The push across the Suez
Canal by Sharon during the
Yom Kippur War was "the
most daring and the great-
est of all Israel's victories."
He went on: "I think
Sharon is one of the most
daring officers in the world
and one of the most brilliant
leaders that I know." Pro-
fessor Yadin was Israel's
second Chief of Staff.
manned by strikers rammed
a police boat and forced it
aground.
Chief Superintendent
Arye Ibtzan, police com-
mander of the southern dis-
trict, ordered a rescue boat
to refloat the grounded craft
but it too was attacked by
strikers in four other boats.
A tow line put aboard the
grounded police boat was
severed by the strikers who
used their boats contin-
uously to ram the police
boat.
Ibtzan said that at that
point he ordered his men to
fire because they were en-
dangered. The workers said
the police shot directly at
their boat. Ibtzan insisted
that his men fired into the
air. No one was hurt but
tempers boiled over as a re-
sult of the shooting and ex-
Rabin Starts Bonds' Drive
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Premier Yitzhak Rabin,
speaking by telephone last
week to Jewish leaders in 48
communities across the
country and Canada, de-
clared that "the condition
and health of our economy
hold the keys to our ability
to defend ourselves as well
as our ability to achieve a
sound and fair peace settle-
ment."
Rabin officially launched
a special cash collection pro-
gram of the Israel Bond
campaign dedicated to mob-
ilizing all-out support for Is-
rael's economy.
The Premier stated that
from the beginning of Is-
rael's existence 27 years
ago, "we have learned from
experience that economic
stability is a vital and indis-
Israelis Invited
to French Show
TEL AVIV (JTA) —
France has invited Defense
Minister Shimon Peres and
Israeli Air Force Com-
mander Gen. Benjamin
Peled to attend the Paris
aviation show as official
guests of the French govern-
ment. The invitation was
the first in a number of
years to be extended to an
Israeli Defense Minister.
A matter still undecided
is whether Israel will ex-
hibit its new "Kfir" super-
sonic jet fighter at the Paris
show. The Israelis are anx-
ious to demonstrate the
first combat aircraft built
entirely in Israel but the
French are said to object be-
cause the "Kfir" might com-
pete with their own Mirages
that they hope to market
abroad.
However, Israel's Arava
commercial jet and its
"Gabriel" surface-to-surface
missiles, the chief arma-
ment of Israel's navy, will
be demonstrated at the
Paris show.
`Arabs to Surpass
Israel in 3 Years'
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
Prof. Mordecai Abir of the
Hebrew University said that
Israel will still enjoy a mili-
tary superiority over the Ar-
abs for the next two to three
years despite the power of
Arab oil.
However, at the end of
that time, said Prof. Abir,
the Arabs could overtake
Israel and gain the upper
hand in military power as a
result of new weaponry and
technological know-how
they will have acquired.
pensable part of our secu-
rity, of our capacity to pro-
tect ourselves and preserve
our independence."
Rabin declared that the
Arabs "have mounted a
world-wide campaign of
economic warfare against
us which also involves the
blacklisting of business
organizations, Jewish and
non-Jewish, in the United
States and in Europe
which have any connection
with Israel.
"The boycott represents a
serious threat not only to
us, but to the Jewish people
as a whole. It is a situation
that calls for positive action
on the part of world Jewry."
In introducing Rabin,
Sam Rothberg, general
chairman of the Israel Bond
Organization, emphasized
the urgency of the cam-
paign, declaring that "our
effort must be concentrated
on maximum coverage of
every segment of the com-
munity to relieve the critical
financial situation in Israel
resulting from a tremen-
dous trade deficit, record
high defense expenditures,
an extraordinary rate of in-
flation, and the Arab boy-
cott."
Meanwhile, Milton Perl-
mutter, Essex County, N.J.
civic and communal leader,
has been named national
chairman of the commerce
and industry division of the
Israel Bond Organization.
Akiva PTA
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traordinarily high tempera-
tures at Ashkelon
Wednesday. The striking
workers rammed a third
police boat which had no one
aboard.
News of the incident
spread swiftly through
Ashkelon and to Eilat.
Workers at both ports
walked off their jobs in
protest. In addition, em-
ployes of Israel's inland
airline, Arika, which
serves Eilat called a meet-
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