Chief Rabbi Herzog and Chief Rabbi Uziel today issued a proclamation to the Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, respectively, urging “total enlistment” of all Jewish religious youth in Palestine. Only those who are permanent Yeshivah student should be excepted, the proclamation stated.
At the same time the Palestine Government today assured a Jewish delegation that the recent official announcement which warned against the use of force to induce voluntary enlistment in the armed forces was not intended to slacken Jewish enlistment, but, on the contrary, to stimulate it.
High officials of the Palestine Government, receiving the delegation, which represented the Jewish National Council of Palestine, expressed regret over the fact that Jewish organizations in the country reacted unfavorably to the announcement, suspecting that the government’s warning was aimed at casting a slur on Jewish volunteering. In issuing the statement counselling against using violence to force people to enlist, the Palestine administration had in mind preventing individual incidents from marring the good reputation which Jewish voluntary enlistment has acquired, they said.
The first Palestine unit of the Czechoslovakian Auxiliary Territorial Service, composed mostly of Jewish women, has completed training and has been assigned to duties somewhere in the Middle East, it was announced here today.
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