THE JEWISH NEWS
SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEPTEMBER 23, 1988 / 12 TISHREI 5749
THIS ISSUE 60(P
Spy Satellite Claim Rejected
Israeli officials say the launching of Ofek One gives
Israel a technological advantage, not a military one
LONG DISTANCE RABBI
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Jerusalem (JTA) — Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir this week
praised Israel's scientific and
technological communities for design-
ing and building the country's first
communications satellite, launched
on Monday.
Israel launched the small test
satellite from an undisclosed site,
becoming the eighth country in the
world capable of sending an object in-
to orbit. The other nations to have
done so are the United States, the
Soviet Union, Great Britain, India,
Japan, China and France.
State Department spokesman
Charles Redman said the United
States was not involved in the
launching of the satellite, dubbed
"Ofek (Horizon) One."
Redman had no comment on
whether the United States supports
the claim the satellite could be used
for military purposes.
"Israel's leaders have stressed
that the role of the satellite launch is
for peaceful purposes of space
research and technological advance-
ment," he said.
Israeli officials insisted that Ofek
is not a "spy satellite," despite reports
in the foreign media predicting for the
past several weeks that Israel would
launch one.
Shamir said the satellite will
have no effect on the regional arms
race, but does put Israel into the
"technological race." With the launch-
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Foreign Minister Shimon Peres
agreed that the Ofek launching was
not a military move. He observed that
"the problem is not one of borders or
the level of our technological prowess,
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Campaign Starts
With $9 Million
Forty two- and three-generation
families of contributors pledged
$9,088,000 to the 1989 Allied Jewish
Campaign at the 13th annual "Fisher
Meeting" for major contributors.
The same individuals who gave
$8,075,000 to start the 1988 Cam-
paign increased their pledges by
$1,013,000 for 1989. In addition,
$1,020,000 in new funds was pledged
for Project Renewal, in which Detroit
is teamed with the Neot Shazar
neighborhood of Yavneh.
CLOSE-UP
POWER of
ATTORNEY
ing, it has gained an important
prestige advantage, he said.
Monday's meeting took place at
the home of Max and Marjorie Fisher.
Although there were no formal
speeches, two participants in the re-
cent inter-generational mission to
Poland and Israel described the emo-
tional impact.
They were Eric Borman and
David Sherman. Borman's father,
Paul, and Sherman's mother, Jane,
are 1989 Campaign chairmen. Max
Fisher is David Sherman's grand-
father.