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Friday, July 8, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
No Casualties in Attack
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Two
Katyusha rockets were
fired at Beitshan from Jor-
danian territory Sunday
without causing casualties.
It.was the first such incident
in a year and Israel army
sources said they regarded
it with concern, but would
take no hasty action in re-
sponse.
The -Army is apparently
satisfied that the Jordanian
authorities are determined
to prevent terrorist infiltra-
tion of Israel or firing from
their territory. Jordanian
soldiers were seen Monday
making an intensive search
for the rocket launchers and
traces of the men who fired
them.
Meanwhile, four separate
attacks on Israeli soldiers in
Lebanon were reported over
the weekend. There were no
casualties. The attacks oc-
curred in the Beirut area,
the Shouf mountains and
the Bekaa valley in eastern
Lebanon.
The army said a gre-
nade was thrown at an
Israeli patrol in the
Hadet quarter of Beirut
Sunday, but exploded
harmlessly. Israeli
soldiers fired at the at-
tackers. It was not dis-
closed whether any were
hit.
Beirut radio said small
arms fire was directed at
another Israeli patrol sev-
eral hours later, again
without casualties. The Is-
raelis returned the fire.
S. American Rabbi Asks Begin
Td Alter Policy on 'Disappeared'
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
leading Latin American
rabbi has called Premier
Menahem Begin to mute Is-
rael's interventions on be-
half of Jews kidnapped and
presumed dead in Argen-
tina.
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In an interview with the
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Agency, last week. Rabbi
Sobel said he had frankly
warned the Premier that by
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the government's policy re-
garding the "desapar-
ecidos."
Sobel who was edu-
cated in the U.S. did not
deny that "anti-Semitism
in Argentina is very real
and that Jews are often
singled out for special
torture by the military
government." "But, " he
continued, " to suggest
that the reign of terror in
Argentina is primarily
and essentially anti-
Semitic can only com-
promise the already pre-
carious position of
Argentine Jewry ... It is
essential to study the
issue in the greater con-
text of the violation of
human rights. To restrict
our concern to one par-
ticular group, even if it is
our own, would be
parochial, unwise and
counterproductive," he
said.
Sobel had a similar mes-
sage in an address to the
plenary of the World Union
for Progressive Judaism
which met here last week.
He noted that despite their
difficulties, Brazilian and
Argentine Jewry were basi-
cally contented. If they were
not, they were at liberty to
leave, taking their pos-
sessions and their money
with them, he said. The
rabbi suggested that anti-
Semitism may be worse in
the United States than it is
in either Brazil or Argen-
tina.
Sarah Doron Named Israel
Minister Without Portfolio
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Knesset Tuesday ap-
proved the appointment of
Sarah Doron (Likud-
Liberal) as a minister with-
out portfolio. The vote was
62-50, with one abstention
(Rabbi Haim Druckman -
Matzad).
All members who spoke
in the debate welcomed the
co-opting of a woman into
Prime Minster Menahem
Begin's all-male cabinet,
but opposition members
took the opportunity to at-
tack the government for all
sorts of reasons.
As to Doron herself, they
noted that she would be the
21st minister, and there are
also eight deputy ministers
— hardly the "compact and
streamlined government"
that Begin and his team had
promised early in their te-
nure.
Some
opposition
spokesmen also raised
the suspicion that Do-
ron's support on the coal-
ition benches signaled "a
deal" with Agudat Yis-
rael on "Who is a Jew."
Aguda, acting of orders
of the Hasidic Rebbe of
Gur, had earlier opposed
Doron's appointment be-
cause of her liberal views
on abortion and other
matters involving Israel's
relationship with the Or-
thodox religious estab-
lishment.
• According to confirmed
reports, Begin has written
to Aguda that he is commit-
ted to make every effort "to
secure a Knesset majority
for the 'Who is a Jew'
amendment (that is — con-
version according to
Halakha" in the Law of Re-
turn).
Hitherto, Begin's pledge
to Aguda (in a 1981 letter)
was less strong. There was
no reference to "commit-
ment" and only a pledge
that he would "do his best."
Aguda apparently in-
tended to table the amend-
ment again after the sum-
mer recess.
Sarah Doron in effect
comes into the Cabinet in
place of Yitzhak Berman,
who resigned last Sep-
tember. The Liberals had
been wrangling over the
vacant place ever since
Berman's departure.
Liberal leader and De-
puty Premier Simcha
Ehrlich's recent death
opens another Cabinet slot
for a Liberal — and this is
expected to go to Pessach
Grupper, deputy minister of
agriculture (Ehrlich was
Minister of Agriculture).
Grupper is attached to the
grouping within the Liber-
als led by Energy Minister
Yitzhak Modai — the
grouping which strongly
opposed Sarah Doron's ap-
pointment to the Cabinet,
but which. has now ac-
quiesced in her elevation.
Additional Funds
Go to German
Jews in Saxony
BONN (JTA) — The fed-
eral state of Lower Saxony
will make available 240,000
Marks ($96,000) annually
for the Jewish community
there. According to an ac-
cord with the community,
the money will be used to
promote religious needs as
well as the cultural ties
with the surrounding
Christian communities.
As of 1960, state funds
have been made available
for the Jewish community of
Lower Saxony. The yearly
sum was 50,000 Marks until
1972 and 140,000 Marks,
thereafter.
The Minister for Cultural
Affairs, George-Berndt Os-
ciatz, said in °Hanover that
it goes without saying that
the state supports the
Jewish community. This
was, he added, a "moral
commitment toward our
Jewish fellow citizens."
Most funds for the Jewish
community in West Ger-
many come from a religious
tax collected by the state.
The same applied to all
other recognized religious
communities in the country.
The religious tax amounts
to 10 percent of the income
tax.