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Group Critical of Horev Report, Absorption Leadership
Calls for Institution of Ministry of World Jewish Affairs
rael's relations with dias-
pora Jewry people at
large.
The group wants to
create a special govern-
ment Ministry for World
Jewish Affairs. It envi-
sions roles for the Jewish
Agency and the World
Zionist Organization, but
it regards those bodies,
and the present govern-
ment set-up as well, as in-
adequate and bound by
concepts of the past.
Describing themselves
frankly as "rebellious,"
one of the group's first ob-
jectives is to prevent
adoption of the recom-
mendations of a special
panel chaired by Haifa
Technion president Amos
Horev, which would, re-
store the immigration
and absorption machin-
ery to the exclusive juris-
diction of the Jewish
Agency, although under
the guidelines of a sup-
reme government au-
thority headed by the
Prime Minister.
They claim that the Ab-
sorption Ministry, which
the Horev commission re-
commended should be
abolished, was set up due
to the failure of the
Jewish Agency's absorp-
tion process.
Restoring that function
to the Jewish Agency is a
retreat to the conditions
that existed before 1968,
they say. But the prog-
ram being put forward by
the new group is much
greater in scope and envi-
sions vast changes in Is-
raeli institutions with re-
spect to their relations
with diaspora Jews.
The group includes,
among others, Moshe Gil-
boa, former Israel Consul
General for the South-
eastern U.S. and, until
recently, director of the
WZO's information de-
partment; Mrs. Esther
Herlitz, former Israeli
Ambassador to Denmark
and former Consul in the
U.S. in charge of Jewish
affairs; Israel Avidor,
former secretary of
Habonim; Mayor Teddy
Kollek of Jerudalem;
Asher I3en Natan, Is-
rael's former Ambas-
sador . to France; MK
David Koren; Col. Assaf
Yagoory; Mrs. Rachel
By YITZHAK SHARGIL
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A
group of prominent Labor
Party members, most of
whom have served in dip-
lomatic posts and other
missions abroad, have or-
ganized to press for a rad-
ical reorganization of Is-
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Yanait Ben-Zvi, widow of
the late President Yit-
zhak Ben-Zvi and many
others.
They believe that the
purpose of creating the
Jewish state was to solve
the problem of the Jewish
people, not to have the
Jewish people solve the
problems of the state.
They are convinced that
the present leaders of the
government and other in-
stitutions who deal with
diaspora Jewry are no
longer fit for that task be-
cause this leadership is
still oriented toward the
East European Jewry de-
stroyed by the Holocaust.
These leaders are not
sensitive to the tremend-
ous changes that have
taken place among the
Jewish people — changes
in concepts, mentality
and behavior — and
therefore are out of con-
tact with the Jewish
people they are supposed
to serve, the new group
says.
They call for giving
much higher priority to
the question of Israel's
relations . with diaspora
Jews. Israel was estab-
lished to help world Jewry
maintain its Jewish con-
sciousness and it should
help by aliya and absorp-
tion and by providing
Jews with a proper, mod-
ern means of Jewish edu-
cation, they say.
But the present in-
stitutions are not effi-
cient enough and not
adapted for that task, ac-
cording to the proponents
of change.
Their criticism is di-
rected mainly at the gov-
ernment for not doing
enough and at the WZO.
The latter, they say, has
no idea how to deal with
Dr.- Salk Given
Nehru Award
WASHINGTON - (JTA)
— Dr.. Jonas Salk, the
New York-born physician
and scientist who in 1954
developed the anti-polio
vaccine • which bears his
nanie, has been given the
JaWaharlal Nehru Award
by the Indian govern-
ment.
The Indian Embassy
reported that the award
to Salk is in "recognition
of his outstanding serv-
ices to the study of biolog-
ical and health sciences
and to the alleviation of
hurna:ri suffering, which
have significantly en-
hanced the welfare of the
pre8ent and future gen-
erations."
Salk,'who is director of
the Salk Institute for
Biological Studies in San
Diego, Calif., said he ex-
pected to go to New Delhi
early next year to accept
the award. It carries
$13,740 in cash and a cita-
tion. They will be pre-
seonnty.
m
ed at a special cere-
Salk is the third Ameri-
can to receive the honor
since it was established in
1965. The others were the
late Martin Luther King
Jr. in 1965 and violinist
Yehudi Menuhin in 1968.
the vast, fateful problem
of diaspora Jewry. They
think the job has to be di-
vided between govern-
ment institutions, the
Jewish Agency and WZO
and national Jewish or-
ganizations in the vari-
ous countries.
The WZO, they point
out, has ties only with
Zionist parties and feder-
ations abroad and cannot
deal with non-aligned
Jewish groups and indi-
viduals, especially intel-
lectuals and academi-
cians. Therefore, the gov-
ernment must assume
greater responsibility by
creating a Ministry for
World Jewish Affairs.
The Jewish Agency and
the WZO would serve as
tools to reach various sec-
tions of the diaspora,
working side-by-side with
such major international
Jewish bodies as the
World Jewish Congress
and Bnai Brith and with
national federations and
organizations such as the
Jewish Welfare Board
and the Israel Bond Or-
ganization.
The new group believes
that the most important
job lies with the Ministry
of Education. What has
been done so far by the
ministry and the various
departments of the
Jewish Agency is in-
adequate they say, and
even work in the educa-
tional field is done accord-
ing to party politics.
Therefore, they are
demanding the abolition
of all Zionist parties ab-
road and the creation of
an all-embracing organi-
zation to work with local
Jewish organizations.
They-believe the Edu-
cation Ministry can save
the situation by setting
up a special department
for education in the dias-
pora and equipping it
with a pool of textbooks,
audio-visual material an(
other modern educa
tional tools.
The Ministry should
supervise the training of
teachers to be sent ab-
road and a panel of top
university experts on
education would prepare
a blue print for Jewish
education overseas.
The Israeli Teachers
Union is called on to
maintain regular and
close contacts with
Jewish teachers in the
diaspora.
The new group wel-
comed the decision to hold
elections for delegates to
the next World Zionist
Congress. They said they
hoped the election- pro-
cess would bring new
faces and younger faces
into the ranks of the
Zionist leadership.
They also want to see
the new faces in the
Labor Party, noting that
there has been no change
in the Labor Zionist lead-
ership for nearly 15 years.
Israel BondsInaugurates
Cash Collection Campaign
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
nationwide cash earn-
paign to promote the col-
lection of outstanding
commitments for Israel
Bonds was inaugurated
recently, in • 425 com-
munities across the Un-
ited States and Canada to
help Israel meet urgent
economic development
needs, it was announced
by Sam Roghberg, gen-
eral chairman ..of the Is-
rael Bond Organization.
Under the slogan,
"Cash is Crucial," the
closing weeks of 1976 will
witness intensive activity
on all levels of community
organization to spur - the
sale of bonds, he said.
The cash collection
program was adopted at
an extraordinary meet-
ing of the National Cam-
p aign Cabinet. Golda
Meir, who spoke to the
meeting by phone from
her home in Tel Aviv,
cited the importance of
Israel Bonds. .
During the special cash
campaign, members of
local Israel Bond commit-
tees throughout North
America will engage in an
intensive effort to speed
remittances from sub-
scribers with outstanding
commitments as well as
from individuals who will
be invited to buy Israel
Bonds at various meetings
to be held between now
and the end of the year.
As part of this drive, a
person-to-person
ap-
proach will be used in the
case of bond purchasers
in: the top brackets who
are eligible for member-
ship- in. special honor
societies established for
purchases :of substantial
amounts.
Those who buy a
minimum of $25,000 in Is-
rael Bonds this year will
become members of the
Israel Prime. Minister's
Club, while individuals
who buy $10,000 or more
in bonds will be enrolled
as members of the Israel
Ambassador's Society of
Trustees.
General Predicts
Surprise Attack
TEL AVIV (JTA) —
Gen. (Res.) Shmuel Gonen
has predicted that the
Arabs would launch
another surprise attack
on Israel: .
The officer, who com 7 ----
manded the Sinai fron
when the .Yom Kippur
War brOke'out in October,
1973., and was sub-
sequently blamed for Is-
rael's initial setbacks,
told Bar-Ilan University
students that he was con-
vinced the Arabs were
preparing for a new war.
He said there was no
rift between the Arab
countries
that re-
ports of an
an Egyptian-
Soviet split or of Egyp-
tian differences with
other Arab countries
were part of a plan to lure
Israel into complacency.