12 Friday, November 12, 1976
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israel Labor Party Members
Voice Discontent at Meeting
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Dayan Urges Talks With Arafat stoeli know
TEL AVIV (JTA) —
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A they consider the party's Former Defense Minister
group of Labor Party in- alarming deterioration Moshe Dayan stated in a
tellectuals, writers and and the alienation of its television interview that
academicians met at Kib- leadership from the the Israeli government
should talk to Yasir
butz Beth Hashita last rank-and-file.
weekend for a discussion
With national elections Arafat, head of the Pales-
of means to reverse what just about a year away, tine Liberation Organi-
the meeting was taken zation and help the Pales-
X
by political cir- tinians achieve a national
X
STEVE PETIX X seriously
cles within the Labor homeland within Jordan.
Israel officially refuses
x
formal wear
x
Party, some of whom
to
meet with the PLO be-
for all occasions
viewed the gathering as
cause it is a terrorist or-
an incipient revolt.
ganization. But some
The participants ag- doves within the Labor
X
reed to work for change - Alignment have said that
within the Labor move- Israel should be prepared
ment. But they warned to meet with PLO leaders
X
the party leadership that if that organization an-
"Our votes are not in your
pocket. We may abstain." nounces its official recog-
They calso called for a nition of the Jewish state.
Meanwhile, the Knes-
mass meeting of leaders
of the various Labor set is expected to take up
sponsored settlements the question of the prop-
and kibbutz movements riety of a recent meeting
and local workers com- with PLO representa-
mittee heads to discuss tives in Paris by several
the party's future and prominent Israelis, in-
how to restore its former cluding a former MK and
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The Paris meeting, in
mid-October, was unoffi-
cial and was held in a pri-
vate home. Its outcome
was inconclusive as
neither the Israelis nor the
PLO men could agree on a
basis for future negotia-
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VIENNA — The Soviet
Union's military news-
paper, Krasnaya Zvezda,
said in an editorial last
week, that Austria would
endanger its neutrality if
it purchased Kfir C-2 jet
fighters from Israel.
Arab countries are un-
derstood to have
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BET WE'VE GOT THE BEST
DJAIVIONDS
tion with the PLO ter-
rorists there, the State
Department insists that
the United States does
not "recognize" the PLO.
The department said
that the PLO established
an "information office" in
New York in 1965 and re-
gistered with the U.S.
Justice Department at
that time as "a foreign
agent." It files reports
every six months with the
Justice Department, the
response said. The PLO
observer office, on the
other hand, was set up
under a UN General As-
sembly resolution. It "is
not registered with Jus-
tice and need not be," the
State Department said.
Since the end of June,
U.S. officials have been in
contact with the PLO in
Lebanon for purposes of
protecting Americans at
the Embassy there, U.S.
authorities have said.
Asked whether the con-
tacts in Beirut, together
with the PLO offices in
New York, add up to U.S.
"de facto" if not "de jure"
recognition of the PLO,
the department's chief
spokesman Robert Fun-
seth replied "neither." He
said the contacts did not
constitute "substantive"
action of recognition.
Columnists Jack An-
derson and Les Whitten
reported on Sept. 20 that
the PLO ,received a check
for $4,984 from persons in
Virginia. The PLO' ob-
server office director,
Zuhdi Terzi, admitted to
them that he received the
check, the columnists
said, and that he for-
warded it to Jacob
Oubedi, the PLO's top
fund raiser in Beirut.
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NEW YORK — The
election of four new
members to the board of
governors of Hebrew
Union College-Jewish In-
stitute of Religion was
announced by Dr. Jules
Backman, chairman.
The newly elected gov-
ernors are Joseph B. Hel-
ler of Chicago, Rabbi
Morton M. Applebaum of
Akron, Ohio; Rabbi
Leonard I. Beerman of
Los Angeles and Rabbi
Charles A. Kroloff of
'Temple Emanu-El,
Westfield, N.J.
Oubedi, the columnists
said, signed a thank you
note, written in Arabic on
the stationery of the
PLO's UN office and ad-
dressed to the "Palesti-
nian Committee in the
State of Virginia." Terzi
also admitted, the colum-
nists said, that the PLO
fund drive reached into
many states, but that
money for the PLO was
scarce.
Funseth acknowledged
as "correct" that the PLO
received the $4,984. The
department's statement
said the U.S. Mission to the
UN brought the matter to-
the UN Secretariat's at-
tention and the U.S. Mis-
sion itself "reviewed this
matter directly" with
Terzi.
According to the
statement, the U.S. offi-
cials told Terzi "fund rais-
ing is not an appropriate
part of the functions of
the PLO observer office
or its members" and that
in the future in "incidents
of this nature" the U.S.
would be "obliged to take
appropriate measures."
Funseth said he would
prefer not to define the
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Profile: Morris Lieberman
Histadrut Helps
Mend Young Lives
The exhausting effects of jet lag couldn't dam-
pen Morris Lieberman's enthusiasm at what he
had just seen in Israel.
As chairman of the Israel Histadrut Campaign
of Metropolitan Detroit and regional chairman of
the National Committee
for Labor Israel-
Histadrut, Lieberman
wasn't traveling as "just"
a tourist. He was out to see
what Histadrut had ac-
complished in the four
years since his last trip to
Israel.
Lieberman wasn't dis-
appointed. He found much
to praise in the social wel-
fare and educational pro-
jects of Israel's General
Federation of Labor.
But one Histadrut project
stood out in his recollec-
LIEBERMAN
tions. It's called Kfar Urim,
a residential vocational training; center near Haifa
that takes in youngsters of age 15-17 whom no one
else will take — including the army.
"Some of them have criminal records that fill
an entire page," said Lieberman. "Kfar Urim is,
in effect, a school of last resort."
For one year, the 200 teen-age students are
taught trades and prepared for adulthood as re-
sponsible citizens. At the end of the year, they
are directed to the army branch which can use
their skills.
Kfar Urim has a companion school, near Tel
Aviv, also supported by Histadrut.
"But it isn't enough. It's frightening to think
of, but Israel has 20,000 school dropouts who
need such special training," said Lieberman.
"Because of its defense needs, Israel has too lit-
tle money for education, for trade schools. Yet,
without educated soldiers, defense is meaning-
less."
The trip has put new impetus into Lieberman's
efforts to raise $150,000 in the Histadrut cam-
paign, which opens here on Nov. 21. This is his 15th
year as campaign chairman.
It's no accident that the number of years
Lieberman has been married coincides with the
number of years the Detroit-born attorney has
been active in the Labor Zionist movement.
He gives all the credit to his wife Pearl, who
introduced him to Labor Zionism 45 years ago.
Ever since, they've worked together for the "un-
common cause" — Histadrut.
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