THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
May 21, 1976 21
Workmen's Compensation Law Drafted in Israel Territories
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Israel promulgated a far-
reaching workmen's com-
pensation law for the ad-
ministered territories.
Labor Minister Moshe
Baram, who estimated that
the new legislation would
benefit some 60,000 workers
on the West Bank and Gaza
Strip, said it reflected Is-
rael's humanitarian concern
for the welfare of the local
population.
The law, which takes ef-
fect Jan. 1, 1977, requires all
employers in the territories
to insure themselves against
- liability for injuries or disa-
bilities sustained by •their
employes on the job. Prem-
iums will amount to two
percent of wages, payable
by the employer.
Under the new law, a
worker who is totally disa-
bled could receive a- lump
sum payment of up to IL
100,000. Proportionately
smaller sums would be
payable for lesser injuries.
The law automatically
entitles the worker to
compensation even if there
is contributory negligence
on his part.
Baram said that employ-
ers will have a choice of
commercial insurance firms
Dinitz made these re-
in Israel or on the West
Bank. He said that Jordan- marks in answer to ques-
ian and Egyptian companies tions at a "special dialogue"
would be considered if they with Rabbi William Ber-
submit applications to the kowitz of Bnai Jeshurun.
Controller of Insurance and Some 2,000 persons at-
prove that they have suffi- tended the "dialogue" which
cient assets to meet claims. celebrated Israel's Inde-
Residents of both territo- pendence Day and the 150th
ries who are employed in anniversary of the Conserv-
Israel are covered by Israel's ative congregation.
In saying that the Jewish
strict National Insurance
System to which both em- settlements did not prevent
ployer and employe must a peace settlement, Dinitz
noted that from 1948-67
contribute by law.
Any employer who fails there were no Israeli settle-
to insure himself under the ments on the West Bank
new legislation will be sub- and the Golan Heights, but
ject to fines and possible im- the Arabs refused to make
prisonment. The law will be peace. He said the only set-
administered by local civil tlements that hampered
courts and by the military Mideast peace were those in
the minds of Arabs who
courts in the territories.
In New York, Simha
Dinitz, Israel's Ambassa-
dor to the United States,
rejected charges that Is-
Arab Student Protest Sparks
Riot on Hebrew U. Campus
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Jewish and Arab students
battled with fists, sticks and
stones on the Hebrew Uni-
versity campus Wednesday.
The melee was sparked by
an Arab student demonstra-
tion against the use of fire
arms by Israeli forces to put
down disturbances on the
West Bank.
Jewish students, led by
Rabbi Meir Kahane of the
militant Jewish Defense
League, staged a counter-
demonstration within a few
feet of the Arabs. Name-
calling escalated into
• clashes between the groups.
A television cameraman
was beaten up by Jewish
students.
Unrest continued in the
Old City Wednesday
where police detained
eight persons on suspicion
of coercing Arab mer-
chants to close their shops.
Three Arab schools in East
Jerusalem were closed.
Arab demonstrators
hurled rocks and bottles at
security forces near Her-
od's Gate. They were dis-
persed with tear gas. A
bus was stoned in the Arab
quarter of Abu Tor but no
one was injured and no
damage was reported.
/—
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The West Bank was rela-
tively quiet Wednesday al-
though road blocks were put
up by Arab demonstrators
in the main street of Jenin
and Arabs threw stones at
Israeli soldiers. Similar inci-
dents occurred in Jericho.
Curfews remained in effect
in Ramallah and El Bireh
north of Jerusalem. The
curfew was lifted in Nablus
except for the Casbah dis-
trict where most of the re-
cent disturbances have oc-
curred.
Defense Minister Shimon
Peres said on a television in-
terview Wednesday that se-
curity forces were consider-
ing new methods to
maintain public order on
the West Bank without
raeli settlements in the
occupied territories are a
hindrance to peace and
denounced American Jews
who use the media to criti-
cize Israel's policies.
bloodshed. He said Israel
would keep the Jordan River
bridges open and was deter-
mined to protect lives and
normal activities.
Peres used the interview
to reiterate his view that
Israel must retain the West
Bank for security reasons.
"Do we want to see the fu-
ture border in Rosh Haeyin,
Kfar Saba and Hadera?" he
asked, referring to towns on
Israel's coastal plain.
Three young Arabs were_
killed in this week's dis-
turbances. Mahmoud Al-
kurd, 21, was killed when
warning shots were fired
to break up a crowd
throwing rocks in the, Old
City. Police used tear gas
after Al-Kurd's funeral to
break up a demonstration.
Two Israeli soldiers, re-
portedly firing in self-de-
fense, fatally wounded an
Arab youth on the Jerusa-
lem-Jericho road outside
Jerusalem Monday. The vic-
tim was identified- as Abdul-
lah Mustapha Hawass, in
his late teens, a pupil at the
high school in Shuafat near
Ramallah.
According to a military
spokesman, the soldiers
were in an army truck that
was blocked by burning
tires on the highway and
stoned by rioting students.
They were forced to open
fire to extricate themselves
from mortal danger, the
spokesman declared.
A 17-year-old Nablus
girl, Lina Nabulsi, was
fatally wounded by Israeli
soldiers Sunday. Israeli
authorities said the girl
was accidentally hit by a
stray bullet but her death
sparked new outbursts of
violence in Nablus and
other West Bank towns.
Chief of Staff Gen. Mor-
dechai Gur has personally
ordered an investigation
into the death of the Nablus
girl. The soldier, whose rifle
went off accidentally, is
being held in detention.
30 U.S. Firms
Expand in Israel
NEW YORK (JTA) —
More than 30 American
companies have located or
expanded plants in Israel
during the last year, and 10
more have taken the first
steps toward setting up
plants since January 1976,
the Government of Israel In-
vestment Authority an-
nounced.
The announcement was
made as a new and greatly
broadened "Law for the
Encouragement of Capital
Investments" was intro-
duc, for discussion in Is-
rael's Knesset. This pro-
posed new law expands
certain financial incentives
and benefits available to
foreign investors.
In order to make business
conditions even more attrac-
tive to foreign companies,
the Israeli government has
incorporated additional
cash grants and tax conces-
sions into the new invest-
ment law. The law is ex-
pected to be passe:'
retroactively from April 1,
1976.
The new investment law,
when combined with the
still to be ratified U.S.-Is-
rael Tax Treaty, will, in
many cases, grant Ameri-
can subsidiaries in Israel a
tax situation similar to that
of American subsidiaries in
zero-tax countries.
Suspicion
He who casts suspicion
upon innocent persons, or
even entertains suspicion
without cause surely will be
punished.
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continue to refuse to accept
the legitimacy of the state
of Israel.
Dinitz said he could also
not accept the argument
that even if these territories
were returned to Syria and
Jordan in a peace settle-
ment Jews could not live
there as Arabs live in Israel.
Finally, he pointed out
that Israel in 1947 agreed to
the partition of Palestine
and was then willing to give
up even a city such as Naha-
riya in return for what it
thought would be peace.
In Tel Aviv, Kibutz Ha-
meuhad, the kibutz move-
ment of the Labor Party's
Achdut Avoda faction, has
announced plans to estab-
lish five new settlements
during the next two years,
two of them in the Jordan
Valley. It also announced
plans to recruit 1,000
youths who have com-
pleted their military serv-
ice for membership in old
and newly established ki-
butzim.
tries geared to production
for export.
Meanwhile, Simcha Er-
lich, the leader of the Lib-
eral Party in Israel and a
member of the Israel op-
position, said he believes
that despite the recent
Cabinet decision, "The
government of Israel will
not take any action
against the West Bank set-
tlers."
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