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The Israeli group has not been admitted to the inter- national group on the grounds that the ICRC rec- ognizes only the Red Cross," and the Red Crescent of the Moslem countries. San Francisco to Build Statue for Holocaust SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — San Francisco has been added to the list of cities with Holocaust memorials on public property. The planned $750,000 memorial will be financed by public contributions. The San Francisco Recre- ation and Parks Commis- sion has approved a site in front of the Palace of Honor in Lincoln Park, which overlooks the Golden Gate Bridge. Rhoda Goldman, chair- man of the project, said the memorial monument will be in the form of a sculpture. The diamond tells her you love her. The name Seymour Kaplan tells her how much. gilt= ray.,41 A diamond from Seymour Kaplan tells both of you all you need to know. Because you know Seymour Kaplan's reputation for outstanding value. 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Both categories of aid deal with helping the neediest elements — elderly Jews in poverty and children of needy Jewish families. They will become more dependent on community assistance. But no community can provide fully the needs of the poor without government help. There is general agreement that the number of poor Jews today lies somewhere between a minimum of 400,000 and a figure perhaps twice that. Most of the Jews who live in poverty are over 65 years of age. Elderly Jews constitute today about 18 percent of the entire Jewish population. Their percentage is higher than among the general popula- tion; and it increases from year to year. The larger their number grows, the larger the number of neediest cases among them. CHILD CARE PROBLEMS: The situation in the field ofJewish child care is similar to that of the care for the aged, The total number ofJewish children is decreasing due to the decline in. the Jewish birthrate, but the number of children in need of communal care is increasing. This is especially the case with children of separated parents when mothers must go to work; disturbed children in the larger cities; children in day-care, which is the second largest service; foster family care; and service to children in their own homes. Free lunches for children in the Jewish day schools may be cut, and government aid to feeding children in summer camps may be abandoned. The Child Nutrition Program will be drastically reduced by Washington. Simi- larly, the system of food stamps, which is of great impor- tance for children, may be modified. It hardly needs saying that finances will be the great problem for Jewish institu- tions involved in child care. JEWISH COMMUNITY BONDS: A suggestion was made at a Jewish meeting of experts in New York — at which themew perspectives of financing Jewish social work were discussed — that the Jewish communities explore experimentally the issuance of long-term, low-interest Jewish bonds to be repaid over a period of 30 years. The suggestion sounds unrealistic. However -the or- ganized American Jewish community has a long and proud record of creating emergency funds for the assistance of needy Jews. One of the great achievements of the Jewish federations in recent years was the creation of an endow- ment fund to meet urgent needs and special projects, out- side of the regular federation budgets. West Bank Tension Rises JERUSALEM (JTA) — Tension heightened on the West Bank over the weekend after Israel cracked down on the pro- Palestine Liberation -Or- ganization National Gui- dance Committee and shots were fired last Friday night at the home of a leader of the Village Leagues, a group of moderate Palestinians who cooperate with the Israeli authorities. Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's order last week outlawing the National Guidance Committee — which has in face been inac- tive for the past 18 months — was seen as a warning to Jordan to stop interfering in West Bank affairs. The Jordanian govern- ment announced officially last week that Village Leagues leaders who did not cease their collaboration with the Israelis within one month would be tried for treason in absentia and exe- cuted. Most of the incumbent West Bank mayors are either PLO members or sympathizers who boycott the civil administration. The committee's larger forum consists of 24 mem- bers representing local municipalities, vocational organizations, welfare and charitable groups, student bodies and the Moslem re- ligious establishment. Meanwhile, unrest tinued on the West Bank. ri tourist bus carrying Ameri- can pilgrims was stoned near Ramallah. Two of the Americans were injured. A melee erupted in Hebron where several score suppor- ters of Israel's Peace Now movement demonstrated in sympathy with two local Arab families who said they were being harassed by Jewish settlers in town. Friendship, love, and pi- ety, ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy.