Deluded Jews
and the PLO
•
The Kahal
Ideal and the
Community council
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Mounting Venom
Against Israel
Commentary. Page 2
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
of Jewish Events
Brutality in Diplomacy?
•
Values of New
Hillel Quarters
•
The Judaic Studies
at the U. of M.
Editorials, Page 4
y o L. LXXII. No. 7 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30° October 21, 1977
.S. Arm-Twisting Suggested
o Undermine Begin Government
'78 U.S. Economic Aid Cut
Seen as a Pressure Tactic
JERUSALEM (JTA )—Finance Minister Simha Ehrlich, who soon
must prepare Israel's budget for fiscal 1978-79, has indicated concern
over the possibility of reduced economic aid from the United States.
The Americans are getting tired of aiding Israel economically, he told
the Likud Knesset faction on Monday. He mentioned no specific Ameri- -
can threats but indicated that potential difficulties with Washington
required Israel to effect substantial cuts in its expenditures.
Ehrlich's somber remarks were in contrast to his optimistic assess-
ment when he returned from Washington earlier this, month after pre-
senting Israel's request for $2.3 billion in economic aid for the next
fiscal' year. At that time Ehrlich stressed that the Americans drew a
sharp line between their political differences with Israel and economic
aid. But there is growing uneasiness that such may not always be the
case.
Gafni, governor of the Bank of Israel, has urged immediate
cuts in government expenditures. In that connection he referred to the
recent remark by Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's national secu-
rity adviser, that the U.S. has the right to exert "leverage" on the par-
ties to the Middle East conflict.
Ehrlich also faces domestic pressures. While every Israeli minister
acknowledges the need to retrench, each one claims his own ministry to
be an exception. Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, for example,
accepted defense budget cuts when he took office in June but now
demands a five percent increase in the next budget for defense. Pro-
posals for the new budget amount to about IL 160 billion, a 25 percent
increase over the current budget. But even if accepted, such a budget
would demand drastic reductions of government expenditures because
of inflation.
According to the Treasury, a budget of at least IL 170 billion would be
required to maintain the present level of government services. About a
quarter of next year's budget will be devoted to the national debt.
Foriegn Minister Moshe Dayan said that he expects a statement from
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance assuring Israel that the United States
will not apply pressure by cutting military and economic aid. Address-
ing the United Jewish Appeal Study Conference, Dayan said such a
pledge was given him by President Carter and Vance and that the Sec-
retary had promised to make a public statement to the effect.
Dayan said he was "worried and upset" by the joint U.S.-Soviet
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WASHINGTON (JTA)-The Armed Forces Journal, a privately-owned monthly, claimed in an article published in
its current issue that the U.S. has "no permanent interest in Israel and may now be acquiring something painfully
close to a 'permanent liability."'
The Journal, which has been publishing since 1863 as a "spokesman" for the military, contended that the
election of the Likud Party headed by Premier Menahem Begin "may well have turned U.S. willingness to supply
armaments to Israel into a major national security problem" but that "the U.S. has potential tools to change the
situation if it can break out of its own domestic political constraints."
The eight-page article, accompanied by 10 charts and tables, was written by Anthony Cordesman who served as civilian
assistant to Deputy Secretiry of Defense Robert Ellsworth and as secretary of the Defense Intelligence Board before he left
the Pentagon last May. He is now an employee of the U.S. Department of Energy in its Strategic Petroleum Reserves Office.
Cordesman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he wrote the article while he was a private citizen
between his jobs at the Pentagon and Energy Department and that it had been "up-dated by the editors of the
Journal to make it more timely and relevant"
The article claimed that "the shift in Israeli politics gives the- Arab-Israel military balance a very different
meaning. The U.S. may no longer be supplying an Israel whose military strength would lead to Israel's willingness
to compromise for peace. It may now find itself aiding an Israel which may use its military strength to take
permanent control of former Arab territories in direct opposition to U.S. policy and be locked into an indefinite cold
war with the Arabs. At worst, the U.S. may find itself tied to a n ally which will use military force in a pre-emptive
attempt to settle the PLO problem or to destroy Arab military forces while they are weak," the article said.
The writer claimed that Israel is "a militaristic state whose military build-up has gone far beyond the requirements of
defense." The "trend in U.S. aid might have
presented few military risks" under former
Premier Yitzhak Rabin or Labor Party leader
Shimon Peres and "might well have contributed
to peace," the article said.
NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr. Rosalyn Yalow was named a co-
Scientist Wins Nobel
Prize for Medicine
winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine.
She will share the $145,000 award with two other Ameri-
cans, Dr. Roger Guillemin and
Dr. Andrew Schally.
Dr. Yalow, 56, who is _Jewish,
is on the staff of the Veterans
Administration Hospital in The
Bronx.
She was cited for her devel-
opment of the immunoassay
methods, a simple technique
used in hospitals around the
world to measure tiny amounts
of hormones and proteins in the
blood, aiding diabetes research.
After Rabin's fall, it continued, "most U.S.
experts saw Peres as having the strength to
replace Rabin with a man the army' and
people would trust to negotiate. Peres
could, as a conservative, gradually ap-
proach the PLO and make concessions on
the Golan Heights that Israel's growing mili-
tary strength would permit."
According to the writer, the U.S. "cannot
react to - Begin's election by reversing -its
policies and cutting its aid because of
morality, history and domestic politics." The
writer referred to "the West's real collective
guilt for the Nazi Germany Holocaust" and
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Butzel Award for Golda Krolik, Salute to Sinai at JWF Annual Meeting
Golda G. Krolik, a community activist in Detroit for more than half a century, was
honored with the Fred M. Butzel Memorial Award for distinguished communal leadership
at the Jewish Welfare Federation's 51st annual meeting last week.
The Butzel Award, considered to be the most prestigious honor given by Detroit's Jew-
ish community, is named in memory of Fred M. Butzel, Detroit philanthropist and a
"-ninder of the Federation.
:he award was presented to Mrs. Krolik 26 years after her late husband Julian received
cne first Butzel Award.
Mrs. Krolik's long history of service to the community dates from World War I, when
she worked for the Family Service Division of the American Red Cross and earned
money for war bOnds as society editor of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle.
After the war she helped establish a United Jewish Charities free clinic
which grew into the North End Clinic and, eventually, Sinai Hospital.
Her interest in nursing continued through the years: She was the second
president of Sinai's Shapero School of Nursing, and, in 1968, she helped estab-
lish a model program to encourage inner city high school students to enter
Wayne State's nursing school.
Mrs. Krolik, 85, continues her volunteer work in the health field to this day,
serving the Red Cross Blood Bank.
But her achievements have not been limited to that field. She was a found-
ing member of Federation's Women's Division and still serves on its advisory
service council. In the 1920s she was vice president of the Jewish Women's
Clubs (now National Council of Jewish Women) and helped teach English to
new immigrants.
During the 1930s she and her late husband, a former Federation president, helped res-
cue 21 of their European relatives. Mrs. Krolik later became president of Detroit's
Resettlement Sefvice. -
She was head of the Jewish Welfare Board's hostess unit at the USO during World War
II, and in 1943 was appointed by Mayor Jeffries to his new Commission on Community
Relations, a post she held through six city administrations until 1968.
Also honored at the annual meeting was Sinai Hospital on the occasion of its silver
jubilee. Federation President Martin E. Citrin noted that the hospital has grown in its 25
years to become a major health-care facility.
Several Sinai programs, including coronary care and the cleft palate clinic, are nation-
ally renowned, he said, and the recent donation of a sophisticated X-ray scan-
ner will bring Sinai to the forefront in radiology.
In his annual report, Citrin stated that 1977 proved to be a year of strength-
ening and renewing ties as well as laying plans for important projects and
events.
New projects include a 100-unit addition to Jewish Federation Apartments,
a suburban center for Wayne State University's Hillel Foundation and a sub-
urban satellite for the Jewish Vocational Service.
Copies of Federation's annual report, which were distributed at the meet-
ing, are available at the Federation office, 163 Madison Avenue, Detroit 48226.
In other business, nine persons were elected to three-year terms on Feder-
ation's board of goirernors. They are : Avern L. Cohn, Arnold Faudman, Sam-
uel Frankel, Stanley D. Frankel, Dr. Conrad L. Giles, Mrs. Samuel Ham-
burger, Mrs. Philip R. Marcuse, David K. Page and Mrs. Max Stollman.