Page 4-THE NEWS-October, 1986
WORLD BEAT
edited by Marta Garelik
Christian Zionist Congress
Makes Appeals
BASEL (JTA) - The first
Christian Zionist Congress, a
three-day event, ended with an
appeal to all Jews to consider
aliya and to all Christians to
give active help to Israel. The
Congress was organized by
the Christian Embassy in
Jerusalem.
The appeals were contained
in a final resolution adopted
by 589 delegates from 27 coim-
tries, iiiciuding the U.S.,
Canada, Australia, Britain,
France, West Germany, Swit
zerland, Holland, Nigeria,
Ivory Coast, Zaire and
Taiwan.
The resolution also provided
for creation of a specid fund to
invest $100 million dollars in
industrial projects in Israel.
Investments from the fund
will be made through a com
pany to be based in Basel.
Helms Says He will
Seek Israel - U.S. Defense Pact
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Sen.
Jesse Helms (R. NC) when he
visited Israel in August told
reporters at a news conference
that he will initiate a defense
agreement between the U.S.
and Israel that would include
military air strips, joint
research and development,
and cooperation in other fields.
Helms, who at one time was
regarded as highly criticEd of
Israel, has recently changed
his views and now said that
Israel should incorporate the
West Bank and Gaza Strip in
to Israel.
He said that after visiting
“Judaea and Semiaria he fully
agreed with the position that
the area is not only important
to the defense of Israel but
also is part of the nation’s
heritage. According to Helms,
the American people should
resdize that Israel is the “only
reliable ally of America in this
area which is anti-Communist,
with impeccable moral
principles.”
He said that many Ameri
cans might believe that a
defense agreement with Israel
might mean U.S. troops would
have to fight in the Jewish
State. “But that is not so,” he
said. “I have met Defense
Minister Yitzhak Rabin and
understand that Israel does
not need nor want American
troops to fight here.” Helms
was in Israel on a private visit
together with Sen. Chic Hecht
|R. NEV).
Catholic Cathedral Built
By Israeli Construction Firm
TEL AVIV (JTA) - The
Roman Catholic cathedral
dedicated by Pope John Paul
II in the Ivory Coast capital of
Abidj an was built by the
Israeli construction firm of
Solel Boneh, working in joint
partnership with the Ivory
Coast government. The Pope
visited the Ivory Coast during
a tour of West £ind Central
Africa.
The second largest Roman
Catholic cathedral in the
world, after St. Peter’s in
Rome, it was built in just
under two years. The cathed
ral, which has three bell towers
(the highest reaching to 70
meters), can hold 6,000 per
sons. It is located on a 30-acre
plot and cost about $15 million
to build.
Solel Boneh officials were
present at the dedication
ceremony and were presented
to the Pope during his visit.
The Abidjan cathedral is not
the first major church built by
Solel Boneh. The firm, owned
by the Histadiut and the
largest construction firm in
Israel, also built the new
Church of the Annunciation in
Nazareth.
Israel’s Teachers Register
To Teach In New York Schools
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Thou
sands of Israeli school
teachers registered here to
teach in New York public
schools for a year or two. They
were answering an advertise
ment in Israeli newspapers,
asking those interested with
at least a bachelor’s degree, to
come and be interviewed by
Richard Wollin, principal of
the Taft public school in The
Bronx.
Wollin said he thought the
large number of applicants for
the $15,000 a year job was
because of the bad economic
situation in Israel, where
teachers and others are
threatened by unemployment.
He said that none he had
spoken to said they wanted to
leave Israel permanently.
They all said they would like
to teach in New York for a
year or two, and then return to
Israel when the economic
situation improves.
Major Archaeological
Find Made
JERUSALEM (JTA) - The
very first houses built in
Jerusedem have been unearth
ed in the Kidron Valley, just
southeast of the Old City
walls. The settlements in the
city, 1,000 years before King
David, were surrounded by a
protective wall or were mere
ly a village-like complex open
to the surrounding hillsides.
The unearthed houses com
prise walls with built-in ben
ches protruding from them
and surrounding a central liv
ing area.
Among the most arresting
finds is a six-story stepped
stone structure, built along
the slope of the hill. Under
this, veritably intact, are
houses of the Davidic Period,
complete with pillars, plaster,
and even indoor latrines.
Signet rings ^d shards af
forded precise dating — and in
some cases corresponded to
actual Biblical names.
Boys Town Jerusalem Gets
Aid From U.S.
NEW YORK (JTA) - Boys
Town Jerusalem has been
awarded a $300,000 U.S.
government grant from the
Agency for International
Development (AID) to acquire
new technical equipment for
its College of Applied Engi
neering.
The College has graduated
over 400 students with
degrees as mechgmical and
electronics engineers and
technici£uis who have taken
positions in Israel’s high tech
industries, vocational high
schools or armed forces with
responsibility for critical
defense systems. The majority
of those students are the
children of underprivileged im
migrant families who first at
tended Boys Town’s High
Schools of Electronics or
Precision Mechanics, two of
the eight institutions it main
tains on an 18-acre residential
campus in the Jerusalem
suburb of Bayit Vegan.
Tid-Bits
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Twelve major rational Jewish
organizations joined in vehe
mently denouncing Rabbi
Meir Kahane, the leader of the
Kach Party in Israel, calling
his policies “racism,” “dema-
goguery,” and “a perversion
of Jewish religious, ethical,
and traditional values and
practices.”
•
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Rabbi Meir Kahane was pre
vented from speaking at a
rally in downtown Jerusalem
by angry demonstrators. Him-
dreds of Jerusalemites, many
of them members of the Labor
youth movement, heckled the
extremist leader as he tried to
speak. After half an hour of
this, Kahane was forced to
leave.
•
JERUSALEM (JTA) - The
president of Mormon Brighsun
Young University, Prof. Jef
frey Holland, in a written
pledge handed to Mayor Ted
dy Kollek, promised there
would be no missionary activ
ity in the educational center it
is constructing next to the
Hebrew University on Mt.
Scopus. The center is to be an
extension of Brigham Young
U.
The construction of the Mor
mon center has come under
large-scale attack by Ortho
dox circles, including the two
Chief Rabbis of Israel, who
have warned that its real pur
pose was to try to convert
Jews.
•
PARIS (JTA) — Poland will
show both on TV and in
cinemas the nine-hour film
“Shoah,” which describes in
psunful detail the horrors of
the Holocaust and recalls
some of the worst incidents of
local collaboration with the
Nazi authorities.
After the screening of the
film, first decried by the War
saw government as “anti-
Polish propaganda,” the War-i
saw authorities apparently
changed their view.
•
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Prof.
Daniel Carpi, who has just
completed three years as head
of Tel Aviv University’s
Chaim Rosenberg School for
Jewish Studies, has been in
vited by the Vatican’s Gre-
goriana University to help set
up a center for Jewish studies
there.
The dean of Gregoriana’s
Faculty of Theology, Prof.
Arye Crollius, visited Tel Aviv
University earlier this year, at
which time proposals and
plans for cooperation, joint
research and the exchange of
professors and students were
discussed.
•
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Dr.
William Mayer, U.S. Assis
tant Secretary of Defense for
Health Affairs, presented a
plaque to officials of the
Hadassah-Hebrew University
Medical Center in Ein Karem
formally recognizing the
Center’s cooperation in mak
ing its medical resources
available to the American
military last April after the
U.S. military installation in
Beirut was bombed by
terrorists.
•
NEW YORK (JTA) - Re
searchers at the Faculty of
Mechanical Engineering of the
Technion - Israel Institute of
Technology, are devising a
nursing robot that will run er-
reinds, fetch objects, serve and
even cook — in response to
verbal commands, it was
reported by the American
Society for Technion.
•
NEW YORK (JTA) - A
w£irning has been issued to
observant Jewish husbemds
throughout the world that
they may not be present in the
delivery room when their
wives are giving birth.
“It is forbidden in Jewish
Law for a husband to be in the
same room with his spouse
during childbirth. The practice
goes against the grain of the
Halachah and violates the
precious trait of Znius. The
world at large has always ad
mired the Jewish people for
their modesty and pure family
life. These solid foundations of
Judaism are now being
threatened by the new
custom.”
•
LOS ANGELES (JTA) -
The Hebrew Union College
Skirball Museum has been
awarded $75,000 to orgemize a
traveling exhibit of 36 works
of art by Hungarian artist
Ahce Cahana. The exhibit,
chronicling her Holocaust ex
periences and subsequent re
building of her life in Israel
and the U.S., is dedicated to
Raoul Wallenberg, the
Swedish diplomat who saved
thousands of Hungarian Jews
from the Nazis before
vanishing mysteriously into
Soviet control.
•
NEW YORK (JTA) - The
first ranch of Brangus — con
sidered the best beef cattle in
the world — outside the U.S.
is being established in Israel
through the method of embryo
transfer from Brangus cows in
Texas into Israeli cows.
•
(JTA) — The Egyptian
tourism minister states that
Egypt has cancelled all restric
tions on Egyptian tourists
coming to Israel.
•
PARIS (JTA) — Israeli-bom
conductor Daniel Barenboim
has been chosen to head the
production of five of Richard
Wagner’s operas at the 1988
Bayreuth Festival. The
42-year-old Barenboim, who
heads the Paris Symphonic
Orchestra, was selected from
dozens of top internationally
renowned conductors.
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