Several new hostile acts along Israel’s borders during the past 24 hours were reported by an Israeli military spokesman today. The latest incidents included Jordanian infiltrees firing on a public bus traveling on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem road and the violation of Israel air space above Sdom today by a Jordanian plane. On the Egyptian border, near Gaza, an Arab infiltree was killed in an exchange of shots between Israelis and Arabs inside Israel.
Meanwhile, last week’s “small war” between Israel and Jordan in Jerusalem claimed another victims today when Rabbi Moshe Goldberg, wounded last Thursday,
died. Rabbi Goldberg, a delegate to the Agudas Israel World Congress from Paris, was buried after a funeral in which all delegates to the Congress participated.
Rabbi Goldberg was eulogized by leading Orthodox sages of the world, including Israel Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog. In his eulogy, Rabbi Herzog called on world religious leaders not to be misled by the campaign of “lies and slander designed to make Israel’s soldiers appear to have deliberately fired on the Holy Places” or by the charges that Israel planned to conquer the Old City of Jerusalem. He also called on Moslem religious leaders in the Arab states to join forces “to make our Arab cousins abandon the warpath and make a covenant of peace with Israel.”
The Israel Mogen Dovid Adom protested today to the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva against Jordanian attacks on the Mogen Dovid’s ambulances during last week’s battle. The organization sent photographs of damage caused to ambulances hit while going to the assistance of wounded men and women in the new city of Jerusalem.
Lt. Commander Elmo R. Hutchinson, USN, chairman of the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission, personally inspected today the fortnightly Israeli convoy to Mt. Scopus. The convoy, consisting of an armored car and several automobiles as well as three truckloads of supplies, was not allowed to travel over the Arab Legion-controlled road as a convoy, but one car at a time. The first vehicle to go up, the armored car–accompanied by UN observers and Legionnaires–was stoned by Arabs as it went up the road and then returned.
Radio Bagdad, heard here, today said that the Jordan national guard had planned to conquer the Jewish positions on Mt. Scopus but it had lacked manpower. As a result, the national guard had launched a campaign for funds, to which only Iraq responded, with 150,000 dinars.
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