Israel's Choice
of Leadership
Dominated by
Strong Man Begin
With Religious
Continuing as
Policy-Powered

Much Remains
to Be Tackled
in Beleaguered
Middle East
and Israel's
Compelling Need
for Security

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July 10, 1981

U. S. Congressmen Express
Concern for Argentina Jewry

$6,685,300 for U.S. Needs
Is Allocated by Federation

WASHINGTON (JTA) - A bi-partisan group of 67 U.S. Congressmen has sent a letter
to Argentine President Roberto Viola expressing their "concern" over the violation of
human rights in his country, particularly as it applies to the Jewish community there.
Rep. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), in publicly releasing the letter, said he organized the
move in the wake of revelations by Jacobo Timerman of human rights violations in
Argentina. Schumer said a member of his staff spoke to Timerman recently.
The former editor and publisher of the Argentine daily La Opinion who was impris-
oned for 30 month without charges or trial, said he considers it "very, very important" to
remind the Argentine junta that the U.S. Congress is watching not only how the govern-
ment itself acts, but also when it fails to prevent abuses of human rights, Schumer said.
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), one of the signatories of the letter, issued a
statement on "anti-Semitism in Aregntina" several days ago in which he noted that
Timerman "does not hesitate to liken Argentina to the Third Reich. His detractors
take him to task for exaggeration. Surely, Argentina is not Auschwitz, they indig-
nantly state. Jews are not being systematically killed on a mass basis, they protest.
That Argentina is not yet Nazi Germany is a point on which most observers agree."
Waxman's statement, added, "What is really central to the dispute is the validity of
inferring from the fact that
Argentina is not Nazi Ger-
many, that it is, therefore, not a
virulently and dangerously
anti-Semitic society. I would
hate to see us reach the point
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Premier Menahem Begin
where we became indifferent to
made a final decision to appoint Ariel Sharon as Defense
manifestations of anti-
Minister in the new cabinet, according to Israel press re-
Semitism which fall short of the
ports on Wednesday.
`standards' set by Hitler. It
Deputy Defense Minister Mordechai Zippori denied a
should not be necessary for
press report that he had privately characterized the pros-
Jacobo Timerman to prove that
pect of Sharon's appointment as "a national disaster."
Argentina is in a pre-Holocaust
He did not deny, however, his known opposition to the
situation to convince us that
appointment, and he made it clear that if Sharon does get
the job Zippori will leave the Defense Ministry and become
Argentine anti-Semitism is
a Likud (Herut) backbencher in the Knesset.
dangerous."

A budget of $6,685,300 for 1981-1982 domestic needs - including
$6,062,665 for support of local agency programs - was approved by the
Board of Governors of the Jewish Welfare Federation at its concluding
meeting before summer recess.
The domestic agencies and services received a combined increase of
$450,000. Exclusive of Project Renewal, which is handled separately, more
than $18 million from the 1981 Allied Jewish Campaign is available for
allocation locally, nationally and overseas.
As in previous years, the income from the "regular" Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, after expenses, has been divided between domestic agencies and those
overseas. When proceeds from the Israel Emergency Fund are added to
available Campaign funds, the Israel and overseas apportionment reaches
$10,139,700.
In addition, 1981 contributions by Detroiters to Project Renewal, the
massive social rehabilitation plan for Israel's distressed neighborhoods, will
produce an additional $1,250,000.
With few exceptions, increased grants to local agencies were approved by
the board. The allocation to Resettlement Service reflects the continuing
decline in immigration of Soviet Jews.
Most national agencies also received increased subventions from Federa-
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Sharon Appointment
Splits Likud Ranks

Allied Campaign Domestic Allocations

AGENCIES

1980-81

1981-82

Culture and Education

United Hebrew Schools - Midrasha
Akiva Hebrew Day School
Hillel Day School
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah
Special Allocation
Jewish Community Center
JCC English Language Program
Hillel Foundation - MSU
Hillel Foundation - U of M
Hillel Foundation - WSU

$885,570
'52,000
86,500
71,500
20,000
875,000

$920,570
70,000
99,500
100,500

28,650
49,675
30,000

'

Community Services

Fresh Air Society
Hebrew Free Loan Association
Jewish Family Service
Federation Apartments
Jewish Home for Aged
Jewish House of Shelter
Jewish Vocational Service and_Community Workshop
Resettlement Service
Sinai Hospital
Tamarack Hills Authority

$175,000
8,950
617,500
27,359
503,000
1,360
447,500
527,276
150,000
29,300

$257,300

$287,300

$ 43,000
77,400
55,400
77,400
36,250
29,100
10,500
57,000
50,500
5,50C
8,000
33,500
1,650

$ 45,500
80,200
57,800
80,200
38,750
31,000
11,000
59,000
52,500
5,750
8,500
38,350
1,650

$431,200
105,270

$471,200
112,435

$688,570

$700,000

National Agencies

American Association for Jewish Education
American Jewish Committee
4'nerican Jewish Congress
:-Defamation League of Bnai Brith
.._
Brith National Youth Services (Hillel)
Jewish Labor Committee
Jewish War Veterans
Jewish Welfare Board
Joint Cultural Appeal (9 agencies)
National Association of Jewish Vocational Services
National Conference on Soviet Jewry
National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council
Synagogue Council of America

Central Services

Jewish Welfare Federation
National Dues (CH, LCBC, etc.)

Capital Needs

Various Agencies

Electoral Reforms in Israel Sought
by Immigrants from Western Lands

By JAMES LEWIN

$175,000
8,950
525,000
29,350
423,000
1,135
390,000
770,000
150,000
26,680

Community Relations

Jewish Community Council

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900,000
25,000
37,500
65,000
34,600

(Final overseas allocations will be approved in the fall.)

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World Zionist Press Service

JERUSALEM - David Ben-Gurion maintained that Israel's electoral system would lead to
catastrophe unless it were completely overhauled. Support for a shift from proportional to direct
representation within the Knesset, Israel's parliament, is widespread in Israel. However, lack of
public appreciation of the decisive difference which would be at stake, combined with jealous
guarding of power by entrenched party politicians, have so far prevented all initiatives for electoral
reform.
Nevertheless the struggle goes on, currently being spearheaded by the Concerned Citizens
Committee, a pressure-group of Israelis
from English speaking democracies, led by
former Israeli ambassador to the United Na-
tions, Chaim Herzog. (Herzog's role has led
some observers to see the CCC as a Labor
Party pep-group. At the same time, voters in
the June 30 election invoked some electoral
reform: only seven of the 31 parties which
filed for election received enough votes to
win representation in the Knesset.)
To some extent, the recently formed CCC
picks up the fallen banner of the Democratic
Movement for Change, which ran in the
1977 elections on a platform based on the
central issue of electoral reform. Although
the DMC, under the leadership of Prof. Yigal
Yadin, received more than 200,000 votes in
the polls, enough to control 15 seats in the
Knesset, it failed to live up to its campaign
promises. Co-opted into the governing coali-
tion with the Likud Party, led by Prime
Minister Mena hem Begin, the DMC dis-
thlatek
integrated into squabbling factions and
never acted on the top priority in its appeal
David Ben-Gurion addresses the Knesset, May
1949.
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