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 yann 1111\1 111V2 vanDn I11111 illt13`2 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 140 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1988 ROBERT A., ROSALYN, JOEL, HOWARD & MICHEL I NEWS I 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. 3