Friday, August 6, 1976 7 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Israeli, Moslem Officers Confer; Workers Defy PLO at Border (Continued from Page 1) Meanwhile, construc- tion workers in Israel continue to oppose the hiring of any Lebanese for building work because of the slowdown in con- struction in Israel which have left many Israeli workers jobless. The Lebanese workers, whose names were with- held and whose pictures were forbidden to be taken because of fear of terrorist reprisals, will be paid Is- raeli wages and will be in- sured against job acci- dents on the same basis as workers from the West Bank. The workers were met in Israel by the min- t --V commander of the hern region and by the., Labor Exchange man for the area. Opposition to the employment of large numbers of Lebanese workers have come from such local labor leaders as 'Yaakov Pilar, secre- tary of the Building Workers Union in the northern Galilee. "We are having trouble enough finding work for our own members," Pilar said declaring that his union would not allow the Lebanese to be employed in construction work. "We should provide them with food and medical services as humanitarian gesture but we cannot give them our livelihood," he said. The fence along the northern borddr, which is now being called "the good fence," goes back to the 1930s when the British Mandate gov- ernment put up a fence to prevent the entry into Palestine of armed Arab gangs. The British asked Solel Boneh to build the fence which entrusted the work to the Hagana. It was during the con- struction that the late Yitzhak Sadeh, the foun- der of the Palmach, began molding the image of the Hagana since the work on the fence gave him the opportunity to legally train soldiers. Although the fence was not needed during World War II Jewish settlers along the border main- tained it and it became the Israeli-Lebanese border after the War of Indepen- dence in 1948. Over the years Israel has spent millions of pounds strengthening and rein- forcing it. the question is what will happen in the future. Peres noted that Israel has not intervened in the Lebanese strife even though the Palestine Liberation Organization has caused a political and geographic rift in the Meanwhile, Defense Minister Shimon Peres said that Israel has to closely watch the situa- tion in southern Lebanon since the area now exists in a vacuum. "We must carefully watch to see if and by what this vacuum is filled," Peres said in a television interview. He said while the area poses no threat to Israel now Full Time Protection From 4, Burglary • Vandalism • Fire • Personal Attack At A Price You Can Afford Argentina Releases Emissaries (Continued from Page 1) Meanwhile, the Anti- Defamation League of Bnai Brith expressed concern over the recent disappearances in San- tiago, Chile, of two Jewish brothers who are be- lieved now to be political prisoners. Four other Chilean Jews are among hundreds of Chileans missing there for more than a year. According to Burton S. Levinson, chairman of ADL's Latin American af- fairs department, the and brothers, Julio Budnik Eduardo Schwartzman, who had held important industrial posts under the deposed leftist Salvador Allende government, were last seen on July 22. "It is suspected that agents of DINA, the Chi- lean military intelligence agency, took the brothers' into custody because of the similarity of the Bud- niks' disappearance with that of other Chileans," Levinson said. Au- thorities there, however, have disclaimed any knowledge that the pair is in custody. The ADL said the brothers' office was ran- sacked and their cars re- moved from an adjacent parking lot. On July 24, the Budnik family re- ceived an anonymous phone call directing it to Position of Rabbi, Cantor in Synagogue Explained By RABBI SAMUEL FOX (Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.) In the traditional congre- gation the rabbi faces the congregation while per- forming his function while the cantor faces the front of the synagogue while per- forming his function. It should be understood that the two functionaries have two different roles. The cantor is offering pray- ers to the Almighty with the congregation. His role is not different than that of the congregation. e is known as a "Shaliakh Tzibbur" who acts as the messenger for the congregation. He ac- tually keeps the congrega- tion together during the communal prayer. He is actually 'a part of the congregation. His prayers, like that of the congregation, are being -offered to the Almighty. he should face in the Shitie diiection that the congregation faces during prayer. The direction that one should face during prayer, be he a member of the con- gregation or the cantor, has been prescribed as that fac- ing Jerusalem, which in our hemisphere is eastward. In accordance with the tradi- tion should the cantor face the congregation, he is prac- tically turning his back on the Almighty. The rabbi, on the other hand, is speaking to the con- gregation. He is somewhat of a messenger of the word of the Almighty. His role is basically that of a teacher who engages in dialogue of a sort_with the congregation. There are some rabbis who will not stand with their, backs to the ark not wishing to appear as turn- ing their backs on the source of holiness. They stand off on a side while speaking to the congregation. Yet, all rabbis indeed face the con- gregation. where the cars were found, near the national stadium. Subsequently, a San- tiago newspaper reported that five political prison- ers, arrested on July 22, had been placed in Cuatro Alamos prison. Several days later, the family re- ceived word that the Budnik brothers would probably be moved to southern Chile. In an effort to aid the Budnik family, 'Levinson said, Bnai Brith represen- tatives have appealed to the Chilean ambassadors in the United States and Canada for information on the brothers. Of the other four Chi- lean Jews who are mis- sing, the most prominent is David Silberman, who had been general man- ager of Chuquicarnata, the world's largest copper mine. Levinson said Silber- man disappeared while serving a 13-year sen- tence at the Santiago penitentiary. The others are Diana Aaron, Luis Guendelman and Juan Carlos Perel- man. Chilean officials have consistently denied that the four were ar- rested or are in govern- ment custody, Levinson said. area whose affects will be felt for a long time. He said it has been es- timated that the number of persons killed in the Lebanese civil war has passed the 40,000 mark and that more than one million persons have left the country. NO IFONE Automatically Notifies within seconds Police Dept. & Fire Dept. 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