THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Ftiddy, 'December 30, 1077' 36

Jewish Settlers, Likud Party Hard-Liners
in Uproar Over Begin Territorial Concessions

TEL AVIV (JTA)—The
imminent prospect that
Israel will have to make
serious concessions in
order to maintain the
current momentum toward
peace has aroused concern
among the strongest
supporters of Premier
Menahem Begin's Likud
government.
They ate worried about
the future status of the
occupied territories and
especially the fate of
Jewish settlements on the
West Bank and in northern
Sinai.
Although the details of
Begin's peace , plan have
yet to be made public, the
Premier's references- to
"self-rule" for the West
Bank and Gaza Strip
populations and indications
that Israel is prepared to
return most - of Sinai to
Egypt drew sharp criticism
in Herut circles.
Members of the Greater
Israel Movement, the
ultra-nationalist Gush
Emunim and other
hard-liners are demanding
clarification by Begin of
what he has in mind.

The government's policy
so far has been to try to
calm the fears without
disGlosing anything more
than is already known of
Begin's peace proposals.
The Gush Emunim have
emerged as the most vocal
critics of Begin's proposals.
But in the absence of hard
facts about the plan, the
movement's leaders have
decided - not to take any
clear stand against the
Premier for the time being.
Nevertheless, several
hundred Gush followers,

joined by representatives of
Jordan Valley settlers, held
a silent demonstration "of
concern" outside the
Premier's Office in
Jerusalem last week.
Meanwhile, a meeting of
representatives of
practically all settlements
beyond the Green Line took
place Tuesday afternoon at
Ofra, north of Ramallah.
The settlers, who came to
the meeting from Sharm El
Sheikh, Sinai, Judea,
Samaria and the Golan
Heights, spoke bitterly
against the Begin peace
plan. Premier Menahem
Begin's strongest former
supporters excoriated his
plan and said he betrayed
his voters.
MK Moshe Shamir of the
Likud said that the people
of Israel were presently
"drunk" and he said the
plan is a folly and a grave
mistake.
MX Yigal Cohen (Likud)
also spoke against the idea
of putting Israeli
settlements in Sinai under
Egyptian or United Nations
rule, and the presence of
MK Rabbi Hayim Drukman
in the Ofra gathering might
have been an indication of
a coming rift within the
National Religious party.
Drukman is the
number-two man in the
party.
The gathering involved
representatives not only of
Gush Emtnim but also
other settlement
movements. The general
theme was that in light of
the developments, the
settlements should act
under one general
committee, to direct its
actions in the future.

Jewish Chaplaincy Group _
Names Judah Naidich Head

NEW YORK—Dr. Judah
Nadich, rabbi of the Park
Avenue Synagogue in New
York City, who served as
adviser on - Jewish affairs to
General Eisenhower during
World War II, has been__
elected chairman of the
Commission on Jewish
Chaplaincy of the Jewish
Welfare Board it was
announced by Daniel Rose, -
JWB president.
Past president of the
Rabbinical Assembly, the
international organization
Conservative rabbis. Dr.
a di c h represents the RA
in the Conference of
Presidents of Major
Amer-ican Jewish
Organizations and on the
administrative committee
of the American Section of
the World Jewish Congress.
At the invitation of the
Department of Defense and
the Armed Forces
Chaplains Board. during
November 1971, Dr. Nadich
conducted Torah
convocations in the Far
East and visited Jewish
chaplains and servicemen
in Vietnam, Japan and
Thailand, and in 1974, in
Germany.

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During World War II, he
served as an Army
chaplain, spending 31/2
years in the European
Theater of Operations as
senior Jewish chaplain with
the American Army and
deputy to the Theater
Chaplain. It was after the
first German concentration
camps were captured that
General - Eisenhower
appointed him his adviser
on Jewish affairs.
The government of Israel
decorated him with the
Warrior's Medal for his
services during wartime in
the creation of the state of
Israel. He has received
several, American
decorations, the French
Croix de Guerre and the
Order of the British
Empire.
Dr. Nadich is a member
of the Rabbinical Advisory
Council of the United
Jewish Appeal. He is a past
president of the Association
of Jewish Chaplains of the
Armed Forces . and of
JWB's Jewish Book
Council. He is on the
boards of the Jewish
Theological Seminary and
the 92nd St. YM and
YWHA.

In a related development,
Yamit, the new
development town on the
coast of northern Sinai was
closed own for three hours
Tuesday by a general
strike called by the local
residents to protest
Premier Begin's plan that
would return all of Sinai to
Egyptian rule. Beginning at,
7 a.m. no workers were
allowed to enter or leave
Yamit; store's, workshops,
schools and kindergartens
were shut, as was the local
yeshiva.
The worried settlers were
reacting to published
reports that the Yamit area
and the surrounding
settlements would revert to
Egyptian sovereignty
within three years, and
until then would be under
United Nations protection.
They said they were told
by a Knesset personality
whose name -they refused
to reveal, that the
published version of the
Begin'' plan was, in fact,
correct and their fears
therefore were warranted.
The establishment and
development of Yamit had
been a pet project of
Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan when he was
defense minister in the
Labor government and had
the support of the
Labor-led regime.
The authorities
encouraged settlement
there, especially by
immigrants, as a place that
offered opportunities and
challenges to young,
ambitious people with wide
horizons.
In the United States,
meanwhile, there was a
sharp reversal of attitudes
toward Begin, The
Mapam-oriented Americans
for Progressive
Israel-Hashometr Hatzair
(API-HH) issued a
statement Wednesday
praising the Premier's
"new flexibility toward
territorial concessions in
return for peace."
But a group calling itself
the National Union of

Jewish Activists, led by
Jewish Defense League
founder Meir Kahane,
denounced Begin's plans
for self-rule for the Arabs
of the West Bank and Gaza
Strip.

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