6 Friday, January 26, 1919 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Ford Stresses U.S. Friendship During Tour of Israel In the lips of him that can discern, wisdom is found. (Continued from Page 1) ing contributions to his country, to Israel and the world at large:" Responding to the warm words of wel- come by Hebrew University president Avraham Har- man, Ford declared that democratic societies have a special responsibility to stay together and work to-, gether. "The special relationship between Israel and the U.S. must remain unbroken, must be strengthened, for- tified and, I believe it will be riASSPORIP PHOTOS IN COLOR WHILE YOU WAIT L2 $ 7 00 For :4•11 REGISTER NOW FOR BEGINNERS PHOTOGRAPHY CLASSES LENS OPENING CAMERAS & VIDEO 353-5330 WI DISCOLOR OUR PRICES. NOT OUR SERVICE OPEN MOILIBES. 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You Won't Know We've Been There emergency reporting system with 24 hr. protection AMERICAN PROTECTIVE • ALARM INC. 838-7008 so in the future as it was i the past," he said. Later, at a dinner in his honor hosted by Begin, Ford said: "If the current peace negotiations prove successful, then the Is- raelis, the American Jews . and the moderate Arabs will rejoice. If the negotiations fail, then the Russians and the ex- tremist Arabs will re- joice. If you look at it that way, then there is only one thing to say: I do not want to please the Rus- sians and the ex- tremists." Former Premier Yitzhak Rabin was among the 60 in- vited guests. He and Ford greeted each other as old friends. - Rabin was Israel's Ambassador to Washington and got to know Ford well. The former President and Mrs. Ford were greeted at the • airpost by Justice Minister Shmuel Tamir on behalf of the government and by Rabin, now a Labor MK. Thanking Tamir for his words of welcome, Ford said: - "I come as a private citzen but I come as an individual whose record shows, I be- lieve, the desire on my part to help in any way I can to make constructive headway in the long, controversial and difficult issue in he Middle East. We seek peace and security, peace with justice, and if I, as a private citizen, can find any way that I can be helpful in an unofficial way, you can rest Ford recalled his several meetings- with Mrs. Meir. "This is an opportunity_ to pay tribute to what she did for Israel and for humanity- in general,", he said. The Fords will visit Saudi Arabia and Syria after leav- ing Israel. Ford refrained Monday from any comment on the status of East Jerusalem as he toured the city, guided by Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek. . Mr. and Mrs. Ford toured the city with both the American and the Israeli flags flying on their black limousine. They visibly enjoyed the tour, although they admitted their tired- ness following a week of Mideast travel. Ford said the tour "has whetted our appetite to come back and get better acquainted." But when Mayor Kollek made repeated hints aboul- Is- rael's disappointment with Yehuda Getz, the rabbi of the wall, presented-the Fords with a Hebrew Bible, which he had dedicated in English to the - Fords "in recognition of your friend- ship to the Jewish nation that dwells in Zion." Then the couple went up the Temple Mount, visiting the Mosque of Omar. They Were blessed by Mustafa Ansari, the keeper of the mosque, who told them that 400 million Moslems prayed for peace. "Although Jerusalem has problems," Kollek told Ford, "its people live to- gether respecting the others' identity. They have learned to live. together." At lunch, in a restaurant overlooking the walls of the Old City, Ford could see liv- ing examples of co-existence in Jerusalem: the city's two chief rabbis sat side by side with leaders of the Chris- tian churches in the city and with Judge Nihad Jarallah of the Moslem Religious Court. Ford was presented with book on Jerusalem, and his wife received a golden hamsa (a traditional Arab sym- bol of a hand, a lucky charm). They then pro- ceeded to the King David Hotel, where Jewish Agency Executive Chairman Leon Dulzin held a reception in the") honor. The long day ended with another reception, given by President Yitzhak Navon and his wife Ofira at the presidential residence. The festive dinner was attended by Cabinet ministers, the two chief rabbis, the Chief of Staff and other notables. Navon stressed the friendship Ford -has always shown to Israel. "The interim agreement with Egypt which was signed at the time of your administra- tion was an essential step on the road to Camp David, and we all hope that it will end with a true and lasting peace." Ford replied by stressing the importance of the spe- cial relations between the two countries, and by prais- ing the contribution of U.S. Jewry to the welfare and development of America. The Fords' scheduled visit to the Lebanese border region on Tuesday was can- celled because of continued shelling in the area. JERUSALEM (JTA) — _Officials in Prime Minister Menahem Begin's bureau asserted Tuesday that he and the government had been acting energetically for a lengthy period now to arrange means of bringing Iranian Jews to Israel. The officials said most of what was -being done had to be kept secret for the present. They noted that at the moment Iranian Jews who wished to do so could leave the country — and their dis, tinct implication was that not many were choosing to leave despite Israel's efforts to avail them of the oppor- tunity and facilities to do so. The officials denied strongly the allegations of neglect and mishandling of the, situation made Monday by leading Labor Party fig- ures, among them former Foreign Minister- Yigal Al- Ion. Allon charged "mas- sive mismanagement" on the part of the govern- ment and the Jewish Agency in regard to the Iranian Jewry situation. Speaking to the 'Labor Knesset caucus, Allon said thousands of Iranian Jews wanted to go to Is- rael but were unable ' to make the technical ar- rangements — and meanwhile El Al planes were flying back from Tehran half-empty. Allon spoke of reports from Iran that Jewish homes and businesses in several cities were being marked by Ayatoullah Khomeini's-supporters for eventual confiscation. There were also reports of ghettoes being set up and of other ominous signs. A former aliya shaliakh to Iran told the Labor fac- tion that many Iranian Jews would convert to Islam in order to save their lives and property. MK Uzi Baram spoke of the government's "conspi- racy of silence" motivated by its desire not to offend the Shah. The Labor Party has decided to set up its own committee on Iranian Jewry, under the au- spices of the world Labor Zionist Movement, thought it is not yet clear what measures this committee proposes to take in addition to those taken by the government and the Jewish Agency. An Israeli who returned from Iran last week claimed that Jewish mothers there pleaded with him to "take our children to Israel" be- _ cause they expect "terrible things" to happen. Accord- ing to Itzhak Meir, director of the Yemin Orde Youth School, some 300 Jewish children have already been brought to Israel from Iran, leaving their parents be- hind, and several hundred other Iranian Jews are waiting to be transferred to Israel. In Paris, Khomeini _said that Jews will "enjoy all rights and full religious freedom" in an Iranian Is- lamic republic. Khomeini, who according to close aides has been shocked to hear that he is being charged with anti- Semitism (see. Commen- tary, Page 2), concluded: "Shortly the Islamic repub- lic of _Iran will become reality and all its citizens, Jews, Christians and Mos- lems will enjoy equal rights." The Ayatoullah added: "Those who say that Jews will be discriminated against under our rule are enemies of the Iranian - people — foreigners who support the Shah." Close aOisers to Kho: meini said they were neither anti-Israel nor anti-Jewish and that the "New Iran" might even renew at some future date some of its former links with Israel. They said that Israel will have to fulfill, however, three basic conditions first: sign a peace treaty with the Arab states, allow the Palestinian refugees to re- turn to their former homes, and return the Moslem holy places in Jerusalem to "Is- lamic rule." Some of the Ay'atoullah's lesser advisers stressed that they also expect Israel to "punish" those Israelis who, they -claim, had helped set up the Shah's political police, the Savak, and as sisted him in running it. "We have complete files with all the pertinent de- tails on the Israelis who cooperated with the Savak. We want the Israeli gov- ernment to try and punish them for' their crimes against humanity" - say some of these exiled Ira- nians, but they would not - produce their evidence. assured that I'll do all I pos- sibly can." Ford took time out be- tween formal receptions to . visit the Jerusalem television studios where he watched a satellite broadcast- of the Super Bowl game in Miami. Monday morning, he and Mrs. Ford were taken on a tour of East and West Jerusalem. by Mayor Teddy Kollek. They vis- ited the Yad Vashem, Herzl's grave and the grave of Premier Golda Meir. the U.S. policy toward Jerusalem, Ford refrained from making any com- ments. The highlight of the tour was the Fords' visit to the Western Wall. Visi- bly enjoying the warm greetings, especially by American tourists, the Fords made their way to the ancient wall. Or- thodox Jews made an ex- ception for the American dignitaries and allowed Betty Ford to touch the holy remnant of the tem- ple from the men's side of the barrier. Israelis Squabble Over Iranian Situation 477111111015MUMILK.,,,10111.15:* . . . JEWISH NATIONALFUND f,(: . 7 .,- ,-,T, =_ 27308 Southfield Rd. 557-6644 Smithfield, Mich. 48076 - i f: 1111P w.