s Swampland Turned Productive
by Efforts of Jewish National Fund
ti
Mapai Debates Offer
of Changes in Cost
of Living Allowances
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — A sharp
dispute over Israel's present
system of automatic wage in-
creases tied to the cost-of-living
index developed here at the
national convention of the Ma-
pai party between two Cabinet
ministers and trade union lead-
ers.
Finance; Minister Levi Eshkol
and Minister of Trade and In-
dustry Pinchas Sapir warned
against continuation of the pres-
ent system and urged that a
change to provide for cost-of-
living adjustments every nine
months or year, instead of the
current three-month period, be
instituted. .Trade union leaders,
headed by Joseph Almogi, sec-
retary of Haifa's Labor Coun-
cil, demanded that the present
system be maintained.
At the same time, Mr. Sapir
charged that the social advances
made by Israel workers were
having an adverse affect on the
, A project rated second in importance only to the drainage
of the great Huleh Swamp is currently taking place at another country's trade. He stressed that
these advances had raised the
swamp called Wadi Falik. Only 50 acres of the "little jungle,"
cost of production and had
shown above, where there still grow wild papyrus reeds,
made Israel goods unmarket-
remain unused. The rest has been cultivated through the
able abroad because their prices
Jewish National Fund, which seeks to render Israel's soil
were too high.
fertile and prepare for large settlement of new immigrants.
in the quick handling of TB
By CHARLES PASSMAN
patients in Israel by Malben,
the
year
In the course of
the Israel government and Ha-
dassah specialists and staff, TB
incidence has continued to de-
cline to the extent that Malben
has closed one of its TB insti-
tutions and consolidated its
entire TB program in its Be'er
Yaacov Hospital.
The monumental task (still
under way) in the old-age pro-
gram of Malben was the taking
over from the Jewish Agency of
the camp of 1,450 old men and
women at Pardess Hanna, where
for eight years they milled
about, listless, unoccupied, sul-
len and submissive to the miser-
able conditions under which
they were diving. As the year
closes, the camp, now under
Malben's auspices, known as
"Neve Avot" (Parents' Home),
"Village of the Aged," has a
new face. Canvas 'huts have
been replaced by simple, pleas-
ant buildings, workshops buzz
with activity—sewing, knitting,
carpentry, cobblery, ceramics,
etc.; and the cultural life in
many instances is combined with
that of the aged citizens of the
nearby village of Pardess
Hanna.
The family of Malben institu-
tions in Israel numbers 52, and
among those is the new hospital
in Nahariya for the chronically
ill, one of the four Malben hos-
pitals with a total bed capacity
of 700, which was opened in the
past year with 180 beds, modern
up-to-date equipment and a
well-trained staff. There is hope
that the chronically ill, who
heretofore had been bedridden
and left to die would, through
the efforts of Malben's team of
doctors, nurses, social workers,
physio-therapists and occupa-
tional therapists, be granted
some small share of recovery
that they might yet taste the
sweetness of the good life.
Due to the coordinated efforts
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NEW YORK, (JTA) — Al- dorf, chairman of the
though this year's campaign of telephone campaign.
the United Jewish Appeal is
"far ahead of our campaigns of
other years, the UJA must
measure its accomplishments by
the number of lives it saves
rather than by the number of
dollars it raises," Edward M. M.
Warburg, president of the UJA,
said at a luncheon of volunteer
leaders of the UJA of Greater
New York - in honor of Barney
Balaban and Samuel D. Leides-
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The Board of Directors
and Members of the
Mathen's Year in Review
5716 Malben, the Joint Distri-:
bution Committee welfare pro-
gram on behalf of aged, ill and
handicapped newco e r s _ to
Israel, added to its family of
16 old-age homes the new 235-
bed Home in Rishon LeZion
and the renovated 160-bed Home
for Aged Jews from Oriental
countries in Neve Haim. - In so
doing, it reduced the 2,900 aged
waiting to get in and added to
the almost 6,000 aged and ill in
all Malben's institutions who
are • "home," •contented and
happy, • no longer mere numbers
in the sea of humanity, but now
human beings with dignity and
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