THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Oil Controversy Embroils Israel;
Fisher, Leavitt Reported Involved
Israelis Smash
Terrorist Band
TEL AVIV (JTA) — An
angry controversy has
erupted over the Israeli gov-
ernment's assignment of oil
prospecting rights in an
area of southern Sinai to an
American company in
which Detroiter Max
Fisher, chairman of the
Jewish Agency, and Wil-
liam Leavitt are rumored to
be key figures.
The contract was signed
on the eve of Independence
Day and does not require
approval by' the Knesset
because the government has
the authority to make such
eals. The Knesset finance
ommittee intends to hold
hearings on the issue nev-
'
ertheless and many MKs act area of Sinai where the
and persons associated with drilling will take place.
Israel's oil industry are But government sources
questioning the propriety of defend the contract on
awarding a potentially lu- grounds that it was essen-
crative contract to a foreign tial to bring in an experi-
company when Israel pos- enced foreign company to
sesses the manpower and handle the drilling and
resources to undertake the supply the necessary
prospecting alone.
equipment and trained
Dr. Michael Kisch, head manpower.
of the government-owned
The sources also noted
Sinai oil prospecting com- that the area where the oil
pany who had forcefully search will be carried out
opposed the deal has been may eventually have to be
sent on a six-month involun- evacuated by Israel, in
tary leace of absence, in ef- which case the presence of a
fect suspended temporarily foreign concessionaire
from his job.
would protect Israel's inter-
Tight secrecy has sur-, ests.
rounded the project. The
It was learned that the
government• has refused to American company will
identify the American bear 50 percent of the drill-
LAWN'
company, the prominent ing costs and will receive 25
American Jews or the ex- percent of the net income
Sprinkling Systems
from any oil that is found.
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Israeli government will
Czech Jet Plane The
get 75 percent.
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Bought by Syria
According to Dr. Kisch
and others opposed to the
WANTED
LONDON — According to agreement, the area of Sinai
received by the In- has already been surveyed
SED ORIENTAL reports
ternational Council of Jews by geologists and is very
RUGS
from Czechoslovakia in Lon- promising. They say that oil
don, production of the new can be expected to be found
EL-39 Albatross military very quickly and the Ameri-
Private collector
jet has been stepped up by can company, which as-
pays top cash price
five percent at the Aero- sumes little risk, will be
for used
Vodochody aircraft works in able to cover its investment
oriental and persian
Bohemia. The plane, which in a short time and reap
rugs
has been on view at an 'in- large profits.
dustrial exhibition' at
They allege that the
Kladno, Bohemia, in mid- prominent American Jew,
all An time
March, is destined among and another Jewish person-
36-231
others for delivery to Syria. ality, not as well known as
the first, were in fact being
rewarded for their past ac-
tivities on behalf of Israel
and will enrich themselves
TRUSTEE O.C.C.
handsomely. According to
circles close to Dr. Kisch, in-
VOTE JUNE 14
come from the new oil field
will
amount to some $46
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by March 1978.
TEL AVIV — Israel an-
nounced the smashing of an
Arab terrorist band on the
West Bank of Jordan before
it could carry out planned
attacks in the central and
northern sectors of Israel.
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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
An Israel television pro-
gram on the country's nu-
clear potential was can-
celled hours before it was
scheduled to appear.
Thursday, May 20, 8:00 P.M.
Jewish Community Center
15100 W. Ten Mile Rd., Oak Park
Educator's A i a
onference
sponsored by
the Detroit Zionist Federation
and the Israel Aliyah Center
with
• MARY ELLEN RIORDAN
President, Detroit Federation of Teachers,
will tell about her recent visit to Israel.
• NATHAN GREENBAUM
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Supervisor, Israel Ministry of Education, will
tell about the educational system in Israel
and employment opportunities there.
• Film about education in Israel
• Information about SPECIAL TRIPS TO
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TEACHERS
Please call for information and registration
968-1044 or 545-2273
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Show on Israel
Nuclear Power
Banned From Air
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Yitzhak Livne, director
general of the Israel Broad-
cast Authority, who ordered
the cancellation, denied that
he did so on orders "from
above."
Livne said that televi-
sion is a powerful medium
and he feared the program
would trigger a national
debate on the issue. But,
Dan Shilon, head of the
TV news department, said
there was nothing in the
program that had not been
printed earlier in the
press.
The nuclear issue was to
have been part of a new doc-
umentary series called "A
Second Look" which deals
with current Israeli topics.
Shimon Tesler, the pro-
gram's editor, said the sub-
ject was chosen after former
Defense Minister Moshe
Dayan urged Israel to adopt
the nuclear option and the
recent articles in the world
press claiming Israel has
atomic bombs.
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