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Forbidden Account Forces Rabin to Resign
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Treasury officials .dis-
closed that there was a
major behind-the-scene
clash between Barak and
the Treasury over how to
handle the Rabin case.
The Finance Ministry
was prepared to ask for le-
niency for Mrs. Rabin and
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let her off with a IL 150.000
fine ($15,000). but Barak in-
sisted she stand trial. He
said if she were not prose-
cuted he would hve to drop
dozens of currency violation
cases currently before the
courts. He also threatened
to resign.
Barak said the size of the
illegal accounts and Mrs.
Rabin's "many" with-
drawals from them since
1973, which she has acknowl-
edged, gave no grounds for
leniency.
Legal sources disclosed
that Barak had personally
consulted lower level Treas-
ury officials who handle cur-
rency cases and found an
unanimous view among
them that there were in-
sufficient grounds for le-
niency in the Rabin case.
Rabin postponed his resig-'
nation until after the con-
clusion of the European
Cup championship basket-
ball game which was tele-
vised from Belgrade. Yugo-
slavia.
Israel's Tel Aviv Maccabi
team defeated Varese of
Italy, 78-77, setting off wild
celebrations which ob-
scured Rabin's announce-
ment.
In his resignation speech
I Don't Want to Sell You A Car,
I Want To Help You Buy One.
You work hard for your money.
So do I.
But I don't think that a low price
alone is enough to get you to
spend your money at Jerry
Glassman Olds, or any other
car dealership.
I believe people want to
buy their car from a
dealership they can put
their trust in. A dealership
that'll work as hard for their
money as they did. Making sure
things are right — before, during
and after the sale.
When you visit Glassman Olds,
we'll help you pick out a car that's
right for the kind of driving you do.
Then we'll quote you a fair price. A
price as low as any in town.
Maybe lower.
And, after the sale, you'll find
our smiles are just as wide,
our handshakes just as friendly
when you come in for a free
warranty check.
That's the way !run things at
Jerry Glassman. Oldsmobile.
Come in and see for yourself.
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12 Mile and Telegraph
Southfield
Phone (313) 354-3300
down for the good of the
Labor Party and added that
"I bear jointly with my
wife formal and moral re-
sponsibility... -
Rabin said: "The ac-
counts were opened during
my service as envoy in
Washington. The money in
them all came from that pe-
riod. We never concealed
the existence of the ac-
count—in fact my wife
drove to the bank in an offi-
cial car 'of the State Depart-
ment's security service.
There were no deposits
since we left Washington
(in 1973). When the affair
was first published (in mid-
March ) $10,000 were re-
turned home."
In March, 1973 when the
Rabins left Washington,
there had been $18,000 in
the account, the Premier
said. The sum of $2,000 was
then (publicly) mentioned
in this connection. That was
the sum actually in. the ac-
count. The remaining $8,000
was en route to Israel.
There was thus some un-
clarity, both regarding
whether there was more
than one account, and as to
the discrepancy in the fig-
ures.
Finance Ministry sources
explained. confirming
Rabin's own unclear state-
ments. there was $2,000 in
the account last month&and
another $8,000 in travellers
checks and cash in the fam-
ily's possession.
The remaining $8,000 had
been withdrawn and spent
by Mrs. Rabin over the
years since -1973 during her
visits to the United States,
the sources explained.
Rabin, in his announce-
ment, stated: "The Treas-
ury appointed a committee,
which included representa-
tives of the police&and they
recommended an adminis-
trative fine. To my great
regret the Attorney General
has not accepted this recom-
mendation, at least as far
as concerns my wife, and
in his opinion she must face
prosecution."
Rabin declared: "It is a
sad ending. I regret that
something which is in my
view of secondary impor-
tance has led to the deci-
sion I have taken. But I
saw no alternative...
Yigael Yadin Files Libel Suit
Against Political Opponent
paid the necessary taxes.
The Ministry of Educa-
tion and Culture,- which is
in charge of antiquities,
secutive week ran stories said there was no breach of
that Prof. Yigael Yadin, law.
Yadin showed the press
head of the Democratic
Movement for Change, has photocopies of the check
smuggled foreign currency and of a receipt from the
out of the country. They Discount Bank in Jerusa-
charged that Yadin was in- lem showing that the check
volved in a foreign cur- had been duly deposited ac-
rency and antiques export cording to law.
The photocopies also
scandal in 1972.
-showed that the check was
Yadin. who filed a libel
not made out to Yadin at
suit against the two journal-
all, but only to the Hebrew
ists last week, filed another
University Institute of Ar-
one this week.
chaeology.
At the press conference
Immediately after the
Avneri insisted that the
original story was pub-
Yadin said that the charge had no connection
antiques in question were with the political rivalry be-
exported by a Jerusalem an- tween his Sheli list and
tique dealer. after he had Yadin's movement.
JERUSALEM (JTA)Uri
Avneri, editor of Haolam
Hazeh, and reporter Yigal
Laviv. for the second con-
Funds for Elderly Housing Available
NEW YORK—More than
40 percent of federation ap-
plications submitted in 1976
for Section 202 Housing for
the Elderly funds were suc-
cessful and communities
will be receiving nearly $50
million in loans and rent
subsidies, according to
Mark Talisman, director of
the Council of Jewish Feder-
ations' Washington Action
Office.
In his year-end report to
the CJF Board of Directors.
Talisman indicates $750 mil-
lion will be available for
Section 202 loans in fiscal
1977. The Washington office
will notify all interested fed-
erations of the application
deadline when it is an-
nounced.
Special mention is also
made in the report of the
Washington office's role in
obtaining grants through
the Comprehensive Employ
ment and Training Adminis-
tration (CETA) for Soviet
Jewish refugee manpower
training.
In order to help feder-
ations better understand
the varied federal aid pro-
grams for which they may
be eligible, the Washington
office of CJF is preparing a
federation-oriented version
of the Catalogue of Federal
Domestic. Assistance which
with 'summarize approx-
imately 200 Federal pro-
grams.
:
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"I believe that in the
three fields that I have
worked as Chief of Staff,
as Ambassador to the U.S.
and as Premier&I did yeo-
man work and I succeeded
in the main task. As Com-
mander-in-Chief I prepared
the army on the eve of the
Six-Day War. As Premier I
led the country out of the
post-Yom Kippur straits
into a situation facilita'
diplomatic maneuveriri,
situation unparalleled since
the State'siinception."
His heart was heavy,
Rabin said, because he was
being forced to end his task
prematurely. "But I saw no
possibility of entering into a
conflict with the official
whose function it is to super-
vise the enforcement of the
law, "he said.
In his view, the state of
Israel had lost the Premier
who had had a better
chance than anyone to ad-
vance the cause of peace
and prevent war.
At the same time, he
hoped his public career had
not been ended. "I believe
in the state of ISrael ...I
shall find my place in it."
Hebrew . Poetry
Found at Schocken
NEW YORK—Unknown
works by the great masters
of medieval Hebrew poetry
are being discovered in a
17th Century manuscript at
the Schocken Institute of
The Jewish Theological
Seminary of America.
Until recently in the
hands of a family that origi-
nated in Constantinople, the
volume, -Tikun Shabatot -
(Readings for the Sabbath),
reveals works of unknown
oriental •poets as well as
new" poems by Yehuda
Halevi, Rabbi Avraham Ibn
Ezra and other bards from
Hebrew poetry's golden age
in Spain and Provence.
The readings, 180 piyutim
(liturgical poems) and
kinot (dirges) relating to
Jerusalem and the Temple,
were edited for publication
in 17th Century Egypt, but
no printed edition has ever
been discovered.
Rabbi Yitzhak, son of
Eliezer Habib, prepared the
manuscript with Rabbi
Moshe Yehuda Abbas, a
major Hebrew poet of that
era who included his own
works as well as those of
his celebrated family, the
Abbasi'im, in the collection.
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Yeshiva Named
for Entebbe Hero
JERUSALEM (ZINS)—A
yeshiva bearing the name
of Yonatan Netanyahu. the
hero who was killed in the
Entebbe rescue operation
at Uganda, will be set up in
the Old City of Jerusalem.
A Jewish philanthropist has
pledged $1 million toward
the- building of the yeshiva.
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