28 Friday, December 3, 1976 16.1V A N‘WWN, .VW Rolex Fredrick jewelers N.\PiIII) ■ 1111 , 869 West Long Lake Road ... 646.0973 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 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- MINDREADING—HYPNOTISM—CLOSE-UP MAGIC ogler TERTAINMENT CLOWNS—MAGIC—BALLOONS 1-662-3700 569-1719 ANDY BLAU in BIRMINGHAM at WILSON-CRISSMAN CADILLAC CALL BUS. MI 4-1930 RES. 642-6836 1350 N. WOODWARD, BIRMINGHAM -••■ *oat .54,4, 4 74 66. VeedeNed4 American Protective Alamo, Inc. 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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.