Friday, March 13, 1953 THE SOUTHERN JEWISH WEEKLY Page Five

which all the milestones he passed CUBAN JEWISH LEADER Ben - Zvi: Lover of Light would seem inexorably to have DECORATED BY led. Yet Ben-Zvi, in all , is GOVERNMENT BEST WISHES probably the one most surprised HAVANA, Cuba, (JTA) BY GERSHON AGRON • INSURANCE In the thirty and more years that GERSHON AGRON that this is so, or that anything Adolf H. Kates, Cuban Jewish he had done had led to this being leader, has spent in Israel he has come to know deeply and inti- has been made Command- • REAL ESTATE mately the men who now lead Israel’s destiny. This is his so. For of Ben-Zvi it has been er of the Order of Commercial said, as Pliny a con- written tribute to the new President of Israel, Yitzhak Ben- remarked of Merit by the Cuban Government. • MORTGAGE LOANS Zvi. Mr. Agron is Editor of THE POST. temporary orator—“His only Mr. Kates is chairman of the Is- American Zionists of the last generation will remember that fault is that he has none.” It rael Bond Drive in Cuba and is • PROPERTY in 1916, about half-way through the First World War, two young would have never occurred to active in Jewish communal life. men turned up in New York from . One was Yitzhak Ben- him to seek the Presidency. His MANAGEMENT serving people, Zvi, and the other David Ben-Gurion. Alphabetically, Ben-Gurion manner of his his ISRAEL NEWS BRIEFS country, party, took precedence over Ben-Zvi, but in the partnership it was the his city, his is THE HAGUE, (JTA) EI-A—- totally aloof from the role of other way around: it was Ben-Zvi and Ben-Gurion. They had lAirline planes continue to Haganah man George come as refugees from a small corner of the Ottoman Empire, which office. A from the bring contributions of blankets days of the self-defense cells of Jamal Pasha, Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Syrian front, as and clothing for Netherlands vic- his youth in his Poltava, it then was, ruled with the iron hand appropriate to wartime native tims of the flood donated by the Carlyon & Co. and to a hard-pressed army. That they were allowed to leave Pales- Ben-Zvi would have been satis- World Zionist Organization and fied to be identified with Hagan- ' tine at all, was one of Jamal's infrequent acts of mercy. As tiny the Women’s International Zion- on same terms as any Tel Aviv was evacuated at its. population because of Jaffa's proxim- ah the Jew ist Organization, Dr. H. Korten- REALTORS danger or ity to the front and many of the leaders banished to Damascus and must be when threatens horst, president of the Upper conditions call for beyond, some to perish in Turkish prisons, these two Labor Zionists arms. House of the Netherlands Parlia- 338 W. Forsyth The refuge he has sought in were permitted to depart, but only on condition that they never ment, has sent a message of scholarship is in part a sublima- return. thanks to' the Speaker of the Is- Phono 4-7767 desire to if not Jamal Pasha’s “never” proved eager to listen than be listened tion of a guide rael Parliament for aid from the perplexed, stop- as ephemeral as many other to. Ben-Zvi could be pushed lead the which Jewish State. “nevers” in history. Ben-Zvi and when necessity urged that he ped short at leadership; in part, Ben-Gurion came back to Pales- should, he could carry out any an expression of the repugnance at the hurly-burly of party-life tine in 1918, as part of the Fourth duties thrust on him, but he was “SHE " Detachment of the American-Jew- always pleased to retire to his and party-strife, in which he FOR THE FINCST FOODS... *»KI IT ish Legion. Thirty-four years researches in the wooden shack knew himself unable to excel. later, twenty-one guns boomed in which is his home, on one of Jeru- But bookishness comes natural to Jerusalem, as Ben-Gurion, the salem’s more aristocratic streets, a man who can trace his family Premier, saw the candidate of his there to taste the excitement of a tree back to the great Rashi, the choice take the pledge of office as mute stone telling the secrets of monumental commentator; and IWAMSCHEWITZjgg, President of Israel in succession '%istory, or to track an out-of-the- thus one of the founders of the (Labor Zionists) to Chaim Weizmann. Historically, way Semitic word to its philologi- Poale Zion seized events have come full circle for cal lair. at release from its turmoil by de- the two—the restless Ben-Gurion voting himself to the printed word Linked With Jerusalem .. . way if marking “paid” in many languages—to research, and this it the should j to the account HH fasfe luscious and juicy, with ] yM The man now inaugurated as compiling and writing. The Labor a delicately seasoned flavor ... | .“tpllTS he owed his elder and retiring • the second President of Israel was mIbI/a an inviting tenderness that tells *.¦ brother. well movement as literature and his- PHiIW you it s made the real old-time Circumstances, as way if for seventeen years head ... the Manitchewifi wayl as the characters of the two men, some tory is a more inviting thing to a of the National Council of Pales- living conspired to reshuffle the old man so constituted than its This Symbol is Your Assurance of tine Jews. Before that, he was, partnership without impairing its and restless growth, however STRICTEST KASHRUTH and FINEST QUALITYI Yellin, comradeship. For many years now with David the Jewish peremptory. as of the Ben-Gurion—Ben-Zvi team Community’s choice one the two first British has differed from its Ben-Zvi— members of the High Advisory Ben-Gurion predecessor. As the Commissioner’s Council. one man forged ahead, until the WHY PAY MORE? logic of events raised him first to In the early twenties, when the 4/5 1 1/2 Gallon primacy in the Labor movement Jewish members withdrew in Quart gs and then in the State; the other protest against the Government’s slipped into a back seat—re- anti-immigration policy, Ben-Zvi served, self-effacing, humble to a was content to remain for a few years the Jerusalem representa- 4s fault, scholarly, plodding, more tive of the Histadrut Executive. $1 is? It was BEST WISHES natural for this Jerusalem- X/\7\ ite to be made a member of the ' SOUTHLAND Jerusalem Municipality while 1 v FURNITURE CO. under the British. And the Muni- cipality which today wields au- | COMPLETE HOME thority over Jerusalem as the na- ’ tion’s capital, conferred on him FURNISHINGS the ultimate dignity of becoming Big Allowance On Your one of its very few Freemen, after Old Furniture Weizmann and Ben-Gurion. To be made President of Israel PHONE 5-3010 and Freeman of Jerusalem in one 200 NINTH STREET, NORTH ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA ; day is, at the tea-time of his life i (Ben-Zvi is 68), the destination to

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