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VOL. LXXVII, No. 18
The Glorious
Fourth:
Its Message to
All Americans
and to Mankind
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gegin Asks American Jewry
.Ito Fight Arms Sales to Arabs
Family Dedicates
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$500,000 Negev Campus
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A goal of Project Renewal — the education of thousands of Israeli
youngsters of immigrant origin — has been furthered with the estab-
lishment of a comprehensive high school named for Detroit builder
Edward Rose and his wife Lillian, who contributed $500,000 for Project
Renewal.
Dedication of the Edward and Lillian Rose Regional Comprehen-
sive High School took place recently at Ofakim, a development town
northwest of Beersheba.
Project Renewal is the massive partnership plan of Israel and
world Jewry to bring 300,000 disadvantaged citizens into the
mainstream of Israeli life. Through the Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel
Emergency Fund, Detroit has led the country in raising funds for
Project Renewal.
A complex of several buildings, including a senior high
school, religious high school, vocational training building and
gymnasium, the Rose project
will serve the western Negev
region called Merhavim.
Hosted by Haviv Sharbaf,
head of the Merhavim Regional
Council, the dedication cere-
mony was attended by Edward
Rose, his son and daughter-in-
law, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Rose,
Detroit friends and representa-
tives of the Israel government,
Jewish Agency and the Israel
Education Fund of the United
Jewish Appeal.
Founded in 1955 by 19
settlers, Ofakim today has more
Edward Rose, center, his son than 12,000 inhabitants, half of
and daughter-in-law, Mr. and them under age 20, and a school
Mrs. Leslie Rose, stand before population exceeding 4,000.
the Rose academic high school Eighty percent are from North
Africa and Asia.
building in Ofakim, Israel.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Menahem Begin has
called on American Jewry to fight against the U.S. Administration's
intention to conclude new sales of advanced weaponry to Saudi
Arabia and Jordan. In particular, Israel is deeply anxious about the
Saudis' demand for systems for the F-15 that would make it capable of
ground-attacks against Israeli targets, and also about the U.S inten-
tion to sell Jordan modern M-60 tanks.
There has been no American decision, as far as is known, on the
Saudi request.
Begin made his appeal during a speech to the closing session of
the Zionist General Council last Thursday night Begin said the
Saudi planes, if equipped with attack capabilities, would wreak
havoc on Israel's population in a war. We would shoot down many of
them," he said. But you can't down them all . . ."
MENAHEM BEGIN
Regarding Jordan, Begin noted that it was already receiving
British Chieftain tanks, and the addition of the most modern U.S. battle tank to its forces would
pose a serious problem for Israel.
(On Monday, during a Knesset debate over a motion seeking new elections, Begin
suffered a mild heart attack. He walked from the Knesset chamber to his office one floor
below. After resting, he was taken by ambulance to Hadassah Hospital.
(Begin, 66, was placed in an intensive care unit, but was jovial in talking to family
and doctors. He suffered a severe
heart attack in 1977, and inflam-
mation of the pericardium, the
sack containing the heart. Last
summer he suffered a slight
stroke.
A budget of $5,892,500 for domestic needs — including
(Begin reportedly danced and
$5,286,510 for support of local agency programs — was
celebrated
at a Bar Mitzva until 1
approved by the Board of Governors of the Jewish Welfare
a.m. Sunday. His doctor, Mervyn
Federation at its meeting last week.
Gotsman, said he believed the
Exclusive of Project Renewal, which is handled sepa-
prime minister had suffered a
rately, more than $17 million from the 1980 Allied Jewish
Campaign is available for allocation locally, nationally and
mild infarction, or reduction of
blood flow to the heart. He said he
overseas.
As in previous years, the income from the "reg-
expected that Begin could return
ular" Allied Jewish Campaign, after expenses, has
to work after a few days of tests
and
those
been divided between domestic agencies
and rest.)
overseas. When proceeds from the Israel Emergency
,, Federation Allocates
$5.2 Million Locally
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July 3 and 4: Marking Two Notable Anniversaries
Zionist Prophet Her Died in 1904
By DR. DAVID GEFFEN
—
World Zionist Organization
Seventy-six years ago, on July 3, 1904, Theodor Herzl died in Austria of pneumonia,
after his heart had been increasingly weakened by the incessant strains of his struggles
for Zionism.
Since 1896, when he published his earth-shaking booklet "The Jewish State," his
_ole life was devoted to the Zionist cause. His striking appearance and personality
transformed him into a legend while he was still alive. As for his death, contemporary
records show the whole of the scattered Jewish people plunged into despair and mourn-
&
Seraphine Pisko, the field secretary of the National Jewish
Hospital in Denver, Colo., happened to be traveling in Europe at
the time. She stayed in Vienna for the funeral, sending back an
eyewitness report to the "Jewish Outlook" in Denver.
"We arrived in Vienna just in time to attend the obsequies of that
noted Jewish statesman, Theodor Herzl," she wrote. "It was a solemn
and impressive event, and one never to be forgotten. The vast concourse
of people, the mournful pageant, the plaintive chanting of the cantor
and his choir, the endless human chain encircling the hearse, the
sobbing and the silence, and the forlorn hope of it all, were things which
HERZL
most held the observer spellbound."
Four Years Since Israel's Entebbe Raid
By SHIMON BEN NOCH
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—
World Zionist Organization
July 4 marks four years since the Entebbe raid — an achievement made especially
pertinent this year by the series of events in Teheran.
The seizing of the hostages at the American Embassy in Iran and the subsequent
aborted attempt to save them, have highlighted both the success and shortcoming of
Entebbe. While the raid on the Ugandan airport was a brilliant military maneuver that
brought home all but one of the hostages, it stemmed but did not turn the tide of
international terrorism.
All the same, it was a severe setback for the PLO and their murderous kin. Binyamin
Netanyahu, the brother of Lt. Col. Jonathan Netanyahu, who was killed while leading
his men to victory, points out: "There has been no similar operation against Israel since
Entebbe."
Entebbe was a victory in a battle but it did not win the war. Jonathan
Netanyahu died in the fight against terrorism but his name lives on in the form of
the Jonathan Institute.
The Jonathan Institute has filled a void in research into international terrorism. It
wages a war of information to complement the military fight. It aims to inform and
educate, particularly the decision makers of the West, and to show that terrorism is not
something which haphazardly happens in many different countries but is very often a
well-coordinated political tool of the Soviet Union.