~ t'; Ul < ..J ~ < u -D 0 Fighting Costs Israel 0-: 0- 0 N I- 0, About$ JO Million Per Hour Cl) TEL AVIV ~ While battles an income tax, a government ::i: -..,._. still rage and military officials official said. This means that it here continue to predict victory, will effect only the taxa ble portion ::::: C/l Ci] • there is a war being fought on the of an individual's income. The - ..3 ti: home front which officials predict loan will be refunded in I 5 years. E: ..J l&l "-1 • will far outlast the fighting in the with ·interest paid every five years. --, C -D .: field, says the C hi cago Tribune's In addition to the collfpulsory • < • Rick Soll. - loan, a voluntary loan program > A week of war has already cost was also initiated. It has so far a- 0 I Israel $2 billion - a frig htening raised more than $ 100 million, the ~ ~ [ srae i War Presents figure for a small country that government spokesman said . Israelis Not Asking I depends on tota l peacetime He said that most of the large contributions in the vo luntary • I For Blood Donations mobilization of its work force to I · ms To Foreign Reporters program have come fr om large NEW YORK - Th,e Israel remain solvent. I BEERSHEBA, Israel - Israeli Golan heights and had retaken all corporations here. government a nd the Jewish Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir military authorities barred but sma ll pockets of the area west The spokesma n said a goal o f Agency office in Jerusalem have said that the S2 billion fi gure newsmen from the Sinai Peninsula of the former cease-fire line. $250 million has been set for each sent word here that " there is no represents the cost of both where a major battle of the war Because of the area's rolling, program. need for blood donations for Israel mainta ining the Israeli Army and remains to be fought. almost treeless terrain a nd because But many persons in Tel Aviv at the present time," according to any purchases the government has The action was one illustration the forces there are relatively remai n concerned about the ability the National Commillee on made 10 re place lost or used war of why certain aspects of the concentrated, it is possible to see of this tin y cou ntr y to Control and Authorizaiion of ma terial. Israeli-Arab war are reported in the fighting on the Syrian front economicall y sustain a long war. Campaigns of the Jewish Agency Replacement of material, he detail, and others not at a ll . and to f611ow its course in at least One official said that the $ 1. 7 for Israel. said, has cost roughly $240 million A group of journalists was a limited area. billion defense · budget for the " However, organizations a nd so far: Sapir added th at each hour turned back when it reached this In Sinai, however, it has been current I 973-74 fi scal year wi ll communities will register the of fighting is costing Israel about Negev town, which serves as the a no ther story. The area is vast, have to be hiked 10 $2.5 billion names of those who wish to $10 m illion dollars. He said the headquarters for the southern the front is three times as long as because of the war. donate blood, and should it la ter fi ghting has averaged about six command. The newsmen had that on the Golan heights a nd the However, the country is tryi ng become necessary, prospective hours a day. departed for the canal front fr om Israeli forces have been mostly on to meet the staggering costs - as donors will be contacted," the Sapir, who was departing on a Tel Aviv two hours earlier with an the defensive. one official put it - by " tryin g to commillee said. fund-raising tour thru Europe, the escort officer and full Until the area was closed bring life back to norma l by doi ng U nited States, and Canada. said authorization to visit the Israeli newsmen were able to drive to the abnormal. " Foes Reopen Attacks the huge costs will be partia ll y lines in Sinai. bases I 5 to 20 mi Je s back fr om the For example. during the Sukkot met by a compulsory war loan. An Israeli source said later that canal. But they saw little rea l On Meir Government ho liday week, when schools are the newsmen had been barred acti on. TEL AVIV - No sooner did The loan will take the form of norma ll y closed, they have been because of intensified shelling a nd In the absence of persona l the shooting die on the Egyptian m o nthly deductions from all reopened so that teachers can fi ghting in the central sector of the observation, newsmen have only front tha n lsrael"s opposi tion I s raeli citizens' p ayc he c k s return to work. Also, many retired fr ont, where an Israeli task force the official military communiques reo pened its a ttack o n the beginning at the e nd of this persons have been call ed back to had reportedly crossed the Suez issued severa l times a day and a Government. month. work to increase the suddenl y Canal. nightly briefing provided in Tel The Likud, a new conservati ve The deductions wi II be based on diminished work force. Aviv by a reserve colonel from the each wage ea rner's monthly The government is hoping that Problem for Newsmen union of parties opposing Premier army spokesma n's office. income. with most individuals Sapir's fund-raising trip also will The curb was an example of the Golda Me ir, assai led t h e sustaining deductions of seven relieve some of the economic problems the still-growing army of Data Often Conflict Government for havi ng accepted the United Nations Secur ity percent. Those earning more than burden. It was noted that each of foreign journa lists is encountering Frequently the information a nd Council's ~ease-fire proposal. S2,000 (IL 8800) a month ivill face the 33 coun:rie., with active Jewish in attempt to report Israel's fourth battle-damage figures conflict with The g r o up 's leade r ship deductions of up to 12 percent. communities have been contacted war with the Arabs. the description ema nati ng fr om particularly objected to the The loans will be imposed like for help in raising funds. The interna ti ona l press corps the Arab countries. leavi ng the acceptance of a clause ca ll ing for tha t gathered in Israel thi s week is newsmen little a lterna tive but lo the carryi ng out of the Security one of the largest ever assembled ta ke accou nt of both. Council's resolution of Nov. 22. Rallies For Support Of Israel anyw her e. M o r e th an 600 The c red ib ilit y of Israeli I 967. It called on Israel to n ewspa p e r a nd m agaz ine inform ati on in the past was wi thdraw fr om territory occupic-d Are Held In Europe And Africa repo rte rs, pho tog r a pher s and genera ll y regarded as hig h by in the six-day war. The Likud te levision personnel fr om more m ost of the newsmen here. But in In Joha nnesburg 2000 persons opposes the r eturn of an y PAR IS Rallies "ere held than 30 countries have been this war, the feeling is that is has jampacked the Zion ist Center a nd occupied territory to the Arabs. throughout Western l:urope in accredited since the war began 11 diminished. Bo a rd o f Deputies president The Likud also charged that the support of Israel a nd in opposition days ago. " The Israeli sin is omi ssio n. not Maurice Porter gave assurance Government had " sin ned" by its to the attach by Syr ia a nd Egypt The basic Israeli poli cy is not to commiss ion," a long-time foreign on Yorn Kippur. In Pa ri s there that in the present crisi s the South fa ilure to move forces to the permit newsm en to accompany correspondent observe d the other was parti cul ar indignation over African Jewish community was cease-fir e lin e after it had received forces at the fr ont. The policy d ay. "They mi slead by leaving French Foreign Minister Michel totall y mobilized. In Oslo. Gen. re li able information about th e seems to stem not so mu ch fr om a things out, not by lying ... Odd Bull. former command er of concentra ti o n of Syria n a nd J obert's statement tha t one could desire for secrecy as a concern A significant credibility gap the UN observer group in the Egyptian forces o n the borders. If not call aggressors to those states over congestion at the front and developed on the third night of the Middle East, said the current Israeli forces had been mobilized, which soug ht to recover their own the safety of the newsmen. war when Lieut. Gen. David territory. fighting seems to be the result of a it was said, they might have As a result. no newsmen were Elazar, the Israeli chief of staff, co mbined milita ry oper a tion deterred or smashed the enemy.