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Tuesday, August 16
HAYDN:
Symphony No. 6
BEETHOVEN:
Symphony No. 5
MUSSORGSKY-GORCHAKOV:
Pictures at an Exhibition
Thursday, August 18
MENDELSSOHN:
Hebrides Overture
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Symphony No. 4 ("Italian")
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Symphony No. 1
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G.B. Shaw
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anything for yourself." said
Balfour. "But you must
want something. What is
it?"
Weizmann answered: "I
want Jerusalem:'
And, since Jerusalem
didn't belong to Balfour, he
was quite ready to balance
the account by handing it
over.
The malevolence was ap-
parent, not only because of
the taunting but because it
was uttered soon after the
barbaric Krystalnacht, as the
Holocaust had already
commenced.
Therefore, the Shaw record
is polluted with prejudice. A
book note makes certain that
the evil in the record of the
famous dramatist is not eras-
ed from memory.
Demographic
Effects On
Israel Election
I
srael's demography has
undergone a revolution-
ary evolution. From a
Western European domina-
tion there is now a drastic
change. They are no longer
the Ashkenazim, the Jews
from Eastern and Western
Europe, who are the economic
and cultural leaders in a
country that has developed
amidst Middle Eastern in-
fluences. Now it is the
Sephardim who are the power
population-wise. The change
occasions serious considera-
tions affecting the nation's
future acting and thinking.
The population change is
expected inevitably to affect
the Israeli election in less
than four months and leader-
ship may be seriously af-
fected, with Likud making a
strong appeal for total
domination.
The complexities that
emerged from a coalition
government whose tackling of
the existing crisis is meeting
with much condemnation
may have an influence on
changing responses to the
political appeals. Meanwhile,
the Sephardic majority's lean-
ings toward Likud is treated
with great respect.
The changes that have
taken place influence the
studies being conducted by
the media and on an
academic basis. They provide
a knowledge of the
background of the settlers
who now exert their view-
points on citizens who are
soon to select a new
government.
Resulting data, made
available with the assistance
of Israel Central Bureau of
Statistics, have produced this
important chart that sup-
plements a front page article
in the New York Times by
Joel Brinkley:
Jewish Roots
Europe, the Americas,
other
1,336,700
Poland
302,100
Soviet Union
293,200
Romania
278,500
Germany,
Austria
91,300
Czech, Hungary . . 86,700
Bulgaria, Greece 64,800
U.S., Canada,
Australia, Latin America,
other
220,100
Africa
781,700
Morocco
483,000
Algeria, Tunisia . 124,900
Libya
77,100
Egypt, Sudan
65,300
Other Africa
31,400
Asia
747,600
Iraq
266,900
Yemen,
Southern Yemen . 165,000
Iran
126,200
Turkey
91,400
India, Pakistan,
other Asia
98,100
These figures have special
significance in their indica-
tion of the large scale escape
of Jews from Arab lands into
Israel. In the Jewish-Arab
disputes these figures provide
a knowledge of how extensive
was the Jewish flight from
Islamic rulers, with the sug-
gestions of the wealth that
was left by them and was con-
fiscated from Jews by Arab
rulers.
There is the clear indication
here of the claims Jews have
upon lands from which they
fled or were expelled in what
might prove an exchange of
claims for compensation, if
they were ever to arise.
NEWS
'Tax Break
Violates Law'
New York — The Internal
Revenue Service does not
have the right to deny tax
deductibility for gifts to
religious organizations, even
when the donations are made
in exchange for conseling ser-
vices, according to two na-
tional Jewish groups.
In a joint friend-of-the-court
brief filed in the United
States Supreme Court, the
American Jewish Congress
and the National Jewish
Community Relations Ad-
visory Council (NJCRAC),
told the high court that the
IRS erred in ruling that fees
paid to the Church of Scien-
tology were not deductible as
gifts because they were ac-
tually payments for services.