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PURIM CELEBRATION
by Phillip Goren

Purim Purim we celebrate today.
We read the MegIllah though It sounds like a play.
We sing and dance with all'our Mends;
'We swing our gregars and make a lot of noise;
We clasp with our hands and stamp with our feet;
We are Joyful and glad
That we ore Jewish.
Mordecai, the mon of justice.
That was his aim In life.
Homan, the wicked man, was the opposite
When Esther became the queen
A new life for the Jewish people began
So raise your glasses with a rchoim up high
With gifts and good wishes up to the sky.
What happend then
Can happen again.
It did.

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beach at Eilat — may be very
effective in persuading tourists
to savor the pleasures the
Jewish State offers but it is not
the way to convince most Jews
of Israel's vital role in their
lives.
The new agency is not the
first attempt to control the flow
of news from Palestine and
dominate the new columns of
the world Jewish press. Early in
the 1930s, the Jewish Agency
Executive started its own news
agency and spent a few millions
on the venture.
The Palcor (Palestine Corre-
spondence) Agency never made
a deep penetration of the Jewish
press and was almost a total
failure with the general press.
Its only accomplishment was to
weaken the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency which had valuable out-
lets in the general press through
its contracts with the Associated
Press, Reuters and Agence '
France-Presse, and thus reduce
the effictiveness of a major
voice.
One of the first acts of the Is-
rael government after the War
of Independence was to suspend
the Palcor operation. Foreign
Minister Moshe Sharett quickly
perceived the anomalous posi-
tion of competing with,the news
agencies and foreign correspon-
dents while simultaneously try-
ing frantically to secure their
goodwill and sympathy for the
infant state.
There are legitimate news
functions that every govern-
ment, including the Israeli,
should perform. These are, fun-
damentally, to provide all possi-
ble access to news sources, to
ensure freedom to transmit and
publish without censorship of
any kind except the minimum
required for security reasons,
and to provide facilities to
transmit news from the country
speedily and inexpensively.
The late Gershon Agron,
editor of the Jerusalem Post,
and Israel's first de facto Minis-
ter of Information, recognized
this and in 1949, using the JTA
radio' network, supplied Israeli
embassies and conslutates
throughout the Western world
with a daily synopsis of Israeli
newspaper editorials and arti-
cles. This service also provided
the texts of official com-
muniques that might not other-
wise be available to the press
abroad. The Israeli offices, in
turn, distributed these sum-
maries 'to the press just as the
British and German information
services do to this day.
A service like that from
Jerusalem today would be useful '
and free of the propaganda
stigma that attaches to an "offi-
cial" news agency.
A full, honest and free flow of
information from Israel, warts
and all, is the best propaganda
the Jewish State can have.

A regular columnist for The
Jewish News, Victor Bienstock is
a former editor and general
manager of the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency.
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