Begin Starts to Form Govt.
Gilman New U.S. Attorney
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier Menahem Begin, formally summoned
by President Yitzhak Navon Wednesday to form a new government, lost no
time beginning that task: He met Wednesday afternoon with leaders of
Likud's Liberal Party wing. He was scheduled to start coalition talks
Thursday with the National Religious Party, with the Aguda Israel Party
today, and with Aharon Abu Hatzeira's Tami faction Sunday. He said that
he hoped to have his new cabinet ready for presentation to the Knesset
within two weeks.
The three religious parties, with 13 Knesset seats between them, would
give Begin the 61-seat Knesset majority he needs to govern. Danny Ver-
mus, secretary general of the NRP, told reporters Tuesday night that he
expected negotiations with his party to be completed in a week, but the
controversial "Who Is a Jew" amendment to the Law of Return may compli-
cate Begin's efforts.
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Leonard R. Gilman has been selected by President Ronald Reagan for
appointment as U.S. Attorney in Detroit.
The announcement was made last Friday by Congressman William
Broomfield, who has been pressing for Gilman's nomination.
Gilman was graduated from Wayne State University in 1963 with a
Bachelor of Science degree and went to law school at Wayne State Univer-
sity, where he was a member of the Law Review.
Following law school, Gilman was employed as a field attorney
with the National Labor Relations Board until January 1968, when
he joined the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office as an assistant pro-
secuting attorney. He served in that capacity until 1973 when he
joined the staff of Oakland County Prosecutor L. Brooks Patterson. ,
In January, 1978, Gilman joined the staff of the United States Attor-
ney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan as the chief of the criminal
division.
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Firmness in NieFariane Talks
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Slomovitz, Three Others
Get Bar-Ilan Doctorates
RAMAT GAN — Bar-Ilan University
has bestowed honorary doctoral degrees
upon four ourstanding leaders at its recent
commencement exercises. The degrees
were conferred upon Philip Slomovitz,
editor and publisher of The Detroit Jewish
News; Rabbi Mordecai Kirshblum; Prof.
Emmanuel Levinas of France; and Dr. Irv-
ing Moskowitz of California.
The university's commencement pro-
gram described the four recipients of the
degree of Doctor Honoris Causa as follows:
SLOMOVITZ
Philip Slomovitz is an outstanding jour-
nalist and worker for Jewish and Israeli
causes. He holds high office in journalistic
and Jewish organizations, including the
Zionist Organization of America, the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the
Jewish Publication Society of America. He
has received many awards from top press
and Jewish bodies. These include Israel
Bonds, Hadassah, American Jewish Press
Association, Jerusalem Award and more .
than 70 citations from Zionist and Jewish
organizations.
KIRSHBLUM
(The doctorate to Slomovitz was
given in absentia and will be presented
formally in Detroit in late summer.)
(Text of citation to Slomovitz by Bar-Ilan
President Emanuel Rackman on Page 10.)
Rabbi Kirshblum is one of the original
founders of Bar-Ilan, active for the univer-
sity since its inception, and is a member of
its board of trustees. A member of the
executi-Ve of the newish Agency for 22
years, he headed its aliya and Torah-
education and culture departments.
MOSKOWITZ
He is former president of the Mizrachi
Organization of America, A distinguished
religious leader. and orator in Yiddish,
English and Hebrew, he was honored by
his alma mater, Yeshiva University, with
an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.
Prof. Levinas is a renowned French
philosopher whose work is concerned with
the significance of the other person for
metaphysical inquiry. He completed a doc-
toral dissertation on Edmund Husserl's
theory of intuition, and was one of the first
to introduce the work of Martin Heidegger
LEVINAS
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JERUSALEM (JTA)
Israel denied Tuesday that it had given any commitment to the
United States beyond the joint statement concluded the night before between Premier Begin
\nd a U.S. envoy "clarifying" misunderstandings about' use of American-supplied Arms.
Begin's office put out a statement denying specifically a Washington Post report Tuesday
that Israel had given an oral pledge to the U.S. to take account of American interests before
using its American-supplied weapons in the future.
The "clarification," between Begin and State Department counselor Robert McFarlane,
came in the wake of America's suspension of warplane supplies to Israel following the Israeli air
raid on Iraq's nuclear reactor.
The agreed statement, read out by McFarlane with Begin standing alongside him at
the end of their second lengthy session Monday, read as follows:
The governments of the United States and Israel have had extensive discussion concerning
the Israeli operation against the atomic reactor near Baghdad. The discussions have been
conducted with the candor and friendship that is customary between allies.
The governments of the two countries declare that any
misunderstandings which have arisen in the wake of the
Aforementioned operation have been clarified to the satis-
U.S. Takes Gold,
faction of both sides."
Israel Leader
Israeli officials said they regarded this statement as a
significant
diplomatic success for Israel. They clearly ex-
in Maccabia
pected that it would open the way for the Administration to
report back to Congress that the "clarification" with Israel
Story on Page 11
had been satisfactorily concluded — and that the suspended
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Israel Uncovers Archeological Finds
JERUSALEM — A Roman amphitheater, the only one of its kind in Israel and the surrounding area,
was uncovered recently at an archeological excavation at Beit Shean by a team of archeologists from the
Hebrew University working in cooperation with the Israel Department of Antiquities and Israeli
museums. Also unearthed were a section of roadway and living quarters from the Byzantine and early
Arab period.
The amphitheater is elliptical in shape, 67
meters wide and an estimated 110 meters in
length. The amphitheater contained an arena sur-
rounded by a high wall, which was built to protect
the spectators from man-eating animals used in
the gladiator events, circuses (Roman races) and
other sports exhibitions. Around these walls,
which were built of large limestone blocks and
covered with a colorful layer of plaster, rose the
spectators' gallery.
The structure looks like an oblong crater
surrounded by seats. It is thought that the
amphitheater, most of which was built
aboveground, was erected in 200 CE. Ar-
cheologists stress the similarities between the
amphitheater and the famous Roman theater
of Beit Shean located nearby.
The three lowest rows of seats in the amphi-
theater were hewn from white limestone brought
from Mt. Gilboa and have been well preserved.
The Byzantine roadway uncovered at Beit
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Shean.