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. li;:cerpts from "Fiddler on the Hool" in Knglish and Yiddish, 11 il O will highlight the presentation of Jan and Lillian Bart at a reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. 1. M. Tretiak, Monday, November General Amos ISorev, Oepuly Chief Scientist to the Ministry ol Defense and a inem27, The Trctiaks will host the reception on behalf ol the current ber of Hie General Staff Commiltee of (he Israel Defense Forces, will hr. the j^icst speaker campaign for Israel Uonds in Omaha. at (he Israel Dinner of S1;t(e, Sunday, December 10, at the Highland Country Club. Tho Jan Bart, who is a foremost Jan Cart ha:; appeared on top lyiic tenor, humorist and raconteur, and recording artist, has radio and television programs, and his recordings in seven Ianbeen u distinguished .show bus- j'unges have sold in the millions The banquet i: being held in of copies. He has performed in In tm? War of IiHlepriiuV-iiL-e, major night clubs, hotel:;, and •conjunction with ;i nation wide and Mechanical iMiginecring decampaign to attain an unprece- General Horev commanded a grees from that school. He was theatres throughout the world. dented level of Israel Bond sales born in Jerusalem and received His career began in l!l>;5 as finance vital development battalion during the siege of his early education there. ?i successful contestant on the to projects which were interrupted Jerusalem, and played a deciMajor Howe:; Amateur Hour, by the Arab Israeli War la:;tsive role in opening the legen.uid traveled with units of the June. dary "lJurina Road." that helped >how for more than four years.' to raise the siege. In 1'JH) he General Ilorcv He then joined the Kugene and A military career man and a participated in the liberation ol Willie Howard touring company, specialist ordnance, General the Negev and was appointed which took him all over the Horev wasinresponsible for the Chief ol Operations of the Southworld. He is also a composer of development of the weapons, ar- ern Front. popular songs and a member mor and self-propelled artillery General Horev's military caof the American Society of Com- that were used so effectively in posers, Authors and Publishers, the Six-Day War of 1907. At" the reer started in 1941, when he joined the . Pnlmach, the com,ind h.'is formed h i i own recnt'rlijn!» of th'j Sir1.:!: Campaign in liiiinucj (.mil uf LliL* JewiMi u t ing company. 1950, he had served" as'chlei of fense forces under the British Since the establishment of the the Ordnance Cnrp:; for sever.-il Mandate. In the Palmach, he .Stale of Israel, Lillian and Jan years and led the corps during took .-! saboteur's course and a .Ian anil Lilll.-m Rnrt linrt have visited the country the fighting. platoon commander's course, ii'ess personality for more than frequently, and have devoted eventually rising to the rank of thirty years. Lillian Hart, whose much time and energy to the genera] by the time ol the War career started at Radio City Israel Bond program, in recogof Independence. Music Hall, has joined her hus- nition of his efforts in behalf of General Horev has studied at band in concerts throughout the Israel, Jan Bart has received - - ^~ a the Massachusetts Institute ol United States, Canada, Europe, the American-Israel Friendship Technology, and holds B.S., M.S. General Amos Horev Australia nnd Israel. Award. Jerusalem (ZINS)—Prime Minister Eshkol revealed in the Knesset that at the recent Arab summit conference in Khartum, Abdel Nasser urged the Arab countries to exert their maximum efforts towards the goal of launching a new attack upon l'JI2, including appointment in Israel, this time with the asl'JGl as a member of President surance of victory. New York (JTA)—The Synagogue Council'of America, repreKennedy's Task Force on ForKing Hussein asserted at the senting the Reform, Conservative and Orthodox branches of Judaeign Assistance. He also served same conference that after Is- ism, defended the right of dissent and charged that Lt. Gen Lewis The Arab-Israeli conflict and rael's withdrawal from the oc- B. Hershey's instruction to draft boards, to conscript youngsters the prospects for peace in that cupied areas, the Arabs will be who allegedly "obstruct" the draft procedure, was "a dangerou3 area will be discussed at a speable to resume their harrass- usurpation of the role of the courts." cial meeting of the Omaha Unit ments and armed incursions into Rabbi Jacob P. Rudin, president of the Synagogue Council, of the American Jewish ComIsrael as was the -case prior to said in a statement here that, while dissent can and has been occamittee. The discussion will be the Six-Day War. sionally expressed in an illegal manner, it is the responsibility of led by Judge Theodore Tnnncn"The entire world, particular- the courts, not the selective service system, to determine whether •waltl, Jr., chairman of the Israel J ly Israel, should well remember n person has violated the law. He called on President Johnson to Committee of the American these words and draw from rescind General Hershey's action, and to establish procedures "that Jewish Committee. them the logical conclusions," would prevent the use of the compulsory draft in a way that threatThe meeting, which will, be ens our democratic process." the Prime Minister said. open to the public, will be held on Thursday, November 30th at 8 p.m. in the House & GarQ dens Room of the I'lnckstone D a Hotel. Judge Tannenwald was u member of an AJC leadership mission to Israel in July that surveyed I s r a c 1 's immediate and long-range needs growing out of the six-day war. Government I'osts Judge Tannenwald Judge Tannenwald has held various government posts since as a Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and lias been a Special Consultant to the Secretary of War, Consultant to the Secretary of Defense, and As sistant Director of the Mutual Tel Aviv (JTA)—The Dodge Motor Company's nuto assem- Security Administration. bly plant in Nazareth via?, dam- A native of Valetie, New.Yoik, aged this week by a bomb that Judge Tannenwald is a suninia went off in a car parked near cum laude graduate of Brown the building. The automobile University and a mngna cum was wrecked and part of the laude graduate of Harvard Law wall of the assembly plant was School. He is a member of the damaged, but there were no Board of Trustees of New Yoik casualties among the workers State University. present at the time. An unex- The special Israel discussion plodcd bomb was found nearby is part of the Omaha Unit's nnd • dismantled. The footprints membership campaign. U n i t of five men were found leading Chairman Jonas Weil, in an from the area. nouncing the meeting, noted that Meanwhile, several Arab vil- the American Jewish Commitlages in the West Dank area tee is a unique Jewish relations Members of (lie cast of "The Diary of Anne Frank" are in the final stages of rehearsal for 'were placed under curfew, fol- organization in that it tran- the production which will lie.presented: December 2 and 3 at the Jewish Community Center. Tickets lowing the firing of a bazooka s c e n d s synagogue affiliations at $1.50 each for the Saturday and Sunday evening performances and $1.00 for the Sunday inallncoBhell into an Army camp near and offers h u s h a n d s nnd are available at the Jewish Community Center. Cast members pictured above arc (from right to left) Hebron. No casualties were re- wives a chance to participate Jim I.ehr, Kalhy Denny, Dennis Adams, Cathy Davis, Saragail Katzmau, Jeff Garctz and Ross Marported. together in its programs. golin.
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