THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, September 16, 1977 1
Leftists Incensed Over Begin's Release of Embezzler Benzion
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JERUSALEM (JTA ) —
The Labor Alignment and
the Democratic Front for
Peace (Communist) have
demanded a special recess
session of the Knesset to dis-
cuss the pardon of Ye-
hoshua Benzion, former di-
rector general of the Israel-
Britain Bank, who was re-
leased from prison last
week after serving two
years of a 12-year prison
term for embezzlement.
The pardon was signed by
President Ephraim Katzir
on the recommendation of
Premier' Menahem Begin
who acted in his capacity
as minister of justice.
Benzion was convicted iri
1975, seven months after
the government seized the
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Israel-Britain Bank that
was tottering on the brink
of failure. The government
eventually lost several hun-
dred million pounds honor-
ing the bank's commitment.
Benzion was found guilty of
having stolen $47 million
from the bank and transfer-
ring it to his wife's family.
In addition to the prison
term he was fined IL 25 mil-
lion, the largest fine ever
imposed by an Israel court.
The opposition factions
charged that Begin favored
Benzion for political rea-
sons. The former bank offi-
cial was a prominent sup-
porter of the Greater Israel
Movement and, reportedly,
a generous contributor to
the militant Gush Emunim.
Charges that- he also con-
tributed heavily to Begin's
Herut party were denied in,
a . statement issued by the
Premier Begin said that he
had once approached Ben-
zion for contributions but
was turned down.
Begin based his . recom-
mendation for. Benzion's re-
lease on a medical report
by two physicians, Profs.
Moshe Rahmilevitz and
Ezra Zohar, who said that
Children of Y ordim to Be
Focus of Youth Aliya Plan
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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Youth Aliya has embarked
on a new mission — the re-
absorption in Israel of the
children of yordim -- Is-
raelis who have settled
abroad.
Yosef Klarman, head of
the Jewish Agency's Youth
Aliya department disclosed
at a press conference here
that he has instructed its
emissaries to encourage yor-
dim who are considering re-
turning to Israel to send
their children here immedi-
ately, even if the parents
are not yet ready to return.
"Youth Aliya will now ab-
sorb whatever number of
children will come and
there will be no budgetary
limitations," Klarman • said.
The Jewish Agency official,
who just returned from a
visit to the United States,
estimated the number of
children of- yordim at about
60,000 out Of some 300,000 -
former Israelis living in the
U.S.
According to Klarman,
about 80 percent of yordim
children do not receive any
Jewish education. Most of
the yordim cannot afford to
send their children to a Jew-
ish school even if they want
to, he said. They attend pub-
lic schools. He said he met
children of Israelis parents
who were unable to read or
write Hebrew.
Klarman said that yor-
dim who want to send their
Dutch Committee
Meets PLO Reps
AMSTERDAM (JTA) —
Two representatives of the
Palestine Liberation Organi-
zation have been received
unofficially by members of
the Dutch Parliament's for-
eign affairs committee.
Ezzedine. Kalag and Naim
Khader, heads of the PLO's
Paris and Brussels offices,
met with individual mem-
bers of the committee.
They were not received by
Foreign Minister Max Van
Der Stoel.
Major Jewish organiza-
tions in The Netherlands
protested to Parliament
against the foreign affairs
committee's contact with
the PLO men.
Members of the com-
mittee are apparently inter-
ested in continuing the
Euro-Arab parliamentary di-
alogue. They also want to
start a Euro-Israel dialogue
on the parliamentary level.
YIZKOJIS
the prisoner, 52, was suffer-
ing from a serious and pos-
sibly fatal illness. But
Black Panther members of
the Communist faction re-
leased a secret report by a
medical committee which
stated that Benzion's condi-
tion did not justify a pardon
on health grounds.
A spokesman for Begin
acknowledged that the Pre-
mier had seen both medical
reports and chose to act, on
the one that found .Benzion
a very sick man, for human-
itarian reasons.
Benzion was freed last
Thursday almost surrepti-
tiously. He reportedly did
not know himself of the par-
don until the day before.
When newsmen were told
that prison authorities were
still waiting for a car to
pick him up, Benzion was
actually at his home.
He said in a radio inter-
view later that his main ob-
jective was to clear his
name. He claimed to have
new evidence from Switzer-
land disproving the charges
against him and said he
might demand a new trial.
children to Israel but can-
not afford to would receive
assistance from Youth
Aliya to cover travel ex-
penses, board and educa-
tion in Israel. He proposed
as a first step that Youth
Aliya organize a nucleus of
10 families which would
send their children to Is-
rael. He - believes that the
families would follow and
the movement would widen
into a general return of yor-
dim.
Klarman claimed that the
yordim problem stemmed
from lack of cooperation on
the part of the Israeli estab-
lishment to encourage their
return. He said that even
yordim who wanted to re-
turn were discouraged by
representatives of the Jew-
ish Agency and Israeli - Con-
sulates.
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