Shalom-Salaam Greeting Merged in Historic Significance in Cairo
Amiability Accorded the Israeli Delegation
El Al Plane's Freedom of Landing Another Measure of New Amity
By DAVID LANDAU and MAURICE SAMUELSON
CAIRO (JTA)—The Cairo Conference opened officially Wednes-
day morning with a call by Egypt for "reciprocity" by Israel to its
peace initiative. Israel responded that its "goal - at this historic
meeting was "to begin to translate the principles established in
(Security Council) Resolution 242 into all the necessary elements of
peace treaty. -
The formal opening session began with an address by Egypt's
..nief delegate, Ambassador Ahmed Emset Meguid, who declared,
"The whole world hopes that Egypt's genuine desire for a just and
lasting peace will be reciprocated by Israel. - He added, "Tangible
and concrete results are expected and should be forthcoming
without delay."
Eliahu Ben-Elissar, the head of Israel's negotiating team,
defined the elerhents of a peace treaty - as "termination of the state
of war forever, establishment of diplomatic relations, commerce,
international cooperation and use of international waterways."
Ben-Elissar's opening remarks confirmed the prediction that Israel
hopes the first stage of the Cairo talks will establish "the nature of
the peace," leaving territorial issues for a second stage or higher
level talks.
(As the Cairo talks began, Israeli Premier Menahem Begin left
for the United States, accompanied by his top legal, political and
military advisors, for a surprise meeting with President Carter in
Washington today. The meeting was requested by Begin, who said
it was urgent, when Secretary of State Cyrus Vance arrived in
Israel Saturday night. Carter responded favorably Sunday and set
the meeting date to coincide with the conclusion of Vance's tour of
Middle. East capitals.
(Begin's surprise departure as the Cairo Conference opened and
the tight secrecy that surrounded his plans raised a storm of
speculation. Neither the Premier nor Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan, who saw him off at Ben-Gurion Airport, would comment. It
is widely believed that Begin is taking the peace proposals that
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VOL. LXXII, No. 15
December 16, 1977
Cairo to Detroit Telex: 11 trst in 29 Years
NEW YORK (JTA)-Tuesday's cable dispatches from Cairo by Jewish Telegraphic Angency correspondents
David Landau and Maurice Samuelson are the first Cairo date-lined stories- to appear in the JTA's Daily News
Bulletin in 29 years and six months. The last was dated July 2, 1948. It was headlined: "Arab States Reject
Bernadotte's Peace Proposals, Refuse to Recognize Jewish State."
Landau, 30, has been JTA Israel bureau chief since 1972 and diplomatic correspondent for the Jerusalem
Post since 1971. He won plaudits in Jerusalem, Washington and in Arab capitals for his reports and analysis
during the shuttle missions conducted by then Secretary of State_ Henry A. Kissinger. Landau was - born in
London and received his law degree from London University. He has been living in Israel since 1970. He is
married and is the father of two children.
Samuelson, 42, has been JTA London correspondent for the past two years. He also works for The
Financial Times of London. A writer and broadcaster on Middle East affairs for many years, he spent nearly 12
years on the London Jewish Observer and Mideast Review, including seven as the paper's editor. He is
married and is the father of three children.
The JTA news team was aboard the first Israeli aircraft to land at Cairo airport, with 65 correspondents.
An excited stewardess aboard the chartered Arkia BAC-Ill jet broke into a spontaneous rendition of
"Havenu Shalom Aleichem" over the plane's public address system as it touched down at the airport. The
Arkia plane was chartered by the Foreign Press Association. Arkia charged $150 for round-trip.
The plane returned to Tel Aviv immediately after landing its passengers, but not before the stewardesses
gave colorful Arkia flight bags to the Egyptian ground crew and others on the runway.
The journalists, under heavy security guard, spent the next five hours undergoing "formalities" which
included filling out countless forms at the airport and the laborious process of accreditation at the government
press office in Cairo. This lasted until 4 a.m. local time which allowed only a brief nap before rushing to Mena
House to witness the arrival of the Israeli delegation.
About 30 Israeli reporters accompanied the Israeli negotiators on an El Al jet that landed after what was
described as a "jolly flight" replete with singing and hand clapping on touchdown. Many of those passengers
sported carnations handed out by the El Al flight staff en route.
The Boeing 707. El Al jet flying the Israeli delegation was piloted by three former Air Force officers who
were once prisoners of war in Egypt and two Egyptian-born Israelis were among its six-man crew.
Capt. Yair Barak, 41, who was shot down over Egypt during the Six-Day War and spent six months as a
POW, was given the honor of commanding the aircraft. .Capt. Yonathan Ektes, 40, the only Israel Air Force
man to become a POW in the 1956 Sinai campaign, was co-pilot, and Avinoam Caldes, 31, was first officer.
Caldes was shot down over Egypt during the war of attrition in 1970 and spent four years in captivity. Ektes
was released after three months.
Another Arkia plane, a small commercial Beechcraft, arrived in Cairo Wednesday with a team of foreign
television technicians and their equipment.
Meanwhile, the Israeli journalists seem to be getting the most favored treatment of all the foreign newsmen
President -Carter is shown with Prime Minister Begin at their
first meeting at the White House in July.
in Cairo. N. Ben-Ami, a photographer for Yediot Achronot, was chosen as the pool phototgrapher from among
the foreign photographers to take pictures of Sadat on Sunday as he was addressing a million people from his
balcony in a demonstration of support for his policy. Sadat shook hands with Ben-Ami telling him "As you
see, all here want peace."
Record Philanthropy Marks Solidarity With Israel
1978 AJC-IEF Opens With Phenomenal
hcreases; Eban Eloquence, Enthusiastic
Worker Dedication Affirm Identifications
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History-making events in the Middle East and in the capital of the United States found their echoes in Detroit when
the 1978 Allied Jewish Campaign was set into emotion Tuesday evening at a traditional gathering at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Daniel Honigman.
Israel's former Foreign Minister Abba Eban generated so much enthusiasm with an eloquent address, as the
surprise guest speaker at the gathering, that increases over last year's giving marked nearly every recorded pledge
and the total that was subscribed as of Monday night, announced by the co-chairmen, Phillip Stollman and Philip T.
Warren, reached the sum of $7,135,000. Compared with the $6,190,000 given by the same people last year, the
increase of some 18 percent was the most heartening response that had been registered here in the history of
philanthropic efforts by the Jewish Welfare Federation, sponsor of the Allied Jewish Campaigns.
The warm welcome to the gathered by Dan Honigman, in his own and his wife Susan's behalf, was marked by the
declaration by the host, who was chairman of last year's Allied Jewish Campaign, that the dedications of a concerned
community must lead to a notable success in this year's fund-raising tasks.
The inspired addresses by Paul Zuckerman, global fundraising chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, the major
beneficiary of the Allied Jewish Campaign, who responded to Eban's major address, and the remarks of Warren,
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Shown at Tuesday's Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund
meeting are, from left, Jewish Welfare Federation President Martin E.
Citrin, AJC-IEF Co-chairman Marvin H. Goldman, former Foreign
Minister of Israel Abba Eban, world United Jewish Appeal leader Paul
Zuckerman, AJC-IEF General Chairmen Phillip Stollman and Philip T.
Warren, and 1977 General Chairman and Tuesday's host Daniel M.
Honigman.