Israel and U.S. Discuss Aid and Sinai Agreement
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A four-member delegation began dis-
cussing Israel's request for American economic and military aid with
Undersecretary of State Joseph J. Sisco Wednesday.
Heading the Israeli team is Arnon Gafni, director general of the
Ministry of Finance. The other members are: Ephraim Dovrat, David
Kochav and Yitzhak Elrom. They discussed Israel's request for a re-
ported $2.8 billion in economic aid. The four represent the Defense and
Finance Ministries;
A second team is also meeting with Sisco, working on the legal
aspects covering Israel's expected return of the Gidi and Mitle passes
and the Abu Rodeis oilfields to Egypt. That team includes Mordechai
Gazit, director general of the Premier's Office, and Meir Rosenne, legal
adviser to the Foreign Ministry.
The Israelis are seeking additional aid to pay for new defense
lines following a Sinai agreement, and for the increased cost of
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weapons and equipment for additional forces a new agreement
would necessitate.
This meeting, according to the sources, was agreed upon in Bonn in
July by Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin and Kissinger. Both felt, it was
said, that a clarification of Israel's economic needs was useful "before
an interim agreement was achieved" with Egypt. But the timetable of
the meetings this week would imply that the political essentials precede
the economic clarification.
State Department spokesman Robert Funseth, said that officials of
the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) began technical
talks several weeks ago with Israeli officials regarding Israeli "projec-
tions" for the coming year. They would be used, he said, to provide a
basis for recommendation to Congress. Specific military requirements
will not be part of the talks but financial military needs as part of the
"overall financial situation" will be, Funseth said.
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August 15, 1975
Rabin Sees Sinai Accord
as Test of Sadat Sincerity
Detroit Buildings Defaced
A spate of anti-Semitic graffiti, abusive references to Jews and swastikas
were painted on the fountain in Grand Circus Park and on several public
buildings in downtown Detroit last week, creating a widespread public resent-
ment. _ .
Detroit Mayor Coleman Young's office, City Council President Carl Levin
and the Department of Parks and Recreation were besieged with calls, as was
the area office of the Bnai Brith Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish
Community Council. —
Leon Atchison, city director of parks and recreation, said it was the sec-
ond incident within three weeks, and he believed that the same person was
responsible because the scrawling was the same. A man was seen running
from the Grand Circus Park early Thursday morning.
Other observers believe that more than one man might have caused last
week's vandalism, however, because of the widespread defacings throughout
the downtown area.
Paul's Drug Store on Broadway, owned by brothers Paul and Joseph
Deutch, had 12 anti-Semitic inscriptions and slogans spray-painted on its
exterior walls. The scribblings said "oil yes, Jews no," and "Jobs yes,
Jews no," as well as "ovens for immoral Jews" and a large number of
swastikas. The markings could not be removed and had to be painted
over.
Joseph Deutch said the police showed serious concern and hoped to be
able to find the culprits.
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Premier Yitzhak Rabin said Tuesday that once an agreement is
signed on the Sinai it will give Israel an opportunity to test whether Egypt wants war or
peace. Speaking at various Negev settlements, Rabin revealed that the interim agreement
now being negotiated would put the Egyptians 25 to 30 miles east of the Suez Canal while
Israel would be 155 miles west of the line held prior to the Six-Day War.
The Premier also noted that Israel would be positioned so near the Abu Rodeis oil fields
that it would not be worthwhile for Egypt to violate the agreement. He noted that there has
been an advancement in Egypt's position on the longevity of the agreement to that which
existed when Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's "shuttle diplomacy" broke down in
March.
Rabin stressed that he did not see any danger in the territorial concessions Israel
is willing to make. "If anyone tries to present this as a national disaster, that is only
spreading despondency and panic," he declared.
The Premier also stressed that while there is no pressure from the United States, Israel
always had to consider American views.
Rabin sought earlier to assess a steadily mounting flow of optimistic reports on the
pace of negotiations for a second Sinai interim accord by declaring there was "movement"
toward completion of an agreement but that several "key issues" remained to be resolved.
The Premier_ rejected a suggestion from another newsman that Israel had backed away
from its acceptance of the United Nations Security Council's Resolutions 242 of 1967-and
338 of 1973. He said he wanted to make it clear that Israel had accepted those regulations as
the basis for peace agreements but he added that the essence of peace-making was the
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Pinhas Sapir, Pioneer and Statesman, Is Dead at 67
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The state funeral for Pinhas Sapir, who
died of a heart attack near Beersheba Tuesday at age 67, was held
Thursday in Jerusalem. The body was moved to Kfar Saba, where Mr.
Sapir had lived since settlingln Palestine in 1929, for burial.
The offices of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organiza-
tion, which Mr. Sapir had headed as chairman of their executives, were
closed to permit workers to participate in the service.
Euologies were delivered by Leon Dulzin, Jewish Agency treasurer
-who is acting chairman of the WZO and Agency executives, and former
Premier Golda Meir. Premier Yitzhak Rabin participated in the burial
rites at Kfar Saba in the afternoon.
Heads of all Zionist groups in Detroit joined with Histadrut and
Labor Zionist leaders in paying tribute to the memory of Mr. Sapir.
They recalled his visit here less than a year ago when he gave leadership
to tasks for the advancement of afiya by Michigan Jewry.
Mr. Sapir was guest of honor
Tuesday at Moshav Nevatim in the
Rachel Shazar, 86,
Negev, some 10 miles south of Beer-
wife of Israel's third
sheba, which was inaugurating a
president, Zalman Sha-
new synagogue when he collapsed
zar, died Monday in Je-
during the ceremony.
rusalem. See obituary,
An ambulance that was on
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stand-by at the ceremonies rushed
him to Beersheba Hospital, where
he was pronounced dead.
By DAVID LANDAU
Pinhas Sapir, strongman of Israeli politics this past decade and archi-
tect of Israel's economy, was born 67 years ago to Mordechai and Malka
Kozlowski in the Polish village of Suwalki. He received a mixed Jewish
and general basic education, and those who knew him then say he shone
out even as a youth in his mathematical and organizational abilities.
He made aliya to Palestine in 1929 and settled in War Saba, north
of Tel Aviv, where he lived in a modest cottage for the rest of his life.
At first he worked in the local orange groves, "moonlighting"
by helping the growers with their bookkeeping. He became active
in local labor affairs and was arrested and jailed in 1932 for joining
in riots against the employment of cheap Arab labor by the Jewish
orange-growers.
Those were the days of the historic struggle by the fledgling labor
movements for Jewish labor in the burgeoning economy of the Jewish
national homeland. Pinhas Sapir was in the forefront of that struggle,
alongside such men as Ben-Gurion and Ben-Zvi.
Sapir married Shoshana (Kirinsky) and moved into the orbit of
union work in the rapidly expanding framework of the Histadrut. In
1937, at the behest of Levi Eshkol, he joined a Histadrut team working
on a huge water project which was later to become "Mekorot," the gov-
ernment-Histadrut water company.
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