111111111111•1•111111.11111U -1111111111111- 20 Friday, August 29, 1980 ORT, the vocational training program of the Jewish people, builds individual lives and strengthens nations. WOMEN'S AMERICAN ORT 355-9151 Call THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Terrorist Activity in Isr6e1 Increases in Raid Reprisal TEL AVIV (JTA) — Ter- rorists are stepping up their activities in what is seen as an effort "to save face" after the Israeli raids on their strongholds in south Leba- non last week. A disaster was averted here Monday when a bomb was discovered on top of a vendor's cart in the main exclusive MICHIGAN DISTRIBUTOR OF SALES • SERVICE • CUSTOM LEASE PLANS TaMaROFF Buick-Honda 28585 Telegraph Rd. across from Tel-Twelve Mall Southfield, Mich. Phone 353-1300 fruit and vegetable market just off Allenby Street, the city's main thoroughfare. Local workers who dis- covered a suspicious- looking object called the police and a police sapper dismantled the bomb before it could go off. Meanwhile, the Israeli who was killed Sunday by a bomb explosion at a gasoline service station just off the main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway near Kibutz Neve Ilan and the Arab vil- lage of Abu Gosh was iden- tified as Aharon Ephraim from Nahariya, the father of three small children, who happened to be in the sta- tion when the bomb exploded. About 12 persons, seven of them foreign tourists, were injured in Sunday's incident. The bomb was placed in a garbage can between two fuel pumps and it went off as vehicles were lined up at the pump waiting for service. Some 200 American and Spanish tourists, from sev- eral tour buses, were mil- ling around the station at the time of the explosion. Miraculously, the large underground gasoline tanks did not explode. Those injured had shrapnel woulds or burns from the blast and the fire it caused. In another incident, a bomb was discovered in a park in Herzliya but dis- mantled before it could explode. 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After the meeting, Zeltzer and Zuckerman were among those who said they would work actively for President Carter's re-election.) The gathering reportedly is one of several being ar- ranged by the White House to bolster support within the Jewish community for the Carter-Mondale ticket. Among those who spoke with reporters were Howard Gittis and William Batoff, both of Philadelphia; Sig- mund Strochiltz of New London, Conn., and David Chase of West Hartford, Conn. Batoff said he has "no idea" why he was invited, but he denied that the White House intention was to circumvent the leadership of the or- ganized Jewish commu- nity. "I believe they in- vited people who are strong in their com- munities and interested in the Jewish relation- ship with the President and we would like it to continue," he said. Asked if the "traditional Jewish leaders" would back the President, Batoff re- plied, "Oh, yes, quite a few will be coming out very shortly in support of President Carter." Gittis said the purpose of the meeting was to be "filled in by the President, Vice President and other officials of the Administration on their positions which would be of interest to the Jewish community, which they did very effectively, very intel- ligently." Gittis said he was not affiliated with an organiza- tion and was not a spokes- man but came as an indi- vidual. Asked if he endorsed the President, he replied, "most of us here_ endorsed the President before this" and are "actively working for his re-election which is important to the American Jewish community." Strochlitz said that "we were very upset" about the United States absten- tion on the United Na- tions Security Council resolution last Wednes- day against Israel's Jerusalem law. "The United States should not have abstained, but vet- oed it," he said. "This is the first time the United States accepted some kind of punishment for Israel. President Carter explained it. I am not at liberty to explain how he explained it." Batoff then said Carter's explanation for the absten- tion was that "an undivided Jerusalem was exactly what the Camp David Ac- cord had suggested and the President felt he was in keeping with that accord." He said he was "absolutely, totally satisfied" with the President's explanation. When a reporter asked "why the Jewish people were supporting President Carter when the govern- ment of Israel makes clear this Administration is not a- friend of Israel," Batoff noted that Israeli Premier Menahem Begin had "al- luded" to the abstention but "it was not a statement. He expected a veto and instead he got an abstention." Chase said "20 doubtful people with reservations came to see the President this morning and we are leaving 20 very satisfied and happy people. This Ad- ministration is doing a great job for me as an American and for me of religious belief, being Jewish." He said "many Jewish people do not under- stand the true policy of this Administration and the dedication of this Adminis- tration to Jews and Israel." In New York, members of national Republican Party headed by its Presidential standard bearer Ronald Reagan* and his Vice Presidential running mate George Bush met Wednesday for a discussion-reception with many prominent rabbis from across the country. Rabbi Seymour Siegel of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America said the rabbis are gathering in New York for a series of leadership meetings. It was suggested by Siegel and a member of the advisory committee of the Reagan- Bush organization to invite the rabbis and the Reagan-Bush national leadership group to share in these discussions. The national Reagan- Bush leadership at the meeting included Max Fisher, Richard Rosenbaum and Maxwell Raab, Siegel. said. NY 'Jewish' Senate Seat Remark by Carey Criticized NEW YORK — Bess Myerson and the other can- didates seeking the Demo- cratic Senate nomination in New York criticized Gover- nor Carey this week for say- ing that he regarded the post held by Senator Jacob K. Javits as "a Jewish seat." Miss Myerson said, "I think that if you went along with that reasoning you would have to say it was also a male seat and there- fore I should not be running at all." The Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith also took exception to the idea of "a Jewish seat." Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who has endorsed Miss Myerson, said: "This is a New York seat and everybody knows that." Gov. Carey had men- tioned the post as a "Jewish seat" on Saturday in an interview while reiterating his support for Miss Myerson, who is Jewish. Senator Javits and his predecessor, Herbert H. Lehman, were both Jewish, though their immediate predecessors — John Foster Dulles and Robert F. Wagner — were not. In that interview, Carey said, "You might recall that I said some time back, not as . No Comment WASHINGTON (JTA) — The State Department has refused to comment on a radio report that Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasir Arafat has charged the U.S. with sup- porting Israel's incursions into south Lebanon. a matter of discriminatory rhetoric, but just as a mat- ter of historical reference, that I regard this as a Jewish seat." Other candidates seeking the Democratic nomination are Queens District Attor- ney John J. Santucci, former New York Mayor John V. Lindsay, and Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman who is Jewish. Israel-Egypt Delegates Meet TEL AVIV (JTA) — A six-member Egyptian mili- tary delegation was in Is- rael Sunday for a meeting of the Israeli-Egyptian Mili- tary Committee. The joint committee dis- cussion included a review of the progress of the military aspects of the Egyptian- Israeli peace agreement. The committee also dis- cussed tourism to Ras Mouhammed and St. Catherine's Monastery, the prevention of smuggling over the border, the nor- malization of Sinai and the reunion of families. Israel Downs Syrian MIG TEL AVIV (JTA) — A Sy- rian MIG 21 was downed Sunday in an air battle be- tween Israeli and Syrian planes over south Lebanon. An Israeli army spokes- man said that Israeli planes were on a routine recon- naissance flight over south Lebanon when they encountered Syrian planes which tried to intercept the Israelis. All Israeli planes returned safely to their base, the spokesman said. " ; .