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3g '8TH o-WO 'JtJtB^qTI *ov- -1 /^fV/ Serving Columbus, "Central'''arid Southwestern OhicHfaf/\\I *"T-)T«i j3Ti VOL. 51 NO. 15 APRIL 12, 1973 - NISAN\ tO Otvilrd I, Imrintn ind l,wtiti U„k \ Question Of Land Purchase In Israel's Administered Territories Hotly Debated PASSOVER IOTA TEL AVIV, (JTA) - Mapam said on April 4 it would vigorously oppose Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's demand that Jews be allowed to freely pur¬ chase land from Arabs in the administered territories. At a meeting of the party's political committee here, Mapam's political secretary Naftali Feder accused Dayan of "heaping new obstacles on the path of peace." He called the Defense Minister's proposal "creeping annexation" and warned that "any deviation from the status quo will intensify our annexationist image in the eyes of the world." Jews are officially barred from buying land in tfieySmaria and Judaea regions, though according to a_State Comptroller's report, fairly large transaction^ have taken place though they have not been recorded in the official lands registry Dayan's proposals would formalize a de facto situation, observers here have noted. Transportation Minister Shimon Peres said in Haifa that he would support a government decision to permit land purchases in the territories by Jewish firms and individuals as long as they were made with the free agreement of the sellers and were not intended for political ■'. purposes or economic speculation. It was .learned meanwhile v that Jordanianj religious leaders 'havebanned the sale of land inthe territories to Jews and branded any Arab, who sells land to a traitor. The Mapam an¬ nouncement followed a report that a compromise suggestion by Justice- Minister Yaacov Shimshon Shapiro on the issue is ex¬ pected to be approved by the Cabinet, ending a burgeoning dispute between ministers on the question The proposal calls for a government authority — problably the Israel Lands * Authority — to be em- Passover Message From The President Of The United Jewish Fund And Council Each year we gather with friends and family for the Passover Holiday to relive the spirit and promise of the Exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt. We relive the glory of their deliverance and reflect upon the dream nurtured by the cry of VLet my People go!". We are moved by the implication of this cry as it concerns our brothers who continue to seek freedom from the op¬ pressed countries of the World Again Israel serves as the Promised Land! If is a dream of life and of new hope A dream that con¬ tinued 25 years after the establishment of the State of Israel —a dream fulfilled. As we read our Haggadah during the Passover about the Exodus in biblical times, we recall the continuing Exodus of "Operation Magic Carpet", "Operation Exra", Operation Nehemia" and today's drama of the Exodus of Soviet Jewry. The Promised Land has offered a new life of freedom to more than one million and a half homeless Jews during the past 25 years. As the dream continues — the costs rise even higher as time and again bur people have had to defend their cherished and hard-won freedom to keep that dream NORMAN MEIZLISH and the Promise to help those in need. World Jewry is linked with a 4,000 year old promise . —.. a solemn covenant which our an¬ cestors pledged to protect one another from op¬ pression, to care for one another in need. V Today, we who enjoy freedom from oppression and want, owe a debt to Jews before us, who during . centuries of persecution and sacrifice, Kept the Promise. Now it is we who»?have promises, to keep. To:Jews we brought from other lands and continue to bring to Israel; to the people of Israel who, as they struggle for survival, cannot meet their own vast human welfare needs; to the people of (CONTINUED ON PAGE 13) TEL AVIV (WNS) — Transport Ministry officials said they would fully cooperate with an International Civil Aviation Organization delegation which arrived here to investigate the Israeli downing of a Libyan airliner over Sinai Feb. 21. The group has visited Libya and Egypt in the course of their investigation. The team will study, tape recordings taken from the wreckage of the plane and is expected to interview the surviving Libyan co-pilot who is convalescing at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. ROME (WNS) — Israelis and Palestine Liberation Organization representatives may meet at the leftist- sponsored Bologna Conference on Peace in the Middle East scheduled for May 11-13 if El Fatah leader Yassir Arafat sends an ad hoc delegation. Conference sources said it would not be a formal delegation since Arafat, the PLO head faces considerable opposition from within the organization to sending anyone at all. An Israeli committee has been formed comprising representatives of Rakah Communists and'other op¬ position leftist groups including Brith Hasmol, Ha'olam and Siah. • $31 Million Made Available For Soviet Jewish Emigrants WASHINGTON, (JTA) - The United States made $31 million available on April 6 in three-cornered ceremonies *at the State ■Department fopV'thereset- Uernent (ofsSoviet Jewish emigrants in Israel. The funds, part of the $50 million appropriated by Congress for Soviet emigrants, will be turned over... to the United Israel Appeal which will then transfer them to the Jewish Agency which the UIA has designated to use it for Soviet emigration' to Israel. Frank Kellogg, special assistant to Secretary of State William P. Rogers for Refugee and Migration Affairs, Melvin Dubinsky of St. Louis, Chairman of the UIA Board and Gottlieb Hammer, UIA's executive vice-chairman . signed the documents for the transfer from the U.S. to UIA. ...;'..;. (CONTINUED ON PAGE .13) powered to approve or veto all land purchases by Jews in the territories under cnteria to be established by the Cabinet Shapiro's suggestion is midway bet¬ ween Defense Minister Dayan's call for unrestricted Jewish land purchases throughout the territories and the position of most other ministers who believe the government must control buying for political and military reasons The government has not allowed the transactions to be recorded in the land registries of the West Bank. As a result, the parties have been resorting to an irrevocable power of at¬ torney, whereby the vendor assigns to the purchaser tbe irrevocable right to do as lie pleases with the piece "of. land. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 111 ",, 4-^r\^ B. B. Caplan Top Solicitor For 72-73 Charity Newsies Dr. Benjamin B. Caplan was the man of the hour during the recent Charity Newsies Victory dinner at the Beulah Park Club House in Grove City. He is shown with the Victory Bell Trophy on which his name will be inscribed for being the top individual solicitor for funds during the 1972 drive which officially ended on that night. Dr. B.B., whose official corner was E. Main & Drexel in Bexley, personally accounted for $6,176-"He told the gathering at the dinner, I'm sorry my goal of $10,000 was not reached, but I promise it will be that total next December during the 1973 drive." He is already at work on his new goal, but presently is being interrupted while he is on a Medical Missionary visit to Gandor, Ethiopia. On his present mission; he is working with the Felashas, a group of Black Jews, one of the 10 original tribes of Judea. Presently, they are considered one of > the 15 poorest tribes without medical resources. At one time, there were as many as one million Falashas. The number is now. estimated as between 25,000 and 30,000 still living. His two month assignment will permit him to have Passover Services with the Felashas. It will be remembered that three years ago, his Passover was spent in Viet Nam, while on a medical mission. He looked up a nephew; in service with Uncle Sam, to be with during the Passover season. •■*.-».-■
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Title | Ohio Jewish Chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1973-04-12, page 01 |
Searchable Date | 1973-04-12 |
Full Text | 3g '8TH o-WO 'JtJtB^qTI *ov- -1 /^fV/ Serving Columbus, "Central'''arid Southwestern OhicHfaf/\\I *"T-)T«i j3Ti VOL. 51 NO. 15 APRIL 12, 1973 - NISAN\ tO Otvilrd I, Imrintn ind l,wtiti U„k \ Question Of Land Purchase In Israel's Administered Territories Hotly Debated PASSOVER IOTA TEL AVIV, (JTA) - Mapam said on April 4 it would vigorously oppose Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's demand that Jews be allowed to freely pur¬ chase land from Arabs in the administered territories. At a meeting of the party's political committee here, Mapam's political secretary Naftali Feder accused Dayan of "heaping new obstacles on the path of peace." He called the Defense Minister's proposal "creeping annexation" and warned that "any deviation from the status quo will intensify our annexationist image in the eyes of the world." Jews are officially barred from buying land in tfieySmaria and Judaea regions, though according to a_State Comptroller's report, fairly large transaction^ have taken place though they have not been recorded in the official lands registry Dayan's proposals would formalize a de facto situation, observers here have noted. Transportation Minister Shimon Peres said in Haifa that he would support a government decision to permit land purchases in the territories by Jewish firms and individuals as long as they were made with the free agreement of the sellers and were not intended for political ■'. purposes or economic speculation. It was .learned meanwhile v that Jordanianj religious leaders 'havebanned the sale of land inthe territories to Jews and branded any Arab, who sells land to a traitor. The Mapam an¬ nouncement followed a report that a compromise suggestion by Justice- Minister Yaacov Shimshon Shapiro on the issue is ex¬ pected to be approved by the Cabinet, ending a burgeoning dispute between ministers on the question The proposal calls for a government authority — problably the Israel Lands * Authority — to be em- Passover Message From The President Of The United Jewish Fund And Council Each year we gather with friends and family for the Passover Holiday to relive the spirit and promise of the Exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt. We relive the glory of their deliverance and reflect upon the dream nurtured by the cry of VLet my People go!". We are moved by the implication of this cry as it concerns our brothers who continue to seek freedom from the op¬ pressed countries of the World Again Israel serves as the Promised Land! If is a dream of life and of new hope A dream that con¬ tinued 25 years after the establishment of the State of Israel —a dream fulfilled. As we read our Haggadah during the Passover about the Exodus in biblical times, we recall the continuing Exodus of "Operation Magic Carpet", "Operation Exra", Operation Nehemia" and today's drama of the Exodus of Soviet Jewry. The Promised Land has offered a new life of freedom to more than one million and a half homeless Jews during the past 25 years. As the dream continues — the costs rise even higher as time and again bur people have had to defend their cherished and hard-won freedom to keep that dream NORMAN MEIZLISH and the Promise to help those in need. World Jewry is linked with a 4,000 year old promise . —.. a solemn covenant which our an¬ cestors pledged to protect one another from op¬ pression, to care for one another in need. V Today, we who enjoy freedom from oppression and want, owe a debt to Jews before us, who during . centuries of persecution and sacrifice, Kept the Promise. Now it is we who»?have promises, to keep. To:Jews we brought from other lands and continue to bring to Israel; to the people of Israel who, as they struggle for survival, cannot meet their own vast human welfare needs; to the people of (CONTINUED ON PAGE 13) TEL AVIV (WNS) — Transport Ministry officials said they would fully cooperate with an International Civil Aviation Organization delegation which arrived here to investigate the Israeli downing of a Libyan airliner over Sinai Feb. 21. The group has visited Libya and Egypt in the course of their investigation. The team will study, tape recordings taken from the wreckage of the plane and is expected to interview the surviving Libyan co-pilot who is convalescing at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. ROME (WNS) — Israelis and Palestine Liberation Organization representatives may meet at the leftist- sponsored Bologna Conference on Peace in the Middle East scheduled for May 11-13 if El Fatah leader Yassir Arafat sends an ad hoc delegation. Conference sources said it would not be a formal delegation since Arafat, the PLO head faces considerable opposition from within the organization to sending anyone at all. An Israeli committee has been formed comprising representatives of Rakah Communists and'other op¬ position leftist groups including Brith Hasmol, Ha'olam and Siah. • $31 Million Made Available For Soviet Jewish Emigrants WASHINGTON, (JTA) - The United States made $31 million available on April 6 in three-cornered ceremonies *at the State ■Department fopV'thereset- Uernent (ofsSoviet Jewish emigrants in Israel. The funds, part of the $50 million appropriated by Congress for Soviet emigrants, will be turned over... to the United Israel Appeal which will then transfer them to the Jewish Agency which the UIA has designated to use it for Soviet emigration' to Israel. Frank Kellogg, special assistant to Secretary of State William P. Rogers for Refugee and Migration Affairs, Melvin Dubinsky of St. Louis, Chairman of the UIA Board and Gottlieb Hammer, UIA's executive vice-chairman . signed the documents for the transfer from the U.S. to UIA. ...;'..;. (CONTINUED ON PAGE .13) powered to approve or veto all land purchases by Jews in the territories under cnteria to be established by the Cabinet Shapiro's suggestion is midway bet¬ ween Defense Minister Dayan's call for unrestricted Jewish land purchases throughout the territories and the position of most other ministers who believe the government must control buying for political and military reasons The government has not allowed the transactions to be recorded in the land registries of the West Bank. As a result, the parties have been resorting to an irrevocable power of at¬ torney, whereby the vendor assigns to the purchaser tbe irrevocable right to do as lie pleases with the piece "of. land. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 111 ",, 4-^r\^ B. B. Caplan Top Solicitor For 72-73 Charity Newsies Dr. Benjamin B. Caplan was the man of the hour during the recent Charity Newsies Victory dinner at the Beulah Park Club House in Grove City. He is shown with the Victory Bell Trophy on which his name will be inscribed for being the top individual solicitor for funds during the 1972 drive which officially ended on that night. Dr. B.B., whose official corner was E. Main & Drexel in Bexley, personally accounted for $6,176-"He told the gathering at the dinner, I'm sorry my goal of $10,000 was not reached, but I promise it will be that total next December during the 1973 drive." He is already at work on his new goal, but presently is being interrupted while he is on a Medical Missionary visit to Gandor, Ethiopia. On his present mission; he is working with the Felashas, a group of Black Jews, one of the 10 original tribes of Judea. Presently, they are considered one of > the 15 poorest tribes without medical resources. At one time, there were as many as one million Falashas. The number is now. estimated as between 25,000 and 30,000 still living. His two month assignment will permit him to have Passover Services with the Felashas. It will be remembered that three years ago, his Passover was spent in Viet Nam, while on a medical mission. He looked up a nephew; in service with Uncle Sam, to be with during the Passover season. •■*.-».-■ |
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