THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, September 16, 1977 1 Leftists Incensed Over Begin's Release of Embezzler Benzion • 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 Shirley & Ed Persin 16190 Cumberland, Sf Id. 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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 - • 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. FOR YOUR LOVED ONES THAT THEY SHALL BE REMEMBERED PLANT A TREE IN ISRAEL IN THEIR MEMORY This observance is an age- old, hallowed Jewish tradi- tion and it has become cus- tomary. to plant trees in Israel to link forever the cher i shed memories of your, dear ones. MAIL OR PHONE YOUR ORDERS — Tirrn nP WE WILL DO THE REST JEWISH wenn Fun 22100 Greenfield Rd. Oak Park. Mich. 48237 - -968-0820 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE JEWISH WELFARE FEDERATION OF DETROIT Nominees to the Board of Governors Pursuant to the by-laws of the JEWISH WELFARE FEDERATION OF DETROIT, the following list of nominees, selected frOm the membership of the Federation, eligible for election to the Board of Governors of the Federation, for a three-year term ending in 1980, is presented herewith to the Executive Director not less than thirty days prior to the Annual Meeting which will take place on Wednesday, October 19, 1977, at the Jewish NJ H Fighting Lupus Disease Community Center, West Bloomfield at 6:00 p.m. FOR RE--ELECTION DENVER — The Nation- al Jewish Hospital and Re- search Center is sponsoring - several programs as part of "National Ltipus Awareness Week" which has been pro- claimed by President Car- ter for next week.- Systemic lupus erythema- tosus is now found to be more common than leu- kemia, multiple sclerosis or muscula dystrophy. It is be- lieved that SLE is con- nected to the body's natural immune system "running wild" — building antibodies unnecessarily and causing pain throughout the body. A general deterioration of the body and death can re- sult. Common symptoms of the disease are a rash, 'weakness and lack of energy, diminished appetite and weight loss. chronic low-grade fever and fre- quent infections. -Avern L. Cohn Mrs. Philip R.'Marcuse Dr. Conrad L. Giles FOR ELECTION Arnold Faudman Samuel Frankel • Stanley D. Frankel Mrs. Samuel Hamburger David K. Page Mrs. Max Stollman Other persons may be nominated by petition or petitions signed by not fewer than 25 members of the Federation and filed with the Executive Director of the Federation not less than ten days prior to the date of the Annual Meeting. Only one person may be nominated in each petition and no nomination shall be valid unless the nominee shall have consented to be a candidate. 1977 NOMINATING COMMITTEE Mandell Mrs. Morris J. 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