Egyptian Students Paint Picture of Peace JERUSALEM— Some 50 paintings and drawings by young Egyptian students on the theme of peace are being ,: -A.hibited this summer in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Paul Hofmann reported in the New York Times that the art work is side by side with essays in neatly hand- v:itten Arabic script that students in Cairo, El Paiyum and Tanta were asked to produce on the sub- ,;:t of the Egyptian-Israeli pe treaty. Translations .:,ached to the essays. _ The people of Israel have been a dispersed and di- .:ided people, a people who have known much suffer- ing," one of the composi- tions reads. "Moses took them out of Egypt after the Pharaoh caused them great suffering. Afterwards, they suffered terribly, and their worst ordeal was under the Germans who burned them alive. At long last, the people of Israel received a country of their own and a homeland, and they have the right to live in peace." Another student wrote, "The truth must be stated, and in a loud voice: Israel exists and is a state, even if we (in the past) tried to deny this fact. Therefore, it is bet- ter that we express our desire for a just peace through negotiations, rather than pursue the road of useless bloodshed." Israeli journalist Amos Elon, who brought the pic- tures and the essays , from a recent tour of Egypt, re- marked, "There was abso- lutely no manipulation. I asked the Education Minis- try in Cairo whether I could visit Egyptian schools, and their answer was, 'Go wher- ever you like.' or to paint or draw the pic- tures." Elon said that the result was evidence that, despite the use of some objectiona- ble textbooks, the Egyptian educational system was geared to peace with Israel. He added that the children's response may be taken as evidence that President Sadat's peace policy has broad support among the Egyptians. When Teddy Kollek, the mayor of Jerusalem, saw the materials brought by Elon, he ordered that a hall of the museum be cleared for a special show, "Egyp- tian Children Paint Peace.' " "Some of the schools I picked were in slum areas. The pupils were asked by their teachers, in my presence, to write the essays Istomin Hopes to Bridge Gap Between Israeli, Egypt Musicians By MOSHE RON The Jewish News Special Israel Correspondent TEL AVIV — The famous American pianist Eugene Istomin has come to Israel c-om Egypt. Once it had seemed impossible, but ow, after the signing of the peace treaty, it becomes an ardinary event. Istomin had ' two successful recitals in Cairo. On the initiative of the ::rusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, Istomin came to Jerusalem to play on Israel Independence Day. He also gave instructions and les- sons to young gifted pianists in. the Municipal Music School Istomin is a Jew. On his ' own initiative he appealed to the U.S. State Depart- ent to arrange a visit for him in Cairo. He wished to give concerts in the Egyp- tian capital after the sign- ing of the peace treaty as a ew and for Israel. Since an -aeli musician cannot yet play in Cairo, he wanted to wage a musical bridge be- tween Cairo and Jerusalem. The Egyptian Minister of Culture accepted the pro- posal and Istomin came to Cairo. Istomin has renewed an old tradition, which has been broken by the wars between israel and Egypt. In 1936 the Israeli philharmonic Orche4tra %sited Egypt for the first time and gave several concerts there. It is .- ossible that now the ga - 'f Egypt will again for the orchestra. 1: e - - een the years 1936 , 4 d 1948 the orchestra played in several cities in l_.:g-ypt. The musical manager of the orchestra, the famous conductor Zubin Mehta, has 'already appealed to the Egyptian authorities to in- , ite the Israeli Philhar- monic Orchestra for con- rts during the next season :,,,) Cairo and Alexandria. Istomin also gave lectures 1-1-. Cairo. He found many talented young musicians 'I- ere. There is an old tradi- tion of Western music there. Istomin praised the man- ager of the musical school in IF -- F Cairo, Dr. Smana El Khouri. Previously, there were many music teachers from the Soviet Union. The Egyptians have trained only a few teachers. Istomin expressed the hope that Is- raeli music teachers will come to Egypt. Istomin started to take piano lessons when he was 6 years old. His first teachers were Rudolf Serkin and Horeshowsky. In 1943, he played for the first time with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. The greatest musicians like Pablo Casals, Bruno Walter, Charles Munch etc. have praised his ta- lent. After the death of Casals, Istomin married his young widow, who was a cello pupil of Casals. Istomin has plans. He planned a course for Egyp- tian and Israeli musicians and joint concerts, but the time has not yet come for it. Istomin thinks that first Mehta should come to Egypt with the Israeli Philhar- monic Orchestra and sol- oists like Yitzhak Perlman and Pinhas Zuckerman. U.S. Is Seeking Palestinian Participation in Peace Talks WASHINGTON (JTA) — against talk with the PLO - The Carter Administration itself. has officially opened the Flacks Is New door for "Palestinians" in Jerusalem, Lebanon and ZOA Director wherever else they may be living to enter the Israeli- Egyptian-U.S. peace proc- ess related to the West Bank and Gaza. The Administration did not specifically name Jerusalem in making known its decision last Fri- day but said that talks are to begin by the U.S. officials with "a number of Palesti- nians both inside and out- side of the West Bank and Gaza." Since all of Jerusalem — PAUL FLACKS including East Jerusalem NEW YORK — Paul — has been part of Israel since 1967, the U.S. decision Flacks has been appointed not to exclude the holy city national executive director explicitly is certain to of the Zionist Organization create serious U.S.-Israeli of America. He was prev- iously director of the ZOA difficulties. Public Affairs Department. The Carter Administra- In 1973, Flacks founded tion decision came in re- the first national workshop sponse to an "urgent" Saudi of the Christian-Jewish Arabian call in Riyadh for Dialogue. He has served in the U.S. to start "an im- various leadership mediate dialogue" with the capacities in his home Palestine Liberation community, Dayton, Ohio. Organization. The Ad- He was chairman of the ministration reiterated, NJCRAC Community Rela- however, it will continue its tions Committee and long-standing conditions chairman of the Anti- Defamation League of Bnai Israel is the only nation Brith. that is inhabited today by He has been active in the same people, with the UJA, Bonds, JNF and He- same religion and culture, brew Day School campaigns and speaking the same lan- and is a recipient of the guage as those who inha- ZOA's Louis D. Brandeis bited it 2,000 years ago. Award. JNF Projects in Negev, Galilee JERUSALEM — A fleet of Jewish National Fund bulldozers moved into an area of Israel's northern Negev recently, as the "Peace Salient" began. The. JNF crews, which started work east of the in- ternational border, are pre- paring the sites for the first eight settlements along the new border with Egypt. The settlements will be corn- . pleted within 10 months. In addition, there will be 12 more settlements set up within the next three years. "Some 20 million cubic meters of earth will be moved and new roads will be constructed for access to the area . . . new sites will be leveled, developed and prepared for the building of houses, farms and indus- try," according to Moshe Rivlin, chairman of the JNF board of directors. Rivlin noted that the JNF is also involved in a new de- velopment project in the Galilee where it is creating access roads and laying the infrastructure for 29 set- tlement outposts. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, June 29, 1919 37 NY Youth Jobs NEW YORK (JTA) — A total of 300 Jewish high school and college youths obtained summer jobs in a federally-funded program through the efforts of the Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty and the Jewish Community Rela- tions Council. 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