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February 25, 1977

Detroiters Establish Philanthropic High Mark

Unprecedented Gifts to Israeli Universities
.include Academic Chairs and Scholarships

All records for philanthropic generosity were broken in the Greater
Detroit Jewish community this week by the announcement of the estab-
lishment of several academic chairs in Israeli universities, scholarship
funds in many institutions of learning and aid to health and recreation
causes.
Abraham J. Cutler, a pioneer Detroit jeweler, who has just reached his
95th year and has lived in Detroit for
more than 50 years, announced in his
own and his wife's behalf that trust
funds already set up assure the estab-
lishment of the various academic
chairs and provide perpetual trust
funds for all Israeli institutions of
higher learning, in addition to scores
of local causes that are remembered
in the trust funds.
Maurice Axelrod, for many years
an active leader in the Detroit Techn-
ion Society, acting in behalf of Ab-
raham J. Cutler and his wife, Minnie,
made the -formal announcement of
the unprecedented gifts. Accompany-
ing his announcement of the estab-
lishment of a Chair in Talmudic
MINNIE and ABRAHAM CUTLER
Studies at Bar-Ilan University in
Ramat Gan, Israel, Axelrod supplemented the contribution with a cash
$50,000 gift for perpetual scholarships at Bar-Ilan. He presented that gift
to Phillip Stollman, chairman of the global board of Bar-Ilan University,
on Monday.
Many local causes are included in the trust funds set aside for philan-
thropic causes,
including Hillel, Avika and Beth Yehudah Schools, Hadas-
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sah, the Home for the Aged, and, of course, the Allied Jewish Campaign
which is provided for with annual repetitive gifts.
- Among the major contributions is a gift for the planting of a Cutler
JNF Forest of 60,000 trees on Jewish National Fund land in Israel.
Perpetual scholarships, in addition to other gifts, will be established
for the Weizmann Institute of Science at Rehovot and the Hebrew Univer-
sity in Jerusalem.
A $50,000 gift provides for the naming of the auditorium in the Haifa
Clinic of Magen David Adorn., the Israel equivalent of the Red Cross. The
Cutlers last year contributed an ambulance to Magen David Adorn and this
year, in addition to the larger sum, are contributing $17,500 to Magen
David Adorn for a bloodmobile.
A lifelong interest in Technion inspired Mr. Cutler to make a donation to
further the Institute's research program in engineering, technology and
applied science, in addition to previous scholarship gifts. The school is plan-
ning an A.J. Cutler garden in the family's honor.
Tel Aviv University, the University of the Negev and numerous other
major causes are provided for generously?
Tel Aviv University will name its audio-visual language center after
Cutler in appreciation. The center will house four language laboratories
and two recording studios. A -chair in Jewish history is being established by
the Cutlers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
A substantial gift has been provided for the American Cancer Society,
as well as the American Friends of Hebrew University, Brandeis Univer-
sity, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Yeshiva University, the
Rabbi Kaplan Torah Center of Chicago and other causes.
The Cutlers have. one son, Joseph Morton Cutler. Mr. Cutler has one
brother, Philip A. Cutler, a pioneer Detroit Zionist leader who was for
years an active leader in the Zionist Organization of Detroit.
Mr. Cutler retired from the jewelry business about 15 years ago. He

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CIA Funding for Israel's Africa Programs Denied

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The White House on
Tuesday refused to discuss a published allegation that
the Central Intelligence Agency "provided large sums
to the Israeli government" for use in Africa. The Is-
raeli Embassy dismissed the report with a brief denial.
In declining to comment, deputy presidential
news secretary Rex Grandum!referred to the White
House statement last Friday in the King Hussein case
that Administration policy is not to comment — not to
confirm or to deny — alleged covert stories because if it
did "the operation no longer would be covert."
Israeli press counsellor Avi Pazzner said, "I deny
it completely." The question arose after the Wall
Street Journal reported the CIA "played both sideg"of
the street in the Mideast" and added: "While pub-
lished reports say the CIA has given millions of dollars
to King Hussein of Jordan in an apparent effort to
strengthen relations with Arab moderates, the Wall
Street Journal has learned that the agency provided
large sums to the Israeli government."

It said the purpose of the payments to Israel was to
finance "foreign aid" projects in African nations "ap-
parently" to bolster "Israel's political standing on the
African continent."
The period of payments, it alleged, included "at
least the period" from 1964-1968 and "perhaps be-
yond." The CIA paid Israel, the Journal continued, a
total estimated in the millions of dollars in the late
1960s. It said checks for several hundred thousand
dollars each were frequently delivered by U.S. gov-
ernment officials to the Israeli Foreign Ministry in
Jerusalem. "The money was then to be channeled to
the African recipients," it said.
During the 1960s Israel began to provide both mil-
itary and technical assistance to several African na-
tions, including Uganda and the Central African Re-
public, according to the article. "Israel hoped to have
both good will and specific support from the African
recipients in voting on Mideast issues in the United
Nations," the paper added.

"Nonetheless, most African countries eventually
came to support the Arab cause and in the early 1970s
they began breaking relations with Israel. It isn't
known whether CIA payments to Israel have con-
tinued since then," the Journal said.
Meanwhile, Israeli sources also denied as "utterly
without foundation" another report alleging that Pre-
mier Yitzhak Rabin engaged in improper conduct dur-
ing the 1972 presidential election. Discussing the Yadlin
affair in Israel, financial writer Elliot Janeway .com-
mented in last Sunday's Washington Star:
"It is appropriate that Rabin should be engulfed in
an Israeli version of Watergate. He seems to have
learned nothing but forgotten nothing from his own
participation in it during his tour of ambassadorial
duty in Washington. He accepted and probably met a
jumbo-sized quota from CREEP (the committee to
reelect President Nixon) in defiance of all known
standards of propriety, let alone legality."

Soviets Banning Mail Matzot Shipments Narrow Rabin Win

NEW YORK — The Soviet Union has informed the Universal Postal Union in Bern, Switzerland that it
,gill no longer accept packages containing baked goods into the USSR. As reported by Newsweek magazine,
"U.S. Jewish groups believe the intent is plain: to disrupt the mailing of matzot to Soviet Jews in time for
Passover."
The Soviets invoked a similar ban in 1963, when they also prohibited the baking of matzot inside the
country. International protests forced the Russians to rescind the mail ban and allow the baking of matzot in
some cities. However, Jews in many areas depend on imported matzot because of the lack of local suppli6s.
Earlier, Jewish sources within the Soviet Union had told New Jersey Rabbi Pinchas M. Teitz in telephone
conversations that the Soviet authorities had allotted large amounts of flour for Passover matzot. Rabbi Teitz
said this apparently represented a change from past practice in that matzot baked in the Soviet Union were baked
from flour which Jews brought with them to the baking premises. Rabbi Teitz said he was told by Reuben Zeitchik
of the Moscow Synagogue that 150 tons of flour have been allotted to Moscow for baking of matzot to meet
increased needs of the Moscow Jewish community and Jews in the vicinity.
Moshe Litunsky, president of the Leningrad Synagogue, and Mordechai Zedovietsky, president of the Kiev
Synagogue, told Rabbi Teitz that 70 tons of flour have been allotted to those communities. Rabbi Teitz said in
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JERUSALEM (JTA)
Premier Yitzhak Rabin
won the Labor Party elec-
tion Wednesday night by
a narrow margin of 41
votes. The official tally .
gave him 1,445 to Defense
Minister Shimon 1,404.
The closeness of the,
vote is expected to put
Rabin on the defensive in
the May elections. The
opposition parties are ex-
pected to seize upon his
tiny margin to argue that
he is not fully accepted by
his own party.

YITZHAK RABIN