Israel's Red Cross
,Answers Emergency
Eight Minutes
p4- Every
z Magen David Adam ambu-

= lances in Israel made 61,000
emergency calls in 1956—about
one every eight minutes—ac-
cording to information received
E-4 from the service's Tel Aviv
by American Red
5 14 headquarters
Mogen David for Israel.
The 61,000 calls included 13,-
W
gz 800 first-aid and emergency
W cases, and 37,100 trips with sick
persons and pregnant women.
One such emergency call had to
be halted enroute to the hospital
whenii . a 28 - year - old Iraqi
woman gave birth to twins with
the aid of the Magen David
Adorn driver.
But in some cases Magen
David Adorn
rn (Israel's Red Cross
a4
service) was unable to answer
cu
rn emergency calls simply because
07;
tt of shortage of serviceable ve-
hicles. One case in Beersheba
411 involved a rabbi's wife who had
to deliver her own child be-
cause both MDA ambulances in
the town were under repair.
Magen David Adorn head-
quarters in Tel Aviv estimate
that with replacements and new
vehicles to keep pace with the
needs of the growing nation, the
service requires at least one
new ambulance every week.
Congressman Emanuel Cellar,
national chairman of American
Red Mogen David, has issued
an appeal to American Jewry to
help Magen David Adorn.

r

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Organize 2-Day Tours
to Elath from Tel Aviv

TEL AVIV, (AJP) — A new

two-day tour, leaving every
Wednesday from Tel Aviv to
Elath and returning Thursday
night, was inaugurated here.
The departure is by "Arkia"
plane, the return by motor

coach.

The tour takes in King Solo-
mon's Cop-per Mines and Pil-
lars; a visit to Be'er Ora or
"Well of Light," an experimen-
tal farm at the foot of the Negev
mountains; sightseeing at the
Port of Elath; a boat trip to the
coral reefs at Taba; swimming
in the Red Sea; entertainment
by folk singers and dancers in
the evening; hotel accommoda-
tions and meals; a stop-over at
Beersheba and at various pano-
ramic lookouts on return. The
all-inclusive price for this tour
is $25.

"The mouth of the righteous
uttereth wisdom."—Psalms 3-7:30

Unemployment Rising
in Beersheba Area

Late News from Israel

5 Israelis Injured

at Oil Drilling Site

TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Natural
gas, erupting at a test drill
near the G.aza Strip, was acci-
dentally ignited, thrusting a
100-foot roaring column of fire
into the sky.
Five workers, struggling to
save a costly drilling machine,
suffered burns of varying se-
Verity while Israeli fire-fight-
ing equipment sought vainly to
put out the fire which was visi-
ble to patrolling troops of the
United Nations Emergency
Force on the Gaza Strip bor-
der.
UNEF troops were seen
watching the futile efforts to
extinguish the volcanic tower
of fire which experts said
could burn for several days.
Officials at the site said that
if the blaze could not be
snuffed out, army engineers
would be ordered to blow up
the well. -
The test drill was under-
taken in the Beeri area in a
hunt for a geologic structure
believed to be oil-bearing.
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Israeli Advertising
Campaign Pays Off

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A six-
month American-style advertis-
ing campaign by Cargal Com-
pany, Israeli carton manufac-
turers, against the Citrus Mar-
keting Board, ended in victory
when that government agency
agreed to consider using car-
tons for the shipment of oranges
for export.
The campaign began after the
citrus board rejected Cargal's
cartons as unsuitable. Wooden
crates have been used for this
purpose, and the agency felt
cardboard containers would not
stand up under rough treat-
ment.
Instead of grumbling, or at-
tempting to use "pull," the Car-
gal Co. launched a tremendous
advertising _ campaign in the
Israeli press and other media. to
bring their case to the Israeli
people, even though the latter
had no say in the matter. The
Citrus Marketing Board was
eventually forced to reply with
ads of its own.
The result was that the
agency agreed to test the car-
tons.

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Labor Zionist Movement

in Paying

Homage to a Great Jew

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DEDICATION BANQUET

Sunday, September 22, 1957

6:30 p.m.

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tax deductible donation

Fear New Custom Duties
Will Boost Israel Prices

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Ministry of Finance was under
heavy fire from Israel export-
ers, manufacturers and import-
ers over far-reaching changes
in customs regulations which
increase some duties as much
as 50 percent but which elimi-
nate a whole series of special
import levies. The new regula-
tions establish import duties on
a number of raw materials
hitherto imported duty-free.
Critics of the government ac-
tion complained that the impo-
sition of customs duties on raw
materials would result in high-
er prices on finished goods for
the Israel consume r. They
warned that it would have a
bad effect on Israel's export
markets.

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Japanese Will Study
Israel Trade Plans

I.Tnein•
TEL AVIV, (JTA)
ployment in Southern Israel,
particularly in the Beersheba
Israel Living Costs
area, has jumped following corn.
pletion of a major part of a proj-
Up; Wages May Rise
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The ect _designed to lower costs of
Israeli consumer price index transportation of fuel from the
jumped another six points dur- area to the, Haifa refineries.
ing July to reach a new peak Several huniele. ci. workers wer0
of 264 points. Israeli economic discharged.
Work on another part of the
experts expressed fears of a
new jump in living cost allow- project, scheduled to speed fuel
ances in forthcoming wage ne- transportation from Ashdod
gotiations. The index is based Yam to Haifa, is scheduled to
on the price level of Septem- begin shortly,
ber, 1951, as one hundred.
_ Wage agreements are due for
routine talks on cost of living
allowances in November, it was
pointed out. If the current rate
increase continues, the experts
said, a "great jump" in such
allowances would be certain.

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El Al Gets Turboprop
Plane from Britain

TEL AVIV (JTA)—El Al, the
Israel national airline, took de-
livery on the first of a new
fleet of Bristol Britarmias, -huge
British-built turboprop passen-
ger planes which will be the
backbone of the line's expansion
program. Two more are due for
delivery by October.
The first plane, piloted by
Capt. Tom Jones of El Al,
landed at Lydda seven hours
and ten minutes after it took
to the air near Bristol. The new
airliner was greeted at Lydda
by El Al officials and a party
of Israel Air Force officers, led
by their commander, Col. Dan

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — A
Japanese industrial mission is
expected to visit this country
next month to survey possibili-
ties for expansion of trade rela-
tions between the two coun-
tries. A Foreign Ministry
spokesman said Israel is deeply
interested in developing trade
relations with Japan which, he
said, could use Israel phos-
phates, potash and cement.
Pinhas Saphir, Israel Minister
of Trade and Industry, will
leave in November for a trip
to Japan, Burma, the Philip-
pines and other far Eastern Tolkowski.
countries, and will discuss pos
sible credit arrangements in
Tokyo. He will be accompanied
by two senior officials of the
Finance Ministry.
Two Japanese mining experts,
representing Tokyo mining in-
terests, arrived in Israel for
talks with the Israel Mining
Corporation, the governmental
agency in control of mining in
the country.

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N.Y. Judge in Israel
to Question Arabs

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Judge
Samuel Leibowitz, jurist of the
Kings County Criminal Court
in New York, had to resort to
cross-examination methods this
week to get direct answers to
pointed questions while inter-
viewing an Arab member of
Israel's Parliament.
Visiting here as a guest of
Histadrut, the nation's labor
federation, the judge is devot-
ing much of his time to inter-
views with Arab leaders of the
Knesset and some Communists.
He plans to use the material
for broadcast in the United
States to refute a television
statement made by a UN Egyp-
tian delegate that Israel's Arabs
are "persecuted and live in a
state of virtual slavery."
Judge Leibowitz began his
campaign with a three-hour
recorded discussion with Fares
Hamdan, Arab members of the
Knesset, who was sharply ques-
tioned about the condition of
Arabs in Israel.

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Silhouette Traffic Signs
Installed in- Tel Aviv

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Ten new
silhouette-type traffic lights—
showing a policeman with his
hand upraised indicating "Stop"
and the figure of a pedestrian
for "Go" — are being installed
here 1n one of this city's busiest
intersections, where 20,000 peo-
ple cross daily.
Twenty new sheet-iron traffic
islands, re-placing cast-iron ones
which were too easily wrecked
by careening cars, have been
set up on main avenues, and 60
more are expected to be installed
within the year.
The new equipment is being
introduced by the traffic de-
partment here in an effort to
lower the road accident rate,
which has been rising lately,
and to relieve congestion at
well-traveled points.

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