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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
22 Friday, February 9, 1919
900 Iran Jews Go to Israel Rifts Apparent in Likud Unity
[MUSIC on
Continuing El Al Airlift Over Ehrlich's Economic Policy
MUSIC
—
MUSIC
Premier
HAL
GORDON
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
More than 900 Iranian Jews
arrived in Israel last
weekend on a 24-hour airlift
maintained by El Al bet-
ween Teheran and Tel Aviv.
The airline employed two
Boeing 747 jumbo jets and
one 707.
Arieh Beckenstein, El
Ars. manager in Teheran
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who was a passenger on one
of the flights, told reporters
that his company had
transported more than
3,500 Iranian Jews to Israel
in recent weeks. But many
of them may have been in
transit as no more than
1 , 000 arrivals were listed
prior to this weekend.
The number of Jews still
in Iran is now estimated at
between 65-70,000.
Meanwhile, Shimon
Peres, chairman of the
Labor Party, warned that
Israel would face one of
the gravest develop-
ments in its history if the
Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini took power in
Iran and aligned that
country with the new
Arab bloc being formed
by Iraq and Syria.
Addressing the Labor
Party Bureau in Tel Aviv,
Peres said Israel could not
ignore the possibility that
the militarily powerful,
oil-rich Iran, under Kho-
meini's leadership, would
line up with Iraq and Syria..
He noted that Khomeini
spent many of his years of
exile in Iraq and in fact may _
have been the matchmaker
between Baghdad and
Damascus which are now in
the process of forming a
military and political - al-
liance.
In a related development,
the threat of a Moslem "holy'
war" against the United
States and Israel by Kho-
meini in his drive to seize
power in Iran underscores
the identity of interest bet-
ween Washington and
Jerusalem in the Middle
East, Rabbi Alexander M.
Schindler, president of the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations (UAHC),
said.
Addressing 600 delegates
to UAHC's Pacific South-
west regional convention,
Schindler said he was
"deeply disturbed" by the
danger that a Khomeini
government might turn into
a supplier of weapons to the
Palestine Liberation Or-
ganization. He noted that
Iran possesses 78 top-secret
F-14s along with Phoenix
missiles, advance e _ lectronic
systems and other weapons,
part of the $8 billion worth
of arms sold to the Shah by
the U.S. in_recent years.
, Canada BB Quits
Ethnic Program
•
TORONTO (JTA) — The
president of the Eastern
Canadian Bnai Brith says it
has withdrawn from the To-
ronto International Cara-
van program because it was
forbidden to name its
exhibit "The Jerusalem
Pavilion."
District 22 president Hy
Lampert said it was incon-
ceivable that the Caravan
program should discrimi-
nate against Jerusalem.
Observers suspect that
pressure was exerted by
several Arab groups also
participating in the cara-
van, an annual event in
which many ethnic groups
exhibit pavilions with arts
JERUSALEM (JTA)
Menahem Begin's
Likud patty, in office little
more than 18 months, is
showing signs of serious
rifts between its 'two main
components, Herut and the
Liberal Party, and within
the Liberal camp itself.
The immediate focus of
the inttca-party disputes is
the controversial economic
program formally proposed
to the Cabinet on Sunday by
Finance Minister Simha
Ehrlich, leader of the Liber-
als. Underlying thiS, how-
ever, is a direct challenge to
Ehrlich's leadership by his
Liberal colleague, the
Minister of Infrastructure
and Energy, Yitzhak
Modai, and growing discon-
tent among many Herut
MKs over their 'alignment
with the Liberal Party.
SIMHA EHRLICH
Both Begin and Ehrlich
attempted to mend fances at
the separate meetings with
their faction members in
the Knesset Monday night.
Begin warned that
wrangling within Likud
would endanger the party's
hold on the reins of govern-
ment if it continues un-
abated. "This government
won the confidence of the
voters and you must allow
us therefore to get on with
the job," Begin told hiS
Herut colleagues. - He
sought to mollify their criti-
cism of the government's
economic policies and of
-Ehrlich in particular.
Many Herut members
were incensed by
Ehrlich's remark to a
Liberal Party meeting
last week that the Liber-
als might garner more
votes in the next elections
if they broke with Herut
and ran on a separate list.
Begin said Ehrlish has
assured him that he was
not threatening to break
up the Likud alighment
but was merely speaking
about a hypothetical
situation that would arise
should Begin decide to
step down and not-head
the Likud list in the next
elections.
Begin also reprimanded
certain Herut. MKs who
spoke disparagingly of the
Liberals as "hitchhikers,"
meaning that they rode to
power on the coattails of
Herut. Others at the meet-
ing complained that Herut
loyalists were not getting
their share of jobs in the -
government and Jewish
Agency.
The Liberal Party meet-
ing was reportedly even
more stormy: Although
Ehrlich attempted to make
peace, his differences with
Modai have degenerated
into personal bitterness.
The meeting was the first
recent occasion — apart
from Cabinet sessions —
that the two men have been
in the same room together.
Modai used the occasion to
announce that he will run
against Ehrlich for the
chairmanship of the central
committee at the Liberal
Party's forthcoming na-
tional convention. A show-
down between the two is
considered unavoidable.
Modal's criticism of
Ehrlich's economic plans at
Sunday's Cabinet session
was so sharp that Begin in-
tervened to caution his
energy minister not to
speak publicly in a manner
that would harm the gov-
ernment. He said some of
Modal's remarks were "un-
pardonable." Modai com-
plained later that Begin
Was being unjust to him:
Despite opposition
from both Liberals and
Herut ministers,
Ehrlich's economic plan
calling for an across-
the-board three percent
reduction in government
spending, was expected
to be approved when the
Cabinet met in special
session Thursday. It is
believed that Begin sup-
ports the plan and will
rally a majority of minis-
ters behind it. The Sun-
day Cabinet, meeting
ended on a Sour note
when Defense Minister
Ezer Weizman observed
that no harm would be
done if the new budget
eliminated the projected
expenses of implement-
ing a peace treaty with
Egypt because "there
will not be peace in 1979."-- -
Meanwhile, President
Yitzhak Navon said he
would contribute to the
anti-inflation program by
recommending a three per-
cent cut in the budget of the
President's office -- a reduc-
tion of some IL 500,000
($25,000). He offered sup-
port to Ehrlich but warned
that the public would have
to know just how. long au-
sterity must be endured.
Ehrlich proposes that in-
flation will-be fought by the
budget cut and tighter tax
collections. The budget cut
has been projected by some
to result in a 100 percent in-
crease in the price index.
The property tax on busi-
ness, plots, agricultural
land and cars would be dou-
bled. Banks would be re-
quired to report all cash
transactions to the Treas-
ury involving more than IL
50,000.
Wage earners would
have to report any addi-
tional income. The gov-
ernment and other public
bodies would not enter
business transactions
with anyone who does
not have a clean record
with the income tax au-
thorities. Government of-
ficials would be au-
thorized to close down
the businesses -of any
persons convicted of tax
violations and an annual
list of violators would be
published.
The value added tax
(VAT) on banks and insur-
ance companies would be
raised from nine to 12 per-
cent. Housing mortgages
would be linked to the cost-
of-living index. That prop-
osal was denounced by some
who said it was "bad news
for people who hope to
purchase their own apart-
ments. They will never get
out of debt.",
The government also
plans to freeze hiring and
freeze most public con-
struciton_The main goal of
Ehrlich's plan is to reduce
inflation by 10 percent. The
finance minister argues
that unless these measures
are inplemented, inflation
will reach 50 percent in the
new fiscal year.
Frank Leiderman Memorial
Saudi Demands --
CAIRO (ZINS) — Saudi
Arabian Crown Prince
Fand and other Saudi offi-
cials continue to be quoted
in the Arab press as saying
there will be no peace in the
Middle East until Old
Jerusalem is returned to the
Arabs and the "rights" of
Palestinians are re-
established, including an
Mrs. Frank E. Leiderman is shown receiving a
plaque from Rabbi James I. Gordon at the dedication
of new furnishings in Young Israel of Oak-Woods'
Saltsman Youth Lounge in memory of the late Frank
Leiderman.
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