huraday, September 22, 1949
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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U.S. Youths
Build Colony
in Galilee Hills
SonP,s Of
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climbing seemingly into nowhere.!
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man with his black wool cap,
ible green tent. Closer scrutiny! Zionist youth groups, Junior , nods "Shalom" and the children,
reveals that the three wooden Iladassah and Masada, had not' with clean faces and dirty clothes
structures are already covered I even come into existence.
look shyly at us from behind the
with skelton roofs ... or has that IThey began with a few mem- iron-barred windows of their low
been added while we ascended bens, acquired a training farm huts.
the hill?
, near Poughkeepsie, N. Y., learn-
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ed Hebrew and joined with a ,
THERE ARE YOUNG MEN in' group of Israeli boys and girls
LAST YEAR, Jews couldn't
open-collared shirts, or stripped who also wished to build a now ride along this road, says the Am-
to the waist, building roofs and settlement. Now they are in the erican boy who fought in the
clearing away stones. There are I middle of nowhere, working very Israeli war, this was all in Arab
girls in shorts and khaki shirts,' hard to make it "somewhere" •
hands. This spot is not far from
peeling ptotatoes and trying to
the Syrian border . .. there's a
wash dishes with a very limited
+AN ISRAELI AND an Ameri- lot of contraband going on here.
supply of water,
It's part of (Air work to see that
There is also an Arab with his can load empty milk cans and it's stopped—Ile looked at the
other containers into a wooden
wife, child and donkey . . . all
walking slowly with dignity and cart, harness the only horse, and
pick up two guns. We clatter
curiosity into the circle made by
GREETINGS
down to the foot of the hill, where
huts and tents.
While his wife produces from , a few Arab houses crowd the'
CARLTON W. GAINES
the donkey's back two enormous well.
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eggs and a container of f r esh,1 The canal was built by the
British,
but
the'
Arabs
have
ne-
foaming goat's milk, the Arab is'
ceremoniously and silently greet- glected it ... and it deteriorates
ed by one of the young men who into a muddy dribble .. . Mal-
wears an almost wild-west cow- , aria breeder, the boys say, and
boy hat and shouts up to the explain that they will clean up .
skelton roofs in perfect American the canal and build a real irri-
English: "Hey, Bunchie, get Yosef, gation system for their fertile,
on the double! lie can talk this I undeveloped land.
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The Arabs smile and watch as
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we draw water—the Arab police-
, "BUNCHIE," SO CALLED be-,
Cause of a slight resemblance to .
WESTERN LADIES AID SOCIETY
the former United Nations medi-
ator, has come lure from Queens.
WISHES ALL THEIR MEMBERS AND
N. Y. The other Americans on 'I
FRIENDS A VERY HAPPY AND
4his hill are from Boston and
PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
Hoboken, Brooklyn, Manhattan
MRS. NATHAN HORENSTEIN
and the Bronx, Ohio, Philadel-
phia, Baltimore . • . former U. S.
soldiers, a former dramatic stu-!
dent, youth leaders ... and just •
BIALOSTOKER AID SOCIETY
plain young people. There are
Wishes All Their Members and Friends A Very
two or three here who had
dreamed of this "Ilityashvut"
Hoppy and Prosperous New Yeor.
! building a new settlement . as '
far back as six years ago when
Pres. ISADOR HANDLER
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Happy loud voices intone in
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quite perfect harmony Arab and
ABOVE US LIES SAFFURIYA, Hebrew melodies • then "Deep
capitol of the Galilee in the time In the heart of Texas," and "One
of Flavius Josephus . . . later an Meatball," expertly trahslated in-
to Hebrew.
Arab city ... deserted during the
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war and now "home" for the
There's
a
lot
of hard work in
"Ohm," -brand-new immigrants
from Bulgaria, Poland, and Ro- this idealism, says the tired boy
mania.—On the way back to the from Brooklyn ... and then he's
conquered hill, we meet a herd singing again.
of black sheep, driven home by
two small Arab urchins.
The Jewish Chronicle news
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deadline is noon on Mondays.
THE ROOFS OF the wooden
houses . . . living quarters and
the dining room . . . are almost A Very Happy and
completed now. The tiny shining
Prosperous New Year
but turns out to be the outhouse.
To
All
It was the first structure erected
on the hill when the settlers came
MR.' and MRS.
here four days ago.
A shining symbol of civiliza-
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tells of the sharp, dry thi*tles and
and FAMILY
heavy stones which had to be
cleated away before even tem-
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