18 Friday, March 5, 1976 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Allon Seeks More Aid for Israel From U.S. ISRAEL STAMPS MIAMI (JTA) — An econ- Our Specialty FREE CURRENT PRICE-LIST ON REQUEST GAREL CO. P.O. BOX 374 HEWLETT, NEW YORK 11557 (516) 374-2909 omically strong Israel is vi- tal to the attainment of peace in the Middle East, Yigal Allon, deputy premier and foreign minister of Is- rael, declared here as he called for wider economic aid to Israel from Jews in the United States and Can- ada. Allon officially launched the 1976 International Inau- gural Conference of State of Israel Bonds attended by more than 1,000 Jewish leaders from the U.S. and Canada. Calling attention to "the spectacular proliferation" of Arab wealth in recent years, Allon stressed that "it rep- STUDYINISRAEL FORHIGHS STUDENTS Spend one or more years with Israeli students. Come and find out the excitement of life and study in a youth village. Various programs available in English or Hebrew. 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In 1975 Is- rael's balance of payments deficit amounted to $3.9 Jewish Agency Executive Seeks $502 Million for Fiscal Year LONDON (JTA) — A $502 million budget for the fiscal year 1976-77 was pro- posed by the Jewish Agency Executive at its meeting in London last Monday. The proposal will be presented at a four-day meeting in Jerusalem at the end of March to be attended by the agency's buget and financ- ing committee and the board of governors. The amount, which allows for a deficit of $90 million, is $38 million lower than the current year's budget. But because immigration in 1975 was considerably lower than expected, only $440 million was actually spent. The executive also heard a report on fund-raising ex- pectations for the coming year, which indicated that the amount of money raised would be some $90 million less than required. Before the executive meeting, the agency's long- range planning committee, formed last year, spent a day looking toward the fu- ture. Max Fisher, chairman of the agency's board of gov- ernors, said that the aim of the committee — "our think-tank" — was to "try and do an even better job with the money we spend." Two leading Harvard professors of business ad- ministration working with the committee have drawn up a preliminary report SPRINGTIME IS ABOUT TIME YOU MADE YOUR DEAL ON A NEW PONTIAC iFF I ~ OA H SALES and EXPERT SERVICE ART MORAN PONTIAC 29300 TELEGRAPH JUST NORTH OF TEL-TWELVE MALL billion, the highest in its history. Allon noted that in- creased unemployment would be a "serious threat" to the country's capacity to provide jobs for new immi- grants. Sam Rothberg, general chairman of the Israel Bond Organization, who presided, declared that the recent Brussels World Conference on Soviet Jewry "must be supplemented with concrete action through the Israel Bond campaign to create jobs in Israel for those Jews who would be permitted to leave Soviet Russia for Is- rael in the coming year." 353-9000 advocating some changes in budgeting procedures. One recommendation was that budgets should be planned on a three-year basis, instead of annually. Fisher described the long- range committee as a "great step forward in the agency." While he was not critical of past achieve- ments, he hoped that in the future, "we will be even more streamlined." This was the first time that Yosef Almogi, newly elected as chairman, and Fisher had worked together. Orthodox Score NY Education Suit NEW YORK (JTA) — An Orthodox spokesman claimed that a suit filed in New York Federal Court to enjoin city and federal edu- cational authorities from assigning public school teachers to duties at reli- gious schools during regular school hours was "a deplora- ble attempt to deprive poor handicapped children of cor- rective and remedial serv- ices so that they should not go through their lives handi- capped." Dr. Bernard Fryshman, chairman of the Agudath Is- rael of America's commis- sion on legislative and civic action, also disputed the contention that the assign- ment of public school teach- ers to religious schools was in violation of a U.S. Su- preme Court ruling. The suit was filed by the Na- tional Coalition for Public Education and Religious Liberty (PEARL) and a group of taxpayers. It named as defendants Irving Anker, Chancellor of the New York City school system, Secretary of Health, Education and Wel- fare, F. David Mathews and U.S. Commissioner of Edu- cation, Terrel H. Bell. The government officials are charged with implementing the assignment policy na- tionally, and Anker with doing the same in the city. Cabinet Considers Charter Flights JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Cabinet has decided by a majority vote to consider clear and specific proposals for introducing charter flights to Israel on a trial basis. Boris Smolar's 'Between You ... and Me' Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA (Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.) ACADEMICS ON ISRAEL: More than 500,000 pro- fessors and instructors — among them about 50,000 who recognize themselves as Jews — constitute the American academe. What are their views on the latest developments in the Arab-Israel conflict? What is their present attitude toward Israel and American aid to Israel? A survey on this subject — now serialized in The Chronicle of Higher Education — offers food for thought. The results of the survey indicate that while the college fac- ulty has a consistent pro-Israel record and a very weak rec- ord of support for the Arabs, the pattern may now be in a process of changing under the growing liberal-left senti- ments in the ranks of American academics. Sociologists Everett Carll Ladd, Jr. and Seymour Ma. tin Lipset, who conducted the survey, believe that the Mid- dle East issue is potentially the most divisive political issue among non-Jewish professors themselves and among Jew- ish and non-Jewish professors in particular. A solid major- ity — 57 percent — of the respondents in the survey stated that their sympathies "lie predominantly with Israel," as compared to the eight percent who declared themselves pro- Arab. An overwhelming majority of 76 percent reject the Arab contention — recently accepted by the United Nations General Assembly and some UN Agencies — that Israel is a "racist and imperialist country." Similarly, 77 per cent as- serted that Israel has a right to keep the city of Jerusalem as its capital. Almost three-quarters, 73 percent, urged that the United States continue to supply Israel with weapons and military equipment. Almost two-thirds, 65 percent, ap- proved Israel's right "to retaliate against Arabs whenever Arab terrorists commit an act of terrorism." A MARRED PICTURE: All this is good and well. How- ever, the intensely pro-Israeli picture emerging from these responses is strongly marred by the fact that almost a half of the professors, 46 percent, did not agree with the state- ment that "the United States has an unquestioned moral obligation to prevent the destruction of the state of Israel." The survey shows that the majority of the academics do not see Israel as an American ally which must be protected from annihiliation. The responses show a clear unwilling- ness of the majority to have the U.S. do little more to aid Israel than to send it arms and equipment. In spite of their sympathies for Israel, the majority of the professors favor American pressure on Israel "to give in more" to the Arab demands. STAGGERING DIFFERENCES: The survey estab- lished that Jewish professors — a significant minority of 10 percent among the over 500,000 professors in this country — are more supportive of Israel than their non-Jewish col- leagues. The difference is staggering as can be seen from the following high points in the Ladd-Lipset report: • Almost two-thirds of the Jewish professors would favor direct American military intervention to prevent Is- rael from destruction, as contrasted to 20 percent of non- Jewish professors. • More than 90 percent of the Jewish academics believe that the United States has "an unquestionable moral obli- gation to prevent the destruction of Israel." Less than 50 percent of the non-Jewish professors hold this belief. • More than 70 percent of the Jews oppose "American pressure on Israel to give in more to the Arabs." Among non-Jews only 47 percent expressed opposition. • More than 70 percent of the Jewish academics are against America's pursuing "a more neutral and even- handed policy" in the Arab-Israel conflict. Among the non- Jewish academics only 21 percent hold this view. • Sixty percent of the Jews believe that the U.S. should withdraw from the United Nations in protest, if Israel is expelled. Among non-Jewish faculty only 30 percent advo- cate this step. On the basis of these findings, the authors sound a warning that "should future political events threaten the survival of Israel, or press the U.S. to become more directly involved as a participant in the Middle East conflict, one may anticipate a campus so sharply divided on these issu that the conflicts of the late 1960s will appear as relativel y peaceful by contrast." Arab Nationalism Growing in Israel TEL AVIV (ZINS) — "Israel's Arabs are now en- gaged in a process of 'Pa- lestinianization' which be- gan immediately following the Six-Day War and has been intensified since the Yom Kippur War." This is the view of Eliyahu Navie, noted expert on Arab af- fairs. Israel's victory in the Six-Day War and the "open bridges" policy established by former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan made it possi- ble for Israeli Arab citizens to establish closer contact with their brothers in the neighboring Arab world. As a result of the Yom Kippur War, the Arab nationalist feeling has grown among Israel's Arabs.