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VOL.59   NO.25
JUNE 18,1981-SIVAN 1C
Likud Well Ahead ©f Labor Party
JERUSALEM (JTA)-A public opinion poll to be published*
this? week is expected to show Likud forging far ahead of the
Labor Alignment in voter popularity less than two weeks
before the June 30 election. It is believed that the unreleased
poll, conducted in the wake of Israel's surprise air attack on
an Iraqi nuclear facility, will give Likud 46-47 Knesset seats
to 40 for Labor.
Downward Trend Oonf jnues
NEW YORK (JTA)—Although the number of Jews leaving
the Soviet Union increased slightly last month compared lo
the previous month, the general trend is downward, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) reported recently. According to SSSJ spokesman Glenn Richter, 1141 Jews arrived
in Vienna from the USSR in May while the figure for April
was 1115.
United States Haste
veries
The Phon-a-thon to benefit
The New Jewish Center is
set to begin -this Sunday,
June 21 and continue through
June 28. Calls will be made
on Sunday mornings from
9:45 until 12 and on Monday
through Thursday evenings,
Jurie£2-25, from 7 until 9:30.,
Co-chairpersons Al
Herstig , and Nancy Paul,
captains- Mim ■ Chenfeld,
Steve Goodman,. Jack Meiz-
lish and Judy Mellman and a
Nancy Paul
,>    Al Herstig
large group of volunteers are
committed to the success of
this outreach. "Our goal is to
obtain the financial commitment of every Center member who has not yet made a
contribution to the New
Building campaign," says
Nancy Paul. "In this w#y we
can ensure the successful
completion of the fundraising drive and build our beautiful New Jewish Center for
which we have waited so
long."
Cohn Elected President
Of National Association
Gerald N. Cohn, Executive
Vice President of Heritage
Village, has been re-elected
as President of the National
Association of Jewish Homes
and Housing for the Aging.
The election was held during
the recent 2lst Annual Meeting of the Association at the
Concord Hotel on Kiamesha
Lake, N.Y.
The membership of
N.A.J.H.A. is composed of
140 Jewish community sponsored Homes for the Aging
and Independent Housing for
the Elderly programs in the
United States and Canada.
Both Heritage House and
Heritage Tower have been
members of N.A.J.H.A.
since their inception.
Gerald N. Cohn
N.A.J.H.A. provides its
member homes and housing
with a wide variety of educa-
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JERUSALEM (JTA)-Is-
rael said last week that it
very much regretted the
Reagan Administration's
"unjust" decision to suspend
delivery to Israel of four F-16
jet fighters pending a determination of whether Israel
violated U.S. law by the use
of American-made aircraft
in its attack jon Iraq's nuclear reactor.
The mildly-worded statement read by Foreign Ministry spokesman Naftali Lavi
was mainly a reiteration of
Israel's official explanation
and justification for the raid.
Earlier, Deputy Defense
Minister Mordechai Zipori -
said the American move was
the result of a misunderstanding and would not lead
to a crisis in relations between the two countries.
Zipori said Israel had a
basic understanding of the
significance of American aid
and the limitations placed on
it. But he stressed that ojily
the Israeli government could
define Israel's defense
needs, not any other government, ho matter" how'
friendly. He said Israel used
the American planes in the
raid because they were the
weapons most suitable for
the attack.
Lavi repeated Israel's contention that it had acted in
defense against threats to its
existence by Iraq. He noted
that Iraq has declared itself
to be in a state of war with Israel since 1948, it was an active participant in all Arab
wars against Israel and has .
continued to refuse to sign an
armistice agreement with
Israel. The statement also
noted that Iraqi leaders have
time and again expressed
their enmity toward Israel
and their aggressive intentions and have notTestricted
or disguised their plans to
use any weapons, conven:
tional or unconventional,
against Israel. -
- According to the statement, Israel exhausted
every diplomatic means be-'
fore it decided to,take military action against Iraq's
nuclear facility. Lavi explained in that connection
that for five years Israel had
tried to persuade France not
to provide Irao, with a nuclear weapons capability,
but its representations were
in vain. Asked by reporters
why Israel took no action
during the administration of
French President Valery
Giscard d' Estaing, who con-,
eluded the nuclear deal with
Iraq, but struck only weeks
after the election of Presi?
dent Francois Mitterrand,
who is more sympathetic to
Israel, Lavi replied that to
wait any longer would have
meant an attack on an active
nuclear reactor with the danger of radioactive fall-out in
the Baghdad area.
The Reagan Administration maintained that special
envoy Philip Habib is continuing his efforts to prevent a
conflict between Israel and
Syria over Lebanon. "We
have not had any indication
from any of the parties that
they think it (the Habib mission) should be discontin-
ued,"   David  Passage,  a
State Department spokesman, said. Habib has been in
Beirut since last week, apparently waiting for the
furor over Israel's attack on
the Iraqi nuclear facility to
subside.
Federation CRC RespondsTo Israel Crisis
The recent Israeli attack
on the Iraqi nuclear reactor
has unleashed waves of condemnation against the State
of Israel. These remarks are
not only uncalled for but are
unjustified. The Community
-Relations Committee of the
Columbus Jewish Federation recently met to discuss
and evaluate the situation.
The result of that meeting
was a clarification of the situation which we now bring to
the attention of the Colum
bus Jewish community.
There is no doubt that the
intention of the Iraqi government in constructing this nuclear reactor was to develop
nuclear weapons to be used
against the State of Israel.
President Sadaam Hussein
of Iraq stated last year, following an Iranian attack on
the same nuclear reactor
center, that the plant had
one purpose, that it was to be
used against Israel. The
former   Iraqi  President,
Abdel Rahman Aref echoes
his country's intention when
he said "the existence of the
State of Israel is an error
which must be rectified .., our goal is clear—to
wipe Israel off the map."
The Wail Street Journal
summarizes the intentions of
Iraq clearly when it stated in
its editorial (June 10, 1981)'
"Of course Iraq was building
a bomb. Of course its intended target was Israel. Of
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$ 1 Million In Is
>nds Sold
For the first time in Columbus, $1 million in Israel Bonds were sold. This event
occurred at the Israel Bonds Tribute Dinner honoring Herbert Schiff. held on June 4.
Jack Weiler presented the coveted "Heritage Award" to Schiff. Honorary chairman for
the evening was Gordon B. Zacks. Co-chairmen Edwin Ellman and Melvin Schottenstein
were gratified at the outpouring of support for Israel from the Columbus community.
Pictured above at the event: (left top photo 1. to r.) Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Ellman. Mrs.
Mejvin Schottenstein and Melvin Schottenstein; (right photo 1. to r. seated) Mrs. Alvin
Ruben, Mrs. Stanley Goldberg, Mrs. Frank,Nutis, (standing 1. to r.) Alvin Ruben.
Stanley Goldberg and Frank Nutis; (middle left photo 1. to r.) Edwin Ellman, Gordon
Zacks, Mrs. Herbert Schiff, Herbert Schiff and Melvin Schottenstein; (right photo 1. to r.
seated) Mrs. Jerome Schottenstein, (standing 1. to r.) David Roth. Jerome Schottenstein
and Howard Schoenbaum; (bottom left photo 1. to r.) Dr. Maurice Zox. Mrs. Maurice
2rOx, Samuel Melton, Mrs. Jack Resler; (right photo 1. to r. seated) Mrs. Alvin Schottenstein, Mrs. Mitchell Kohn, Mrs. David Paine, (standing 1. to r.) Alvin Schottenstein.,
Mitchell Kohn and David Paine.