Expulsion Possible RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Farid Sawan, representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Arab League Office in Brasilia have been warned by the Brazilian foreign minister that they face possible expulsion for publishing and distributing a pamphlet offensive to Premier Menahem Begin of Israel, in violation of Brazilian law. The pamphlet was titled "Menahem Begin: The Story of a Ter- rorist." Israel's Ambassador Moshe Erell filed a protest with the Foreign Ministry demanding that "adequate measures" be taken against the PLO representative. He said the pamphlet is not only offensive to Israel's Prime PLO Pamphlet Smearing Begin Draws Warning from Brazilians Retaining Facts for the Record: Multiplicity of PLO Crimes Against Humanity Minister but is "pure and simple anti-Semitic propaganda in the style of a certain great European power," an apparent reference to the Soviet Union. Erell charged that the PLO "is operating as the right hand of that great power and is receiving instructions from it." Sawan circulated the pamphlets among students at the university in Brasilia after the president of the university cancelled a lecture he had been invited to give there by a leftist student group. Brazilian law forbids offending the heads of foreign governments and foreign diplomats are subject to expulsion for breaking the law. Brazil is investigating the incident. THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 VOL. LXXVI, No. 25 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 of Jewish Events 424-8833 Danger of Brainwashing as Terrorists Hold Sway With Hostages Under Pressure Editorial, Page 4 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35c February 22, 1980 British Asking EEC Support to Grant the PLO 242 Status THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL tif_AVU ' , . N /1 (Siti : li FI ti ! f March 2-March 31,1980 • Purim to Erev Pesach duke a goylul anoi‘oe! and drew a sharp rebuke from Premier Menahem Begin at a meeting with British Ambassador Sir John Mason on Monday. The initiative is being pressed by British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington. He is expected to seek support for his ideas at a meeting of the European Economic Commu- nity (EEC) foreign ministers in Rome this week. Carrington has suggested that the EEC promote an amendment to Resolution 242 that would give the Palestinians political status. The resolu- tion, adopted in 1967 and accepted by all parties as the basis for a Middle LORD CARRINGTON East settlement, makes reference only to the Palestinian refugees. Car- rington's amendment would also recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization as representative of the Palestinian people. The PLO, for its part, would be required to recognize Israel. At a meeting with Mason on Monday, Begin said Israel totally rejected Carrington's approach. The same message was delivered to Carrington by the Israeli ambassador in London, Shlomo Argov, last week. Begin, who saw Mason just before Mason's departure from Israel to become high commissioner in Australia, claimed that the British proposal would undermine the peace process by knocking out one of the pillars of the Camp David accords, meaning Resolution 242. He said the idea "smells of appeasement" of powerful Arab oil interests. Begin flatly rejected the British as- sertion that the PLO was becoming more moderate. He claimed that, on the contrary, it continues to practice ter- rorism and its attacks on Israel would WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Israeli embassy in San worsen were it nor for the vigilance of Salvador is shutting its doors at the end of next week. The Israel's security forces. Israeli attache, Aryeh Zur, was quoted as saying that the Israeli diplomats in EEC capitals shutdown was for "economic reasons." He declined to elabo- have been striving to block the British rate. However, according to sources here, the Israeli gov- initiative. Their reports, coming back to ernment felt it could no longer afford to pay for the three Jerusalem, are uncertain as to what bodyguards required to safeguard the embassy personnel. success they have achieved. While the In closing down its mission, Israel is the sixth govern- diplomats say Carrington's proposals ment to shut its diplomatic unit in El Salvador, where politi- are still very much a "one-man show," cal violence has been steadily increasing against the gov- they cannot predict how the EEC ernment. South Africa, Japan, Switzerland, Great Britain and West Germany previously had closed. foreign ministers will react. Israelis Are Closing El Salvador Embassy THE BIBLE IN MUSIC also— NIA r;ST JEWISH MUSIC COUNCIL 11 1.4 MN STrool • 11•1. York. N.Y. By DAVID LANDAU JERUSALEM (JTA) — A British initiative that would alter Security Council Resolution 242 to recognize Palestinian rights has alarmed Israel loole Progressive Rabbi Is Ordained in Israel By GIL SEDAN JERUSALEM (JTA) — For the first time in the history of the state, a young Israeli was ordained Tuesday as a Reform rabbi — serving in Israel. The synagogue at the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem was filled with men and women — a rare phenomenon in Israeli synagogues — who celebrated together the ordination of Mordecai Rotem, 33, as a rabbi. For many it was not just an important addition to the rabbinical corps of _the small community of Progressive Judaism in Israel. For them it was a new stage in Israel's religious life, a breakthrough to Israel's Sabra generation, a new brand of Reform Judaism — made in Israel. The external expression of this change was the language. Whereas all of Rotem's teachers gave their addresses either in English, or with a heavy Anglo-Saxon accent, Rabbi Rotem sounded just like any other Sabra who was born in Haifa and studied in local schools. Rotem completed his elementary and secondary education in the Leo Baeck School in Haifa. In 1964, he went to the U.S. on a student exchange program, and spend half-a-year in Los Angeles. "It was there," he recalls, "that I made the most important decision in my life — to become a Progressive rabbi in Israel." Upon his return to Israel he joined the "Or Hadash" Progressive Judaism community in Haifa. During his military service he served in the IDF's Druze soldiers' unit, thanks to his knowledge of Arabic. He is now a captain in the I DF reserve units. Rotem completed his bachelor degree studies in Hebrew literature and Bible in 1972. The same year he began his rabbinical studies at the Hebrew Union College, but continued with his university studies at (Continued on Page 5) Israel's Embassy Is Opened in Cairo The first embassy of Israel in the TEL AVIV (JTA) Arab world was formally opened in Cairo on Monday. The blue-and-white flag with the Star of David was hoisted over a two-story tan building in the fashionable Dokki section of the Egyptian capital at 10 a.m. local time and a plaque was unveiled with the worlds "Embassy of Israel" in Hebrew, Arabic and English. The ceremonies were low key. The advance staff of the Israeli diplomatic mission sang Hatikva as the colors were — hoisted. Some Egyptians watched from the terraces of neighboring buildings but many passersby seemed un- aware of the event. Yossef Haddas, the Israeli charge d'affaires who heads the embassy until Ambassador-designate El iahu Ben- Elissar arrives in Cairo on Sunday, made a brief speech in which he expressed the hope that other Arab countries will follow the example of Egypt and make peace with Israel. (Continued on Page 6)