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. * * * 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. * * * , 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. * * * 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 * * * Duty-Free Gift Shop to Entice Tourists - 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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." * * * 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.. . * * 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. * * * 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. * 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.