32 Friday, June 10, 1977
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Israel to Sell Millions in Arms
This Year, IAI President Says
Hawlettugaglo
Clothier
PARIS (JTA)—Israel will
export half a billion dollars
worth of aircraft missiles
and arms systems this
year, Al Schwimmer, presi-
dent of Israel Aircraft In-
dustires (IAI) said.
He said that as far as
Kfir sales abroad were con-
cerned "we have not yet re-
ceived a reply from the
United States government"
to which a list of prospec-
tive client states has been
sent." Israel sent the list
some three weeks ago after
the U.S. opposed the sale of
the Kfir to Latin American
countries. The Kfir is an Is-
raeli-made fighter-bomber
equipped with American
General Electric engines.
IAI is one of the 14 Israeli
companies attending the In-
ternational Air Show at Le
Bourget Airfield. Israel is
showing its new supersonic
Kfir jet, a new model of the
short take-off-and-landing
(STOL) Arava commercial
jet and a large display of
missiles and arms systems.
Schwimmer told a press
conference that Israeli ex-
ports have soared from $230
million in 1975 to $500 mil-
lion expected during the cur-
rent fiscal year. He said
half the production is sold
abroad and half to Israeli
forces.
Schwimmer revealed that
Israel is currently working
on a combat helicopter with
anti-armor possibilities. He
said IAI and its affiliated
firms were also working on
a follow-up to the "Ga-
briel" missile.
Israel is showing an air-
borne digital computer for
navigation and multimode
weapon delivery, a new at-
tack indicator and warning
system and a complete
weapon delivery simulator
that trains pilots in various
attack methods.
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Foreign experts are show-
ing a keen interest in the
"Shafrir air-to-air missile
system known for its kill
ratio of some 60 percent,
possibly the highest in the
world. The "David," a field
artillery computer designed
to perform all calculations
at battery level, is also a
big attraction at the Air
Show which is attended by
viewers from 100 countries
including most of the big
aeronautical manufac-
turers.
Irgun Didn't Plan
Rebellion: Begin
TEL AVIV, (JTA—Likud
leader Menahem Begin has
sworn that the 900 Irgun vol-
unteers who tried to land a
shipload of arms on the Tel
Aviv beach 29 years ago
today were not planning a
putsch to overthrow the
fledgling government of Pre-
mier David Ben-Gurion.
Begin made that state-
ment at a memorial service
last Friday for the 16 volun-
teers who lost their lives
when Israeli forces shelled
the vessel, the Altelena, set-
ting the former American
landing craft afire.
At the gravesite, Begin,
who headed the under-
ground fighting group Irgun
Zvai Leumi during the pre-
state period, said, "Stand-
ing here among the graves
of 16 that fell at the hands
of Cain, Iswear to the na-
tion here and to the Dia-
spora, to the older gener-
ation and to the young, that
the hands of these fallen
men were clean and their
souls were clean. There
was never any intention to
take over the country."
Begin said that he was
told by a leading Labor
Party figure some years
ago that Ben-Gurion had
been misled into believing
that the Irgun was planning
a putsch and therefore had
ordered the shelling of the
Altelena.
Mrs. Rabin Pays
Fine for Violation
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Mrs.
Leah Rabin appeared in Dis-
trict Court in Tel Aviv to
pay the IL 250,000 fine im-
posed on her for retaining a
bank account in the United
States in violation of Is-
rael's currency laws.
The wife of Premier Yitz-
hak Rabin made the pay-
ment by personal check one
day before the deadline set
by the judge was due to ex-
pire. She was accompanied
by her lawyer, Shimon Alex-
androni.
Disclosure of the joint ac-
count in a Washington, D.C.
bank which the Premier
and Mrs. Rabin had failed
to close when Rabin's term
as Ambassador to the U.S.
ended four years ago precip-
itated Rabin's resignation
as leader of the Labor
Party.
Mrs. Rabin was found
guilty of the violation. The
premier was not charged.
° Boris Smolar's
'Between You
... and Me'
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1 977, JTA, Inc.)
AJPA ANNIVERSARY:The American Jewish Press Asso-
ciation—the central body of the English-Jewish press in
this country and Canada—is observing the 35th year of its
existence, at its annual meeting in Denver.
Today, the English-Jewish publications are on a much
higher level than they were 35 years ago. The local week-
ly-whether published by a private publisher or financed by
the local Jewish Federation—is today truly a servant of
the local Jewish community. It serves the community in
many aspects. It reflects local Jewish communal life.
The value of the English-Jewish press to the local com-
munity is best proven by the fact that more and more corn
munities are developing community-financed newspapei
in cities where no such organs can exist as a private enter-
prise. At the same time the privately-owned newspapers
can point with pride to the role they play in their commu-
nities and the influence they enjoy there. This is especially
true with regard to the Detroit Jewish News, the Jewish
Floridian in Miami. the Intermountain Jewish News in
Denver, the Sentinel in Chicago, the Jewish Advocate in
Boston, the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, the Jewish Her-
ald-Voice in Houston, Texas, the Texas Jewish Post in
Dallas. It is also true with regard to Herb Brin's pub-
lications in California, the Bnai Brith Messenger in Los An-
geles, the Ohio Jewish Chronicle in Columbus, the Jewish
Ledger in Connecticut, the Baltimore Jewish Times, the
American Jewish World in Minneapolis, and a number of
other weeklies in the private sector.
BIRTH AND GROWTH: Long before the American Jew-
ish Press Association was founded, I was wondering why
such a central organ did not exist in the field of Jewish
journalism as it did in the field of the general press in this
country.
Then Gabriel Cohen, the editor and publisher of the Jew-
ish Post and Opinion—always sensitive to Jewish issues
and carrying thought-provoking editorials on national com-
munal affairs—came out 35 years ago with an editorial sug-
gesting the creation of an American Association of Eng-
lish-Jewish Newspapers.
He did not leave this suggestion hanging in the air. He
followed it up by taking the initiative to arrange a confer-
ence of editors and publishers from all over the country in
Indianapolis, his home town. The two-day gathering was
extremely well attended and I was greatly impressed with
the spirit which prevailed there—I was invited as a guest
speaker. It was obvious that the formation of such an or-
ganization was long overdue.
Birth was given at this conference to the English-Jewish
Press Association with Dr. Joseph Brin, the late editor of
the Boston Advocate, becoming its first president. The re-
markable thing, however, was that the association refused
to admit Gabe Cohen, its creator, into membership on the
ground that his paper sought national circulation, thereby
competing with local English-Jewish weeklies in a number
of cities where it maintained branches and was even sold
on newsstands.
The injustice was corrected years later.
The association went from strength to strength during
the years when Philip Slomovitz, the veteran Jewish editor
and publisher of the Jewish News in Detroit, served as its
president. It attracted attention of all major national Jew-
ish organizations in New York. It also attracted attention
in Washington, President Truman received a delegation of
the association and President Ford addressed the mem-
bers of the association shortly before the Presidential elec-
tions last year.
The present president of the association, Robert A.
Cohn— the editor of the St. Louis Jewish Light—has
played no small role in strengthening the prestige of the
association. Other presidents of- the Association during the
35 years of its existence included Irving Rhodes, the late
publisher of the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle; Adolph Rose-
nberg, the late editor of the Southern Israelite, Atlanta,
Ga.; Joseph. Weisberg, editor of the Boston Jewish Adv
cate; Morris Janoff, editor and publisher of the Jewish
Standard, Jersey City; and Jimmy Winch, editor and pub-
lisher of the Texas Jewish Post, Dallas.
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REFLECTIONS IN NEW YORK: The American Jewish
weeklies are being read not only locally in the cities where
they are being published but also in the headquarters of
the national Jewish organizations in New York.
American Jewish leadership expects these publications
to serve not only their local communities but also the
causes of the wider Jewish community. They watch the ex-
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ers to understand more profoundly what is going on in Jew :
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