THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Israeli Physician Who Treated Entebbe Victims
Addresses Allied Jewish Campaign Workers

operation," said Haspel.
If Entebbe was a feat
"But most important was
of military derring-do, it
the spirit of Israel when
was no less a medical mis-
we came back. Everyone
sion of great humanity —
was so proud of himself
a point emphasized. here
and the state. It's the
Tuesday by a young Is-
same feeling of Jews
raeli surgeon who took
everywhere I've been on
part in the historic res-
this tour. There is more
cue.
identification with Israel
On his second trip out-
than ever before."
side Israel — "the first
Dr. Paul C. Feinberg,
and most exciting trip
chairman of the Profes-
was to Entebbe" — Dr. -
sional Division, along with
Jacob Haspel addressed a
Dr. Milton Goldrath,
group of Allied Jewish
praised
the spirit of sac-
Campaign-Israel Emer-
rifice evidenced by the Is-
gency Fund leaders and
Dr. Jacob Haspel, second from right, physician with raeli rescue team.
workers, among them
Picking up on that
a large group of doctors the Entebbe rescue mission, addressed a Professional
Division
gathering
Tuesday
on
behalf
of
the
1977
Allied
theme,
Dr. Goldrath said
and dentists at.the home
Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund. With him later that the response of
of Dr. Joseph Jacobson.
are, from left, Dr. Milton Goldrath, division chairman; the 100 contributors pre-
Dr. Haspel described Dr. Joseph Jacobson, host; and Dr. Paul C. Feinberg, sent at the meeting illus-
the extensive medical division chairman.
trated the feeling of iden-
* * *
preparations that pre-
tification by significantly
ceded the mission of July hostages for any mental
"I was proud and ex- increasing their gifts to
3-4, 1976. A total of 20 strain.
cited to take part in the the AJC-IEF.
physicians, plus para-
* * *
medics and assistants, All equipment, includ-
were members of the ing pediatric facilities
medical team. should there be any in-
There were three levels jured children and in-
of medical care, he said: fants aboard, was assem-
"First, there were the bled on one day's notice. NEW YORK — The man" on this subject.
fighting soldiers. Every "I got the call Friday reaCtionolthe American These letters were made
troop had its own physi- morning and was told to people to the dramatic available courtesy of the
cian, all of them young and stay at home 'in case epic of the rescue mission Embassy of Israel in
on duty, right up to the you'll be needed,' " said carried out by the Israel Washington, D.C.
battlefield and ready to Haspel. "I guessed the Defense forces at En- . Foriner Congressman
give medical first aid at connection with Erf- tebbe is portrayed in all Herbert Tenzer, president
the moment someone tebbe." its dimensions in a 48- of the America-Israel
should - get hurt."
The team was sworn to page multi-colored com- Friendship League, in an
memorative album just introduction to the album,
- On the second level, he secrecy. "We had a cover published by the emphasizes "the deeply
said, was a team —includ- story to tell the nurses if America-Israel Friend- rooted friendship between
ing himself — manning a they didn't want to give us ship League.
America and Israel."
nearly-empty Hercules what we needed. We told
Entitled
"America
For a copy of the com-
transport plane, pre- them we were going to Speaks," the album com- memorative
Entebbe al-
open
a
field
hospital
to
pared to accept "all the
prised statements by bum, write the America-
treat
casualties
of
the
hostages and all the-
Lebaiiese War. Even army America's leaders, its Israel Friendship
casualties."
officials not involved in the representatives at the League, America-Israel
The third facet of the mission were told that UN and in Congress,- ex- Friendship House, 134 E.
cerpts of editorial com- 29th St. New York, N.Y.
medical plan was the hos- story.
-
ments and commentaries 10016.
pital plane — a Boeing
"Eater, after the opera- by noted columnists and
707 which-contained "two
complete surgical teams tion," said Haspel, "the cartoons in the foremost
and sufficient equipment nurses told us they never dailies, weeklies and
to perform every kind of believed the cover story, other influential-publica-
resuscitation, plus twa but they understood what tions from coast to coast.
field operating rooms to the equipment really was
A special section is de-
make possible a'surgical for." They gave the team voted to a small sampling
operation on any casual- everything they re- of the thousands of let-
ters and telegrams sent
ties." It also included a quested.
by individual Americans
The rest is history.
psychiatrist to -treat the
and organizations in all
walks of life and from dif-
Wiesenthal Gies Annual
fering faiths, giving ex-
pression to the feelings of
Documentation Center Report America's "common

America-Israel Friends
Publish Entebbe Album

,

Friday, February 18, 1977 17

British Aliya Low

LONDON(ZINS) — De-
spite a severe economic
depression, aliya to Israel
from England has de-
clined from a high of 1,000
four years ago to 352 last
year.
The London correspon-
dent for Maariv predicts
an increase in aliya if the
economic situation in
Great Britain does not
improve.

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Hermine Braunsteiner space with churches, a
Ryan, recently deported typical example being the
from the U.S., is being 2,000-member United
tried for crimes committed,- Methodist Church in
in Maidanek concentration Rockville which wanted
camp. Her lawyer, Ludwig to make maximum use of
Bock, in an effort to im- its spacious facilities.
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VIENNA—The Jewish
Documentation Center,
headed by Simon Wie-
senthal, has released its
annual report. The
Center has been
cooperating with Dr.-
Charles Kremer, presi-
dent of the Federation of
Romanian Jews in the
campaign against Ar-
chbishop Valerian (Vio-
rel) Trifa, of Grass Lake,
Mich., accused of par-
ticipating in the murder
of Jews in the Yassy,
Romania, pogrOm.
In the current U.S. pro-
ceedings against hjm,
Trifa has claimed that
even thoUgh a member of
the Romanian pro-Nazi
Iron Guard, he was with
other Guard members,
held by the Germans in
Buchenwald and Dachau
concentration camps.
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were invited to Germany
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