10 Friday, September 24, 1976
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Hershkovitz Named Area Director
for Israel's Dafna Tours Group
Benjamin Hershkovitz
has been named area di-
rector of Dafna Tours,
leading Israeli tourist or-
ganization.
Announcement of his
appointment was made
jointly in Israel and in the
New York office of the or-
ganization.
Hershkovitz,
who
gained wide recognition
for his managerial ser-
vices in organizing tours
to Israel and auxiliary
trips to many lands, had
established the high re-
cord of $2,000,000 a year
in air flight income when
he directed the area El Al
Israel Airlines office. He
goes to Dafna from the El
Al services of some 26
years in Israel and in the
Greater Detroit and
neighboring districts. -
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DUBLIN (JTA) — Is-
rael and the Irish Repub-
lic have agreed in princi-
ple to closer cooperation
between their national
airlines following a visit
by Mordechai Ben-Ari,
managing director of El
Al.
Among the topics dis-
cussed with Irish avia-
tion chiefs were mutual
landing rights in Dublin
and Tel Aviv and a new
route between the United
States and Israel stop-
ping at Dublin and Rome.
Aer Lingus, meanwhile,
loaned one of its Boeing
707s to El Al to cope with
the winter tourism boom.
Ben-Ari also visited
London to continue talks
with British Airways on
the possibility of El Al
gaining landing rights in
Hong Kong in exchange
for which British Air-
ways would be able to
stop over in Israel en
route to the Far East.
He also reviewed El
Al's promotion efforts in
commended him for effi-
ciency which defied crises
and facilitated many as-
pects for flights as well as
hotel arrangements and
tour guides.
BENJAMIN HERSHKOVITZ
Hershkovitz's office will
be in Southfield and he will
manage all aspects of
tourism for Dafna in the
Midwest.
In the past five years
Hershkovitz arranged
hundreds of tours for
churches as well as
synagogues and
thousands benefitted
from the arrangements
he made for travel to Is-
rael. Rabbis and laymen
Israel Participates
in Travel Congress
NEW ORLEANS—
Israel was represented at
this year's annual ASTA
(American Society of
Travel Agents) World
Travel Congress. About
5,500 travel representa-
tives, members of the
media, and government
tourist officials from all
over the world partici-
pated in the New Orleans
event.
Various activities were
organized including the
Israel Pavillion in the in-
ternational travel exhibi-
tion, set up by the North
American office of the Is-
rael Ministry of Tourism.
The reigning Miss Uni-
verse, Israel's Rina Mes-
singer, greeted the audi-
ence of 5,000.
Israel was one of the
only six countries chosen
by the ASTA Organizing
Committee to take part in
a program of interna-
tional entertainment for
ASTA delegates.
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Hershkovitz said his of-
fices for Dafna will be set
up in Southfield by Oct. 1.
He stated:
"Dafna Tours is and has
been Israel's leading tour
operator for over 25 years,
providing tour packages
together with El Al. Their
personalized service and
attention enable them to
insure complete value and
guarantee satisfaction."
Hershkovitz said he is
looking forward to main-
taining his contacts and
continuing to work with
Detroit area travel
agents and community
leaders in efforts to
stimulate tourism to Is-
rael.
Britain where, for the
first time in any Euro-
pean country, flights to
Israel are being adver-
tised on television.
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U.S. Probing Fund-Raising
Activities of PLO Mission
WASHINGTON
(JTA) — The United
States is "trying to de-
termine" whether a re-
port that the Palestine
Liberation Organiza-
tion's Mission at the Un-
ited Nations in New York
is raising funds in this
country to help finance
its terrorist operations
and guerrilla activities,
the State Department
said.
"Should it turn out any
members of the PLO Ob-
server Mission are in-
volved in fund-raising ac-
tivities in this country,
such activity would be
clearly beyond the scope
of activities for which
they are admitted,"
spokesman Frederick
Brown said.
He added that the
probe is on a "priority,
basis" and that the U.S.
has asked the UN Sec-
Opening Slated
for Kosher Hotel
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—
The Saxony Hotel and
Tennis Club, Miami
Beach's largest kosher
hostelry, will openfor the
1976-77 winter season
Nov. 16, featuring ex-
panded tennis facilities, a
new children's playg-
round, and a nightly en-
tertainment policy.
Abbey Berkowitz, pres-
ident of the 389-room
Saxony, said the Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congre-
gations again will provide
full supervision of dietary
laws in the Saxony's din-
ing room and other food
operations.
Other features include
a tea room in the lower
lobby -arcade, a poolside
snack bar, the refur-
bished Veranda room for
entertainment on the
main lobby level and new
women's sportswear and
swimwear shops.
Traditional daily as
well as Sabbath and holi-
day services will be held
in the Saxony's
synagogue.
retariat "to convey our
serious concern" to the
PLO regarding fund-
raising.
He indicated "possible
explusion" of any PLO
members involved in the
reported venture but not
the Mission as a whole.
Columnists Jack Ander-
son and Les Whitten re-
ported Monday that PLO
Mission members col-
lected funds from sym-
pathizers in the U.S. and
deposited them in a PLO
account overseas. The col-
umnists said they have
proof in the form of "a
thank you note" written in
Arabic on the stationery of
the PLO's UN office.
"The letter issigned by
Jacob Oubedi, the PLO's
top fund-raiser in Beirut
and is addressed to the
Palestinian Committee in
the state of Virginia,"
Anderson and Whitten
wrote.
They said the Virgi-
nians collected $4,084
which Oubedi was quoted
as saying would go into
the "PLO national chest."
"We hope you will con-
tinue to work for our holy
cause and revolutionary
victory," Oubedi wrote,
according to the colum-
nists.
Oubedi, whose code
name is "Abu Khaled,"
the columnists said,
noted that the Virgi-
nians' money had been
turned over to him by the
PLO director in New York
Zoyer Tarizi. The colum-
nists said Tarazi admit-
ted that the Virginians
delivered the $4,084 check
to him.
According to the col-
umnists, Tarazi said the
PLO has entered many
states but money for the
PLO is "scarce."
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lasted until 1876.
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