Threat in North Worries Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israel is in continued close contact with the United States over the
situation in Lebanon and is trying to convince the Carter Administration that Syria is
planning to destroy the Christian military forces in North Lebanon. Both Israeli political
and military experts believe that the Syrians want to eliminate the Christian military
capability in order to perpetuate the control of the Syrian army in the northern part of the
country.
The U.S. does not share Israel's fears, but Washington is concerned about the possibil-
ity of a military clash between Israel and Syria. The State Department said this week
that the Lebanese situation would be discussed at next week's Camp David talks between
Egypt and Israel.
The Israelis believe that Syria has started its massive military activity against
Christian enclaves in northern Lebanon because Damascus felt Israel could do
nothing because of the upcoming summit meeting at Camp David. Bqt Israel has
warned the U.S. that it would consider the conquest by Syria of the rugged
mountains of North Lebanon, where the Christian strongholds are located, a
dangerous strategic threat to Israel.
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U.S. Rejection
of Anti-Jewish
Bias at UN Parley
Factual U.S.
Interpretation
of Torture Charge
Commentary, Page 2
VOL. LXXIII, No. 26
Dintz' Replacement Is Named
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Ephraim Evron, the director
general of the Foreign Ministry, will be appointed Am-
bassador to the United States Dec. 15, replacing Simha
Dinitz, the Cabinet has decided. At the same time, Yosef
Ciechanover,- who has headed the Defense Ministry
delegation to the U.S. since 1974, will replace Evron.
Some observers believe Evron was named Israeli am-
bassador to Canada in 1968 at the request of U.S.
President Lyndon Johnson. Evron had served as a
minister in Israel's Washington Embassy for several
years. He has served in diplomatic posts in London and
Sweden as well.
Evron entered the foreign service in 1949 and became
political secretary to Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett.
He was Premier David Ben-Gurion's political secretary
from 1951 to 1953 and in 1954-55 was director of the
office of Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon.
EPHRIAM EVRON
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Wishes for Continuing Talks
Dominate Camp David Drama
New Pope, John Paul I
Is 'Good for the Jews
NEW YORK (JTA) — The only rabbi present at -Vatican H,
which was presided over by the last two Popes, says that their
successor, Pope John Paul I, "will be good for the Jews."
Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, national inter-religious affairs
director of the American Jewish Committee, explained his re-
mark by saying that the former Cardinal Albino Luciani "pos-
sesses the warm touch of Pope John XXIII and the practical
wisdom of Pope Paul VI."
The 65-year-old Luciani, who was Patriarch of Venice until his
surprise election Saturday by his fellow Cardinals as the 263rd
Supreme Pontiff of the Roman
Catholic Church, selected a name
that was apparently intended to
signify he intended to continue the
work of his two predecessors.
NA "In recent years as Cardinal of
Venice, Pope John Paul made sev-
eral statements in which he ex-
pressed his great respect for the
Jewish people and the Jewish reli-
gion," Tanenbaum said: "It re-
mains to be seen as to how he will
translate his positive attitudes
toward the Jewish community into
policies toward Israel and, in par-
JOHN PAUL I
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BY JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON (JTA) Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli Premier Begin meet with President
Carter at Camp David next Tuesday evening in a dramatic setting whose outcome and even length
are shrouded in deepest uncertainty. Wise minds here with a normally sure touch on political ways
are avoiding forecasts on the ultimate result.
The summit was called by President Carter, who was alarmed over Sadat's threat of a military
build-up when his three-year pledge to keep the peace in the Sinai expires; by Syria's apparent design,
with Soviet backing, to control Lebanon through elimination of the Christian militia that alone
deters Syria's "peace keepers" from full control with "authority" from Lebanon's President Elias
Sarkis as a facade; and by the tightening grip on America's economic future by Saudi Arabia whose
widely publicized announcements, craftily timed, support the falling dollar and maintain current oil
prices but without specifying for how long.
While the three leaders have each in their own style proclaimed that a "comprehensive"
'solution for the Middle East is their
goal, no one expects anything like one
to emerge at Camp David. However,
the least that is expected by Americans
is that Egyptian-Israeli talks will con-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel may boycott an interna-
tinue on a lower level within a con-
tional conference in commemoration of Janusz Korczak
ceived "framework" after the summit
because the Polish authorities intend to hold it on Yom
and thus extend, and, hopefully, ex-
Kippur.
pand the slender trail towards an ac-
Education Minister Zevulun Hammer suggested that
such action be taken if the Poles continue to refuse to
commodation between Cairo and
change the date of the gathering.
Jerusalem and later Jordan and pos-
"It seems to me," wrote Hammer to Israel's Korczak
sibly Syria.
Committee, "that this refusal constitutes an insult to the
Between these two extremes is a
—
Israel May Shun Memorial
to Martyr on Yom Kippur
Jewish public. Janusz Korczak was a Jew and was mur-
dered in the Holocaust because of his Jewishness. It would
therefore have been proper to have taken his people's feel-
ings into account," Hammer wrote.
Large Family Gift for Feldstein Surgery
Chair Launches $20 Million Sinai Drive
A generous estate gift from Ruth C. and the late Dr. Martin Z. Feldstein has helped launch the $20 million
Medical Endowment Fund in the United Jewish Charities and Sinai Hospital.
Announcement of the gift was made by Sol Eisenberg, president of Sinai Hospital of Detroit, Alfred L. Deutsch,
campaign chairman of the Medical Endowment Fund, and Milton J. Miller, president of the UJC, custodian of
communal properties for the Jewish Welfare Federation.
A substantial portion of the Feldstein estate will be left to Sinai Hospital. In turn, the institution will establish
the Dr. Martin Z. and Ruth C. Feldstein Chair in General Surgery, an annual memorial lecture and a traveling
fellowship. Part of the gift will also be used for research projects.
Dr. Feldstein, who served on the medical staff of the North End Clinic from 1928 to 1952, was
appointed to the active staff of the Department of General Surgery of Sinai Hospital just prior to the
inception of the institution in 1953. Throughout his period of affiliation with Sinai Hospital and
particularly because of his close friendship with Dr. Harry C. Saltzstein and Dr. Sidney D. Kobernick,
Dr. Feldstein was especially interested in the surgical and other treatment of cancer. He was instru-
mental in the development of the Tumor Board and Cancer Registry which were established by the
hospital early in its existence.
Dr. Feldstein retired from his surgery practice in Detroit in 1970 and remained on the hospital staff with an
"emeritus" rank from 1966 until his death in April, 1978 at the age of 77.
miasma of official statements and inspired
comments from high observers drawing
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Hillel Teachers Strike;
UHS Opening Menaced
Re-opening of the local Jewish schools was threatenedby
strikes this week, with teachers declaring "No Contract, No
School."
Hillel Day School teachers voted unanimously to strike, but a
similar unanimous vote by the teaching staff of the United He-
brew Schools, with the same slogan, "No Contract, No School,"
has not been implemented because of a last minute offer to con-
tinue negotiations at 3 p.m. today.
A similar situation exists at the Shaarey Zedek where negotia-
tions to avoid a strike by teachers were continued until today.
Akiva Day School is not affected. Rabbi Zev Schostak said the
contract now in force continues for another two years.
Rabbi Robert Abramson, headmaster of Hillel Day School,
maintained on Wednesday that "negotiations continue in good
faith." He maintained that another meeting was to be held
Thursday evening. But on Wednesday the Hillel teachers an-
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