200 Jews; 533,800 Arabs, Christians
Israel's Population: 3,493,200.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A new official booklet re-
ports that 3,493,200 persons — 2,959,400 of them Jews
— were living in Israel at the end of 1975. The remain-
ing 533,800 were Moslems and Christians.
The figures in "Israel in Figures — 1976," to be
Political Figures
in Limelight
•
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published soon by the government's Center of Infor-
mation, apply only to Israel proper. An estimated mill-
ion non-Jews, most of them Arabs, lived in the ad-
ministered territories.
About-27 percent of Israel's Jewish population live
9
in the three main cities — Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and
Haifa.
During 1975, 20,028 immigrants arrived in Israel
and an additional 9,200 arrived during the first six
months of this year.
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GOP's Pro-Israel Platform Plank
Called Record-Setting Politically
By JOSEPH POLARKOFF
KANSAS CITY (JTA) — Influential Jewish Republicans, including
Max Fisher of Detroit and Sen. Jacob Javits of New York, have endorsed
with marked enthusiasm their party's platform planks on issues of spe-
cial Jewish interest and concern.
The 22,000-word platform was adopted Tuesday with no visible dis-
sent on those planks related to the Middle East, the United Nations,
Soviet emigration policy, the Arab economic boycott, a firm warning
against the renewal of the Arab oil embargo, combatting of political
terrorism, opposition to quotas in jobs and edu-
cational opportunities, support for equal rights
for women and federal aid to private schools
within constitutional limits.
Max Fisher, who holds a leading role in Presi-
dent Ford's campaign, voiced a general sentiment
in declaring that he was "delighted" with the plat-
form and its "very, very strong statements of
American support for Israel."
Fisher, who stayed at the •Crown Center
Hotel where Ford and his top advisors were
quartered, referred to the platform statements
expressing "our commitment to Israel is funda-
mental and enduring" and "our policy must re-
main one of decisive support for the security and
integrity of Israel."
MAX FISHER
Fisher said he believes the platform "re-
INS Seeking Witnesses
in Israel Against Nazis
NEW YORK (JTA)—An official of the U.S: Immigration
and Naturalization Service office in New York said a team
of four INS attorneys are in Israel to interview witnesses
against at least eight alleged former Nazis living in the
United States suspected of World War II crimes.
Some of the witnesses "probably will be brought here at
government expense to testify against the alleged war crim-
inals at hearings seeking their deportation," Immigration
Commissioner Leonard F. Chapman said.
An INS spokesman said that in addition to the eight
cases, 77 others were being looked into from a list of 155
originally compiled on the basis of information supplied by
Simon Wiesenthal, the head of the Jewish Documentation
Center in Vienna, and other agencies and sources.
fleets the President's record and beliefs in this regard for more than 25
years of his public career.'.' He added: "I am particularly pleased with the
clear and ringing statement of continuing support for Israel in the United
Nations, the very firm statement about rights for Soviet Jews, the denun-
ciation of political terrorism and our call for international action to sup-
press terrorism and root it out."
Stressing the importance of the platform's views toward the UN,
Sen. Jacob K. Javits said the platform was as strong or stronger on
Israel's behalf than any ever adopted by either major party
Observers said the rival forces of President
Ford and Ronald Reagan were united on the
Middle East planks.
The platform vigorously condemn's "politici-
zation" of the UN in which Israel has been a chief
victim. "The very principles of the organization
are threatened," the platform says, by the UN be-
coming "arrayed against vital interests of any of
its member states on ideology or other narrow
grounds." It exemplified this by stressing, "Ac-
tions such as the malicious attempt to depict
Zionism as a form of racism are inconsistent with
the objectives of the United Nations and are re-
pugnant to the United States."
JACOB JAVITS
(Continued on Page 5)
AiCongress Asks U.S. Diplomatic Break
With Libya Following Istanbul Terrorism
NEW YORK (JTA) — The American Jewish•Congress has called on President Ford to break U.S.
diplomatic relations with Libya and to urge other nations to "quarantine" the Libyan government.
In a telegram to the White House, Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, AJCongress president, said the
"wanton murder" of Harold Rosenthal, Sen. Jacob Javits' aide, and other innocent international
airline passengers by terrorists "paid for and directed by Libyan authorities demonstrates again the
reckless and lunatic nature of that government. This danger to civilized society can no longer be
tolerated by the family of nations. We respectfully call on you to declare that the United States is
terminating at once all diplomatic relations with Libya."
In urging a diplomatic break with Libya, Rabbi Hertzberg said it was "the least our government
can do in response to the heartbreaking murder of an able and respected public servent (Rosenthal) and
to the continued and ever-growing danger to secure and peaceful travel and intercourse between
states."
Naomi Levine, executive director of the AJCongress, said that the organization would seek to have a
joint Senate-House resolution adopted calling for the abrogation of diplomatic relations with Libya. She
(Continued on Page 6)
Beirut's 900 Jews Trying to Out-Live the Terror of Civil War
By MOSHE RON
Jewish News Special
Israel Correspondent
TEL AVIV — More than
900 Jews
still in Beirut are waiting for an oppor-
tunity to get out of their hell.
Some 400 Jews are living in the
ghetto of Beirut and 500 have taken re-
fuge in a small health resort in the Ham-
doun Mountains north of the city. Both
places are in the hands of the leftist Mos-
lem forces and the PLO. The leader of the
leftist Moslems, Kamal Jumblat, tries to
save these Jews from attacks by the
PLO. The situation of the Jews is very
bad. They live on selling their personal
things in order to survive.
A Jewish refugee from Lebanon has
arrived in Israel and told a horrible story
about the fate of the Lebanese Jews.
They have mostly been merchants. tains they are getting along with their
When fighting broke out they took the Moslem neighbors. Jumblat says he will
not tolerate a slaughter of
goods out of their shops
the Jews. Therefore, Jews
and are still selling them.
have not been attacked,
They are waiting for the
end of the fighting in order
though the PLO has waged a
to leave Lebanon.
fierce hate campaign
against them.
In Ghetto Wadi Shamil
in- Beirut, where hundreds
Jumblat wishes I to de-
of Jews still live, many_
monstrate with his toler-
houses are in ruins. The
ante towards the Lebanese
Jewish shops were plun-
Jews that if he would obtain
dered by gangs and the
power in Lebanon he would
apartments which were not
grant equal rights to all
damaged were occupied by '
minorities living under his
the Moslems.
rule.
Meanwhile. the people
When fighting broke
are suffering from the de-
out the Jews declared them-
privations of war.
selves neutral. In the mown-
KAMAL JUMEiLAT
Only rich people can obtain the
necessary documents in order to travel
to quiet regions where one can get food.
The Arab terrorists are selling-food and
the black market is prospering, with
prices rising four times since the out-
break of the civil war.
Some rich Jews had decided to stay in
Lebanon in order not to leave their for-
tunes. Now they look for a way to get out.
Many innocent people who have tried to
escape have been shot by the terrorists.
Some Jews paid large suns to mem-
bers of the PLO. The terrorists provided
them with a guard and in some cases
even with ships. They sailed from the
port of Tyre to Cyprus.
(See Related Story, Page 8)