THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14 Friday, April 22, 1977
23 Lists Compete in Israel's May 17 Election
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JERUSALEM (JTA)—
The election race began offi-
cially at 10 p.m. April 12,
when the heavy wrought
iron gates of the Knesset
swung shut and Supreme
Court Justice Eliahu Many,
chairman of the elections
committee, announced that
registration had ended. By
that moment 23 lists, 10 old
and 13 of them new, had
registered and paid their IL
40,000 deposits.
There were scenes of
high drania, tension, and
much comic relief at the
Knesset committee rooms
as lists large and small con-
ducted last minute
squabbles right up to the 10
o'clotk deadline. Among
the lists are French finan-
cier Samuel Flatto-Sharon's
one-man party; a new
breakaway group headed
by ex-Laborite Mordehai
Ben-Porat, and Ariel Sha-
ron's Shlomzion party run-
ning alone after efforts to
splice it into the Likud list
ran aground.
The Labor Alignment it-
self submitted its list right
on the deadline and observ-
ers were interested to note
that the expectation that
Golda ,Meir would take the
traditional place of honor—
the 120th spot—had not ma-
terialized. There was imme-
diate speculation that this
reflected her dissatisfaction
with the fact that Shimon
Peres was elected leader.
She has never hidden her
lack of affection for the De-
fense Nlinister.•
The 120th place on
Likud's list went to veteran
MK and economic expert
Dr. Yohanan Bader of
Herut. Another Herut man
who has stepped down from
active Knesset life and
takes a position of honor at
the end of the list was
Herut's Hayim" Landau,
ONCE YOU
SEE NAUM'S DIAMONDS
AND JEWELRY... YOU
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long-time chief lieutenant of
party leader Menahem
Begin.
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Rabbi Hayim Druck-
mann, head of the Or Et-
zion Yeshiva in the Etzion
bloc outside of Jerusalem,
was given the number two
spot on the National Reli-
gious Party list in an appar-
ent effort to win support for
the NRP from the Gush
Emunirn movement.
Giving Druckmann the
number two spot meant
that all the other candi-
dates, except for former In-
terior Minister Yosef Burg
who is number one, had to
move down one slot on the
ticket. This' brought a brief
protest from Mrs. Sara
Stern-Katan, the representa-
tive of the NRP women,
who was 10th and finally
agreed to accept the 11th
spot.
The Agudat -Israel was
also in trouble until the
very last minute, with No. 3
man Shlomo Lorincz threat-
ening to run alone because
the Gerer Rebbe, Rabbi
Simha Bunim Alter, had an-
nounced to his followers
that they might, if they
wished, vote for Poalei Agu-
dat Israel which has just
broken away from Aguda it-
self.. In the event, Lorincz
withdrew his threat.
High drama occurred
over, Mordehai Ben-Porat's
failure to provide a bank-
er's draft for the IL 40,000
as the regulations provide.
He sought to hand In his
personal check instead.
Hearing of his old friend's
predicament over the radio,
Moshe Dayan immediately
phoned him at the Knesset
and urged him to borrow
the cash from East Jerusa-
lem antique dealers who
are among Dayan's Arab
Straight Talk
with
friends. But Ben-Porat's
aides managed to collect
the money from Jewish sup-
porters in Jerusalem.
The parties running are:
Labor Alignment; Likud;
Democratic Movement For
Change (Yigael Yadin); Na-
tional Religious Party ; Inde-
pendent Liberals ; Agudat Is-
rael; Poalei Agudat Israel;
Citizens Rights Party (head-
ed by Shulamit Aloni);
"Sheli" (headed by Arye
Eliav, Meir Payil and Uri
Avneri) ; Rakah—The Demo-
cratic Front for Peace and
Equality (which is the old
pro-Moscow Rakah Com-
G iscard Hosts
Jewish Delegates
PARIS , (JTA)—A delega-
tion of French Jews con-
ferred last week with Presi-
dent Valery Giscard
d'Estainiat the Elysee Pal-
ace and later were his
guests at an official ban-
quet. It was the first time
in post-wareFrench history
that a Jewish delegation
has been officially enter-
tained at the Elysee Pal-
ace. Historians said it was
the first time in history that
a kosher meal had been pre-
pared and served at the
Presidential palace.
The nine French Jews
who met Giscard included
Chief Rabbi Jacob Kaplan;
Baron Alain de Rothschild,
president of the Representa-
tive Council of French Jew-
ish Organizations (CRIF),
and Prof. Ady Steg, former
president of CRIF.
After the meeting, de
Rothschild said the delega-
- tion raised issues such as
the existence of anti-Semi-
tism in France, the situa-
tion of Jews in the Soviet
Union and Syria and the
Middle East. The Elysee
Palace said the President_
"was mainly a listener"
asking questions on Jewish
life, religion, organizational
structures and even ties
with Israel. Mrs. Giscard
d'Estaing attended part( of
the reception.
Observer in Paris believe
the meeting is part of a gov-
ernment .campaign to try
and woo the Jewish voters
in preparation for next
year's general elections.
munists plus Black Panther Yisrael Party (Yemenite
list). Flatto-Sharon asked
chief Charlie Biton) ; Free-
dom—Front of Workers and for and got the code letters
Het Yod, which make the
Black Panthers (Pantherite
Shalom _Cohen and former word "Hai"- meaning life.
Every party will have
Ashdod port boss Yehoshua
code letters so that the less
Peretz).
literate can easily recog-
Also, Arab Reform Move-
nize them in the voting
ment; Zionist Panthers;
The Movement for Econom- booth.
Meanwhile, it was
ic and Social Renewal
(Ben-Porat); Coexistence in / learned that representa-
tives of Yigael Yadin's
Justice (an Arab list); _ Re-
nana (led by Mordehai Hoff- Democratic Movement for
man) ; "Kakh" (meaning Change and Ariel. Sharon's
Shlomzion political parties
"Thus---Meir Kahane's
have, registered as 'foreign
party); The. Women's
agents with the Unite
Party; The New Generation
States Department of JuAll
of Israel (led by hunger stri-
ker Zvi Saar); Shlomzion;
tice in order to continue
their fund-raising activities
The United' Arab List
in the U.S.
(Labor affiliated); and Beit
Oaitey Vevicaa
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about Adolph Rosenberg, a
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Jewish Press Association
and publisher of the South-
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HIAS Elects
Vice Presidents
NEW YORK—Edward
Sanders, a deputy national
campaign director of the
Carter-Mondale campaign,
has been elected a vice
president of HIAS. Five
other vice presidents includ-
ing Michael A. Pelavin,
president of the Flint -Jew-
ish Community Council,
were also elected at the an-
nual meeting of the world-
wide Jewish migration
agency's board of directors,
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