THE JEWISH NEWS-17

Israel Health Authorities Cope
With Immigrants' New Diseases

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Friday, October 20; 1950

Cantor Aids JCRS

By ADA OREN

and Red Cross-sponsored enter-
prise, inno culat ed this year
200,000 persons in Israel against
TEL AVIV—There have been tuberculosis, including all school
no epidemics in this country for and kindergarten children, in-
many years in spite of wars and , mates of immigrant camps, and
immigration, except for this whole Kibbutz populations as
summer's polio outbreak, which well as anyone else who applied.
is now abating. At its peak the While Intucam had to bear the
disease did not reach the United whole cost of its campaign in the
States average for 1949.
I camps for Arab refugees in the
Israel was lent iron lungs by I neighboring countries, the Gov-
the World Health Office and the ernment of Israel covered half
British Government, and was the expenses of the Scam:Tina-
found by a Yale guest specialist vian team which operated 1.ere.
Eddie Cantor, on a visit to
in preventive medicine to have
Denver, is shown congratulat-
Some Leprosy
taken all the known precautions.
The relatively frequent V. D. ing NOAH A. ATLER (right)
Yale University also sent the cases among immigrants from on his recent election to the
Hebrew University some equip- the Orient are reduced to an in-.. presidency of the Jewish Con-
ment for polio research.
communicable state before re- sumptives' Relief Society. J. A.
In connection with this lease from transit camps abroad SHAROFF (left), is chairman
scourge the local institute for or here.
of the finance committee and
the care of crippled children is
The few leprosy cases had to a leader in the recent reunion
soon to be greatly enlarged and be entrusted to the hospital ex- of auxiliaries and other sup-
given the form of a children's isting for over 60 years in Jeru- porters of the 46-year-old,
farm. The only institution of its salem under the care of Danjsh free, national, non-sectarian
kind in the Near East, it always and German Protestant nuns. Denver Sanatorium of the
acceptetd Arab children and still ! Although no single instance of JCRS. Cantor has given many
has some child patients whose infection of staff has occurred benefit performances for the
parents live in neighborhood I so far, no Jewish personnel could JCRS.
countries. All over Israel occu- I be found for this work when the
pational thereapy is highly val- ecclesiastical authorities respon-
Ued and courses for technicians sible for the institution recently NY AJC Chapter Told
are being conducted constantly. indicated their desire to - trans- Soviet Stifles Jewry
I fer it to Israel Government own-
Low Infant Mortality
NEW YORK (JTA)—"What
The infant mortality rate un- ership.
Not even one rabbi volunteered decades of Czarist persecution
til two years ago was a source
could not do7.Communist totali-
of pride to the Yishuv as the to visit these unfortunates, while tarianism seems on the verge of
the
Protestant
sisters
are
now
fourth-lowest in the world—
accomplishing—the stifling of
after New Zealand, Sweden and learning Hebrew in the interests every form of Jewish expression,
of
their
new
wards
from
the
Australia, and better than the
the total extinction of Jewish
U. S. Last year, however, with solitary teacher who declared existence," declared Will Her-
himself
willing
to
instruct
the
the arrival of many ill and weak
berg, author, lecturer and noted
children mainly from Yemen, it inmates from a distance that is authority on Communist activi-
jumped suddenly to nearly thrice considered safe. The Israel Gov- ties in the United States, before
the usual rate and is only now ernment meanwhile foots the a luncheon meeting of the New
falling again. Women immi- bill and Hadassah provides the York chapter, of the American
Jewish Committee. He denied
grants get free care at all in- doctors.
the claim that the Soviet Union
fant welfare centres for the first
Guard Against Smallpox
year after arrival in order to
Since the general compulsory guarantees Jews equal rights
convince them of their useful- innoculation against smallpox in and has wiped out anti-Semi-
ness and teach them the ele- 1948 a few cases and even deaths tism. "The record of Commu-
ments of modern childcare. • It from this disease have occurred nism in Soviet Russia and in
also takes tim e to get immi- among Arab infiltrees and their the satellite states proves that it
grants from Oriental countries families in Galilee villages. As is bitterly hostile to everything
used to the idea that babies all concerned are in the country Jewish. and to every form of
should be born in, hospitals ra- illegally, the health authorities Jewish existence," he said.
ther than in hovels.
of the district were not inform-
Immigrants from the Yemen ed. The matter came to public Neighborhood Schools
are very often afflicted with tra- attention only when cited by a Open Activities Classes
choma and worms, and by ex- 1 member of the Knesset.
cessive timidity in the presence
At MacCulloch and Bagley
of doctors. Blood had to be
school 5, the Department of
Pay
Tribute
to
Straus,
flown from Israel to the Aden
Par k s and Recreation inau-
transit camps to save thousands Wise During Book Month gurated its winter season of ac-
emaciated by tropical • malaria
NEW YORK—The 100th anni- tivities for adults and young-
contracted on their trek through
versary
of the birth of Oscar S. sters.
the pestilent low-lands along
At MacCulloch, classes are
Straus,
three-time
minister to
the Red Sea coast.
Turkey and first Jew to serve held Monday and Wednesday,
Yemenite TB Rate High
in a President's cabinet, and the from 3:30 to 10 p.m., and on
The Yemenite TB rate is 6-8 50th of the death of Isaac M. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday,
from 3:30 to 10 p.m. at Bagley
per thousand, or double the Wise, founder of Reform Juda- school.
world average. This is the most ism and organizer of Hebrew
common serious illness among Union College, will be commem- Anti-Jewish Disorders
all classes of immigrants, com- orated by the National Jewish Flare-Up on Island
prising one-third of all cases Welfare Board-sponsored Jewish
requiring hospitalization. The Book Council of America during
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Word was
Book Month, Nov. 3 to
average immigration rate for Jewish
received here of anti-Jewish dis-
Dec. 3.
TB patients in a communicable
orders on the island of Djerba,
state of the disease is now 30
off the eastern coast of Tunisia.
per month, and they are cared Streptomycin Wins
According to the information,
for in separate transit institu- Discoverer Award
Arab mobs' attacked Jewish pe-
tions.
destrians in the streets. A Jew-
ish delegation appealed to the
Facilities for the care of TB
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Arab elders of the island to in-
patients are available for only
(JTA)—The
1950
Charles'
Mickle
tervene, but the latter reported-
25 percent of all urgent cases in
spite of constant preparations Fellowship of the University of ; ly approved the mob action.
medical faculty has
for the opening of •additional Toronto's
been awarded to Dr. Selman
clinics and hospitals by Hacios- Waksman, discoverer of strepto-
s a h, t h e Anti - Tuberculosis mycin. Dr. Waksman, who is as-
League, Kupath Holim, the Gov- sociated with Rutgers University
ernment and Malben.
here, is the 30th winter of the
Fortunately, 'Intucam, a UN award which is accompanied b
I an $800 cash grant. Dr. Waks-
man said he will use the money
Neturei Karta Bans
to further his research work in
microbiology.
`Heretic' Press, Radio

Copyright 1950 by Jewish Telegraphic
Agency

JERUSALEM—(JTA) — Mt.
Neturei Karta, the extreme
Orthodox "Guardians of the
City," who have been in-
volved in numerous clashes
with other elements of the
population over Sabbath ob-
servance, voted to ban the
entire Hebrew press of the
country as reading matter
for members of the group,
denouncing the press as "dis-
seminating her e s y among
Jews." Listening to the Israel
radio was also put under ban
and the 40 delegates to the
conference also decided that
their children should not at-
tend any schools except ye-
shivoth.

Anglo-U.S. Banks In Israel Merge

LONDON— (JTA) 7-The merger
of American and British bank-
ing interests in Israel which will
combine the banking interests
of the American-financed Pales-
tine Economic Corporation and
those of the British-financed
Palestine Corporation Ltd., is
being completed.
The new concern will be
known as Palestine Corporation

Weizmann Accepts Title
Of -JNF Honorary Head

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Israel
President Weizmann • has ac-
cepted the honorary presidency
of the World Jubilee Committee
of the Jewish National Fund
which has just been organized
to sponsor celebrations through-
out the world of the JNF's 50th
anniversary. The JNF also an-
nounced that Premier David
Ben - Gurion has consented to
act as honorary chairman of
the same committee.
Last week. the Cabinet de-
cided to transfer an additional
1,000,000 dunams (250,000- acres)
of land to the land-purchasing
agency of the Zionist move-
ment. The JNF will soon start a
program of draining the Huleh
marshes.

Ltd., arid the Palestine Economic
Corporation l have a•,majority
interest in it. The company has
three banks in Israel, one spe-
cializing in 'commercial banking,
one servicing the cooperative
sector and small businesses and
one providing mortgages and
savings facilities.
Sir Robert Waiey-Cohen,
managing director of S h e 11
Transport and Trading Co., Ltd.,
will be chairman and Robert
Szold, chairman of the board of
PEC, vice-chairman of the en-
larged Palestine Corporation,
Ltd. The announcement w a s
made by Dr. Kurt Grunwald,
manager of t h Jerusalem
branch of the Palestine Corpor-
ation. •
The Anglo-Palestine Bank, Is-
rael's largest banking institution
and bankers to the Government
of Israel, will have a represents,-
tive in New York. The Israel
Consulate announced that Gide-%
on Strauss, Israel Consul in
charge of commercial affairs,
has resigned and will assume
the position of representative of
the bank here.

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National Assembly for Labor
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NEW YORK (JTA)—Leaders
of the American Jewish • corn- .
munity will assemble here Dec.
16 to attend the second National
Assembly for Labor Israel, it
was announced by Dr. Samuel
Wohl, chairman of the national
committee. The theme of the
conference will be "The Jews of
Israel and of America — Two
Years Experience in Attitudes
and Relationships." Conference
conveners include Prof. Horace
M. Iallen, Dr. Mordecai Kaplan,
Max Lerner', Rabbi James G.1
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