They Found a New Life in 5710 . 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. 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