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VOL. 56 NO. 17
APRIL 27,1978-NISAN 2a
Navon Elected
New President
Of Israel
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'JERUSALEM'   (WNS)-
- Labor MK Yitzhak Navon
was  elected Israel's  fifth
President by  the, Knesset
Apr. 19, receiving the votes
or 86 of the 109 JVlKs present.
Navon, the first Sephardi to
become President, will succeed Ephraim Katzir, who
decided not to seek a second
four-year term.  Navon,  a
long-time Knesset member
and chairman of its powerful
Foreign Affairs and Security
Committee, was unopposed
for  election.  However,  20
blank ballots were cast, presumably   by   disgruntled
members of Likud's Liberal
Party wing and a few others
who favored Liberal Party
leader   Elimelech  Rimalt.
Rimalt withdrew his candi-
sdacy as did Dr.  Yitzhak
Shavet, an obscure nuclear ,
physicist who had been the
hand-picked choice 'of Premier Menachem Begin. The
election of Navon, 57, a onetime school teacher and former political secretary to
,, the late Premier David Ben
Gurion,, _was   the   largest
majority ever given a Presidential • candidate." ' Navon
will resign his seat as a
Labor Alignment MK and
will be replaced by Avraham
Katz, ajnember of Kibbutz
Nahal Oz. Navon waited for
the results at his brother's'
home. He heard the" news
from   Labor   Alignment
chairman Shimon Peres who
came to the house with a
delegation of Labor MKs.
"We~have something to tell
you," said the smiling Peres."
Navon was bom in Jerusalem a member of the old
Sephardi community which
was the inspiration later for
his successful Hebrew play,
"A Spanish Garden."  He
studied Hebrew 'literature
and Moslem culture at Hebrew 'University and for' a
few years taugljfc elementary .
andhigh school; During Is"
rael's War. of Independence,
- he was'director of Hagana's
'Arabic   Department.   He
joined Israel's Foreign Service, after the war and was
sent to South America in
1949, serving as second sec-
■   retary of the Israeli Embassy in Argentina. He be-
' came political'secretary to <
Israel's first Foreign Minister, Moshe Sharett and in
1952 he Joined Ben Gurion's
staff and served as his polit-'
ical secretary and advisor
until 1963. He was director of
the   Education. Ministry,.,
cultural .division-until his"
election in the .Knesset, in
1965 as part of Ben Gurioo'.s'
Rafi faction. He served as
Knesset   Deputy   Speaker.
Navon   sought   the   Pres-"
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Support For Peace Now Movement
Growing In Israel And States
In the upper'photograph, "President Zell (center)
points out the,first floor areas to' (-1. to-r.) David Roth,
Edward Schiezinger,  Ben Mandelkorn,  Executive-
Director Edward W. Vinocur, Sylvia-SChecter and San-'
fordGoldston.  - ,   ••
In the lower photograph, Board President Sol D. Zell
signs the final piece of flexicore.
Topping Out Held At Heritage Towers
"Today, we have reached
another milestone in the
Construction of Heritage
Tower," ■ stated Board of
Trustees President, Sol D.
Zell. Zell made his remarks
at a "mini" Topping Out
Ceremony held last week.
The Ceremony marked the
completion of the Building's
exterior structure,
"We should be able to oc-
.cupy Heritage Tower by late
summer,'.' according to Jack
L. Wallick, Vice President
and—Building Committee
Chairman. "Now that the
. exterior has been completed,1
we are hoping that the contractor can expeditiously
complete the interior work." .
Sponsored by Heritage
House and the Columbus
Jewish Federation, Heritage
Tower is located on the Col-
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JERUSALEM  (WNS)   -
Support for the Peace Now
movement founded by 350 reserve officers is growing in
Israel. The movement" has
also received the support of
37 leading American Jews.
Premier Menachem Begin
met with three representatives of the movement but
there was no -meeting of
minds.  The Premier  told
them he had no intention
ever of returning the West
Bank and the Gaza Strip to
foreign rule. Begin insisted ■
that his policies were endorsed by the electorate last
May. A spokesman for the
Peace Now delegation told
reporters, "We came out of
the meeting feeling that the
Premier confirmed our fears,
that he prefers a Greater
Israel to peace and that he is
motivated by ideological motives  which  prevent  him
from making any territorial
concession on the West Bank
for the sake of peace." When
the   delegates .told   the
Premier that a largg'number
.of Israelisshjr^ jjheir views
that the government was not
doing   the   confidence   of
enough to achieve peace,
Begin,  declared:    This
government has won the confidence ofthe people. Would
you expect it to act contrary
to the platform with which it
went to the election. Meanwhile, the Peace Now movement received the support of
10 Knesset members including   two   former   Foreign
Minister, Abba Eban and
Yigal Alton. They issued a
declaration calling on the
Begin government to adopt a
more reasonable policy in
the current peace process so
that Israel does not miss an
opportunity. The declaration
which was also signed by two
members of the Democratic
Movement for Change
(D)MC), a partner of Likud
in the government coalition,
praises the intiative of the
peace movement, its
genuine concern for peace,
ior Israel's security and for
the improvement of Israel's
society. It urges the security
and for the improvement of
Israel's society. It urges the
government to agree to self-
determination for the
Palestinians, free from
Israeli rule, although it
opposes recognition of the
Palestine Liberation Organization. The declaration is
also critical of the Begin
Policy of establishing Jewish
settlements without security ,.
justification in ^occupied
'areas"whe_ e there is a dense
Arab population. In addition,
some 350 professors at
Israel's universities have
signed a petition supporting
the Peace Now movement.
The professors warned that
the government's present
policy will not lead to peace
bur-rather a loss of friends,
Carter To Meet With Begin
JERUSALEM (WNS)-
President Carter has invited
Israeli Premier Begin - .to
meet with hjm in Washington when Begin comes to the
United States to participate
in the American celebrations
of Israel's 30th anniversary.
Before that Foreign Minister'
Moshe Dayan was scheduled
to meet in Washington with
.Secretary of. State Cyrus
Vance Apr- 26-27. All indications are that neither Israeli
leader will be presenting
anything new.' The official
view here, is that Israel 1s
awaiting Egypt's response to
its latest proposals which
were presented to President
Anwar Sadat by Defense
Minister' Ezer Weizman on
his visit to Cairo in March.
There was speculation that
Egypt's response will bepre-
ented to U.S. Ambassador-
at-Large Alfred Atherton
who met with Sadat in Cairo
Apr. 23.
Meanwhile. Dayan in a
television debate with former Foreign Minister Abba
Eban, claimed that the Israeli arid American, viewpoints on United Nations
Security Council Resolution
242 were alike in principle;
and that the difference between the two countries are
not "unbridgeable." Eban
said'the government's interpretation that Resolution 242
did not apply to the West
Bank-caused Israel unnecessary harm in.the court of
world opinion. Dayan retorted that since previous
governments had expressed
willingness to make withdrawals and had received no
response from the Arabs, it
was time to try an alternative plan. He said such a plan
was the'government's offer
of self-rule for' West Bank
and Gaza Arabs. However,-
•he said Israel was willing to
consider alternative proposals. In another-develop-
ment, Agriculture Minister
. Ariel Sharon, attacked
Egypt for not responding to
Israel's suspension of settlement activity for the last
three months. He said this
indicates that Egypt is not-
genuinely concerned oyer
the settlements.  ■
intensification of Israel's
isolation, division of the Jewish people and increase the
danger of war. They urged
the government not to lose
the present opportunity for
peace.
Meanwhile, in New York '
37 prominent American
Jews sent a message of support to the leaders of the
Peace Now movement. The
message printed in the New
York Times, was sent to
Bezalel ..Reshaef, a Jerusalem law student who led in
the Tel Aviv rally attended
by some 25,000 persons urging the Begin government to
show "greater flexibility."
Among the .singers wer,e
hbv'elist Saul Bellow; Seymour Lipset, the Stanford
sociologist; Kenneth Bell,
Nobel Prize economists;
Leonard Fein, editor of
Moment; Rabbi Robert
Gordis, editor of Judaism;
Irving Howe, author and
editor; Walter Laquer,
author of a History of
Zionism; Jesse Lurie, editor
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JFS Reviews Accomplishments
Of The Last Year At Meeting
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By Lauri Zofan
Chronicle Special Reporter
Residents of Heritage
House joined with supporters and workers of the Jewish Family Service (JFS) on
Sunday afternoon, Apr. 16,
when the JFS held their annual meeting in the Occupational Lounge of Heritage
House.
Approximately 100 people
were present to hear about
JFS's. accomplishments in
the past "year, to recognize
volunteers for their, dedication and service and to witness a Gallery Players production of "We The Family," a playlet professional
written by the Family Service Association of America.
Lee Schulman, chairman
of the Annual Meeting Planning Committee* welcomed
those in attendance and introduced Leah Godofsky,
JFS president.
In her address, President
Godofsky noted that the
"Jewish Family Service has
seen' considerable growth"
during the past year, particularly- in U\ree distinct
areas.
Under the, direction of
Peter M. Click, executive
director, the JFS has recently doubled the size of its
Refugee Resettlement Program. The agency increased
it§ quqta of refugees spon
sored per year by 100%,
from 35 to 70 persons.
This life saving task has
been made possible through
the financial assistance of
the Columbus Jewish Federation, Mrs. Godofsky explained. Along with the Federation, the JFS is also
funded by the United Way
and various private donations and grants.-
Federal monies from the
Comprehensive Employment Training Aid (CETA)
program have'enabled the
JFS to open a sheltered
workshop for the aged, "The
Workplace," at 3852 E. Main
St. President Godofsky
pointed out in her speech
that "The Workplace" is the
only sheltered workshop
operating in Franklin
County • specifically for the
elderly,
"The Workplace," which
also receives funds from the
Central Ohio Area Agency on
Aging and the- Columbus
Foundation, was helped in
attaining federal funds by
the Columbus Jewish Federation staff.
Clinical counseling service, both family and vocational, is the third area in
which JFS continued to grow
. in the past year, Mrs.-Godof-
sky, said. This core service
remains the main area of
professional concern within
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