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VOL. 57 NO. 34
AUGUST 23,197»-AV 30
Peres Emerges As
Unchallenged Labor
Leader After Flap
with Rabin
TEL    A,VIV     (WNS)-
Shimon. Peres, chairman of
the Labor Party, emerged
Aug. 12 as the unchallenged
leader of the party following
criticism of him in a book by
former   Premier   Yitzhak
Rabin. During a four-hour
meeting of the Labor Party
Bureau, Rabin was lambasted by Party leaders for
charging  in his autobiography that when Peres was
Defense   Minister   in   the
Rabin government he sought
to undermine Rabin's leadership by. lying and leaking
government secrets.  How;
ever, the party decided not
to adopt a resolution rebuking  Rabin  as  some  had
sought. Peres said there was
no need for such a resolution,
"Having   heard   what  all
members have said, I feel
they   have   confidence In
me," he said. The only Labor
Party leader to defend Rabin
was'former Foreign Minister Yigal Allon. "The party
needs   both   Peres   and
Rabin," Allon said.* He criticized  the   alftnit
Eban Sees Successful Peace
Preschool Students at Play
Pictured abbve are just a few of Temple Israel Pre-
school's smiling students! (See story page 5)
Committees Deal With Key Areas
of New Jewish Center Building
against Rabins The former
Premier seemed to take the
attacks on him philosophically. "I knew I would have
to go through this ordeal,"
Rabin said. "But I shall still
make myself heard:" Rabin,
who wants 'to challenge
Peres for the party leadership,, said he stands by his
book. During the debate
former Justice Haim Zadok
said the book had "damaged
Rabin's credibility and
showed how personal enmity
could affect an author's
senses." Labor Party secretary general Haim Barlev
said the book helped Premier Menachem Begin's
government.
Center President William
Goldman, i has announced
that several committees
have been developed to deal
specifically with key areas
and concerns of The New
Jewish Center Building-.
These committees are the
Finance Committee, chaired
by Treasurer Dennis Mellman; the New Building De-.
sign Committee, chaired by ■
Center Vice President
assault" 'iMichael Talis; and the Pub
licity. COihmittee for The;
New Center, chaired by C6n- ■
ter Communications' Committee   Chairman   Robert
Tenenbaum.
The Finance Committee's
chief area of concern will be
to review the projected operational dollars of the New
Building as well as to review
and advise the usage of
funds raised during the Capital Campaign.
Mr. Mellman is a prominent young Jeader within the
Columbus Jewish Community, having served as
Chairman of the ' Young
Men's Division of the Columbus Jewish Federation's annual United Jewish Fund
Campaign, as well as in
other campaign and Federation capacities^ Jn addition;
he is active in the Agudas.
Achim Synagogue, where he
is a past president of the
Brotherhood. —
The actual building of the
new structure will be the responsibility of the New
Building Design Committee.
The group will be Working
closely over _the' nept few
"months' witfiTtfie arefiiiec-"
. ttiral firm of Godwin-Bohm,
N.B.B.J., who have designed
the New Center. Once actual
construction' begins, the
committee will concern itself with overseeing the
building process, in conjunction with the contractors.
An active Center member
of ^everal years and cur-.
rently a vice-president, Mr.
. Talis was the 1978 recipient
of the Leadership Recogni-
By Michael Solomon
MONTREAL, (JTA)-A-
bba Eban, Israel's former
Foreign Minister and now a
ritember of the Knesset, said
here that "despite some difficulties, the implementation
of the peace with Egypt is
successful" and that both the
Israeli and the Egyptian
governments are determined to m&ke the treaty effective.
1ft ah interview with .the
Jewish Telegraphic Agehcy,
Eban, who is here to launch
the   Tel   Aviv ' University
"Program for Peace," described the peace treaty as
the   "most   revolutionary
event for the last 30 years in
the Middle,East. The immediate need is to develop
the peace'process "tjy reaching agreements in d|her sectors as well:-' *    -7 ?'. . - Ji. •?
He expressed hope that-
Palestinian Arabs and Jordanians will accept the idea
of autonomy on the West
Bank and Gaza Strip and the
Camp David agreements. "I
believe there ought to be pa:
tience,"ihe said. "The position of the rejectionist states
•'today was that-of (Egyptian -
President Anwar) Sadat not
so long ago. If, Egypt has .undergone great changes why
should not similar changes
happen in the attitude of
other Arab states and Palestinians?"
Eban stated that "In. Is:
rael, the. government- needs
to understand that as a jew-.,
ish democratic state we tave
no interest in exercising permanent rule over a million
Arabs in the West Bank and
in Gaza. If our neighbors can
talks in developing their own
independence." Summarizing the prospects lor peace,
the Israeli diplomat said:
"We would do better by
maintaining our option for a
territorial compromise with
Jordan."
Addressing an audience of
Montreal supporters of Tel
Aviv University at the Ritz
Carlton Hotel, Haim Ben-
Shahar, rector of the university, stressed the activity of
the university for peace long,
before Sadat's visit to Jems-'
alem and gave details about
forthcoming and far-reaching projects to be undertaken in common with the'
Cairo University such as:
cereal crops' improvement,
desert ecology, biomedicine'
in the service-of rehabilitation ,of war. invalids, research . into bilateral economic and commercial projects, and development of
the Shiloah Institute of Middle East Research.
Mahmoud A. Wahea,
director of the Institute-for
Applied Research and professor of .the City University
of New York, speaking as an"
Egyptian,, told the audience
that .there are- important
markets Israel and' Egypt
tion  Award. "Through  the . .
years, he has displayed out- ■ offer u? peace and secure
standing dedication to the    boundaries   we should °»
(continued on page tu.   courage tnem to join
en-
the
CJF Slate of Officers
And Board Announced
JSrnest Stern, Chairman of
the 1979 Nominating Committee, has announced in ac-
, cordance with the by-laws of
the Columbus Jewish Federation, the Nominating Committee's slate of officers and -
members of the Board of
Trustees for the Federation.
The nominees will be submitted for election at the
Federation's 53rd Annual
Meeting Sun., Sept. 16 at
Temple Israel. The Annual
meeting will also serve, as a
testimonial- dinner to retiring Federation Executive.
Vice President Ben M. Man-
dlekorn.
" The officers selected for
1979-80 are; Myer W. Mellman, President; Ben Goodman, Vice President; Ber-
Israel Still Concerned About U.S.
Stand on PLO Despite Young Resignation
Ernest Stern
nard Yenkin, Vice President; Mrs. Gerald Swgdlow,
Vice President; Millard
Cummins, Vice President;
N. Victor Goodman, Treasurer; Irving Barkan, Assistant Treasurer-; Lawrence
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JERUSALEM (WNS)-Is-
raeli officials are still suspicious that the United'
States is seeking some way'
of .bringing the Palestine
Liberation Organization into
the Middle East negotiations
despite the resignation of
Andrew Young as the U.S.
Ambassador to the United
Nations for an unauthorized
meeting with the PLCs observer at the UN. The Israelis are stressing that any
meeting with the PLO are a
violation of U.S. commitments to Israel. Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin, now in
the U.S. on a 10-day visit,
warned that "if ever the
PLO will be recognized by
some others as a partner to
the peace negotiations, that
means Israel will be out of
the game." He said the
meeting between Young and
Zehadi Labib Terzi, the PLO
observer at the UN was "an
obvious such departure"
froiri the Israeli-Egyptian
peace treaty. The' Israelis
are also concerned that not
only did Young meet a PLO
official in New York' but'the
U.S. Ambassador to Austria,
Milton Wolf, had thhSe' Unauthorized meetings in
MeMa with a PLO official.
Israel regards the UN'
Security Council meeting
today as a test of the Amer-
*ican position. It is demanding that the U.S. veto any
resolution that would change
Security Council Resolution
242 and 338:
, However, Israel had no official comment on Young's
resignation although they
had earlier protested his
meeting with the PLO. Israeli 'officials noted that his
was an internal matter for
the U.S. Yehuda Blum, the
Israeli Ambassador'to the
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can develop by direct cooperation and using Israeli
know-how and ' Egyptian
skill.
Eban told the audience
that the challenge for Israel
is to replace the war with
that of coexistence, and the
answer is the programjniti-
ated by Tel Aviv .University.
He-praised Jack Cummings
of Montreal, as the first
Canadian to become the
chairman of the Board <>f
Governors of the University.
Dayan Says U.S. Admits
Israel Within Rights In
Attaching Terrorist Bases
TEL AVIV (WNS)-The
United States admits Israel
-is "fully within" its "rights"
in attacking terrorist bases
in south Lebanon, Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan told
Likud Knesset members
Aug. 13. But he said the
Americans object when
civilians are injured or when
U.S.-made weapons are used
in the attacks. The U.S. refused to comment on the
statement. The State. Department said it had made
its positiorrknown previously
to Israel.
B. Zox To Chair UJFC
Advance Gifts Division
Benjamin L, Zox! has been
appointed1 Chairman of the
1980 Advance Gifts Division
of the United JewisKFuhd
Campaign of tbe Columbus
Jewish Federation, General
Campaign Chairman Jack L.
Wallick has announced.
"The Advance Girts Division's results are crucial to
the success" of the overall
C&rhpaign: We are fortunate
to have a competent and
dedicated worker such as
Ben ' Zox heading that
group," said Mr. Wallick.
Mr. Zox has been active in
the Advance Gifts Division
and is a' past Chairman of the
Young Mert's Division. He
Has also served as a Board
member of both the Federation's Community Relations Committee and The
Jewish Center. He was the
1973 recipient of the Therese
Stern Kahn Young Leadership Award. Currently, he is
a Board member of the Federation.
A former president of
B'nai B'rith Lodge, Mr. Zox
has also served as Columbus
Chairman of the Jewish National Fund. He was a member of the United Jewish
Fund Young Leadership
Cabinet in 1974.'
In addition, Mr. Zox serves
on the Board of Pilot Dogs
Inc., is a Trustee of the Pilot
Dog Foundation, is Presi-
Benjamin L. Zox
dent of the Bexley Youth
Sports Association, and is a
Board member of the Winding Hollow country Club.
The Bexley High School
graduate received his undergraduate degree from Williams College and his law de-'
gree from Ohio State, As a
partner in the law firm of
Schottenstein. Garel and
Zox, he is involved in the
-.American Arbitration Association, Panel of Arbitrators; the Council of Delegates of the Ohio Bar Asoci-
ation, and is a Fellow of the
Ohio Bar Foundation.   ,
He is a member of Congregation Tifereth Israel.
Mr.   Zox  and  his  wife,
Julie, .have two daughters.
Holly. 17. and Melissa. 15.
and one son. Williaity 12.
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