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Red Cross and
Magen David Adorn:
Delay in Welcome,
Not a Rejection
Isolated Sadat
and the Evils
of War Threats
Editorials, Page 4
May 25, 1979
Israeli - Egyptian Boundaries
8
Remain Sealed Month
Mav
Javits, State Department
Try to Cool Iran Debate
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Both the Carter Administration
and Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.) suggested restraint by Ameri-
cans Tuesday in the face of demonstrations in Iran against the
U.S., including a flag burning and threats against Javits and his
wife, Marion.
A State Department official said Monday night that Ayatol-
lah Sadegh Khalkhali, head of Iran's revolutionary tribunals,
who had declared the Javitses were wanted in Iran for -"corrup-
tion," was not a member of the Iranian government.
Besieged by the press for
a statement, Javits said, "The
Senate has spoken to the Ira-
nian people as friends and to
the government of Iran with
which we wish to be
friendly." He pointed out that
the resolution on Iran, which
he had drafted and which
was adopted last week by the
Senate without dissent,
"speaks for itself."
Javits added, "I see no further
need for any statement or com-
ment. I hope very much that the
people of Iran and the govern ;
JACOB JAVITS
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Yom Yerushalayim
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The border between Israel and Egypt will remain closed to 'private
persons for the coming eight months — unless Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime
Minister Menahem Begin decide otherwise at their summit meeting Sunday. This emerged from
statements by Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
Butros Ghali who met in El Arish to discuss civilian aspects of the relations between the two
countries.
Ghali announced to newsmen after Tuesday's meeting that the borders would be open —
according to the schedule laid down in the peace treaty package — in eight months time (i.e. nine
months for the ratification, and simultaneously with the interim evacuation of Sinai by Israel).
Dayan was more circumspect. He said that the discussion had indeed proceeded on the
basis that the border would remain closed. But it might yet materialize, he added, that Sadat
and Begin would agree otherwise — in which case arrangements would have to be re-made
for open borders (including crossing points, visas, customs, etc).
Closed borders, said Dayan, would mean:
• No fishing by Israeli boats in Egyptian territorial waters in the Bardawill Lagoon.
• No fishing by Egyptian boats in Gaza Strip territorial waters.
• No crossings by El Arish workers to the jobs they have held until now in Pithat Rafiah and in
Israel proper.
• No crossings by El Arish landowners to fields they presently cultivate outside the town, in the
area which will remain in Israeli hands. By the same token, the settlers at Neot Sinai insisted that
they will continue cultivating their controversial vegetable patch during the coming eight months.
Dayan (and Israeli Defense Minister . Ezer Weizman a little earlier) made it clear that the
Egyptians had not agreed to any concession on this point, though they are standing by their earlier
concessions enabling Neot Sinai's laundry to continue functioning.
The Neot Sinai settlers and the hundreds of their supporters at the vegetable patch
suffered another disappointment Wednesday midday when the High Court of JUstice in
Jerusalem threw out their appeal against the military government order for them to leave
the patch.
(Continued on Page 7)
Jerusalem Day — Observed Today
The anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem has been celebrated since
1967, when the two divided sections of the city were reunited during the Six-Day
War after 19 years of Jordanian rule which saw the destruction of Jewish sites in
East Jerusalem and the barring of Jews from that section of the city.
By DVORA WAYSMAN
Jerusalem is perhaps the world's most cosmopolitan city where East really does meet
West. It is a sacred symbol to more than one billion people, and houses shrines venerated
by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Each has sanctified Jerusalem in its holy writings.
The Jewish association with Jerusalem is recorded in the Bible, the Mishna and the
Talmud, in prayer and in poetry. Three times a day, for 2,000 years, Jews have prayed to
return to Jerusalem. _In Jerusalem is Judaism's holiest shrine, the Western Wall, last
remnant of Israel's great temple.
The New Testament
signifies the Church as the
"New Jerusalem" and the
Christian link with the city.
begins with Jesus of
Nazareth and the associa-
tion of may places with his
life and death. Christian
pilgrims still walk along the
Via Dolorosa in the Old
City, pausing for prayer and
reflection at the Stations of
the Cross.
In the first years of the
ministry of the Prophet
Mohammed among the
Arab tribes, he ordained
that every believer face
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The Dome of the Rock and the city of Jerusalem.
The reunification of Jerusalem has been celebrated annually since 1967, but 1979
marks the first year that Jerusalem Day will be marked as a national holiday in
Israel. The following articles about Jerusalem were prepared by the World
Zionist Press Service.
By WALTER EYTAN
(Editor's note: Dr. Walter Eytan was director general of Israel's Foreign
Ministry from 1948 to 1959.)
Jerusalem Day has become an established institution, not only in Israel's capital but
throughout the country, and increasingly almost everywhere in the Jewish world. It
marks the anniversary of the city's reunification at the height of the Six-Day War, just 12
years ago. Israel's soldiers liberated the Western Wall on the 28th day of the Hebrew
month of Iyar, which this year falls on May 25.
Since then, Jerusalem
has been transformed —
under the impulsion not
only of its mayor, Teddy
Kollek, who has become
something of a legend in his
own life-time, but of all its
citizens. Anyone who knew
it before 1967 would hardly
recognize it today. It is now
the largest city in Israel in
area, and with the popula-
tion of Tel Aviv diminishing
at the expense of its sub-
urbs, the largest in number
of inhabitants as well. Hope
and achievement ha\ 3
taken the place of stagna-
Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Givat Ram camp
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