Menahem Begin as the Scapegoat: How Some in the Media Sink to Low Levels THE JEWISH NEWS Editorial, Page 4 Jewish Events A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 VOL. LXXVII, No. 18 The Glorious Fourth: Its Message to All Americans and to Mankind 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 424 -8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35c July 4, 1980 gegin Asks American Jewry .Ito Fight Arms Sales to Arabs Family Dedicates r Rose $500,000 Negev Campus r 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 (Continued on Page 10) (Continued on Page 5) 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 - — 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.