JANUARY 17, 1964 15¢ PER COPY 12 PAGES Arab Leader,S Determined to Thwart Israeli Diversion of River Jordan CAIRO - the Arab Technical Leaders Jan
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R. J. JEWI SH II I STOR ICAL ASSOC. 11 20() 'A NGELL ST. PROV. o, R. I • THE ONLY ANGLO-JEWISH WEEKLY IN R. I. AND SOUTHEAST MASS. Vol. XLVII, No. 46 JANUARY 17, 1964 15¢ PER COPY 12 PAGES Arab Leader,s Determined To Thwart Israeli Diversion Of River Jordan CAIRO - The Arab Technical leaders Jan. 13. ject, which. Is expected to begin Committee for the River Jordan The Arab leaders have de this month. opened Its first session In the clared their determination to The Arabs have a choice of Arab League building last week thwart the Israeli diversion pro- mllltary action - a move there with 11 of the 13 member states has been some talk of here - or of the league present. Syria and of carrying out a plan to divert Jordan were absent. No explana Jordan River waters at their tion for their absence was Im sources, which are In Arab lands. mediately available. Percentages Cited J All sessions were private and Technical calculations have FIRST BABY OF 11iE NEW YEAR - Valeree Rose Bazarsky was without a definite time-table. Indicated that 77 per cent of the getting a little tired of the business of being a celebrity, and Just The committee was formed In sources of the Jordan are In Arab wanted to get back to her bottle and her bed, as can be seen by the big 1954 to draw up a plan to counter lands and 23 per cent In Israel. yawn she had for the photographer. The first child of Mr. and Mrs. an Israeli plan for diversion of Based on these calculations, the Brenton Bazarsky of 226 Thatcher Street, Rumford, Valeree was born Jordan River waters to Irrigate Arab plan proposes a project un at 6:20 A,M, on January 2, 1964, and thus became the first Jewish the semi-arid Negev region. The der which Israel would get about baby born In Rhode Island this year. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. committee presented a final tech 23 per cent of the annual flow and Morris Bazarslcy of Fourth Street and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Vllker 77 per cent would be allocated to of Pawtucket. nical plan at a meeting ,of Arab Arab lands. The plan In brief Is this: Experts Feel Arabs Construction of two storage darns on the main Jordan River Will Not Cooperate source, the Yarmuk River rising <_, In srrta, this would divert water Into Syria and Jordan. To Stop Israeli Plans Construction of a storage dam TEL AVIV - Israeli experts on the Hasbanl River source In consider It unlikely that the mut Lebanon and diversion of waters ually distrusting Arab rulers will through a canal for Irrigation of be able to coordinate any practical TO SPEAK ATCONVOCATION Lebanese land, venture to prevent Israel fr om Mllurlce Samuel, scholar, author, Construction of canals east using the Jor dan River's water •• translator and lecturer, will speak ward and westward from Banlyas Plnsihlng touches are being at the Convocation to be held as a River sources In Syria to divert applied to a network of. pipes, tribute to the memory of the late Irrigation water Into Syrian areas. tunnels and open canals to tap the President John F. KeMedy. This The Arabs charge that of 1.25 ~ Galilee. The project, due Sea Convocation will be held for the billion cubic meters of annual for completion earlythlsyear,wlll Kennedy Memorial Forest spon Jordan River flow avallable for begin without fanfare for security, sored by the Rhode Island Council power and Irrigation, Israel's Proposals to dam rivers ris of the Jewish National Fund on plan would give her 700 mllllon ing In Syria and In Lebanon, to Wednesday, Jan. 29 at 8:15 P .M. cubic meters or 56 per cent. the Jordan, )lave also been at the Rhode Island School of The Arab Approach shrugged off here. Design. The Arab project would control and divert Jordan River waters ) rising In Arab lands so that Is ARTiiUR KAPLAN, (right) president of Temple Emanu-EI, shown Discovery Reopens Debate rael's share would be no more with Dr. Louis Finkelstein, Chancellor of the Jewish Theological than the percentage equal to the Seminary of America, Is one of 350 presidents of Conservative con water rising In Israel. gregations recently honored by the Seminary In New York City. The On Compilers Of Scrolls The Arab plan rejects pro occasion was a special convocation at which Dr. Finkelstein conferred posals for storage reservoirs ln upon each president a citation for distinguished service to his syna .TEL AVIV - An ' arcbeologlcal But Professor Yadln declined to Israel, or power-generating sta gogue and to the Jewish community. More !hill) 1,000 persons attended discovery has reopened the debate concede that his new discovery un tions that would benefit both the the academic exercises. about the Identity of the sect that dermined his own theory. Arab countries and Israel. The committee members rep compiled the Dead Sea Scrolls. He believes that the Scrolls It associates the sect with the were compiled by Essenes, a resent the United Arab Republic, Jewish zealots who resisted the monk-like Jewish sect that lived Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. United Order, True Sisters Roman conquerors of Palestine near the Dead Sea before and In the first century. during the life of Jesus. The early Israel's Irrigation The new evidence Is a scroll Christians are believed to have Plan 'International Frolics' similar to those found by an Arab been Influenced by members of shepherd In 1947 at Qmnran near the sect. Plans Undisclosed Mrs. Martin Leventhall Is the Dead Sea. It was discovered Professor Yadln, who served UNITED NATIONS, N,Y, chairman of "International at Massada In northeast Israel. as Chief of Staff of the Israeli Israel Is preparing a test run of Frolics," the Annual Luncheon Prof. Ylgael Yadln, a noted Is Army from 1949 to 1952, said the first stage of her Jordan Fashion Show of the United Order raeli archeologlst, Is leading an the latest discovery showed that River Irrigation plan, but Is keep True Sisters, Inc., Providence expedition there to unearth the fighting groups of Essenes took Ing the date secret because of #48, which will be held on Wed fortress that was the last to hold refuge In Massada In 70 A, D,. Arab OPJ;?OSltlon. nesday, Jan, 29, at 12:15 P.M, out against the Romans. It fell The project Involves the with In the ballroom of the Sheraton after 900 Jews committed mass drawal of water from the north Biltmore Hotel. suicide to avoid surrendering to Shriver Delivers west sector of Lake Tiberlas. The Featured will be Leo La the enemy. water Is to be carried by pipeline, Porte, Jay Kroll, Bunny North The scroll deals with Jewish M open canal and tunnels about 100 and Ralph Stuart, as well as Mrs. Sabbatical sacrifices and Is based Johnson essa9e miles to the south to Irrigate the Irwin Siegel, a member of the In the 364-day calendar kept by Negev. organization, who will present a. the Qmnran sect. It Is a solar To Levi Eshkol Part of the flow will be used program of songs. An International calendar, based on the earth's TEL AVIV Sargent also to replenish coastal plain display of fashions from France, course In relation to the sun, Shriver, director of the United waters that have been over-used Italy, SWeden, Germany and Scot whereas the Orthodox Jewish cal States Peace Corps, delivered ttimeet Increasing demand In the land will be presented by local endar Is Lunar, based on a letter from President John region around Tel Aviv. specialty shops, revolutions of the moon. son to Premier Levi Asbkol In The main conduit from Lake Assisting Mrs. Leventhal! arE. Briton Halls Confirmation Jerusalem this week. Secrecy Tlberlas will link up with the Mesdames Alfred Sllverstelb, co- Prof. Cecil Roth, a Briton who was maintained .by both sides headworks of the Yarkon-Negev chairman; Henry Oken, publicity; Is an authority on Jewish his on Its content. project at Rosh Ha'ayln, east of Ben Poulten, reservations: tory, hailed the discovery today as Mr. Shriver, who conferred Tel Aviv, and from there the Michael Marks, fashion coor- a confirmation of his view that , for more than an hour with the water will be carried farther , the Dead Sea Scrolls represent Premier, said later that his south by the two Yarkon-Negev . dlnator; Richard Oresman, mall MRS, MARTIN LEVEN11fAlL ing; Louts Brown, decorations: the literature of the zealots. meetings with Pope Paul VI, pipelines. In a !etter to the Jerusalem King Hussein ~ Jordan and Israeli officials Insist that the Herbert Stolzberg, hostesses and presented to the directors ~ the menu: Paul Young, door prizes; Post ·senf from O<ford University, Mr. Esbkol. produced satis project In no way conflict with the Miriam Hospital and Roger Professor Roth said It was "ob factory responses to the mat United States-sponsored regional Maurice Kaye, telephone squad; WWlams General .Hospital to be Lawrence Gordon, poster•: !Ucb vi ou s that the defenders ~ ters raised by the President. plan for the Jordan Valley, which used for free radlo-laotope treat Massada ued the ume unorthodox He aald be bad already com .waa blocked by the Arab Go'\lem ard Oster, prelidnt; Jordan !Uce ments . for Indigent cancer and Stanley Blitz, vice-presidents: calendar and therefore followed the municated oral reactions to ments, They could be lntesrated !)adenta, emneday In the regional prop-am Morrt• Altman, treasurer. ume 1D10rthodox rellgioua aystem, Mr. Johnson and would not Re..-vlldNB may be made by I.e.