Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1979 — Page 4

August 3, 1979 The Jewish Post and Opini

Minimum Subsistense Gets Cabinet Approval

The Sports Post

Djerassi Comes Through Again

JERUSALEM - Some 200,000 Israelis who are either unable to work or do not earn enough for minimum subsistence will be covered by the guaranteed income law which will be presented to the Knesset shortly. It was approved by the Cabinet and had been championed by Dr. Israel Katz, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, for the past two years. Framers of the law asserted that 90 per cent of those expectecd to be covered are al-

ready receiving minimum subsistence payments through the National Insurance Institute and the other 10 per cent receive aid from the Welfare Administration and from local authorities. The amount to be set as minimum income will be determined by Dr. Katz in conjunction with the Minister of Finance when the law becomes operative a year after its expected passage by the Knesset.

Israel Tennis Stars Learn Competition Is Tough

TEL AVIV — Israel sent its best tennis players abroad for the challenge of tougher competition, and while there was not too much to crow about, Israel’s tennis champion Shlomo Glickstein did win his first Association of Tennis Professionals tournament, and two under-16 Israelis copped the doubles at the St. Louis Junior Invitation Tournament. Shahar Perkis teamed with Silon Sinai to win in St. Louis, and Perkis won the consolation event for players losing

in the first two singles rounds. Glickstein's victory was at Deventer, Holland. He added to his achievement when together with Ilan Sherr, they finished first also in doubles. The girls contingent sent to Europe did not fare so well. They lost to Switzerland and Yugoslavia by 1-4 and 0-5 respectively in the first round of the annual Coupe Helvette girls under-16 tournament. This was the first time Israel had entered a team in European girls tennis competition.

Kollek Appeals To Burg On Zealot Rock-Throwing

JERUSALEM — The weekly Saturday confrontation of rock-throwing yeshiva students and cars driving on the Ramot road through the Orthodox section has led Mayor Kollek to challenge Interior Minister Yosef Burg to issue “clear and forceful guidelines to the police to act against the

religious zealots”. Kollek praised the restraint displayed by Ramot residents, while Municipal spokesman Rafi Davara said that the municipality has been deluged with calls from residents who claimed their patience had come to an end.

By SHELDON WALLMAN The AAU Track & Field Championships and Boris Djerassi go together like bagels and lox In 1977, Boris placed third in the Hammer Throw, last year he w r on it all, and this Wall man summer you guessed it, he came in second, earning a trip to the Pan-American Games. Dan Gardner reached the finals of the Discus event but had to settle for ninth place. John Citron of Florida State broke his own Jewish record for the 400 M. Hurdles during a losing semi-final heat. Despite a personal best effort, Mark Waldman of SMU failed to qualify for the finals in the Shot-Put. Brian Mondschein (Paternal) was unlucky and took the 13th spot in the Decathlon.

IN BOXING It is much too early to predict a renaissance of Jewish boxing, but led by Maccabiah Games’ veterans, ring activity is on the upswing. These 1977 medal winners include Bruce “Mouse” Strauss, who is campaigning in the mid-west and has a 7:1 record and Herb Wilens who has announced his decision to turn pro and will fight out of Washington, D. C. Elie Elbilia of France only won the bronze medal in 77 but ha^ captured all eight of his pro bouts, while Jean-Jacques Benchitrit has won both of his two bouts after

relinquishing the French amateur championship in the light-middleweight division. Ron Aurit of Philadelphia who took part in the 1973 Games is 6:0 and thinking of going on leave from his teaching job to go all out for a ring career. Moving over to the boys who fight for fun, Bill Koltnow’ of Dickinson College placed second in the 132 lb. class at the NCAA Div. Ill Boxing Championships. He lost in the finals in a rather controversial split-decision. Bill won the 125 lb. title in 1978. His achievements are all the more remarkable since Dickinson does not offer training in boxing and Bill singlehandedly started club boxing on the campus. Stan Love, a protege of Ron Aurit, joined the Penn State boxing team late in the season and scored some impressive hard-hitting victories. Chanil Sabirov of the USSR recently captured the European light-flyweight crown. * * * IN BASKETBALL It may not be winter, but basketball is making news just the same. Ernie Grunfeld of the Milwaukee Bucks wrenched his knee while jogging at a NYC Beach and faces possible surgery. Scholastic hoop star, Michael Feigenbaum of Lawrence (NY) H.S. has accepted a scholarship to Ohio University. An AAU Jr. Olympics basketball team tourmg the USSR this summer includes Michael Alter, a 6:2 all-Suburban Chicago guard. This winter, Michael will play ball in the Ivy League.

Book Reveals Details

The mystery surrounding the identity of Eric Fleisher is over. A reliable source has identified the NJ Net’s 10th draft pick as the son of Larry Fleisher, legal counsel to the NBA’s Players Assn. Apparently, the Nets chose Eric as a favor to his dad. Eric is Jewish but he is not a basketball player, not even on the intramural level. I found the entire episode degrading to the authentic aspirations of Jewish athletes. * * * SPORTS BRIEFS: Nancy Ostroff at age 22 is the strongest Jewish woman in the United States. Any doubt was removed at the Women’s Power Lifting Championships where Nancy lifted 319V2 pounds, good for fourth place among the heavyweights. Nancy placed fourth at the 1977 Maccabiah in the Discus and Shot-Put and is still active in those events. Fifteen-year-old Loren Rozowsky established a new South African and Jewish record for the 200 M. Ind. Medley. Loren has the ability to sweep the 1981 Maccabiah but the international boycott of South African athletics includes swimming at the Maccabiahs. Judoist Lou Moyerman of Philadelphia has been invited to the AAU Olympic training camp at Colorado Springs. It is an inside track to the Moscow Olympics. Coming up — The PanAmerican Games from Puerto Rico and the Pan-American Maccabiah from Mexico City.

Britain's Refusal To Aid Jews

ONLY IN ISRAEL — A high ranking team was entered in the 12th annual Israel Veterans’ (over 45) International Tennis Championship not too long ago at the Ben-Accadia Hotel in Herzliya. At left is former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and his partner is U. S. Ambassador to Israel, Samuel Lewis. They won their first round match 6-1,7-6. New American Friends

NEW YORK - Add another “American Friends” to the Israeli institutions that approach American Jews for support. This one is the American Friends of the Hall of Heroism, a museum in

Jerusalem dedicated to the martyrdom of such Jewish heroes as Jabotinsky, Dov Gruner, Moshe Barzani, Meir Feinstein and others who fought in the ranks of the Irgun.

LONDON — Documentation of the cold-blooded attitude of British authorities, headed by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden which condemned many Jews to death in concentration camps was contained in a book published here. Authored by Bernard Wasserstein, it will be issued in the United States in September. Entitled “Britain and The Jews of Europe 1939-1945’’, the volumn portrays the disbelief of British officials of Jewish protestations that Jews were being murdered in concentration camps. The reasons included fear of inflaming anti-Semitism at home, fear of upsetting the Arabs in Palestine, and fear of planted spies among immigrants. The documentation shows a lack of sympathy with the Jews and a refusal among some fairly high-level British officials to believe the Jews who warned of Hitler’s genocidal intentions. The author quotes Oliver Hardy, private secretary to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, as saying in a note:

“Unfortunately A.E. is immovable on the subject of Palestine. He loves Arabs and hates Jews.” And in a note to Mr. Harvey, Mr. Eden wrote in September 1941: “If we must have preferences let me murmur in your ear that I preferArabstoJews.” THE IRRITATION of Co^ lonial Office executives with the Jews was reflected in many documents, and the tendency to discount Jewish horror stories is illustrated in a memo dated January 1945 from an official in the Refugee Department of the Foreign Office.

JERUSALEM - The possibility that Israel may form two new corporations was envisaged as Communications Minister Yitzhak Moda’i and Finance Minister Simha Ehrlich proposed exclusive franchises for operation of the telephone company, telex, cable, facsimile data-proces-sing transmissions and other telecommunication services.

“Sources of information are nearly always Jewish whose accounts are only sometimes reliable and not seldom highly colored,” the official wrote. “One notable tendency in Jewish reports on this problem is to exaggerate the numbers of deportations and deaths.” Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s attitude toward the Jews “was one of sympathy and compassion, but the effectiveness of his interventions in favor of the Jews was repeatedly blunted by the actions of his subordinates.”

A Canadian firm — Intel — is studying the possibility of acquiring an interest in the two corporations whose shares would be sold to the public. As it is now, prospective customers have to wait as long as four years for a telephone, and as any tourist can testify the service leaves much to be desired.

Israel May Sell Telephone Rights