Apartheid and Soviet Jewry causes linked
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Israel's national unity government mends fences
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A congregation takes on Sabbath services for the elderly
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Larry Fisher's 'red chip' athletes
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E JEWISH NEWS
DECEMBER 28, 1984
SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY
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I Shultz warns Peres
Jerusalem (JTA) — Israeli Pre-
mier Shimon Peres confirmed this
week that he received a letter from
U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz
making clear that Shultz would not
support Israel's requests for increased
U.S. economic aid unless and until the
Israeli government produced a com-
prehensive economic recovery plan.
Shultz's letter had been the sub-
ject of Israeli media reports. Peres, ad-
dressing officials of the Central
Bureau of Statistics, said the letter
should serve as a warning bell. He said
that Shultz compliniented the gov-
ernment for doing more to help the
economy than its predecessors. But at
the same time, the Secretary of State
pointed to grave dangers close at hand
"unless we act faster and do more,"
Peres said.
According to the media reports,
Shultz sent a three-page letter to the
Premier last week after the first round
of meetings of the Joint U.S.-Israel
Economic Group in Washington at
which Israel formally submitted its
request for increased aid.
Israel is seeking $4.1 billion in
U.S. military and economic aid for fis-
cal year 1986, which begins next Oc-
Continued on Page 20.
Bus attack suspect
appeals to high court
DEALING
WITH THE
FAMINE
A first-hand report on the
tragic conditions and the rescue
effort in Ethiopia.
BY ELSA SOLENDER
See Story On Page 14
Jerusalem
(JTA) — David
Ben-Shimol, an
18-year-old Is-
raeli Defense
Force infantry
soldier charged
with firing an
anti-tank missile
at an Arab bus
last month in
which one
passenger was
Ben-Shimol
killed and ten
others were wounded, appealed for the
second time in as many days on Mon-
day to the Israel Supreme Court. His
lawyer asked that his trial be held in a
military court rather than in the
Jerusalem District Court.
Because of the appeal, the trial
which was scheduled to begin on Mon-
day, was postponed until next week.
The defendant wants to be tried in a
military court because, unlike the civi-
lian courts, life imprisonment is not
the only sentence possible for a murder
conviction. The Supreme Court re-
jected his previous appeal with the
same request.
Ben-Shimol's lawyer argued in
the appeal to the high court that as a
soldier the defendant had the privilege
of being tried by a military court. The
decision of the Israeli Attorney Gen-
eral to press charges against him be-
fore a civilian court, the lawyer
argued, has put Ben-Shimol at a dis-
advantage, compared to similar cases
in the past.
The defense cited several such
cases, among them that of Yisrael
Lederman, a reserve soldier, who sev-
eral years ago was convicted of mur-
dering an Arab near the Rockefeller
Museum in Jerusalem. Lederman was
tried in a military court even though
when he committed the murder he was
no longer on active duty.
In both charge sheets — that of
Lederinan and Ben-Shimol — the
murder was desCribed as revenge for
the murder of Jews. Ben-Shimol is
charged with firing a missile at the bus
in revenge for the killing of two Israel
hitch-hikers by a West Bank Arab
near the Cremisan Monastery south of
Jerusalem. That incident occurred two
weeks prior to the bus attack in
Jerusalem.
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