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VOL. 55 No. 47
NOVEMBER 17,1977 - KISLEV 7
Israeli Jets Attack Terrorist Bases In Lebanon
Golda Meets With Hubert
.WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former Israeli Prime
Minister Golda Meir, in Washington to meet with
President Carter, happily embraces Sen. Hubert H.
Humphrey (D.-Minn.) during a brief chat in the
senator's office.
Later, commenting on her discussion with Carter, ■
the former Prime Minister said that they disagreed
about the President's policy on convening Middle East
' peace talks and his support of a homeland for-
Palestmians. Responding to a question on the home¬
land issue, she replied, "It is not necessary for the
Palestinians. It's dangerous for Israel. It is a threat to
Israel's existence and of no necessity for Palestinian
'   refugees,''       ...
REMGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO
NOTES FROM ISRAEL
The Egged Bus
By Aaron J, Leventhal
Editor's Note: Aaron J. Leventhal is
director of the Ohio State university
Hillel Foundation. He is currently on a
sabbatlclal in Israel and Will write
throughout the year ol his Impres¬
sions, experiences and intuitions.
For me the most vivid
symbol of Israel has always
been the Egged Bus. It. is
often a battered up old tub,
scarred from years of use
and abuse, seemingly incap¬
able of dragging itself
around another bend.' Yet
somehow miraculously it
moves- briskly throughout
the land, through dusty de¬
velopment towns,_crowded
streets, winding' mountain
passes and hot desert sands.
In a sense the Egged
' stands as a dramatic testi¬
monythat everything has
changed or is changing in
Israel and yet in some;
strange and mysterious way
nothing has reaUy changed
'that matters.
I first began my love affair
with Israel 15 years ago
when the country was half its
age arid practically every¬
one rode the Egged; Tbday
many more cars, choke the
highways   but  Egged  re¬
mains jammed full, and one
of the last remaining bar-;
gains around. A trip from -
Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, about
70 kUpmeters, cost under $2.
less than what a gallon of gas?
goesfortoday.  .'■'?'.
Egged like Israel, how-
.;■ ij jeyer,;is muchi more thqnits
physical surface. In its body
rides the heart and soul of
Israel, its' people. I know of
no other place where the
diversity and complexity of
humanity is so graphically in
evidence that on the Egged.
Men and women with
toughened hands and tat¬
tered clothing from working
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By Yitzhak Shargil
and Gil Sedan
(Copyright 1977^ JTA, Inc.)
TEL AVIV, (JTA) -
Israeli jets attacked ter¬
rorist bases, encampments
and training centers in
southwestern Lebanon Nov.
9 and returned safely to their
bases. The air strike, the
first in Lebanon in two
years, was announced by
Chief of Staff Gen. Mor-
dechau Gur.
He said it was ordered in
retaliation for the terrorist
rocket attacks on Nahariya
that claimed three lives, in¬
jured five and did extensive
damage earlier in the week.
Gur said the aircraft were in
action between 7:35-8:40
a.m. Jocal time and carried
out their attacks on terrorist
targets in a coastal strip ten
kilometers wide extending
from the town of Tyre to the
Israeli border.
He insisted that the targets
were not places inhabited by
civilians and that there were
no known Lebanese or
Syrian army units in their
■ vicinity._ Reports from
Beirut claimed the Israeli
plans had bombed civilians
in refugee camps. The air at-
' tack followed heavy shelling
of terrorist targets by Israeli
artillery Nov. 8.
Gur said the rocket at¬
tacks on Nahirya indicated
that the terrorists have re¬
sumed their warfare against
Israeli civilians. He said
Israel wanted to preserve
the cease-fire in southern
. Lebanon and called on
Syrian forces there to put a
stop to terrorist activity.
The chief of staff said the
terrorist rocket attacks
could    not    have    been
launched without the knowl¬
edge of the Syrians. Gur
stressed   that   no   Israeli
Comic Van Harris To Headline
Sunday's Scholarship Dinner
Van Harris, the "borscht
belt" comic, will headline
Torah Academy's annual
Scholarship Dinner on Sun:
dayj Nov. 20 at the Sheraton-
Columbus at 6:30 p.m.
Harris, who- uses the
family and current events as
his laugh material, is noted
for his ability to cause his au¬
diences to experience non¬
stop laughing.
The annual dinner will
benefit the preservation and
continuation of Jewish edu¬
cation provided to the Co¬
lumbus community by, the
Columbus Torah Academy.
An example of the creative
education received at the
school will be shown through;
a class presentation written;
and produced by Ruth
Abramson and featuring the
7th grade.
t;; Chairpersons, fpr ^9 event,
ground or naval forces were 1
involved in the retaliatory
action.
U.S. Urges Restraint On Border
By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON, (JTA) -The State Department said
Nov. 9 that it was urging "all concerned" to exercise
restraint in order to end the new flare-up of warfare
along the Israeli-Lebanese border but pointedly re¬
fused to condemn Israel's air strike against terrorist
bases in' southwestern Lebanon in retaliation for ter¬
rorist rocket attacks on Nahariya.
Department spokesman John Trattner also said, at
the press briefing, that the U.S. position "remains only
that a permanent solution to security in southern
Lebanon lies with restoration of Lebanese authority in
the area." 1
Asked for an assessment of the rocket attack and the
air strike, Trattner said, "We, of course, deplore the
loss of life and injury on both sides of the border. Again
we urge all concerned to act with restraint in order to
restore the cease-fire in southern Lebanon and we are
Continuing intensive diplomatic action toward this end
with the government concerned. Our position remains '
only that a permanent solution to security in southern
Lebanon lies with restoration of Lebanese authority in
the area. We call on all concerned to do all that they
can to help the Lebanese government bring this
about."
Pressed to name the governments concerned,
Trattner named Lebanon and Israel but said he was
"not limiting'the list" to those two countries. Asked
why the State Department did not mention Syria which
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Men's ORT To Honor
PatGraysonOnDec.il
The American ORT Feder¬
ation and Columbus Men's
ORT will pay tribute to Pat
G. Grayson at their annual
testimonial dinner on Sun¬
day evening, Dec. 11 at the
Winding Hollow Country
Club.
A grandmother of three
and the wife of Elliot Gray¬
son, Mrs. Grayson was a
pioneer in Columbus ORT.
She was a founder and the
first president of the Colum¬
bus Men's ORT will pay tri¬
bute to Pat G. Grayson at
their annual testimonial din¬
ner on Sunday evening, Dec.
11 at the Winding Hollow
Country Club,
A grandmother of three
and the wife of Elliot Gray¬
son, Mrs. Grayson was a
pioneer in' Columbus ORT.
She was a founder and the
Pat Grayson
first president of the Colum¬
bus chapter-at-large of
Women's American ORT 16
years ago. She led that first
ORT presence in Columbus
through its infancy to later
become chairwoman of the
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Van Harris
are Debbie Kaplan, Jackie
Yenkin and DeeDee
Cflimcher. Other workers in¬
clude: Carol Shkolnik and
Carl Schwartz, tickets; Thea
Press, ad book; Al Shames,
program; Ruth Abramson,
presentation; Beverly Bornr
stein, publicity; Hope Katz,
decorations; Sue Portman,
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On Nov. 8, Premier1
Menachem Begin declared
that the days are over "when
terrorists of the so-called
PLO can-launch deadly as¬
saults upon us and we stand
idly by." Addressing the 10th
anniversary dinner of the
Variety Club of Israel in
Jerusalem he accused the
Soviet Union of supplying the
PLO with "sophisticated
weapons with which to kill
innocent men, women and
children." .'■■ ?
But he said Israel had no
interest in escalating, the
situation on the Lebanese
border and urged that the
cease-fire -be maintained.
The Variety Club laid the
cornerstone of a $5 million
child and family develop¬
ment and rehabilitation cen¬
ter in Jerusalem.
Poland Returns
Collection Of Rare
Hasidic Writings
PHILADELPHIA, (JTA)
— A collection representing
the writings and libraries pf
five generations of Hasidic
leaders in Eastern Europe
was unpacked before televi¬
sion cameras in the presence
of dignitaries and well-wish¬
ers at .Independence Hall
last week. The 240 books and
130 manuscripts believed
lost when their last owner,
Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneer-
son, the sixth Lubavitcher
Rebbe, fled from Poland to
the United States in 1940,
were formally turned over
by the Polish government at
the ceremonies here cul¬
minating three years of ne¬
gotiations initiated by the
Philadelphia Friends of
Lubavitch, according to I.J.
Blynn, writing in the Jewish
Exponent.
The handwritten manu¬
scripts and books, some dat¬
ing from the 15th century,'
were discovered by a re-'
• searcher in the collection of
the Jewish Historical Insti-
. tute of Warsaw, established
by the Polish government
after World War II.
In 1974; „Rabbi Abraham
Shemtov, director of the
Philadelphia Lubavitcher
Center and Leonard Gold-
fine, chairman of the Phila¬
delphia Friends of Luba¬
vitch, approached Edward
Piszek, a businessman of
Polish extraction who had
donated more than a half
million dollars in medical
equipment to the Polish gov¬
ernment.
His contacts with the War
saw regime helped open ne¬
gotiations aimed at securing
the collection. They were
carried out in what Goldfine
described as • "an
atmosphere, of friendship
and good wilL';': 1 ,.-444