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J6SS jatVin Interesting History
Last year Hanuka came earlier.
However, glancing back at a copy of the TJPost of December 8 we
discovered some interesting history: Page 1 revealed that the Israeli
authorities abolished the military government in communities populated
by some 300,000 Arabs under their jurisdiction. The decree removed a
"second class" stigma from Israeli Arabs living under military juris-
diction. Now they could deal with civilian authorities.
While this was happening during Hanuka, 1966, the Arab League,
notorious in its aim to annihilate Israel, started its Dec. 7, 1966 meeting
in Cairo. Arab League Secretary-General Abel Khalek Hassouna called
the 13 nations military specialists and ministers into special session
with a view to receive orders from the Unified Arab Command to in-
crease military measures against Israel, especially commando raids,
harassment and guerilla tactics.
King Hussein of Jordan told a press conference in Amman that Jordan
would not object to U. N. troops on the Jordan-lsraeli border for peace
keeping means. Observers noted that Egypt was increasing its air patrol
along the Israeli border but they did not think that Nasser wanted to i
risk a clash over the downing of the Soviet built MIGs in early'
December, 1966 by Israeli planes.
Talks were opened to improve the effectiveness of the United Nations '
Mixed Armistice Commission machinery "in the hope of ensuring effec-
tive handling of complaints on border incidents." Lt. Gen. Odd Bull,
U.N. Truce Supervision chief of staff, was involved in these discussions.!
In Washington, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith asked the j
United States Government to take "prompt and forceful action” in sup-
port of American firms "faced with blacklisting because they have
complied strictly with our country’s established foreign trade policy.”
Firms like Ford and Coca Cola were threatened by the Arabs witty
economic boycott because they indicated intentions of trading with
Israel.
Yes, another Hanuka is nearing:
The Arab League is again meeting in December, 1967 to seek ways of
annihilating Israel. Enough is not enough for them.
Jordan pushed into the war six months after Dec., 1966, attacked the
very borders she vocally was seeking to preserve. Now Jordan talks of
peace but sounds warlike.
Gen. Odd Bull, through the most colossal U. N. blunder in its history,
followed U Thant’s orders and complied with President Nasser’s re-
quest to remove the troops. Now there is again talk of new U. N. troops
for the area!
We all know what followed in short succession. Following U. N. sub-
mission in May of this year:
Nasser blockaded. Hostilities soon began and ended sooner in what
historians call "The Six Day War.”
But Nasser about-faced from his recent state of depression and again
calls for a final solution of the "Palestine situation."
Another Hanuka is nearing. An echo on the wind says "History Re-
peats itself." #
We certainly hope and pray that round four will not be approaching.
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VOLUME XXI NO. 50
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1967
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Rabbi M. Porush, deputy mayor of Jerusalem, boards the No. 9 armored bus which carried passengers dur-
ing the War of Independence, as it leads off a convoy marking return of route to Mount Scopus.
No. 9 Resumes Run to Scopus
JERUSALEM—For nearly 20 years, a plaque of the No. 9 Jerusalem bus line has been lying in
storage. Many times during the years the storeman would pass, look at it nostalgically, sit himself
down in front of it and give it a good clean-up. While rubbing hard he would think:’“Will there
! ever come a time when it will again go into use?”
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BULLETIN
PARIS (Special) — It was
reported by reliable sources
here that under President
de Gaulle’s direction military
material, including aircraft
and other heavy weapons,
previously destined for Is-
rael will be sold to Iraq, one
of the Arab nations opposing
Israel in the Six-Day War. It
was assumed from this re-
ported action that the French
embargo against selling
Israel military aircraft and
other weapons will continue.
Russian Jet
Bombers Fly
Over Cairo
time has at last come,
j Last week. Jerusalem Municipal
| Bus Line No. 9. amid the joy of
; Jerusalemites, resumed its run up
| to Mount Scopus. At the wheel
j was one of the most veteran driv-
| ers of days gone by, Joseph
: Geigo, who until the line was
: discontinued, was its regular
' driver.
Leading the convoy
was
LONDON (JTA) — Sixteen Rus-
sian jet bombers arrived in Egypt
on a good-will mission this week
and immediately flew over Cairo
as a demonstration of Soviet sup- I armored bus, one of those which
port, it was reported here. The visit ! had gone up to Mount Scopus
by the Russian planes is believed j during the War of Independence,
here to be intended as a morale j Into it stepped Hadassah person-
booster for the Egyptians, and to | nel and professors of the Hebrew
discourage Israeli reprisal raids. University of Jerusalem.
Rabbi M. Porush. deputy mayor
1 j of‘Jerusalem, and Y. Placig, head
' of the Jerusalem branch of the
j Police Department, were among
i the passengers.
Minutes before the first bus was
; to leave, a man and a woman ran
| up and stopped at the door of
> the armor-plated bus. To their
t surprise, the passengers already
1 seated inside saw that it was Na-
j taniel Lorch, until recently Is-
; rael’s ambassador to Peru, and
! who is now chief of the Informa-
i tion Department of the Foreign
1 Ministry.
i He stepped into the bus, stop-
ped next to the driver, put his
. hand into his pocket, pulled out
j his wallet and with loving care
i extracted from the wallet, and
: handed to the driver, a season
j ticket dated 1948, permitting him
j 10 rides on Bus No. 9.
j Only seven rides had been
i punched out and so he now hand-
i ed this ticket to the driver and
i requested two journeys—one for
j his wife and one for himself.
While handing over this ticket
to the driver, he said, “I don’t
want free rides; just as I did not
want them when I was a student
at the Hebrew University of Jeru-
salem on Mount Scopus nearly
20 vears ago.”
HANUKA BEAUTY — Judi Wider, daughter of Cantor and Mrs. Max
Wider, 6909 Northhaven, Dallas, a junior at Yeshiva University's
Stern College for Women, New York City, lights traditional menorah
in observance of Hanuka. Mr. Wider is cantor at Cong. Tiferet Israel.
Referred to as the "Festival of Lights," Hanuka begins at sundown
Tuesday, Dec. 26, and is celebrated through Wednesday, January 3,
1968. Stern College for Women, the nation's first liberal arts and
sciences college for women under Jewish auspices, is an integral
part of Yeshiva University, now in its 82nd year.
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New Amy Chief for Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Israeli Cabinet announced
that Brig. Gen. Haim Bar-Lev, 43, has been named chief of
staff of Israel’s armed forces, effective in January, 1968,
and will be promoted in rank
to Major General. He will
succeed Maj. Gen. Yitzhak
Rabin, who, reliable sources
said will be appointed Israel
Ambassador to the United
States.
The name of Gen. Bar-
Lev, who is presently deputy
chief of staff, was formally
submitted to the Cabinet by
Defense Minister Moshe
Dayan. He noted that the
termination date of Gen.
Rabin’s appointment and the
choice of his successor were
made by Prime Minister Levi
Eshkol earlier this year
W'hen he still held the port-
folio of Defense Minister.
Gen. Dayan spoke writh high
praise of the qualifications
of both Generals Rabin and
Bar-Lev.
General Bar-Lev. formerly
Brotzlawski. was born in
Austria in 1924, spent most
of his childhood in Yugo-
slavia and came to Israel
with his family in 1939 at the age of 15. He studied at
the agricultural school at Mikveh Israel and later joined
Palmach. the famed shock troops of Haganah, the Jewish
defense force, prior to establishment of the State of Israel.
The. young Bar-Lev rose rapidly through the ranks.
Israel’s war for independence in 1948 found him a bat-
talion commander in the Negev repulsing Egyptian attacks
from Sinai. During the Sinai campaign of 1956 he com-
manded the armored brigade that routed the Egyptians at
El Arish and Rafah. During last June’s Six-Day War, Gen-
eral Bar-Lev served as deputy chief of staff. The general
studied at military school’s in Britain and France and at
Columbia University in New York where he earned a
master’s degree in business administration and economics.
He is married and the father of a son and a daughter.
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GEN, HAIM BAR-LEV
RUSSIAN CLERIC SAYS
WouldLet Rabbi Out
NEW YORK (JTA) — Metropoli- ’Synagogue Council of America this
tan Nikodim, chairman of the de-
partment of external church affairs
for the Russian Orthodox Patriar-
chate. told a delegation from the
week that he saw no reason why
Soviet authorities would prevent
Moscow Chief Rabbi Yehuda Leib
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