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the major gifts to Bar Mitzvahs trips to Israel.
Meir DeShalit (who is affectionately known here as
"Meme"), of the Prime Minister's Office, who is Weisgal's chief
associate in the Tenth Anniversary planning organization, told
us that Israel will make every effort to provide all facilities
for tourists; to establish motels and to increase facilities of
existing hotels; to assure schooling for children of visitors who
come here for prolonged stays.
"We are studying tourists' needs, and we hope to make
visits of American Jews most comfortable here,." DeShalit
the
said. "We are training a new corps of waiters, to assure the best
restaurant service. As those who now are visiting with us know,
everything is available here—the best food, outstanding art
objects, hotels that can be compared with the finest anywhere
in the world. We are anxious for our kinsmen in America to
come here, to share the joy of the Tenth Anniversary Year
with us, to be witnesses to the great achievements in our land,
to the wonders that are being done with Israel Bond dollars
and the income from the United Jewish Appeal which helps
rehabilitate tens of thousands of our oppressed and dispossessed
fellow-Jews."

The Detroit theater expert is training a staff in American
ways of ushering. Idzal said that the training of ushers repre-
sents his most serious problem. Histadrut, the Israel Federa-
tion of Labor, which controls the labor market, reserves the
right to supply the help it chooses, and the ushers in the
Kolnoa Tel Aviv will be 35 to 40 years old.

This will mean a heavier cost in operation. Furthermore,
the tax on theater tickets approximates 53 per cent, leaving
a narrow margin for income and possible profits on the theater's
investment. But Idzal is optimistic. He believes that the craving
of the Israelis for better theaters and the finest movies will help
in his defiance of obstacles.
The opening night's proceeds of the Kolnoa Tel Aviv, last
night, went to the Israel Infantile Paralysis Fund, to assist in
the formation of the planned Israeli March of. Dimes that will
be patterned after the American methods of enlisting public
support in-the fight on polio. being operated by the PBG Corpo-
The Kolnoa Tel AViv is
ration, a name derived from the three streets which cross the
corner on which the theater is located—Pinsker, Beilinson and
Glickman.
Idzal will remain here for another three months to com-
plete the training of staff, to arrange for the _exclusive use of
20th Century-Fox films and to make arrangements for the build-
ing of more new theaters in Israel.

Aqaba, faces the borders of Jordan and Saudi Arabia and is
only three miles from Egypt. In 'Jordan, this port area is known
as Aqaba. Eilat retains its name from Biblical times.
- Here, as in the rest of Israel, Israelis are showing a deep

He said the advance response to the announcement of
the opening of a new theater with American ideas indicates
that the major centers in. the Jewish State will invite the
introduction of more similar theaters throughout the land,
with the eventual elmination of outdated theaters which now
are packed nightly by audiences seeking entertainment.

Egypt, Turkey, Abyssinia, Kurdistan, Romania, Hungary, Mo-
rocco, 'Yemen, Syria, Iraq, the United States, Canada—I could
go on and on to enumerate scores of countries. There are very
light skinned and very dark skinned among us. "No one blinks
an eye at the differences in racial and nationality backgrounds.
My children go to school with youngsters that are very black.
It makes little difference to any one of them where the other

stems from. As long as they behave, they are together.
how all of us fel about it. If a man is good, no
-• "That's
matter
how black his skin, he is welcome in my home, he is my
friend and fellow countryman, our children fraternize. If he
misbehaves, it is a matter for the police."
At King Solomon's Mines, where Israel's 'copper industry is
being developed, another spokesman, picking up the integration
issue, pointed to the blackest man in the canteen. He explained
that the man was an Abyssinian, a Falasha Jew, one of the
group of very dark-skinned Jews who were discovered 50 years
ago in Abyssinia by the late Dr. Chaim Faitlovitch, a Jewish
scholar who accidentally came across the group of strict Jewish
observers who claimed their origin from the Land of Israel from
the days of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Now many
of them are settling in Israel.
"He is a highly intelligent man and we love to be with
him, to welcome him to our home and to fraternize with him,
but we are not compelled to kiss him," the Jewish spokesman,
who came from Czechoslovakia, explained. That's how they clar-
ify the integration issue in the State of Israel. They do not toler-
ate discrimination and they feel that people from varying racial
and nationality backgrounds can live together.
At Timnah, the location of King Solomon's Mines, which
were discovered by Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of Hebrew
Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion, American
Jewry's Reform Theological Seminary, dozens of different
languages and dialects are head. But when the men seek a
common tongue while working in. these copper mines, which
are functioning as part of the Israel Bond -investments made
by American Jews, they resort to Hebrew.
Two delegations of Detroit Jews visited . Timnah, the spot

for which the ancient Biblical name has been retained, to 'see
ls,nw their investments in Israel Bonds are being utilized. More
than 56,000,000 worth of Israel BOnds were purchased by Detroit
Jews since 1951 and a new drive for Bond sales will be planned
under the leadership of A13e Kasle upon the return of another
Detroit delegation that is expected here the end of this month.

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Detroiter Builds Israel Theater ,

TEL AVIV—Israel's theaters acquired a new look, thanks to
the efforts of David M. Idzal, former manager of the. Fox Thea-
ter in Detroit, who has been here for more than three. months
to arrange for the construction of the newest and most modern
theater in Israel, the Kolnoa (Cinema) Tel Aviv.
The 2,000 seats in the new theater were made exclusively
for the new Tel Aviv cinema by the American Seating Company
of Grand Rapids. Smoking is permitted in the balcony and the
seats in that section are provided_ with ash trays.
Idzal explained that , he is arranging for all the American

planned in Poland and the JDC
did not plan to set up any cap-
ital investment program.
He reported that the best
available information was that
there were about 40,000 Jews
in Poland today, excluding the
10,000 repatriates from Rus-
sia and that thousands more of
the latter expected.
He said repatriates received
300 zlotys each cin arrival and
were permitted t stay in re-
ception centers up to 30 days
durin- which • they were as-
signed to cities, most of them
in upper and lower Silesia. .
When a repatriate arrives in
the city of assignment, Mr. Jor-
dan reported, he -receives an
establishment grant of 2,000
zlotys per family head and 500
for each dependent. There is

in

HANOVER (JTA) — One-
in
recent West German public
opinion polls have revealed
strong anti-Semitic tendencies
in their reaction to test ques-
tions, Dr. Carl-Christoph
Schweitzer, a high Bonn gov-
ernment official, reported to a

third of the respondents

The Bogers are among the best known residents of this all-
Jewish city which is referred to as the Paris of the Middle East.
The name originally was Bograchov—and it is still known, and

perpetuated, here as the name of one of the streets in Tel Aviv.
Rechov Bograchov was named in honor of Dr. Chaim Bogra-
chov, who was the co-founder with the late Dr. Ben-Zior Mossin-

sohn of the Herzliah Gymnasium, the leading high school in
this area.

Bograchov, who joined in the trend of changing names to
Hebrew-meaning terms, adopted the name Boger, and his promi-
nent son, Nahum, the leading pediatrician in Israel, followed
suit and also adopted the name Boger.
Bograchov is the only street in Israel named after a living
person. It is a mark of respect to a man , who had rendered
great services to the Jewish community in Palestine at a time
when a high school education was so vital for the growing
youth of the struggling Yishuv.
Dr. Nahum Boger—whose chief associate in the depart-
ment of 'pediatrics at Tel Aviv's Hadassah Hospital is Detroit-
born Dr. Israel Heyman—has an interesting plan. He pro-
poses the establishment of summer ramps in Israel . for Ameri,
can youth. He suggests that Jewish boys and girls who attain
high scholastic standing in Jewish schools in the United
States should be given scholarships in such camps for the
summer, thereby offering them advanced Jewish studies and
eventually aiding Israel.
"I strongly believe that such a cultural .partnership be-
tween Israel and the United States will be of great value to
American Jewry—whose youth will thus acquire a better know-I-
edge of Israel—and to Israel, which will thus acquire more
young tourists," Dr. Boger said.
Harry Brager, prominent Washington public relations exec-
utive, who was here with Mrs. Brager, is showing a deep in-
terest in this plan. '
The world narrows from this vantage point. Scores of
people are on the scene from all parts of the United States,
and often' one meets fellow-townsmen here.
Only a week before our departure for Israel, Dr. and Mrs.
Herbert Blum were here. Dr. Blum lectured on oral surgery
at the Hebrew University, which now has a full-functioning
dental college, in the establishment of which Detroit dentists
played important roles.
. At the Dan Hotel in Tel Aviv, we met Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
Fields and _Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Freedman, well known De-
troiters. Dr. Freedman, one-time head of Detroit Chapter of
Alpha Omega, was a leader in the Detroit campaign for the
Israel College of Dentistry, which is part of the Hebrew
University.

Ct Director Jordan Expects Aid to Poland to Be Resumed Shortly

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Report a Third
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Urges U.S.-Israel Cultural Partnership

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PARIS, (JTA) — Charles H.
Jordan, director general of the
European offic,„ of the Joint
Distribution Committee, ex-
pressed confidence that JDC
work would be resumed in
Poland shortly to aid the 10,000
Jewish repatriates from the
Soviet Union.
He said that there were still
technicalities to be straightened
out but that he- was confident
all problems would be settled in
a very short time.
No decision had been reached
on either the extent or the ex-
act form of the projected re-
sumption, Jordan stated. He
added that JDC representatives
Were in Poland investig ting
the areas of greatest immedi:
ate need.
. For the. time being, he said,

chased the Jordanian twin-
engine Dakota was a M _ y-
tere-IV jet fighter.

three-day meeting of German
intellectuals on "Anti-Semitism
and German History."
Dr. Schweitzer, whose de-
partment is responsible for
"It may take another five years before Israel will have tele- strengthening democracy in
vision," Idzal said, "and the movie theater therefore is the West Germany and combatting
major attraction for entertainment-hungry people. That is why remnants of the Nazi philoso-
private dances are so popular on Sabbaths and holidays, when phy, asserted that advocates
all public entertainment places are compelled to be shut tight of open anti-Semitism in this
by the influence of the country's Rabbinate and Religious country, the avowedly neo
Ministry."
Nazi groups and parties, have

interest in .what had happened in Little Rock, Ark., and in -
the actions of Gov. _Orval E. Faubus. The integration .battle
in the South of the USA Makes the front pages of all, local
newspapers. It is more than a passing interest: it is a sort of
amazement at what is occurring in a civilized land, as one
generation Palestinian Jew, explained it.
man, a third
"Look around you," he said. "Herd you see Jews from

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TEL AVIV, - (JTA) — A

Jordanian passenger plane
spotted deep over Israel
territory, in the Southern
sector of the Negev -Desert,
was chased back toward
Jordanian air, according to
an announcement here by
an Israeli military spokes-
man. The Israeli plane that

rooms, which were hitherto unknown here.

Has Integration Solution
• Eilat
EILAT—This southernmost point of Israel, on the Gulf of

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Israeli Jet Chases
Intruding Plane

Po-

Polish regime provides some
form of assistance to the aged
and invalids.
The accommodations pro-
vided to the repatriates are
generally inadequate, he said,
reporting that most have no
beds and that provisions for
beds and other necessary fur-
nishings would probably have
.to have priority in any JDC
program.
Only about half of the repat-
riates have any work, he said,
most of them being totally
lacking in skills, making the
short-term training courses
urgent.
He also noted that there
a large percentage of children
among the repatriates, listing
one city in lower Silesia where
there were 700 Jewish families
with more than - 1.000 children

declined in strength.
The conference was held
under the auspices of the
Evangelical Academy at nearby
Locoum for 70 persons. The
academy device is used by the
Protestant Church to bring to-
gether adults to discuss im-
portant questions of the day.

Israelis Find
Ancient Remains

HAIFA (JTA) — An Israeli
archaeological team — which
spent weeks studying the ter-
rain around Jebel Musa in the
Sinai Peninsula before leaving
the area as the United Nations
Emergency. 'Force moved in—
found evidence of Jewish, Ro-
man and Byzantine life in an-
cient - Egypt over the centuries,
one of Israel's top scholars
reported this week.
Addressing the opening of
the 13th annual .congress of
the Israel Archaeological So-
ciety, Prof. Benjamin, Mazar,
president of the Hebrew Uni-
versity and head of the scien-
tific mission which was sent
to Sinai, said that the Israeli
team had to leave the area
before it could establish .scien-
_tific support for the Biblical
story of Moses and the Is-
raelites wanderings in the
desert.
However, Prof. Mazar said
the scenery around Jebel Musa
(Mount of Moses) corresponds
to' the Biblical description of
the . area where God gave
Moses the Ten Commandments.
Dr. Yigal Yadin, Israel's
most famous archaeologist and
the 'first Chief -of Staff of her
Army, reported on the excava-
tions on the Galilean mountain
peak which was the site of the
ancient city of Hazor which in

Disclosing that there was an
active Yiddish lif.. in Poland,
the JDC official said that many -
Jewish schools had asked for
Hebrew texts so that they could
resume the teaching of Hebrew.
For the first time in years,
he reported, Jewish schools
were closed on Rosh Hashanah,
and Folkstirnme, the Warsaw
Jewish newspaper, was not pub-
lishe' on that day.'
Asked whether the presence
of JDC help might in any way
hinder present emigration of
Polish Jews to Israel, he em-
phasized that the official Polish
government policy is for free
emigration to Israel for Polish
Jews and that the JDC program
was aimed mainly at helping
repatriates not qualified under
pre s ent _government policy to

its day sat astride the main
trade route between Meso-
potamia and Egypt.
The exploration, now in its
third year, is the largest single
project of its kind ever under-

taken in this country. Two
hundred laborers and 45 spe-
cialists are hard at work bring-
ing to light the remnants of
life in Biblical times.

To. Study Communal
Aid in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, (JTA)—In
response to many requests from
Jewish families moving into
new areas for Jewish communal
services, the Jewish , Federa-
tion of New Orleans announced
plans to make a study of Jew-
ish population shifts as a -basis
develo ping
for