Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
KEVIN, JODI & ADAM NEFF
MR. & MRS. SAM SHENKMAN
JACK & MARIANN MOORE
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year.
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
MICHELE & BRIAN SCHUBOT
REUBEN &
DOROTHY SHERMAN
SHIRLEY & MAURICE NEEMAN
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to all
our friends
and relatives.
to all
my friends
and relatives.
AGI, ZOLI, AMY,
RANDY RUBIN
HARRY SCHLOMPER
May the coming
year be filled
with health and
happiness for
all our family
and friends.
May the coming
year be filled
with health and
h4piness for
all our family
and friends.
MR. & MRS. ERWIN
KEPES
LEN & HAZEL NAKISHER
ROB, STEVE & MARC
May the coming
year be filled
with health and
happiness for
all our family
and friends.
May the coming
year be filled
with health and
happiness for
all our family
and friends.
RUDI'S BARBER SHOP
RUDI & BESS LEISER
MAX & LOLA PINES
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
STEVE & ANNA OLIWEK
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
ADELL & HERMAN OZROVITZ
To All Our
Relatives
and Friends,
Our wish for a
year filled with
happiness,
health and prosperity.
A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our Friends
and Family.
EDWARD & SHIRLEY ROSENBERG
HOWARD & BRENDA ROSENBERG
A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our Friends
and Family.
A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our Friends
and Family.
To All Our
Relatives
and Friends,
Our wish for a
year filled with
happiness,
health and prosperity.
THE SCHWARTZ FAMILY
BERNICE & NATE SCHECTER
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1988
ROBERT A., ROSALYN, JOEL,
HOWARD & MICHEL
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Lebanon Jews
Still Waiting
GEORGE E. GRUEN
Special to The Jewish News
New York — A poignant
public appeal for the release
of the body of Dr. Elie Hallak
was made by his anguished
widow, Rachel Hallak, and
their son Andre at an inter-
national conference in Paris
in May. Dr. Hallak was
known as "the doctor of the
poor" because he treated
without fee needy Lebanese
and Palestinian patients ir-
respective of party or creed.
He was kidnapped by the
Organization of the Oppress-
ed on Earth, a Lebanese
Shi'ite terrorist group, in
Beirut in March 1985. His ex-
ecution was announced on
Feb. 19, 1986, but his killers
have refused to release his
body.
New information on this
tragic case was provided by
Jean-Paul Kauffmann, the
French journalist, who was
one of the three French
hostages released by kidnap-
pers on May 4 as part of a
French-Iranian deal. Kauff-
man met Dr. Hallak when he
was brought in to treat
Michel Seurat, another
French hostage, who was dy-
ing of cancer.
Dr. Hallak had told Kauff-
man that he realized the
ominous significance that he
was the only hostage who was
not kept blindfolded
whenever their captors were
present. "I know that I will
never be released alive, since
I can identify the kidnap-
pers," he said. "They will kill
me simply because I am a
Jew." Nevertheless, Dr.
Hallak continued to serve all
who were ill, without regard
to his personal safety. These
included American as well as
French captives.
After her husband was kid-
napped, Mrs. Hallak return-
ed to Beirut from Paris, where
she had gone with her three
children to escape the chaos
in Lebanon. She spent 11
months in meetings with
Shi'ite leaders and the many
friends and former patients of
her husband in the hope of
securing his release. She
noted that she had treated
many Shi'ites during the
years she had worked as a
nurse at the American
University Hospital.
At first there were hopeful
signs that her efforts would
succeed. Dr. Hallak's kidnap-
Dr. George Gruen is director of
Middle East Affairs for the
American Jewish Committee.
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