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VOL. 56 NO. 21
MAY 25,1978-IYAR18
Soviet Delegation
In Israel To Take
In Celebration
TEL AVIV, May 21
(JTA)—A three-member
Soviet delegation is in Israel
to take part in the celebrations marking the 33rd anniversary of the Allied victory
over the Nazis. The
Russians, who are here as
guests of the Soviet-Israel
Friendship Movement, participated in the victory rally
yesterday at the Red Army
Forest near" Jerusalem. The
delegation comprises
Dimitri Mamalayev, deputy
editor of "Sovietskaya
Cultura;" Jewish World War
II hero Heinrich Hofman,
who was a pilot in the Soviet
airforce; and Yuri
Michayev, of the Novosti
News Agency.
Passengers Credit Security
With Thwarting Terrorists
Picture Taking Time
Former President Gerald Ford made time for some
picture taking during his recent visit with the Columbus Jewish Community. Shown above with the President and ' Ohio Governor James' Rhodes are Mrs.
Gerald H. Swedlow and N. Victor Goodman. Goodman
and Mrs. Swedlow served as chairman and co-chairperson respectively of the Israel 30 Coordinating Committee, a special committee set up by the Columbus
Jewish Federation to organize the May 15 gala affair.
Rabbis Presidency Assumed By Rabbi Switkin
Rabbi Sheldon W. Switkin,
spiritual leader of Congregation Tifereth Israel will
assume tHe Presidency of
the Columbus Board of
Rabbis on June 1st. Rabbi
Switkin plans to expand the
role of the Board of Rabbis
within the Jewish and
general community during
his administration.
During the past year, the
Board of Rabbis has offered
courses on Judaism for the
Jewish antj non-Jewish community, organized the annual Yom Hashoa memorial
service, a Yom Hazikoron
service in memory of Israeli
citizens' and soldiers who
gave their lives in the defense of their, country and
conducted seminars in the
public schools on the Holocaust theme.
In   addition,   individual
Rabbi Sheldon W. Switkin
members have participated
in numerous conferences
and special events as representatives of the religious
Jewish community.
Rabbi Switkin brings to
the Presidency- his experience as a former President of the St. Louis Rabbini
cal Association, a body of
over twenty Rabbis. In addi-
tion.he is an active member
of the New York and Chicago
Boards of Rabbis and serves
on the Rabbinical Advisory"
Council of the United Jewish
Appeal as well as the Chancellors Advisory Council of
the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America.
Rabbi Paul Golomb, co-
director of the Hillel Foundation will serve as Vice-Prei-
dent. Immediate Past-President is Rabbi David Stavsky
of Congregation Beth Jacob.
The Columbus Board of
Rabbis is an independent organization of the fellowship
of Orthodox, Conservative
and Reform Rabbinate and
is dedicated to the enhancement of religious life and to
the advancement of spiritual
values in our community.
By Edwin Eytan (Paris)
Yitzhak Shargil (Tel Aviv)
May 21 (JTA)—Passengers on an El Al flight from
Paris who had been targets
of an Arab terrorist
machinegun attack at Orley
Airport yesterday afternoon,
arrived at Ben Gurion Airport in the early hours this
morning with eyewitness accounts of the shoot-out. They
claimed that had it not been
for the alertness and instant
response of Israeli security
guards, the Lod Airport
massacre of May 30, 1972
would have been repeated.
The three terrorists were
killed in a hail of bullets near
the El Al boarding gate, but
not before one of them
fatally shot a French policeman, Two other policemen
and three passengers ,wait-
ing to board an Iberia Airline
flight to Malaga from an adjoining gate were wounded.
The arriving El Al
passengers credited- Israeli
security guards with
gunning down the terrorists.
Reports from Paris said
French police opened fire
killing the terrorists seconds
after they drew their
weapons. The eye-wtness
landed at Ben Gurion
Airport at 2 a.m. local time,
many hours late because
their departure from Paris
was delayed by the attack.
There were only about a
dozen passengers in the El
Al jumbo jet. Originally a
tourist party of over 200
French insurance agents
was to have made the flight
but the group cancelled their
trip after the shooting. The
arriving passengers said this
was because three of the
group were wounded but
reports from Paris said the
casualties were Iberia
Airline passengers and that
no El Al passengers were
hurt.
Cabinet Blasts Sale
JERUSALEM (WNS) -
The United States came
under sharp attack May 21
for its warplanes sales
package to Israel, Saudi
Arabia and Egypt. At the
same time, the Cabinet
deferred consideration / of
key questions about Israel's
peace proposals which the
U.S. had submitted last
month. Cabinet Secretary
Arye Naor said the ministers
I "had no time"- to deal with
the questions' the Carter Administration had posed to
Premier Menachem Begin
and Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan three weeks ago when
they were in Washington on
Israel's ideas for the future
of the West Bank after a five-
year period, assuming that
Israel's "self-rule" offer
was accepted., Naor told
reporters the Cabinet would
deal with that matter at a
later session. Some observers concluded that the
government was demonstrating its anger over the
aircraft package deal.
While government
officials did not directly
encourage that interpretation a statement read by
Naor left no doubt regarding
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Rabbi Marc Lee Raphael Elected
Rabbi Of Congregation Beth Shalom
Rabbi Marc Lee Raphael
has been elected Rabbi of
Beth Shalom and is now
providing the recently
established reform congregation with full rabbinic
services.
Rabbi Raphael had been
serving Beth Shalom,
founded in December of last
year, on a temporary basis
until the congregation could
organize, adopt a constitution and hold elections. He.
was elected unanimously at
the first business meeting of
the congregation held May 7.
An Associate Professor of
A Secret Chapter In Israel-Moroccan Contents
By Edwin Eytan
(Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.)
The French-Arab weekly,
"Jeune Afrique," recently
revealed a secret chapter of
purported close Israeli-
Moroccan contacts which
included a visit to Morocco
by Premier Yitzhak Rabin
and two similar visits by
Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan, the most recent of
them last January after
Dayan met with the Pope
and while he was supposed to
pay a one-day private visit to
Sicily, according to Jeune
Afrique.
The paper, earlier this
month, also said that
Premier Menachem Begin
' ' was also scheduled to visit
''   Morocco and, like Rabin and
' ' Dayan,   meet   with   Kiiig
Hassan. Begin's visit to
Rabat was originally due to
take place in November,
immediately after his
scheduled official visit to
London. The weekly, with
close ties to the Moroccan
regime, said that these plans
.were'disrupted by Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat's
sudden trip to Jerusalem.
Begin cancelled his plan to
go to_Britain and thus the
scheduled trip to Morocco
was shelved as well.
A few weeks later, the
contacts were renewed,
Now, strengthened' by
Sadat's trip to Jerusalem,
Begin is demanding that he
be received openly and
officially, Jeune Afrique
siid, to which the Moroccan
: government 'has replied:
. "We   are   prepared ' to
welcome you secretly unless
Israel recognizes the
Palestinians' right to a
homeland of their own."
The paper described in
some detail the three visits
which did take place. The
first was by Rabin, who left-
Paris for Morocco in October
1976 aboard a small
Moroccan jet plane
accompanied by a
prominent Moroccan
personality. Rabin spent two
days in Morocco visiting
Fez, Rabat, Tanger and
Casablanca. He met both
King Hassan and Moroccan
Prime Minister Ahmed
Osman speaking English
with both of them. Osman, a
former . Moroccan
ambassador in Washington,
speaks English1 fluently.
Jeune1 Afrique1 '&i_l that
Rabin and Hassan did not
discuss the possibility of a
meeting between Rabin and
.Sadat. But this subject was
to be brought up later during
Dayan's visits to Morocco,
the paper said.'
During Rabin's visit, the
two sides elaborated on their
views on a Middle East
settlement. "There were no
practical political
consequences to be
expected," the paper said.
For one year, there were no
more top level Moroccan-
Israeli agricultural mission
visited Morocco.
The' renewal of the top ,
level contacts started in
September, 1977 when
Dayan, by then Foreign
Minister, mysteriously
.^dlspjppeared" in Brussels.
He W$s discreetly picked up
by a Moroccan plane and'
brought to the Royal Palace
of Ifrane to meet the King.
The paper added that Dayan
politely brought with him an
autographed copy of his
latest . book which he
presented to the King.
The second Dayan trip to
Morocco • took place last
January while the Foreign
Minister was on an official
visit to Rome during which
he met the Pope. This
correspondent was in Rome
at the time and suspected a
possible secret meeting
when Dayan again
mysteriously disappeared
for one day. An Israeli
spokesman said instead that
he only paid a visit to Sicily
in compliance .with .Italian
protocol. .
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Rabbi Marc Lee
Raphael
Jewish History at Ohio State
University, Rabbi Raphael
is well known for his
scholarly works. He is the'
author of "Jews and
Judaism in a Midwestern
Community: Columbus,
Ohio 1840-1975" and "Understanding American Jewish
Philanthropy," co-author of
"Modern Jewish History"
and associate editor of the
American Jewish Historical
Quarterly. He is presently
working on a history of the
United Jewish appeal 1939-
1979.
Rabbi Raphael earned his
BA and Ph.D. degrees at
UCLA and was ordained a
rabbi at Hebrew Union,
College! He was previously
Rabbi of Beth Tikvah and
was also associated with
Temple Israel.
Beth Shalom is presently
holding Shabat services
every Friday evening at 8
p.m. at State Savings,
Chesterfield and East Broad
.Streets; j .ViBitbrii i :are
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