THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Slain Iranian Jew Memorialized

NEW YORK (JTA) —
More than 300 • people,
among them Jewish lead-
ers, Israeli officials and
members of the Iranian
Jewish community in New
York attended a memorial
service last week for Albert
Danielpour, an Iranian
Jew executed in Hamadan,
Iran, on June 5.
The service was held at
the. Fifth Avenue
Synagogue in New York
and was sponso, d by all
major Jewish organizations
the metropolitan area. It
s coordinated by the
ewish Community Rela-
tions Council of New York.
The 52-year-old Daniel-
pour was accused of
cooperating with the CIA
and with Israeli intelli-
gence and was also charged
with helping to establish
the "Zionist government in
Israel." Although he denied
all charges, he was sen-
tenced to deathApril 10 by
the Islamic Revolutionary
Court in Teheran.
His sentence was com-
muted to three years' im-
prisonment after many
interventions on his be-
half. But last_ Thursday,
upon a direct order from
Ayatollah Kalkali, he was
executed in Hamadan.
The memorial service,
which was also attended by
Danielpour's two brothers
and a sister, was also to ex-
press protest and anger as
well as concern for other
Iranian Jews now impris-
oned in Iran and Who may
become subject to the same
fate.
Memorial services for
Danielpour were held in
other major cities across the
United States. More than
1,000 persons attended a
service at Temple Sinai in
Los Angeles, sponsored by
the Jewish Federation
Council in conjunction with
the Temple.
Earlier this week, two ,
American Jewish leaders
denounced the Iranian gov-
ernment's action. Bertram
Gold, executive vice
president of the American
Jewish Committee, said his
organization "notes with
-revulsion and renewed con-
cern" the report of Daniel-
Tour's execution.
Edgar M. Bronfman,
acting president of the
World Jewish Congress,
in a statement issued in
Paris, where he was en
route to Israel, called the
execution of Danielpour
"a cruel and ominous dis-
regard of civilized

s andards of justice and
decency.
In Rome, Jewish milit-
ants demonstrated outside
the Iran Air Line office to
protest the execution of
Jews in Iran.
Meanwhile,
Nathan
Perlmutter, national direc-
tor of the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith, is-
sued the folloWing state-
ment on the execution of an
Iranian Jewish business-
man:
"The execution in Hama-
dan, Iran, of Albert Daniel-
pour, an Iranian Jewish
businessman charged with
having Zionist connections,
was juridical murder. The
catchall phrase, Zionist
connections, covers fanatic

and vicious hatred of Israel.
The all-consuming hatred of
the Khomeini government
for the United States and for
Israel has transformed a
great civilization into a
bloodthirsty mob."
In New York, the
Jewish community in
Iran was remembered by
members and friends of
the Touro College com-
munity, participants at
the fourth annual dinner
of that institution.
The affair posthumously
honored Habib Elghanyan,
one of the foremost leaders
of Iranian Jews, who was
executed by the Khomeini
regime. Mr. Elghanyan was
a brother of Touro Trustee
John Elghanyan.

Knesset Denounces Kollek

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Mayor Teddy Kollek of
Jerusalem was denounced
in the Knesset Monday for
saying that Premier
Menahem Begin was in a
way "philosophically" re-
sponsible for the June 2
bomb attacks on three West
Bank mayors.
Kollek made that remark
in the course of a television
interview broadcast last
week on KQED, the Public
Broadcasting Service sta-
tion in San Francisco.
Kollek, who is in the U.S.
on a fund-raising tour,
made the remark when he
was asked whether Begin's
insistence on Jewish bibli-
cal rights to the West Bank
encouraged the violence
against the mayors.
Kollek replied, "I am
sure that he doesn't do it
in an organizations
sense, but philosophi-
cally he does. You have a
situation where the gov-
ernment believes in this;
then you will always have
young people who will
interpret it in their own
way. Although the gov-
ernment is very much
opposed to this, you have
their philosophical sup-
port, therefore, you can-
not divorce it from the ac-
tions."
Avraham Sharir, chair-
man of the Likud Knesset
faction, introduced an ur-
gent motion deploring Kol-
lek's statement.
The motion accused the
Jerusalem mayor of giving
aid and comfort to the
Palestine Liberation
Organization and slander-
ing the prime minister. He
was taken sharply to task
by Begin at the weekly
Cabinet meeting Sunday.

Begin also attacked Shi-
mon Peres, chairman of the
opposition Labor Party and
former Premier Yitzhak
Rabin who were quoted in
the French newspaper Fig-
aro, as saying that they fa-
vored the return of much of
the West Bank to Jordan.
According to Begin, that
would mean giving the
West Barik to PLO chief
Yasir Arafat.

Begin Delays Defense Cut;
Sharon Leads Budget Panel

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Pre-
mier Menahem Begin post-
poned a decision on the exp-
losive issue of defense
budget cuts Sunday by nam-
ing Agriculture Minister
Ariel Sharon to head a
four-member panel that
will try to work out a com-
promise between the De-
fense Ministry and the
Treasury.
The immediate reaction
to Begin's move was a storm
of protest within the
Cabinet and in the Knesset
where coalition and opposi-
tion members charged that
Sharon was being brought
into the defense establish-
ment through the back door.
The defense establish-
ment itself was unhappy
since Sharon made it clear
to top army officials that "A
cut can be made and will be
made."
Chief of Staff Gen.
Raphael Eitan, who has
been campaigning vigor-
ously against the cuts,
demanded to know

Jabotinsky Gala
Set for November

where the money is corn-
ing from to build a new
building for the state-
owned Bank of Israel.
The committee Sharon
heads will consist of two
senior officials from the Fi-
nance Ministry and two
from the Defense Ministry.

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NEW YORK (JTA') —
Premier Menahem Begin of
Israel will be the keynote
speaker at a gala dinner at
the Waldorf-Astoria in New
York on Nov. 11 to mark the
100th anniversary of the
birth of Zeev Jabotinsky,
Begin's mentor.
The Jabotinsky Founda-
tion, sponsors_ of the dinner,
expects 1,800 guests.
The list of Israeli patrons
include Knesset Speaker
Yitzhak Berman; Foreign
Minister Yitzhak Shamir;
Chief Rabbis Shlomo Goren
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