The Soviet magazine, New Times, has charged that “the Zionist elements” in Solidarity, the Polish trade union movement, were “receiving aid from Mossad,” the Israeli intelligence agency. According to reports from Moscow today, the news magazine accused Mossad of “trying hard to create chaos in Poland.” It also alleged that Mossad was coordinating its activities […]
Leon Dulzin, chairman of the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Executives, warned this week that Project Renewal is in danger of being cut back because cash income from overseas Jewish communities has not kept pace with needs. Addressing the WZO Executive here, Dulzin said the threat to the project loomed in the coming fiscal year, […]
Eva Schocken Glaser, president of Schocken Books, Inc., died yesterday after a brief illness. She was 63 years old and resided in Scarsdale, N.Y. Mrs. Glaser, the former Chawa Schocken, was born in Zwickau, Germany. She came to the United States from Jerusalem with her family in the late 1930’s. Her father, Salman Schocken, founded […]
Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen of Rumania is planning to settle in Tel Aviv, it was reported today by Yediot Achronot. The paper said this “emerged from” a luncheon given in Rosen’s honor this week in Tel Aviv by Rafael Kotlowitz, head of the Jewish Agency’s Immigration and Absorption Department. At first, according to Yediot, Rosen […]
The State of Maryland and Montgomery County (Md.) are trying to stop the growing number of incidents aimed at Jews, Blacks and other minority groups by involving all elements of the community in an effort to combat bigotry. This was stressed yesterday as Montgomery County Executive Charles Gilchrist received the Torch of Liberty Award from […]
Ultra-nationalists determined to block Israel’s withdrawal from Sinai next April claimed a “victory” today after the government reached a compromise with Gush Emunim militants in northern Sinai to halt the dismantling of buildings and equipment slated for transportation to relocation areas inside Israel. According to the agreement, Jewish Agency workers at Moshav Haruvit will remove […]
Ephraim Evron, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, called today for the beginning of a “dialogue” between the U.S. and Israeli governments to bring an end “to the friction between the two countries.” Evron made his remarks at a farewell luncheon given in his honor by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations […]
Premier Menachem Begin, still confined to a wheelchair because of a hip injury last month, appeared in the Knesset today to defend his intervention to kill a radio news broadcast critical of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. Motions critical and supportive of the Premier’s action were presented for debate. The Kol Israel news item that aroused […]
Israelis are displaying no real optimism, on the eve of Secretary of State Alexander Haig’s visit, that there will be a breakthrough in the autonomy negotiations with Egypt which have been dragging on fitfully for the last 32 months. Sources here said Israel’s position has softened slightly on some outstanding autonomy issues and this will […]
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger will not visit Israel when he goes to the Middle East next month. Pentagon spokesman Henry Catto said that Weinberger has accepted an invitation from Saudi Arabia to visit that country early next month and may also go to neighboring Oman. Catto stressed that Weinberger does expect to go to Israel […]