12 Friday, lune 12, 1981 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 7itolvut Vice Israeli Looks to Wimbledon By MOSHE BEN YOSEF World Zionist Press Service JERUSALEM — Israel's under-18 women's junior tennis champion Rakefet Binyamini recently won both singles and doubles ti- tles at the Israel Tennis annual Association's international Pesach championship. It was held at the Ramat HaSharon tennis center. Rakefet also won the girls singles title at the Interna- tional Tennis Federation's junior world ranking circuit under-18 tournament in RAKEFET BINYAMINI May. It was inaugurated • Desks • Chairs four years ago, and this is ensure her entry in this • Pictures & Graphics • Files the first time one of its tour-. year's junior Wimbledon naMents was held in Israel. tournament in July. • Lamps • Tables Rakefet was the first Israeli to win the ITF meet. British Stirred New — Used — Slightly Damaged Results from efforts to foster Israeli tennis players Arabs Into War? Priced for take with or delivery. at home and abroad are be- JERUSALEM (ZINS) — ginning to bear fruit. Documents recently re- Shlomo Glickstein, 23, is leased by the Israeli Na- making a name for himself , tional" Archives show that 642-5600 14 MILE RD in international tennis. British meddling helped 31535 SOUTHFIELD RD. Rakefet, 16, is one of the provoke the Arab war BETWEEN 13 & 14 MILE ROADS 13 MILE RD most promising of Israel's against Israel when the AMPLE PARKING younger tennis stars and state was born in 1947- MON.-FRI. 8-5 her success is likely to 1948. According to a memo written by Eliahu Sasson, who met secretly. with an Egyptian envoy in Paris in September 1948, the Egyp- DON'T BUY VIDEO MOVIES tian told Sasson that the British had given false in- formation to the Arabs and pushed them into war. 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They come in groups as tourists, but once in the coun- try they refuse to leave it. They remain in Israel illegally, declaring themselves as "the true Jews" and denouncinsY_ the Israelis as "mere trustees of the land." They assert th / they are direct descendants of the patriarchs Abrahani, Isaac and Jacob, and claim that they are "children" of the lost 10 tribes who, they say, have been exiled from the Land of Israel for their sins and condemned to wander through- out Africa where they were sold into slavery to America. They vow to replace the Israelis with many thousands of blacks "returning to the Promised Land." Their leader and "Messiah" — a former drop-out from the Marshal High School in Chicago, where the sect was born — told the press that "the Lord ordered me in a vision to take possession of the Land of Israel." He boasts that 2,000,000 blacks would come from the United States "to wrest the Land of Israel" from the present Jewish inhabitants. In Chicago the name of this 40-year old "Fuhrer" — who is the absolute dictator of the Black Hebrews — was Ben Carter, but in Israel he "modified" his name to Ben-Ami Carter. -At present there are about 2,000 Black Hebrews in Israel. They occupy sections of thlee important cities in the Negev — Dimona, Arad and Mitzpa Ramon. They consti- tute a problem of great concern. The government could deport them under the Israel law as infiltrators living in the country illegally. However, no action has so far been taken against them. * * * REVERBERATIONS IN U.S.: The issue has already had reverberations in the United States among American blacks. A delegation of prominent leaders of the black community in the United States — representing "Black Americans to Support Israel" — proceeded to Israel to in- vestigate the situation. The delegation Was led by Bayard Rustin, known for his friendship to Israel. After spending about two weeks in Israel researching the problem and its repercussions, the delegation, came out with a report stating that the problem is "difficult and complicated" but has nothing to do with racial bias. "From all evidence we have heard," the report said, "including that from the Black Hebrews, we conclude that official racism plays no part in this sensitive problem." * * * RECOMMENDATION ON THE ISSUE: In the opinion of the American delegation of black leaders, con- tinued inaction on the part of the Israel government to define the status of the Black Hebrews creates a condition with serious legal, social, political and human rights impli- cations. It also exacerbates intergroup relations in America, the delegation asserts. The delegation reveals that it has suggested to the U.S. ambassador in Israel to prepare an instruction sheet for detained U.S. citizens and to make them available to the detained. It also recommended that no U.S. national should be deported until an official from the embassy or consulate has been on the scene long enough to determine the reasons for the expulsion and has been able to talk to the affected person. The delegation also offered recommendations to the Black Hebrew community in Israel, to be acted upon im- mediately and prior to the basic policy decision as to the future of the Black Hebrews in Israel. The recom- mendations include: • The Black Hebrew Community should not permit an increase in its membership except by childbirth. • It should cooperate with Israeli authorities by refus- ing admission to the BHC to any person who entered Isral by illegal means. • It should cooperate with the Israeli authorities 1., ), registering births and deaths. • It should assist the government to maintain a com- plete and current census which will identify each adult by original name as well as by his or her new religious name. The delegation reports that it heard a number .of statements of criminal activiity on the part of members of the Black Hebrews, and that these came not only from the police but also from former members of the community of Black Hebrews. It recommends that a special inquiry be conducted by American Black leaders into the fact that the leader and "messiah" of the Black Hebrews, Ben-Ami Car- ter, ruling the sect as an absolute dictator, denies human rights to the members of the sect. Carter has a record of conducting vitriolic propaganda against Jews in the United States.