Israel's New Immigrants

DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-87

Friday, September 16, 1955

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shouting. There is, of course,
some shouting, but only by way
of greeting and the disembarka-
tion proceeds speedily and
smoothly, setting in motion the
well-oiled machine of the gov-
ernment and Jewish Agency au-
thorities. A great deal has been
learned from the mistakes pre-
viously made: not only how to
help the immigrants get settled

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and absorbed,. but also how to
deal with the _ complex disem-
barkation problem.
Today disembarkation. proceeds
so. rapidly that the immigrants
are put through all its stages and
formalities within only a few
hours. Then they immediately
board trucks that take therri to
-the places- of their destination
work villages on- Jewish Na-
tional Fund land—where they
are given every opportunity to
beCorne integrated at once.
The trucks the already . there,
and off the new immigrants go
to the new villages where houses
furnished with bedding -and beds
and kitchen utensils are waiting
for them. From the very next
day they can already earn their
living and begin work on one
of the vast JNF projects; affores-
tation, building of terraces on
hills or any other way of soil
reclamation. These villages, which
are all on JNF land, are not
exclusively inhabited by new-
comers.
A Multicolored Crowd
As to the immigrants, they
come from . every country in
North Africa, even from Egypt,
from where they arrive via
Italy or France. They are a
brisk and multicolored crowd,
in which sun-tanned bearded
New Immigrants Just Off the Boat, Working on JNF Land in
old men in white or brown bur-
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nouses of home-spun wool, rub
shoulders with gentil and ele-
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gantly dressed Egyptian ladies
who . speak English and French
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as fluently as the rest of the
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North Africans speak their own
guttural and raucous Arabic.
There are women from Tripb-
litania wearing heelless slippers
of red leather and heavy silver
bangles on their ankles.
Many of them wear wide,
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puffed pantaloons of striped cot-
ton or . silk and many, many
yards of striped or flowered cot-
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ton around their persons. They
look like huge moving bundles
of material with a woman some-
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where inside. Their heads are
surrounded by . - huge turbans
made _of garishly colored silk
shawls with long fringes. There
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of Morocco, those from the cities
of Rabat or Casablanca, dressed
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speak French, while women
from the mountain villages or
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from the ghettos look as if they
just stepped out of an Arabian
Nights' tale.. Men are tall and
dark, and many of them are
sturdy and handsome. The town-
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folk wear the blue French beret,
but the villagers are still dressed
in homespun burnouses, heel-
less shoes an-d turbans of- sev-
eral colors.
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These people who had never
before boarded a ship, lit an
electric lamp or spoken on the
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telephone, have suddenly been
transplanted from their Tunisian
villages or the hills of the
Moroccan Atlas, to Israel on
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board an Israeli ship. Without
a word,' almost stunned into
silence, they undergo the DDT
sprinkling, the perfunctory cus-
toms control, the checking of
•documents, etc. After - a short
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Fixtures—Yoder and Tishken
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ping tea and munching the rolls
which are given them after - they
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disembark- , Children play around
the bundles, young mothers
nurse their babies; and every -
thing is dominated by the -gut-
tural, staccato speech of the
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North AfricanS, who all can -un-
dbrstand each other, no matter
from which Country they come,
but can hardly understand or be
understOod by those who speak
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The newcomers find at their
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tlers to make them feel welcorne
and at home, and who usually
speak their language. From the
very next day, integration- be-
gins. Bringing the children to
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school or kindergarten. Then in
the evenings there are Hebrew
lessons, a club, a meeting to ex-
plain things to them. Before the
first week is over, the new im-
migrants- are already well with-
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in the mill called. absorgtion,
and all the children as well as
the grown-ups have already
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By DAVID RIMON
JERUSALEM—I mmigrant
ships are arriving these days
once, and sometimes twice a
week, bringing groups of young
and healthy people, often - sur-
rounded by many tots and babes
in arms. There is a happy bus-
tle in the port of Haifa when
such a ship arrives. But there
is no noise, no pushing and no

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