Philadelphia Youngsters Will Demonstrate in New York Against Polish Anti-semitism

More than a thousand young Philadelphia Jews will journey to New York City on June 17 for a one-day demonstration at the United Nations and before the Polish Mission in protest against the continued anti-Semitic policy of the Polish Government. The youngsters, members of 17 Jewish youth groups here, will travel to New York in a bus cavalcade.

The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia, sponsor of the demonstration, has asked the superintendent of Philadelphia’s public schools to allow all Jewish students participating in the protest to be excused from school for the day.

The Israeli passenger liner Jerusalem, which for a number of years made cruises from United States ports, has been sold by the Zim Line to an American firm for $2.6 million, The vessel was built in West Germany in 1937 at a cost of $8 million, financed through the the Bonn-Israel reparations pact. Her sale reduces Israel’s passenger liner fleet to two small vessels and a car ferry trading exclusively in the Mediterranean. Israel owned eight passenger liners in 1964.

In another transportation development, it was announced that Arkia, Israel’s domestic airline, is expanding its schedule and introducing new equipment in order to meet a heavy demand for air tours to the Sinai, the Golan Heights and other areas, according to Avraham Spindler, the company’s commercial manager. Mr. Spindler said in an interview with the travel industry magazine “Travel Agent” that his company will soon take delivery of its fifth 50-passenger Handley Page Herald prop-jet plane and is considering the charter of a sixth plane. He said traffic on Arkia routes has increased since last June’s Six-Day War. In April, a record 18,750 passengers were carried on the Tel Aviv-Eilat route.