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Philip Klutznick to Head U.S. Commerce Department
PHILIP KLUTZNICK
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Carter last week nominated
Philip M. Klutznick, a Jewish leader of international stature, to be secre-
tary of commerce. He will succeed Juanita Kreps, who resigned for per-
sonal reasons Nov. 1. Klutznick's anticipated Senate confirmation will
make him the second Jewish Cabinet member chosen by President Carter
in recent months. In August, the President chose Neil Goldschmidt, mayor
of Portland, Ore., to be secretary of transportation.
The 72-year-old Klutznick will bring to the Commerce Department a
broad backgroud in real estate development, government service and
economics. He was founder and head of the Urban Investment and De-
velopment Co. of Chicago, now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aetna Life
and Casualty Co. He has served every president since Franklin Roosevelt,
with the exception of Richard Nixon, and was U.S. representative to the
Economic and Social Council of the United Nations with the rank of
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ambassador under President Kennedy and was a member of several dele-
gations to the UN General Assembly.
He is a former member of the Illinois State Housing Board, vice
chairman and trustee of the Committee for Economic Development,
and a member of the board of governors and directors of the United
Nations Association of the United States.
Klutznick, who said he would take a leave of absence from his post as
president of the World Jewish Congress, has a record ofJewish leadership
which may be unique for any Cabinet appointee. He has been interna-
tional president of Bnai Brith. He is chairman of the board of the Swiss-
Israel Trade Bank of Geneva and chairman of the American Housing
Committee for Israel.
(See Editorial, Page 4)
Weekly Review
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Philip Klutznick
Wisely Chosen
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The CJF
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Accomplishments
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Nov. 23, 1979
Austerity Moves Hike Prices
in Israel's War on Inflation
Campaign Hears Moshe Dayan
Predict Jordanian Peace Pact;
Drive Reaches $6,972,000 Level
Former Israel Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, speaking here
Tuesday at a luncheon meeting of Allied Jewish Campaign volun-
teer workers, predicted that the next peace move will be with Jordan
and not with the Palestinians. He outlined Israeli policies which are
based on the urgency of assuring security and declared that the
Camp David decisions will militate to the benefit of Israel and the
Palestinian people, to the benefit of Egypt and equally to the
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Shown at Tuesday's meeting are, from left, Rachel Dayan,
Moshe Dayan, Paul Zuckerman and Irving Seligman.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel government announced Monday a series of immediate
economic measures which will cause a deliberate slowdown of the economy and an austerity regime
affecting every -Israeli household.
On the national level there is to be a tight credit squeeze, and a halt to government develop-
ment projects ,— including the building of new schools and hospitals.
On the level of the family budget, milk and milk products will rise in price by 100 percent,
public transportation by 50 percent, electricity by nearly 40 percent and postal services by 30
percent. An oil price hike is also expected imminently which will set off a new chain of price rises
throughout the economy.
Finance Minister Yigael Hurwitz's economic "war cabinet" sat for seven hours before issuing
its decisions. It had been mandated Sunday by the full Cabinet to take action designed to curb
inflation, currently running at more than 100 percent.
Treasury economists say the new measures alone will add some five percent to the
cost_of living index. The economic cabinet provided for compensation to be paid at once to
the poorer sections of the population — welfare recipients, widows, etc. Child allowances
will also go up at once by some five percent, and all wage earners will receive cost of living
increments in December instead of waiting for the. scheduled April payment.
Acting Histadrut Secretary General Yisrael Keisar said the Histadrut would demand that
cost-of-living increments be pegged 100 percent to inflation, and not 80 percent as at present. He
criticized the government's plan as "another round of price hikes which will mean hardship for the
weakest sections of the populace."
The government plans, according to officials, are intended to force workers into export-
oriented industries from the service sectors.
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CJF's General Assembly Generating Falasha Rescue
Campaign; Emphasis on Israel for USSR Immigrants
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
A-FONTREAL — Activism in rescue
;for oppressed Jews gained new status
a„ he 48th annual General Assembly of
the Council of Jewish Federations held
Nov. 14 through Nov. 18.
With special concern for the fate of
Ethiopian and Soviet Jewries, the GA's
3,200 delegates assumed new roles in ef-
forts to rescue the oppressed, to provide
havens for them primarily in Israel and to
mobilize sentiment, especially in the
United States, for the right of Russian
Jews both to emigrate as well as to pursue
their legacies as Jews.
The traditional obligations to the educa-
tional- movements and the duti2s of some
250 communities from the U.S. and
Canada were represented at the sessions in
behalf of the aged. The functions in cul-
tural projects remained among the
nriorities for the Jewries affiliated with
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the CJF. The pressing needs for the op-
pressed Jewries were major on the agenda.
The reports about the insecurity of
the Falashas, the 25,000 who sur-
vive from_ a community of 250,000
created a special stir. In one of the
major addresses at the GA, Leon Dul-
zin, chairman of the Jewish Agency
and World Zionist Organization
Executives, declared that a new ap-
proach has been adopted by Israel to
the Ethiopian problem and that as of
now a campaign has been inaugurated
publicly to expose the crimes against
the Falashas and to seek means to re-
scue the surviving community and to
settle all who can be saved in Israel.
The problem of the noshrim, the "drop-
outs" among the emigres from Russia, who,
upon arrival in Vienna ask HIAS to pro-
vide homes for them in the United States,
was thoroughly discussed.
The overwhelming majority of the repre-
sentative body, while acknowledging \ the
commitment to Israel by the emigres, went
on record to pursue the obligation to strive
for maximum demands that Russian Jews
be allowed to leave the USSR without re-
stricting the communities of eventual set-
tlement. There was however, the emphasis
on the commitment that the emigres are
committed to Israel, with the expressed
hope that those going to Israel will keep
multiplying.
The rescue movement for USSR Jewry
elicited stirring support. The declarations
centered on a slogan that "Russian Jews
have the right to live and the right to
leave " It was a renewal of the principle
that emigration must continue unabated
and that intergovernmental aid should be
elicited for it. At the same time the Jewish
communities must provide all possible aid
and exert all available influence to
guarantee cultural rights for Russian Jews
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George M. Zeltzer, left, president of
the Jewish Welfare Federation of Met-
ropolitan Detroit, was given a Havdala
spice box at the Council ofJewish Fed-
erations General Assembly in
Montreal by Morton Mandell, CJF
president. Zeltzer was cited for his
three years as chairman of the CJF's
Large Cities Budgeting Conference.