People of Israel Require Our Help!
A Call to Action to Detroit Jewry

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Israel's gates must be kept open and Israel must be made secure. The most
serious problem since 1948 now challenges all of us, through the current emer-
gency appeal of our Allied Jewish Campaign. Call to Action, Pages 12, 13

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Commentary, Page 2

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VOLUME 28—No. 16

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Five Peace Conditions Offered by Jewish State

Rioting in Old Jerusalem; Israel
Aids in Protecting Consular Corps

DirPet JTA TPIt•type Wirt to The Jewish News

$105.146.035 Goal Set for UJA
For 1956; Spur Special Drive
For Extra Fund of $25.000.000

NEW YORK, (JTA)—T'he sum of $105,146,035 will be sought by the United Jewish
Appeal in 1956, the UJA annual national conference decided Sunday. More than
1,400 delegates from all parts of the country attended the two - day conference and
heard a report on the 1956 budgetary req uirements of the U J A member agencies.
These agencies—United Israel Appeal, Joint Distribution Committee and New Y o r c
Association for New American'—require a total of $153.146.037 to carry out the
programs in the coming year. The difference between the full financial needs and
what will be asked by the UJA—M8,000.000----is anticipated from German reparations.
the Conference on Jewish Material Claims and other sources.
The 1956 fund-raising effort of the U.TA will not be confined to its regular campaign
but will also incluee the raisin.' of a S25,000,900 Special Furd. over and above the amount
expected through the regular UJA to cover all costs of settling North Africa immigrants
in Israel.
More than $17,000,000 has been nledged so far by 40 Jewish communities toward
the United Jewish Appeal Special Fund drive for $25,000,000 to finance the emigration
to Israel of 45,000 Jews from North Africa, it was reported by Joseph Mazer, national
chairman of the UJA special fund campaign.
(The Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit has assumed a goal of $1,230,000 towards
the national $25,000,000 special fund.)
The USA received "a mandate" from its 18th annual national conference to press
forward vigorously with the raisins of the extraordinary special fund and at the same
time made way for the raising of the highest possible amount "to assure the continua-
tion of immigrant settlement in Israel at a time when Israel's people are girding them-
selves to meet terrible challenges before them."
Mrs. Golda Mverson, Minister of Labor in the Government of Israel. principal
speaker at the conference. scored Egyptian Premier Nasser's "accumulation of arms
while setting up a smokescreen of talk about peace.
"In Jerusalem, we see no single reason why Mr. Nasser's protestations regarding
his desire for peace should be taken at their face value,' she declared..
"When we see Nasser accumulating arms," Mrs. Myerson stated, "we in Israel can
only come to the conclusion that one and one equais two."
With respect to Israel's policies and actions, Mrs. Myerson said:
"I challenge anybody anywhere to prove one single instance of Israel aggression
against its Arab neighbors. I am speaking of any act taken on the initiative of the
Israel government without provocation.
"There have been acts of retaliation," she asserted, "but that is because we have
the audacity to believe that Israeli blood is as important as the blood of anyone else."
In addition to the re-election of William Rosenwald as general chairman, the dele-
gates returned Edward M. M. Warburg of New York to the presidency of the UJA. and
re-elected Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman as the Appeal's executive vice-chairman.
Joseph Meyerhoff, of Baltimore. and Fred Forman, of Rochester, N. Y., were
named chairman and vice-chairman of the UJA's top level National Campaign Cabinet.
Samuel H. Daroff, of Philadelphia, was elected one of the UJA's seven national chairmen.

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ICT•JA'S Top '56 Leaders:

The national conference of the United
Jewish Appeal, held in New York, elected these top leaders to direct the 1956 nation-
wide UJA campaign: From the left: WILLIAM ROSENWALD, of New Yqrk, general
chairman; SAMUEL DAROFF, of Philadelphia, national chairman; JOSEPH MEYERHOFF.
of Baltimore, chairman of National Campaign Cabinet, and Mrs. HENRY NEWMAN. of
Kansas City, chairman of the National Women's Division.

JERUSALEM — The United States Consul General in
Jordan has asked the Israel Foreign Minister whether, in
the event of necessity, Israel would permit American citi-
zens in Jordan to cross into Israel without formalities on
Christmas. The report said the Israel Foreign Office agreed
immediately. About 20 or 30 Americans are said to have
been assembled in the Old City of Jerusalem near the
Mandelbaum Gate, awaiting further instructions.
United Nations observers have already moved their
families from the Old City to Jewish Jerusalem. Various
foreign Consuls in Jordan have been evacuated.
The American Consulate in the Old City was reported
under attack by Arab mobs. The United States flag was
torn down and the building was defaced, but no American
personnel were reported injured.
Meanwhile. Col. Abdul Halim, the Arab Legion's com-
manding officer of Jordan forces in the Old City, called
his counterpart in Israel, Col. Chaim Herzog, Tuesday, to
inform him that any firing heard in the Old City was not
aimed at Israel but was an "internal" matter. Although the
shooting has not been heard in Israel, Israelis in quarters
near the Old City have heard shouting of anti-British and
anti-Iraqi slogans from across the demarcation line.
A report from Amman Tuesday said that King Hussein
had named Fawzi El-Mulki, Premier in 1953 and 1954, to
head the caretaker government until a new parliament is
elected. El-Mulki is violently anti-Jewish and opposed talks
to convert the truce to an armistice.

Israel's Five-Point Peace Plan

Direct .JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News

(JTA) A five-point plan to serve as
a basis for an Arab-Israel peace settlement has been out-
lined by Israel to the State Department.
The plan makes it clear that Israel rejects arbitrary
cession of territory or resettlement of Arab refugees inside
the Jewish State. However, on a basis of mutuality and
reciprocity within the framework of a general peace settle-
ment, Israel has notified the State Department of its readi-
ness to consider the following:
(Continued on Page 3)

WASHINGTON

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Dr. Silver Named Chairman
Of Board for Israel. Bonds

Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, of Cleveland, outstanding Amer-
ican Jewish leader in the movement for the upbuilding of
Israel, was named to serve as chairman of the board of
governors of the State of Israel
Bond campaign.
The designation of Dr. Silver
to key national leadership of the
Israel Bond drive was announced
by Abraham Feinberg, president
of the Israel Bond Organization.
Dr. Silver accepted the post
in response to an invitation from
Levi Eshkol, Minister of Finance
of Israel, who urged his partici-
pation in the top leadership of the
Israel Bond campaign as a means
of bringing about the fullest mobi=
lization of all forces in American
Jewish life for a united effort to
strengthen the economic growth Dr. Abba Hillel Silver
of Israel at a time of serious crisis. The last occupant of
this post was Henry Morgenthau, Jr., a former Secretary
of the U. S. Treasury.
During the past five years the sale of Israel Bonds has
raised more than $200,000,000 for the industrial and agri-
cultural development of the State of Israel.
In commenting on Dr. Silver's assumption of his new
post, Moshe Sharett, Foreign Minister of the State of
Israel, said:
"His dynamism and drive played an outstanding part
in the political struggle for the establishment of the State
of Israel. They will stand Israel in good stead when har-
nessed to the task of mobilizing the resources so urgently
required to accelerate Israel's progress, buttress her security
and hasten the attainment of her economic independence."

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