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Linda, Edie and Ruth,
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And offer wishes to
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For A Healthy
And Happy
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THE METROPOLITAN DETROIT DISTRICT OF THE
ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
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presents
ANNUAL BALFOUR CELEBRATION
( S iliA
rringHAZA
Israel's First Lady of Song
Ofra Haza has been dubbed a "pheno-
menal" singer by a London critic. She
won first prize among 13 distinguished
contestants vying for the honor to repre-
sent Israel at the Eurovision Song Con-
test in Munich. She captured the heart
of a nation with her song "Israel Lives"
and her 'Yemenite Songs° LP has been
called "remarkable."
Born in the poor Hatikuah Quarter of Tel
Aviv, Ofra took up theatre and music in
a local workshop at the age of 12. Her
career was temporarily interrupted when
she joined the army after completing
high school. When she resumed singing,
however, she quickly rose to the top and,
by her early twenties, has become one
of the idols of her generation.
Featuring
Featuring
GADI ELON
JEFFREY BIEGEL
Noted for interpretations
of Israeli songs
Gadi Elon is a successful singer, actor,
dancer, master of ceremonies, com-
edian, balladeer and folksinger. His
versatility stems from his years as a
jack-of-all-trades performer with one
of Israel's most famous armed forces
entertainment troupes.
A dynamic performer in any medium,
Elon has moved freely from appearance
in Shakespeare's "Richard III" to the
"Catus Flower" to the nightclubs of Lon-
don, NewYork, and Sydney. "Atop-flight
talent" is what the Philadelphia Inquirer
has called him.
Among the best
of the young pianists
According to the New Yorklimes, Jeffrey
Biegel "will soon be mentioned with the
best of the current crop of pianists."
In 1986 he has received the Juilliard
School's prestigious William Petschek
Piano Debut Award. In 1985 he won the
University of Maryland International
Piano Festival and Competition. In 1984
he was a prize winner at the Leeds
Competition in England.
The son of a New York City policeman,
Biegel is working on his doctorate at
Juilliard. He has performed with the
National Symphony Orchestra and
the Juilliard Philharmonia.
WITH THE MUSIC OF MACK PITT AND HIS ORCHESTRA
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1986, 7:30 PM
FORD AUDITORIUM
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Phone 569-1515
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Friday, October 10, 1986
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
NEWS
Israel Appoints Three
West Bank Mayors
Aviv (JTA) — Israel and
Jordan are collaborating
unofficially in a policy to
eliminate PLO influence in
the West Bank which has
already drastically reduced
terrorist activity in the ter-
ritory, Defense Minister Yit-
zhak Rabin disclosed in an in-
terview published in Maariv
last week.
He said the appointment of
local Arab leaders to serve as
mayors of three of the West
Bank's largest towns was
part of that policy and in fact
was undertaken at Jordan's
initiative. It was announced
that Abdel Majid E-Zir, Halil
Mussa Hall and Hassan A-
Tawil have been named the
mayors of Hebron, Ramallah
and El Bireh respectively,
replacing the Israel Defense
Force officers who previously
governed the towns.
Rabin said the three apoint-
ees were tacitly approved by
Jordan and agreed to by
Israel after it was ascertained
that they were acceptable to
the local population and had
no connections with the Pal-
estine Liberation Organi-
zation.
This step is part of the
ongoing war against ter-
rorism and strengthening of
moderate elements, Rabin
said. He reported that King
Hussein in Jordan has en-
couraged moderate elements
in the territory and poured
money into circles favorable
to his Hashemite regime.
Rabin said that Israel was
prepared for an upsurge of
terrorism in 1984 when Hus-
sein permitted the opening of
PLO offices in Amman. But
Jordan changed its policy
sharply after Hussein broke
with PLO activists who were
detained or expelled from Jor-
dan, Rabin said. The new at-
titude and policies of both
Jordan and Israel has re-
sulted in a significant reduc-
tion of terrorist attacks.
Since February, terrorist
activity in the West Bank fell
by 50 percent and there has
been a 70 percent drop in the
number of casualties at-
tributable to terrorist acts,
Rabin said, compared to the
same period last year.
Meanwhile, Gen. Epharaim
Sneh, head of the civil ad-
mistration in the West Bank,
stressed in a radio interview
that the appointment of Arab
mayors should not be con-
strued as a beginning of the
unilateral implementation of
autonomy by Israel.
In Washington, the State
Department welcomed the
appointment of the three
mayors. "We welcome the
restoration of Arab authority
to West Bank municipalities,"
State Department deputy
spokesman Charles Redman
said. "We are hopeful that
means can be found to restore
Arab control in other towns
in the occupied territories."
Meanwhile, Prime Minister
Shimon Peres revealed that
outrageous and unacceptable
demands by PLO chief Yasir
Arafat led to the rift between
him and Hussein last Febru-
ary after the Jordanian ruler
had tried for more than a year
to bring the PLO into the
Middle East peace process.
Appearing before the Knes-
set's Foreign Affairs and
Security Committee, Peres
said Hussein broke with Ara-
fat after the latter insisted on
measures which would have
enhanced the status of the
PLO in any future Palestin-
ian-Jordanian confederation
in the West Bank and Gaza.
According to Peres, Arafat
wanted an independent Pal-
estinian army, rotation of the
confederation's leadership,
meaning Hussein would at
some point step down as ruler
of Jordan, representation in
joint institutions of the con-
federation and a separate
flag. Hussein rejected those
demands out of hand, Peres
said.
Israel To Bare
South African,
Arab 'Wade Link
United Nations (JTA) —
The Israel Mission to the
United Nations last week
launched a campaign to ex-
pose the multi-billion dollar
oil trade between Arab coun-
tries, Iran and South Africa
in response to the constant
allegations by Arab countries
in the UN that Israel is a ma-
jor trading partner of South
Africa.
In coming weeks, the Israel
Mission will release informa-
tion to the United Nations
which indicates that the Arab
countries and Iran sold some
US 7.7 billion worth of oil to
South Africa between 1980
and 1986 and Iran and Iraq
each bartered about US 1
billion of oil in exchange for
heavy artillery.
The Israel Mission has cor-
roborated the data on the oil
trade with data supplied by
the Shipping Research
Bureau in the Netherlands,
an independent group set up
to monitor the UN oil em-
bargo on South Africa, a Mis-
sion spokesman, Eyal Arad,
said.
Information on the barter
deals also came from the
Voyages Registry of Lloyds of
London, an insurance
company.
UN Ambassador Binyamin
Netanyahu told a gathering
of the American Jewish Con-
gress that the Arab countries
and Iran are secretly supply-
ing South African with vir-