THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Cabinet OKs Settlement Policy,
Alternate Site for Elon Moreh
JERUSALEM (J1A) —
The Cabinet agreed Sunday
to expand existing
settlements on the West
Bank and Gaza Strip and to
establish new ones, but only
on state-owned lands. It left
the details to a special
ministerial committee that
is expected to be named
within the next few days.
It also accepted Defense
Minister Ezer Weizman's
proposal of a new site for
Elon Moreh, the Gush
Emunim settlement that
the Supreme Court has or-
dered removed from seized
Arab lands.
The Cabinet session was
unusually calm and Pre-
mier Menahem Begin was
credited with effectively de-
fusing the bitter differences
between Weizman and Ag-
riculture Minister Ariel
Sharon over settlement pol-
icy, at least for the-time be-
ing.
Cabinet Secretary Arye
Naor told reporters that the
decisions were unanimous,
indicating that Sharon, the
most outspoken advocate of
unrestricted Jewish settle-
ments, concurred. Accord-
ing to Naor, the decisions
were nothing more than an
affirmation of policies
adopted earlier by the gov-
ernment.
Sharon's plan .for the
establishment of a chain
of 16 new settlements on
the West Bank during the
current Jewish calendar
year was rejected. Also
rejected was a proposal
by Weizman to build six
new towns around exist-
ing settlements. Sharon's
plan would have re-
quired•an investment of
some IL 2.5 billion and
Weizman's idea was also
considered too costly at
present.
But the Cabinet agreed to
Weizman's proposal to shift
Elon Moreh to a new site on
Jabel el Kabir, a little
further away from Nablus
than the present site. "This
is government land and
more spacious than the pre-
sent location," Naor said.
Under the Supreme Court
order, Elon Moreh must be
removed by next Wednes-
day.
Weizman met with Gush
Emunim leaders and Elon
Moreh settlers in Tel Aviv
Sunday afternoon. Their
conversation reportedly
Change in Attitude Toward
Jews Seen by WJC Leaders_
CHICAGO (JTA) — After
30 years of relative security
and sympathy resulting
from the memories of the -
Holocaust, an erosion has
taken place in the attitude
toward Jews, even among
circles that traditionally
supported Jewish concerns
and aspirations.
This was one of the con-
clusions reached in analyz-
ing the present worldwide
Jewish condition at a two-
day meeting of the World
Jewish Congress Executive.
The meeting, which was
chaired by Philip
Klutznick, president of the
WJCongress, focused on de-
termining priorities for the
1980s and the policies, pro-
grams and structural
changes that follow from
them for the WJCongress.
According to the
analysis, the erosion has
resulted in a reawaken-
ng of anti-Semitism both
in its traditional manifes-
tations and in new forms,
and entirely from new
quarters.
The most obnoxious ex-
pression of this anti-
Semitism, it was noted, is
the tendency to deny the
fact and the extent of the
Holocaust.
The executive, in consid-
ering the Jewish situation
in many areas, particularly
Europe, -Latin America and
Moslem countries, ex-
pressed great concern over
the growing sense of insecu-
rity among Jewish corn=
munities which has re-
sulted in migration move-
ments on a scale not seen
since the immediate post-
World War II years.
The WJCongress officials
expressed satisfaction with
the continued substantial
increase in the number of
exit visas granted by the
Soviet Union.
The executive urged the
Soviet Union to grant Jews
adequate facilities for reli-
gious and cultural self-
expression, permit Soviet
Jews to have contact with
their fellow Jews through-
out the world and to protect
them against antiSemitic
propaganda within the
USSR.
Among those attending
the meeting was an offi-
cial delegation of Moroc-
can Jewish leaders
which presented a re-
quest for the affiliation of
the Moroccan Jewish
community with the
WJCongress. The delega-
tion said the application
had been authorized by
the plenary assembly of
the Jewish Representa-
tive Council which repre-
sents all the communities
and institutions of the
20,000 Jews in Morocco.
The executive unanim-
ously approved the applica-
tion for affiliation.
Energy Program
for the JWB
NEW YORK — The
Jewish Welfare Board has
been included in an energy
conservation and manage-
ment program designed to
assist national and local
organizations. The program
was initiated by the Na-
tional Assembly of National
Voluntary Health and So-
cial Welfare Organizations.
The JWB plans to share
the expertise with its affil-
iated Jewish community
centers and camps.
History of Hillel
Material Needed
dealt with the ideology of
Jewish settlements. There
were no indications,that the
Elon Moreh people would
accept the new site or leave
the present one without re-
sistance.
Government circles sym-
pathetic to the Gush
Emunim said they expected
the special ministerial
committee to be named
without delay so that it can
start working on settlement
plans well before the Wed-
nesday deadline. They said
this would demonstrate to
the Elon Moreh settlers that
the "government means
business" in its expanded
settlement program.
But other government
sources denied any lin-
kage between the new
committee and the Elon
Moreh issue. They said
that even if the committee
is set up quickly and
manages to hold one or
two sessions before next
week, it could hardly
take substantive deci-
sions involving large
budgetary outlays in
such a short time.
It is believed that the first
order of business of the new
committee will be to hear
detailed reports from At-
torney General Yitzhak
Zamir on the legal status of
the lands earmarked for the
expansion of existing set-
tlements and the creation of
new ones. The government
wants to make sure that
these are state-owned lands -
in order to avoid another
Elon Moreh fiasco.
While the Cabinet was
deliberating on Sunday, a
large group of Black Panth-
ers forced their way into
Elazar settlement in the
Etzion bloc south of
Jerusalem to protest the fi-
nancial support given Gush
Emunim settlements at the
expense of urban slum-
dwellers.
About 150 members of the
group, which is associated
with the Rakah (Com-
munist) Party, arrived at
Elazar in buses and man-
aged to break through the
strongly-guarded perimeter
fence.
Verbal exchanges with
the armed settlers soon de-
veloped into lift fights. One
settler who fired a shot into
the air was pounced upon by
the Panthers and badly
beatened. He suffered head
injuries.
The military governor or-
dered the area closed.
The history of the Jewish
movement on college cam-
puses throughout America
is currently being written
by Rabbi Benjamin Kahn,
former international direc-
tor of Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundation.
Rabbi Kahn, whose asso-
ciation with Hillel goes
back some 40 years, is dedi-
cating the project to Dr.
Abram L. Sachar, chancel-
lor of Brandeis University
and the architect of the
Hillel movement.
Rabbi Kahn is currently
soliciting stories and per-
sonal reminisces from those
who have been involved in
Hillel throughout the years.
For further information,
contact Rabbi Kahn at Bnai
Brith Hillel Foundation,
1640 Rhode Island Ave.,
N.W., Wash., D.C. 20036.
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