Friday, July 5, 1957 — THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-30
A Roundup of Late News from Israel
Israel's Ghana Legation
Elevated to Embassy;
to Promote Brisk Trade
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Israel legation in Accra, capital
of the new State of Ghana,
has been elevated to the status
of an Embassy. •
Chanan Yavor, Israel consul
in Accra, has been named First
Secretary of the Embassy and
Charge d'Affaires.
The Foreign Ministry also an-
nounced that the first Ghanaian
student has applied for permis-
sion to study in Israel. Before
Ghana became independent, Is-
rael economic and technical ex-
perts were welcomed to Accra,
and Israel was asked to extend
economic and technical aid to
the African country.
An Israel - Ghana Shipping
Company will shortly be organ-
ized to ply between Israel and
Ghana, with possible stops at
other Central and West. African
ports.
Sample 'shipments of Israeli
goods, chiefly textiles, will
shortly be sent to several East
African countries recently vis-
ited by a delegation represent-
ing the Israel Manufacturers
Association. The shipments to
Uganda, D j i b o u t i, Zanzibar,
Aden and Ethiopia will come to
about $50,000 in value.
The members of the trade
delegation report that Israeli-
manufactured items have good
prospects in these markets, par-
ticularly as far as quantity is
concerned. The goods are des-
tined chiefly for upper income
customers who seek quality in
woolens and cottons.
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Israel to Bar Soviet
Books and Periodicals
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Israel
will permit the importation of
Soviet publications only on the
basis of reciprocity, a spokes-
man for the Ministry of Trade
declared, • announcing Israel's
decision to bar Soviet books and
magazines.
He revealed that during re-
cent, prolonged .negotiations be-
tween Israel and the USSR, the
Russians asserted that there
were neither readers nor inter-
est in the Soviet Union for Israel
books and magazines.
- Originally, the Israel govern-
ment approved the importation
of a quantity of Soviet books,
but at that time asserted its
adherence, in this deal as in all
others, to the principle of reci-
procity. When the new Soviet
proposal was made, without
Moscow agreement to the im-
portation of sraeli literature to
the USSR, the Ministry of
Trade withheld approval.
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Judge Handles 200 Cases,
But Gets No Speeding Ticket
HAIFA (JTA) — A Haifa
magistrate put the processing of
traffic offenders in this city on
a mass production basis last
week when same 200 violators
were brought before him in one
day.
Stiffest sentence handed down
by the magistrate, S. Razi, was
a 200 Israel pound fine and sus-
pension of a license for a year
against a motorcyclist with two
previous convictions. About ten
speeders drew fines ranging
from 50 to 70 pounds.
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Israel Medical Chief
Urges H. U. Expansion
A demand to expand the He-
brew University-Hadassah Med-
ical Faculty in Jerusalem and
enable the institution to gradu-
ate 150 physicians yearly was
voiced by E. Kanev, chairman
of the Kupat Holim. Center, at
a meeting of the Public Health
Medical -Council in Tel Aviv.
The demand was noted in a re-
cent issue of the Journal of the
American Medical Association.
As published in the Journal's
Foreign Letters section, Israel's
last census revealed there are
only 3,259 physicians and 583
dentists in the country. If the
number of physicians no longer
practicing is deducted, there is
one physician for every 600
residents.
Fifty-five percent of the
physicians are over 55 years
old and may be expected to
retire from active practice
within the next 15 years.
Hence, the country is faced
with a potential shortage of
physicians, the Journal said.
The AMA Journal also car-
ried two reports of disease
studies in Israel. The reports
showed that periodic erythro-
cyte (red corpsucle) abnormal-
ity, a blood disease, is not rare
in Israel. Preponderant among
people of Mediterranean origin,
the disease also has been found
in Ashkenazic Jews. Experi-
ments have indicated diversi-
fied antibody response in the
blood serums Of different vic-
tims.
An occupational dermatitis,
inflammation of the skin, af-
fecting persons engaged in
Handling prickly pears, was de-
scribed by the Journal. The
disease, which generally ap-
pears from July to October, has
a striking similarity" to scabies
(a skin disease caused by para-
sitic mites), the Journal stated.
Radio Commercialism
Reaches Kol Israel
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Duty-Free Gift Shop
to Entice Tourists
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A duty-free gift shop w a s
opened. at Lydda airport, as a
further incentive for "bargain-
hunters" to visit Israel. French
perfumes, Swiss watches, Scotch
whiskies, world-renowned cam-
eras and other luxury items are
now available to tourists at
duty-free prices. Tourists can
stock-up on international bar-
gains prior to their departure
for Europe or the United States.
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Higher Israel Revenue
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Is-
rael's government revenue dur-,
ing the 1955-56 fiscal year was
815,000,000 pounds, 28 times the
figure for 1948-49, the first year
of its independent existence as
a -state. Sixty-nine percent of
the receipts came from local
sources, of which 153,000,000
pounds were from income tax
alone.
for Israel Settlement
NEW YORK (JTA)—A group
of nine American Hassidim,
members of the ultra-Orthodox
sect, left for Israel on an El
Al plane. Kalman A. Pataki,
a Canadian-born member of the
sect, and Solomon Brillich, in-
tend to settle permanently in
Israel.
The seven teen-agers in the
group will continue their reli-
gious studies in the Yeshivah
established in Israel by Rabbi
Y. Halberstam, of Brooklyn,
known as the Klausenberg
Rebbe.
klausenberg disciples have
decided to build a township,
Kiryat Sanz, in Nathanya, on a
coastal point midway between
Tel Aviv and Haifa. A com-
munity of 600 families is
planned. Eighty families are
now 'established at Kiry_at Sanz,
foundations for which were laid
by Rabbi Halberstam on a visit
last II ummer.
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Head of UN Foreign Division
Bonds Help S'dom Bromine Plant
.
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—An exhi-
bitionof Israeli-made arms and
ammunition was opened at near-
by Rishon L'Zion by the direc-
tor general of the Defense Min-
istry, Shimon Peress. Among
the guests. was President Itzhak
Ben-Zvi.
Peress revealed that within
the last few months investment
in the military arms industry in
this country had doubled and
that industry had begun to
manufacture its own TNT and
had developed a "super-bazoo-
ka" and many other types of
weapons previously imported.
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1,000 Americans to Join
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Mrs.
Zena Harman, long Israel's rep-
resentative on the United Na-
tions Economic and Social
Council, was named head of
the Foreign Ministry's United
Nations Division. This makes
Mrs. Harman the highest rank-
ing woman in the Foreign Min-
istry. Mrs. Harman is the wife
of Avraham Harman, member
of the Jewish Agency executive
and one-time Israel Consul Gen-
eral in New York.
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Middle-Aged Israelis
Join Nursing Trainees
in Israel Workshops
Utilizing investment capital derived from the State of Israel
Bond Issue, Israel this year established a new industrial enter-
prise at S'dom — the Dead Sea Bromine Company (shown
above). The new plant, which is nearing completion, will
make possible the large-scale extraction of liquid salts, espe-
cially bromine, from the Dead Sea. Because the waters of the
Dead Sea have a bromine concentration which is very much
greater than almost any other. source, Israeli chemists have
been able to develop a process which is simpler and less ex-
pensive to use than those employed by bromine - producing
companies throughout the world. The new enterprise, which
is expected to earn millions of dollars annually, will help to,
strengthen
. economy.,
ZOA to Establish
Costs $3,000,000 Yearly Fund for Israel Settlers
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The Wo-
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Commer-
cial broadcasting came to Israel men's International Zionist Or-
via Kol Israel, the State Broad- ganization spends $3,000,000 a
casting Service, at $27.50 for a year on its network of welfare,
educational - and vocational in-
maximum five-minute plug.
The two other radio stations stitutions for children, adoles-
—Kol Zion La Galoh, the over- cents and women in Israel, Mrs.
seas service of the. Jewish M. Genossar reported at the
Agency, and the Galei Zahal 13th world WIZO convention.
There are some 4,500 chil-
army broadcasting unit — re-
mained deaf to blandishments dren, mostly in new immigrant
camps and villages, receiving
of sponsors.
One important reason for the WIZO assistance. Two homes
Kol Israel decision to accept for children were opened, one
commercials was a drastic cut in Jerusalem and one in Tel
in the station's annual budget, Aviv and the WIZO home in-
leaving as alternatives either dustry project provides work
the sale of time or an equally for over 600 persons. including
drastic cut in broadcast hours. a number of Arab girls.
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The economic realities of
Israeli life; including the need Youthful Attackers
to use nine languages to reach
a majority of Israel's popula- Plaque Israel Instal lations
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Vivid
tion and the fact that many of
its newcomers lack enough in- testimony to the insatiable curi-
come to • be sales prospects, will osity of Israeli children has
make impossible extensive com- been offered by Dr. Josef Burg,
Israeli Minister of Posts, in dis-
mercial selling by radio.
Kol Israel rules for commer- cussing the extension of public
cials provide that they can be ' telephone booth locations.
Reporting to Knesset that
made only from noon until 2
p.m. Sponsors can send in only there were now 200 such public
announcements and have no telephone booths with another
200 scheduled throughout Israel, '
say over program content.
Semi-public announcements, Dr. Burg also dealt with the
such as those of cultural and matter of constant complaints of
public institutions, can announce Israeli citizens that many of the
details of their _activities after public telephones are constantly
news broadcasts for a fee of out of order.
The repairmen do their best,
$5.50. •
- The acceptance of radio ad- said Dr. Berg, but "we. cannot
vertising will not affect the compete with Israeli children."
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present arrangement by which
set owners pay an annual license Nine Hassidim Leave
fee of $2.76.
Israel Starts Producing
Many Military Weapons
A total of 1,000 Americans,
half of them professionals, are
planning to participate in semi-
nar workshops in Israel this
summer under the auspices of
the Jewish Agency for Pales-
tine in co-operation with Amer-
ican educational institutions, the
Agency announced.
The participating men and
women are organized in 12 dif-
ferent study groups interested
in specific phases of Israeli life
and culture, the Agency added.
WIZO I srael Work
Fathers and mothers in their
thirties and forties today sit
side by side with teen-agers
at the Malben school for prac-
tical nursing in Shaar Menashe,
Israel. Of the 30 students in
this sixth such class, 27 are
immigrants.
The students are trained in
15 months of psychology cours-
es, theoretical and practical
physiotherapy, occupational
therapy and social welfare.
Upon graduation they head for
a year's service in one of the
Malben institutions.
Malben, which concentrates
on rehabilitation of TB victims,
is financed chiefly by the United
Jewish Appeal.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Zi-
onist Organization of America
will establish a special loan
fund to assist American settlers
and prospective settlers in Is-
rael, it was announced by Dr.
Emmanuel Neuman n, ZOA
president. He also announced a
plan for one year of work and
study in Israel by young Ameri-
can adult Zionists.
The year-in-Israel program,
approved by the appropriate de-
partments of the Jewish Agency,
is designed to familiarize young
adult Zionists in the age group
of 21-30 with all aspects of life
in Israel by enabling them to
spend a period of one year in
orientation study courses and in
work in their various profes-
sions under conditions approxi-
mating those in the United
States.
The loan fund-is intended to
ease some of the strains en-
countered by American settlers,
especially young professionals.
In administering this loan fund,
the ZOA will invite the cooper-
ation of Hitachdut Olei Ameri-
ca (The Association of Ameri-
can Settlers in Israel), Dr. Neu-
mann said.
Dr. Neumann announced that
a group of 30 youths, members
of ZOA Young Zionist Districts,
will go to Israel this summer
to participate in the Jewish
Agency's Leadership Training
Institute in Jerusalem. The
group of young Zionists will
leave New York by plane July
14 and is due t6 return Aug. 30.
The fee for the Summer Insti-
tute is $795 per person, includ-
ing transportation to and from -
Israel and all other expenses on
the spot..
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Report Soviet Limitation
on Jewish Scientists
TEL AVIV (JTA) — An Is-
raeli scientist who recently vis-
ited Moscow to attend a confer-
ence of macromolecular chem-
ists, reported to his associates
at the Weizrnann. Institute that
introduction of a numerus clau-
sus for Jews in- Soviet science,
as recently advocated by some
Soviet officials, would seriously
affect the Jews in Soviet
science.
Prof. Aharon Katzir said
there were 24,000 Jews in scien-
tific positions in the Soviet
Union out of a total of 223,000
although there were only three
and a half million Jews in a
total population of over 200,-
000,000.
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Malben Students, Aged 62 - 78,
Graduate As Nurses' Assistants
It was a gala day at Shaar
Menashe, the Malben _village for
the aged. The occasion was the
graduation ceremony of nurses'
assistants — graduates in the
middle, dressed in white, with
green - uniformed students
around them; and over a thou-
sand relatives and friends of
the graduates and residents of
the village seated in the audi-
ence.
The graduates were an amaz-
ing lot-62-78 years old, all resi-
dents of Malben homes for the
aged.
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Books Sought for Israel
Chief Rabbinate Library
A central library of rabbinic
literature is planned by the
Chief Rabbinate of Israel, to be
housed in Jerusalem in the new
building of the Chief Rabbinate.
The Department of Torah Cul-
ture and Education of the Jew-
ish Agency has been appointed
the American representative of
the Chief Rabbinate to aid in
acquiring works dealing with
Bible, Talmud, Halakha, Re-
sponsa and religious philosophy.
Books may be sent directly to
the Chief Rabbinate, P.O.B. 197,
in Jerusalem, or to the Depart-
Benjamin Franklin was the ment of Torah Culture, Jewish
first Postmaster of the United Agency for Palestine, 16 7. 66th
States.
St., New York City.