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Question Of Land Purchase In Israel's
Administered Territories Hotly Debated
PASSOVER
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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        ",,
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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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