They Found a New Life in 5710
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18—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 8, 1950
Four-Year Blueprint
For Israel Security
Outlined in Article
Brought to Israel by the United Jewish Appeal, these
young immigrants have found a spirit of friendship and hap-
piness which has been denied them during the long years of
homelessness. Even though they still must live in tents in a
reception camp, they are inspired by hopes that they will soon
have permanent homes and an opportunity to learn a trade.
The' fulfillment of their hopes during 5711 depends on the
flow of cash to the United Jewish Appeal.
Yemenite Discrimination Charges
Groundless, American Writer Finds
By .VICTOR H. BERNSTEIN
ROSH HAAYAN—I have been
interested particularly in silting
the facts concerning two issues
which have been publicized
widely recently in the Jewish
press of the U. S. (1) Charges
that the Yemenites are being
treated as "second class" citi-
zens in Israel and (2) Charges
that the Yemenites, as an or-
thodox Shepardic group, are not
being afforded opportunity for
an adequate religious education.
- The evidence would indicate
that, so far as the immigrant
camps go, both charges are
groundless. I haVe already in-
dicated (See The Jewish News,
Aug. 11) that physically this
camp is neither better nor worse
than many others tvlach house
European immigrants. In the
matter of food, the Yemenites
definitely are being favored.
On the question of education,
I am in no position to relate the
complicated history involved,
nor to do justice to the high
passions aroused by the issue
on both sides. What I can report
is what I saw at first-hand.
The Rosh Haayan schoolhouse
is in a huge hanger which once
housed British airforce planes.
About a dozen classrooms line
each side of the broad central
corridor. Each room is equip-
ped with about 50 chairs and
desks, a teacher's table, and a
small blackboard. Books are
dog-eared, and by now, none too
clean. There are few real
"copybooks", and the youngsters
are given makeshift pads of one
kind or another to write upon.
The classrooms are filled with
boys, for five hours in the morn-
ing, and with girls for five hours
in the afternoon. Six grades
take care of youngsters from
seven to 17. The school prin-
cipal is a Yemenite.
The school is run not by the
Jewish Agency, which operates
the camp as a whole, but by the
government. The curriculum,
according to the principal, con-
forms exactly to that of a nor-
mal religious public school. On
a weekly basis, the boys get
five to six hours of Torah, six
hours of prayers, five hours of
NEW YORK — Israel'S blue-
print for economic security —
a four-year program aimed at
industrial and agricultural ex,-
pansion—will require a net in-
vestment of nearly a billion
and a half dollars if it is to be
implemented successfully, ac-
cording to an article in the lat-
est issue of "Economic Hori-
zons," monthly publication of
the economic department of the
Jewish Agency.
The major sources of this
huge investment will be foreign
investment capital—a yearly in-
flow exceeding $200,000,000 is re-
quired—and domestic savings, a
combination of personal savings
and budget surpluses which are
expected, by 1953, to constitute
55 percent of the total invest-
ments in that year, the article
says.
In addition to industrial and
agricultural expansion, the four-
year program, worked out by
Dr. A. L. Gruenbaum, chief of
the Prime Minister's economic
research department, envisages
expansion in public works, tour-
ism and communications.
The program is based on an
anticipated 50 percent increase
in Israel's population, or a rise
from the present 1,200,000 to
1,800,000 by 1953. This would in-
crease the country's labor foice
to 666,000, compared with 360,-
000 at the end of 1949. The pro-
gram is calculated to raise the
national income from about
$850,000,000 in 1950 to $1,370,-
000,000 in 1953.
Misnah or Talmud, three - hours
of Tenach, three hours of He-
brew. three hours of arithmetic,
two. hours of geography and two
hours of gymnastics, singing,
etc. That adds up to 20 hours of
religious instruction weekly as
compared to about 10 hours of
general non-religious instruc-
tion.
The girls' courses lay some-
what less emphasis on religion.
They include, on a weekly basis,
three hours of prayers, three
hours of Torah, six hours of He-
See The Jewish News classi-
brew, three hours of drawing, fied Living Quarters for rental
three hours of arithmetic, six and real estate values.
hours of handwork (embroidery,
etc.) and two to three hours
•
weekly of dancing and gymnas-
tics.
Education for children up to
17 is compulsory, although the
compulsion is as yet more moral
than physical. For adults, in
this camp, there is a voluntary •
school which gives two hours
instruction daily in Hebrew,
geography and arithmetic to
men, and in Hebrew, singing
and in such simple matters as
time telling and money-count-
ing to women. This school cur-
rently has about 800 pupils.
Mothers sit side by side with
their daughters of seventeen
who, likely as not, are already
themselves mothers.
I have tried to be very factual
in this account of Yemenite
schooling. But the ultimate
truth is not in the cold facts.
The ultimate truth is that with-
in these bare school walls a tre-
mendous revolutiOn is taking
place. The veil of ignorance is
being torn from the ancient
face of the Levant by the hands
of the indomitable Jew.
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First European Mizrachi
KNOCKE, Belgium, (JTA) —
T h e first European Mizrachi
conference under the auspices
of the World Mizrachi Union
opened here, with delegates
from Britain, France, Belgium,
Conference Under Way
Holland and Switzerland par-
ticipating. Mr. David Pinkus,
chairman of the Israel Parlia-
mentary Finance Committee,
and a leading Israel Mizrachi,
brought greetings
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