Gen. Yariv Says Israel Must Hold Occupied Territories Until Peace Settlement

General Aharon Yariv, Israel’s military intelligence chief, said tonight that in the absence of a settlement with the Arabs that would assure his country’s peace and security, Israel must stick to its resolve to hold on to captured Arab territories.

He spoke at the Americana Hotel to 800 guests attending a United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York campaign dinner where he represented General Moshe Dayan who was to have been the guest of honor before the present crisis along the Jordan River cease-fire line forced the Minister of Defense to postpone a planned visit to the United States.

Gen. Yariv accepted on behalf of Gen. Dayan a gift from the New York Jewish community presented by Albert Parker, UJA president. Selected because of Gen. Dayan’s interest in the archaeology of the Near East, the gift is an artifact of the pre-Colombian Olmec civilization of Mexico. The accompanying inscription reads: “a terra cotta seal of the New World wrought in the era of the Maccabees presented to Moshe Dayan, in tribute to his leadership in the struggle for Jewish survival.”

Tonight’s dinner was the first major fund raising event of the 1968 drive in New York City, Westchester and Long Island on behalf of the Israel Emergency Fund and the general UJA campaign. Gen. Yariv, analyzing the results of the Six-Day War last June, said that Israel’s military victory had not yet resulted in peace. He expressed the belief that Israel’s people face a long and tortuous road and the effort to achieve peace and security will demand their full resources. He praised the work of the UJA agencies and called for more support from the American Jewish community.