> 9 . 1 • .7 ( 4 . > • I 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 The Political Line-Up .. . Candidates and Their Array of Supporters THE JEWISH NEWS A 'Commentary, Page 2 VOL. LXXVI, No. 12 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 of Jewish Events Philip Klutznick Wisely Chosen by the President The CJF General Assembly Accomplishments Editorials, Page 4 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15.00 Per - Year: This Issue 35c 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 (Continued to Page 5) 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. (Continued on Page 5) 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 I 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 (Continued on Page 64) 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.