18 Friday, December 1, 1919
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Attitudes toward the
armistice agreements of
1949 differed. Israelis re-
garded them as a step
toward peace, while the
Arabs regarded them as an
intermission in hostilities,
insisting that they were
still in a state of war.
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Knesset Fills
Project Renewal
Vacancies
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Knesset Finance Com-
mittee last week approved
filling 35 vacancies in the
administration of Project
Renewal, despite an initial
objection by Finance Minis-
ter Yigal Hurwitz. The ac-
tion was requested by De-
puty Premier Yigael Yadin
and Labor Minister Yisrael
Katz in appearances before
the committee two weeks
ago.
At that time, Hurwitz
said the matter needed
further review because it
conflicts with the lovern-
ment's new freeze of the
public services.
Firm Accused
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The Department of Com-
merce has accused Core
Laboratories, Inc. of Dallas
of 28 violations of the U.S.
anti-boycott laws.
The department said that
during 1978, Core supplied
a statement to "entities" in
Egypt, Iraq, Libya and Bah-
rain that it had "no direct or
indirect connection what-
soever with Israel."
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Knesset Unit Probes Firms
Shipping Sinai Oil to Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Knesset's Economic
Committee summoned
Energy Minister Yitzhak
Modai last week to explain
why two companies owned
by close personal friends of
Premier Menahem Begin
were selected to serve as
middlemen in the delivery
of Sinai oil to Israel until
the normalization of rela-
tions between Israel and
Egypt allows the two coun-
tries to deal directly.
Eyebrows were raised
when it was reported that
the companies would re-
ceive fees and commissions
amounting to about $1 mil-
lion for services they will
perform only during the
months of January and Feb-
ruary 1980.
Modai hotly denied this at
a press conference. He said
the two contractors would
receive only $20,000 and
that the rest of the amount
represented expenses that
Israel would have had to as-
sume anyway if it trans-
ported the oil itself.
He insisted that there
was no preferential
treatment and that the
two firms were, in fact,
doing Israel a favor that
other companies ap-
proached by the govern-
ment had refused to do.
One of the companies is
owned by the Israeli mil-
lionaire Shaul Eisenberg,
58, who runs a world-wide
commercial empire from Is-
rael and has been associated
with successive govern-
ments since the late Pinhas
Sapir was Finance Minis-
ter.
The other company be-
longs to Nissim Gaon, a
well-known philanthropist
and president of the World
Sephardi Federation. Both
are long-time associates of
Begin. A third firm involved
in the deal is British-owned
and has been operating in
the Sinai area for some
time.
Gad Yaacobi, a Labor MK
who is chairman of the Eco-
nomic Committee, said he
wanted to know how the
companies were selected
and who made the decision.
Modai said it was the Egyp-
tians who determined
which companies would be
chosen. He said that at the
outset of negotiations over
Sinai oil, the Egyptians
submitted a list of five cor-
porations out of which Is-
rael was to choose four. The
Eisenberg and Gaon com-
panies were among the four
chosen.
Subsequently,
the
number was reduced to
three
companies at
Egypt's request.
Modai explained that
under the agreement with
Egypt, the movement of
Sinai oil to Israel would be
handled in three stages.
During the first stage, until .
the end of this year, the
British firm would act as
middleman. In the second
stage,
beginning in
January, the Eisenberg and
Gaon companies would join.
At the end of February
when the normalization of
relations takes effect under
the terms of the Israeli-
Egyptian peace treaty. Is-
rael's three national oil
companies will take over
and the oil will be trans-
ported in tankers flying the
Israeli flag.
Israel will buy about
150,000 tons of crude oil a
month from Egypt. It will be
transported to Eilat and
from there by pipeline to the
refineries in the north.
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Former Soviet Prisoner of Conscience Boris Pen-
son, an accomplished Soviet artist now living in Is-
rael, was honored today in the name of all Jewish
POCs in the Soviet Union at the national conference of
the United Jewish Appeal meeting in New York. The
black-and-white etching above was crated in Israel
this year and is one of Penson's "Prison Views."