Navon Will Succeed Katzir
TEL AVIV — Yitzhak Navon, a strong advocate of grea-
ter Israeli flexibility in peace negotiations with the Arabs,
was assured this week of election as president of the state.
He was the sole candidate when nominations closed.
Navon, 57, is a Labor Party member of the Knesset. He
will be the first president to represent a party in opposition
to the ruling government. In addition, Navon, who was
born in Jerusalem, will be the first Sephardi Jew to be
named president. -
Navon ran for the Labor Party nomination in the
last presidential election five years ago, and was nar-
rowly beaten by Prof. Ephraim Katzir.
The elections will be held on Wednesday and the new
• YITZHAK NAVON •
Honoring
Harry Orlinsky's
70th Birthday
*
Protocols'
Still the USSR
Anti-Semitic
Instrument
Commentary, Page 2
president will take office in May.
Navon was secretary to Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion, and a Member of the Knesset since 1965.
Ex-Detroiter to Lead UJA
NEW YORK (JTA) — Irwin S. Field of Los Angeles has
been elected general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal
for the 1979 campaign, it was announced by Frank R.
Lautenberg, UJA president. Field succeeds Leonard R.
Strelitz of Norfolk. Va.. the present general chairman.
At the age of 43, Field is the youngest general chairman
selected in UJA history. He is the son of Detroiters Walter
and Lea Field.
Currently a UJA national officer, Field was a founding
member and officer of the UJA Young Leadership Cabinet.
He is on the National Council of the Joint Distribution
Committee, on the boards of the Council of Jewish Federa-
tions and Welfare Funds, the American Association for
Jewish Education, the North American Jewish Students
Union and Brandeis Camp Institute.
THE jEWISH NEWS
t34xt
A Weekly Review
of Jewish Events
IRWIN FIELD
Tribute to
Round Table
on NCCJ's
50th Anniversary
Warsaw Ghetto's
Hems . . 35th
Uprising Year
Editorials, Page 4
Per Year: This Issue 30, - April 14, 1978
VOL. LXXIII, No 6 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00
`Holocaust' Will Start Sunday
Despite Opposition of Bigots
including the writer of the script, Gerald Green, participated.
The Rev. William L. Weiler, executive director of the office of Christian-
' Jewish relations of the National Council of Churches of Christ, said that it was
as important for Christians as for Jews to view the film since "only as the
children of every generation know the sad facts of their past can they work and
plan for a sane future in a world which provides justice for all people."
He noted that the fact that American Nazis want to march in Skokie, Ill.
and in St. Louis in full uniform "shows us that there are people today who
will do all they can to see that Hitler's 'Final
Solution' will yet be carried out." He said Christ-
ians should join Jews in saying as they view the
TV program, "Never Again."
Weiler had earlier joined Dr. Eugene J. Fisher,
secretariat for Catholic-Jewish relations of the U.S.
Catholic Conference, and Donald W. McEvoyn, sen-
ior vice president of the National Conference of
Christians and Jews, in sending a letter of thanks to
NBC for presenting "Holocaust" which they called an
"important television event."
The three religious leaders said that "the presenta-
tion is very much in the public interest as this is a
story which every American needs to know and un-
derstand." They urged NBC to ignore threats of
boycotts and picketing because the small anti-
Semitic organizations which made those threats are
"in no way representative of the Christians of
America." They urged Christians and Jews in every
community to view all four nights and then meet
together to discuss it "in the anticipation of creating
improved Christian-Jewish understanding in our na-
tion."
Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, director of interreligious
affairs for the American Jewish Committee, who
served as a consultant on the production of
"Holocaust", told the press conference that he views
(Continued on Page 5)
Passover Seder in the Warsaw Ghetto, from the TV drama "Holocaust"
NEW YORK (JTA) — The National Broadcasting Company announced that,
despite pressure on local television stations from ultra-rightwing and anti-
Semitic groups, 210 of the network's affiliates will be showing the film
"Holocaust" Sunday through Wednesday nights. The usual average for a major
network presentation is 207 affiliates, an NBC spokesman said.
The spokesman also noted that the 91/2-hour program is fully subscribed for
the four nights with 40 sponsors. The NBC announcement came during a press
conference at which members of the cast and others involved in the production,
Israel's Human Rights
Catholic Leader Tells
Concern for Survival
of Jewish Brothers,
Sisters in Holy Land
An appeal for the preservation of human rights in the Middle East by Dr. David Hyatt, president of the
National Conference of Christians and Jews:
I write this as a Catholic concerned about the survival of peace. It is not enough to simply oratorically call for sec-
urity and peace in the Middle East.
my Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel and the preserva-
tion of human rights in the Middle East. In a March 24 New
Yor k Times editorial entitled "Chit in the Open with Israel"
the Times stated that "what Mr. Carter rightly seeks are
answers, as least in principle, so that the Sadat bargain will
be transferable to other fronts: the return of captured ter-
ritory to all who grant Israel recognition, genuine security
and real peace —" and then the Times concluded "It is not
too much to ask." A high-minded statement and a high-
minded response except that so far there have been no
guarantees at all to Israel of genuine security and real
In a subsequent Times editorial on March 26 entitled
"Keeping the Peace in South Lebanon," its editorial writers
were much more realistic when they wrote, "The PLO,
however, vows that its war against Israel will continue.
The implication is that it will keep trying to send terrorists
on missions like the one that took 33 civilian lives in Israel
two weeks ago. And it is likely to continue to fire its
Soviet-made rockets at Israel settlements south of the bor-
der." In this editorial unlike the previous one cited above,
(Continued on Page 72)