Bernice S. Tannenbaum, president of Hadassah, warned here today that Syria might take advantage of Israel’s preoccupation with peace negotiations at Camp David and step up operations in Lebanon that would lead to an eventual takeover and the conversion of Lebanon into a Palestinian state.
Mrs. Tannenbaum, who is here in preparation for Hadassah’s 64th annual national convention to take place in Jerusalem Sept. 19-25, referred to the ongoing summit at Camp David. She said: “We hope that President Carter will be able to persuade both men (Premier Menachem Begin and President Anwar Sadat) to build on the areas of agreement which do exist. This first step could be the example and the basis for future accords with the other confrontation states.”
The Hadassah convention will be addressed by Begin, Leon Dulzin, chairman of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization Executives, former Premier Golda Meir, Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, American Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis, Israel’s President Yitzhak Navon and others.
More than 3000 delegates and guests are expected in Israel for the convention. They will tour the country in 65 buses as they inspect Hadassah’s medical, education and land reclamation projects scattered throughout the country. One of the high points will be the dedication of the “Tree of Life,” a monumental final masterwork by the late sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, on the campus of the Hadassah University Hospital on Mount Scopus.
Mrs. Tannenbaum said it has taken almost two years to plan Hadassah’s first convention in Israel. “We believe that it has been worth the tremendous effort, because the people attending this convention will return to the U.S. with memories they will treasure for the rest of their lives,” she said.
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