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BY BETTIJANE EISENPREIS
Special to The Jewish News
In the fall of 1950, Israel was in
desperate straits. Immigrants,
chiefly survivors of Nazi persecu-
tion, were flooding its shores at
the rate of 200,000 a year. With its
resources already drastically de-
pleated by the staggering costs of
its War of Independence, the
two-year-old nation was faced
with the task of providing homes
and jobs for the new arrivals and,
at the same time, building a mod-
ern economic infrastructure.
Israel's leaders had the
foresight to understand that this
kind of development could not
rely on charity. They needed low-
cost loan dollars, dollars which
they would repay in the years to
come.
A conference of Jewish leaders,
convened in JeruSalem by Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion,
endorsed the concept of floating
an Israel Bond issue and agreed
that this concept should be pre-
sented to the leaders of American
Jewry.
Since the inception of the Israel
Bond campaign, $6.7 billion in
Bond proceeds have helped to
build every aspect of Israel's
economy — roads and railroads,
highways and harbors, industries
which have provided hundreds
and thousands of jobs, and much
more. More than $3.3 billion has
since been repaid and no matter
what crisis befell the nation,
every interest payment has be ?n
made in full and on time.
But the people of Israel are now
confronted with economic dif-
ficultes in this, its 36th anniver-
sary year. They are forced to beez
the burden of the largest per
capita defense budget in th.&
world. In the effort to turn the
economy around, government
budgets are being cut and Israel's
citizens are tightening their belts.
The nation faces the challenge
of reducing its trade deficit and
increasing exports by further de
veloping its burgeoning high-
technology industries. At th ,-
same time, it must continue its
ongoing developthent projects.
North American Jewry has the
privilege of sharing in these de-
velopment programs and demon-N
strating unity with Israel through
the Israel Bond High Holy Da::
Appeals, assuring the Jewish
state of a future of continued eco-
nomic growth, progress and
peace.
A Seven Arts Feature
No shift in Belgian PLO position
despite meeting with Arafat
Brussels (JTA) — Foreign
Minister Leo Tindemans' 90-
minute meeting with Palestine
Liberation Organization chief
Yasir Arafat in Tunisia last week
does not point to a shift in the Bel-
gian position toward the PLO, ac-
cording to officials in Brussels.
While Tindemans was the first
Belgian minister to meet Arafat,
Belgium adheres to the position
adopted by the 10 member states
of the European Economic Com-
munity (EEC) of which it is a
member. That position calls for
Palestinian self-determination
and the association of the PLO in
future Middle East peace talks.
But Belgium has taken a more
reserved and cautious position
with respect to the PLO than some
other EEC states, notably France,
Italy and Greece.
Although Tindemans and
Arafat described their meeting as
instructive and constructive, the
Jewish socialist
gets Canada post
Toronto (JTA) — Canada's new
Conservative Prime Minister,
Brian Mulroney, surprised sup-
porters and opponents alike when
he named 46-year-old Stephen
Lewis, a life-long socialist active
in the Jewish Community to be
Canada's next Ambassador to the
United Nations.
Lewis is the former leader of the
New Democratic Party in Ontario
which his late father had also
headed. His grandfather was a
member of the Bundists, the
Jewish socialist movement in
Czarist Russia. Lewis is also a
former chairman of the Histadrut
campaign in Ontario and has lec-
tured on the Holocaust in litera-
ture.
joint communique issued by
Tindemans and Tunisia's Prime 1,
Minister Mohammed Mzali at Che
end of Tindemans' official visit to
the North African country con-
tained no reference to the PLO or
its possible role in negotiations.
The communique affirmed the
urgent need for a just solution to
the Middle East conflict, called for-)
Israeli withdrawal from the occu= - 1
pied territories and upheld th s - 1 ,,
right of Palestinian self-
determination "with all that im-
plies."
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B'nai B'rith cites
Dachau liberators
Bonn (JTA) — Japanese-
American soldiers who were
among the first liberators to reach
Jewish prisoners of the Dachau
concentration camp were honored
by B'nai B'rith earlier this month
in a ceremony at the Hebraica
lodge and at the camp itself.
Members of the U.S. Army's
442 battle field artillery, their
wives and families were received
by Dr. Henry Schneider, lodge
president, and Joseph domberger,
President of B'nai B'rith's Wect -I
European district.
Representing the group of
Japanese Americans was former
Captain John Tsuakano, of
Hawaii, who received a historic
document pronouncing a release
of a Dachau inmate.
Anti-Nazi protest
Bonn (JTA) — About 600 trade
unionists and others protested
Darmstadt last weekend against
the convention there of the young
guard of the neo-Nazi National
Democratic Party (NPD).