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22 Friday, March 2, 1979
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Arab MK Resigns Over Israel's
`Soft Attitude'; Tension Studied
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
veteran Arab member of the
Knesset, Seif A-Din Zuabi,
has resigned. He said he did
so for reasons of health and
because of "the deteriora-
tion of relations between
Jews and Arabs" in Israel.
He accused the government
of taking too weak a hand
against Arab extremists.
Zuabi comprised the
one-man Arab List affil-
iated with the Labor
Alignment and had served
in every Knesset since the
first. His departure was
viewed as the end of an era
in relations between Jews
and Arabs in Israel. He was
always a supporter of the es-
tablishment.
In announcing his resig-
nation he charged that the
weak hand taken by the
government against Arab
extremists was creating
anarchy in the name of
democracy and was the
main reason for the recent
upsurge of anti-Israel views
among Arab citizens of Is-
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rael.
The former MK, who is
known to have a heart con-
dition, rarely appeared in
Jerusalem during the 18
months since the Ninth
Knesset was elected. He
spent most of his time at his
home in Nazareth, where he
had served as mayor for 10
years.
His political decline fol-
lowed his defeat in the last
mayoral elections by the
Communist Party candi-
date, Tawfik Zayyad. At
that time, Zuabi blamed the
Labor Alignment for failure
to give him sufficient sup-
port against the well-oiled
Communist Party machin-
ery.
He will be replaced in the
Knesset by a Bedouin,
Sheikh Hammad Abu
Rabia, who served in the
Eighth Knesset.
Last week, Education
Minister Zevulun Hammer
urged students . and univer-
sity heads alike to work to-
gether toward easing the
present tension between
Arab and Jewish students.
Hammer spoke in the Knes-
set in reply to six motions on
the agenda dealing with the
recent tension in Israel's
universities.
Now, more than ever, he
said, it is necessary to main-
tain intellectual open-
mindedness, patience and
tolerance toward differing
views. -
However, Hammer said,
there were exceptions to
this: those who call for the
destruction of the state,
those who justify its
enemies, and urge support
for their campaign against
Israel. Hammer said that as
far as he knew there were
only a few Arab students
who identified with these
views.
Hammer has been meet-
ing with Knesset members
and academicians to im-
prove the education of Is-
rael's Arab population.
"The Arab education sys-
tem should be conducted in
a spirit of loyalty to the
country without causing the
Arabs to lose their iden-
tity," Hammer told report-
ers.
But one of his chief aides,
Eliezer Shmueli, director
general of the Education
Ministry, blamed the
shortcomings of Arab edu-
cation primarily on Arab
teachers and the Arab
municipalities. "The main
reason for the slow de-
velopment of the educa-
tional system in the Arab
sector was the failure of the
Arab municipalities to es-
tablish education depart-
ments," Shmueli claimed.
Hammer disclosed some
of the problems that have
been discussed at the meet-
ings held in his office. One
was the political factors
that influence the appoint-
ment of Arab teachers. .
Often a good teacher is not
accepted because of his
political views, and vice
versa.
Another problem was the
insufficient number of
training programs for the
Arab education system. It
was pointed out that many
teachers are forced into the
profession for lack of other
suitable jobs.
Finally, Hammer warned
that if there is no change in
the negative attitudes of the
Jewish society toward the
Arab society, the process of
de-Israelization of the
younger Arab population
will be accelerated.
• Shmueli said that a close
look at the Arab sector
would show that ari Arab
teacher, to be accepted by
his own society, must em-
phasize the negative as-
pects of the education sys-
tem. He said that the
teachers should have the
courage to point to the great
progress already achieved
in Arab education.
He noted that despite the
manpower freeze, addi-
tional Arab inspectots have
been appointed and despite
budget cuts, the Ministry
doubled its development
budget for Arab schools.
TAU Discovery
in Isotope Study
TEL AVIV — A new
method of separating
isotopes, which could have
far-reaching implications in
the process of atomic energy
production and many other
fields, has been developed
by Tel Aviv University sci-
entists Prof. Uzi Even and
Aviv Amiray.
The existing system of
isotope separation used in
uranium enrichment in the
United States requires tre-
mendous plants using vast
amounts of electricity —
each plant uses more elec-
tricity than the total elec-
trical consumption of the
state of Israel.
The new Tel Aviv Uni-
versity method of separat-
ing isotopes is based on an
entirely different and sim-
pler principle. While the
present -system of isotope
separation is based on
weight differences between
isotopes, which are • only
slight, the new method is
based on magnetic dif-
ferences, which are greater.
The isotopes in the form of
cold gas are forced through
a nozzle into a vacuum and
then passed through
magnetic fields, where they
are separated.
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Rabbis' Council,
JNF Will Meet
NEW YORK - The first
Rabbinical Council of
America — Jewish Na-
tional Fund Mid-Atlantic
Leadership Conference will
be held on Wednesday in
Bethesda, Md.
Religious leaders from
New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland, North
Carolina, Georgia, Vir-
ginia, West Virginia and
Washington D.C. will
gather to learn of new JNF
directions and goals. The
conference will also mark
the inauguration of a new
JNF project in Israel, the
Rabbinical Council Forest
in honor of Rabbi Leo Jung,
to be planted in Safed.
Some 3,000 Israeli Arabs
made the traditional pil-
grimage to Mecca in 1978.
Agudat Israel Blasts. Ecumenical
Spirit of Holocaust Observance
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NEW YORK (JTA) —
The Agudath Israel of
America has charged that
the initial plan advanced by
.President Carter's Commis-
sion on the Holocaust to
mark the week of April
22-29 as "Days of Remem-
brance" for victims of
Nazism has offended the
sensibilities of Orthodox
Jewry. •
Noting that the week's
activities are scheduled to
open with ceremonies at
Temple Emanu-El in New
York and conclude in the
National Cathedral of the
Episcopal Church in Wash-
ington, the Orthodox
Jewish organization said
that the program appears
designed to reflect the
"ecumenical aspirations of
some of the Commission's
participants rather than to
authentically project the
theme of Remembrance."
Calling upon the Com-
mission "to rethink its
entire attitude" and to
"come up with a program
that will be an honor for the
memory of the martyrs," the
Agudath Israel declared in
a statement:
"In honoring the mem-
ory of six million martyrs,
we must bear in mind
that a major segment of
them were uncompromis-
ing in their Orthodoxy,
and because of their reli-
gious convictions would
have avoided participa-
tion in religious cere-
monies held in any house
of worship other than an
Orthodox synagogue .. .
A combination of a tem-
ple and a church is
hardly the place to per-
petuate their hallowed
memory.
"If its is the Commission's
intentions that the week's
activities include as broad a
spectrum of participants as
possible and be effective in
commemorating the
Holocaust, it should avoid
any particular religious
identifications foreign to
the spirit of the Holocaust
victims. One would expect
that a U.S. government-
sponsored commission
would refrain from steps
that would offend both the
memory of the Holocaust
victims and many Ameri-
can religious Jews who
would choose to honor
them."
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