Chief Communal Obligations: Educational Priorities and Duties to Assist the Retarded Commentary, Page 2 ay morial M THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events VOL. LXXV, No.12 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c 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 (Continued on Page 7) 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 (Continued on Page 20) 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 (Continued on Page 20)