The Mayor and the Mountains

origin, Mayor Khoushy discovered
these surprising facts:

By MARC H. TANENBAUM

Copyright, 1955, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate

The Fiorello LaGuardia of Is-
rael was disturbed.
For three millenia Jewish men
and women dispersed throughout
the world yearned to be ingather-
ed to Israel. Why, now, were so
many leaving the country?
Abba Khoushy, the mayor of
Haifa who so frequently has been

likened to the late New York
mayor, LaGuardia, because of his
peppery and original way of
handling public issues, gave the
problem a first-hand look.
Behind the headlines of recent
years which reported the increas-
ing departure of "olim," immi-
grants, to the lands of their

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Most of the immigrants who
left Israel for their former
homes were elderly couples.
They were mainly city dwell-
ers. They had come to Tel Aviv
or Haifa or Jerusalem, set
themselves up in tight little
apartments, and spent a good
part of their days queuing up
in long lines, under the burn-
ing Mediterranean sun, sweat-
ing out their turn for food, or a
seat on a crowded bus.

hammed. It worked, and the
disgruntled elder citizens grew
wise from the young, and they
stayed.

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Khoushy's footsteps. The tour op-
erator's general manager, Meyer
Passow, announced that every
American Jew who buys a tour
for sightseeing in Israel will auto-
matically receive a free tour for
his relative or friend in Israel..
If the plan works who knows
but that some enterprising public
official in the United States might
follow suit. Native New Yorkers
might yet get to see the Statue
of Liberty.

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The fact that the fleshpots of
these urbanized Israelites in Cen-
tral Europe, or India, or North
Africa were illusory or non-

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After a while they began to
feel like their forbears who mur-
mured openly against Moses and
Aaron, "Why did we come here?
Would that we had stayed in our
lands when we sat by the flesh-
pots, when we did eat bread to
the full . . ."

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existent did not affect their mur-
murings. They were happy cliff
dwellers in dusty noisy cities and
this was not the "Promised Land
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Mayor Khoushy discovered a
parallel development of more
pregnant interest. There were
virtually no young people
among the dissatisfied "yor-
dim"(those who went down,
out of the land, the antonym of
"olim," those who went up).
And the reason? The majority
of the young Israelis were in
the armed forces during the
struggles with the British and
the Arabs. During their "hitch"
in service, they traveled the
length and breadth of the coun-
try from Dan to Beersheba,
from the Jordan River to the
s u n - bleached Mediterranean
shores.

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Within the" 8,000 square miles
of their young country, about the
size and shape of New Jersey,
the sabras and youthful immi-
grants discovered a richness and
variety of scenery and climate
that enraptured their affections.
The fertile coastal plains were as
luxuriant as the hot cities were
dessicating. The streams and
mountains of the Galilee were
altogether arresting. The stony
Judean hills rustled with mem-
ories of their Biblical past. And
before them the triangular Negev
stretched out a beckoning chal-
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Abba Khoushy gleaned the an-
swer from this. The older citi-
zens of the state must come to
know Israel in her magnificence,
not only in the meagerness of her
city life.

And so Mayor Khoushy made
this blunt proposal: all the taxi
drivers and truck drivers and
bus conductors should devote
their day off, voluntarily, to
driving the elder men and
women of Haifa through the
countryside, along Elijah's
pathways to Mt. Carmel, over-
looking the resplendent harbor.
and out to the kibbutzim on the
weekends. The municipality of
Haifa would arrange the tech-
nical details. The drivers would
be called on several times dur-
ing the year to bring the older
people to the country, and the
country to the older people.
The mayor was moving Mo-
hammed to the mountains, and
bringing the mountains to Mo-

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