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financed the establishment of
an entire settlement near Jeru-
salem. It is one of the major
gifts of Detroit's JeWish woman-
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This, however, is only one
of many Jewish women's con-
tributions to Israel. For more
than 40 years, Hadassah has
helped to send health mis-
sions to Palestine, and since
Israel's establishment Detroit
Hadassah has set up many
installations t h e r e, chief
among them being a wing in
the Beersheba Hospital in
honor of Mrs. Joseph H.
Ehrlich.
The Pioneer Women of De-
troit have financed the build-
ing of a home for children at
Kfar Saba. Recently, Pioneer
Women, through their mother
organization in I s r a e 1, the
Moatzot Hapoalot, have built a
second home in Rishon Le Zion.
They - have financed an agri-
cultural training school in the
south desert area, in the Negev.
Besides, they have shared in
the creation of border settle-
ments for new immigrants.
At Raanana, half way be-
tween Tel Aviv and Haifa,
the Northwest Child Rescue
Women of Detroit have es-
tablished a kitchen and rec-
reation center for children.
The Orthodox Women's Miz-
rachi Organization of Detroit
also has many installations to
its credit. They have financed
the Mar (village) Batya at
Raanana and are assisting the
training of immigrant children
in agricultural pursuits. They
also established the Mosad
Aliyah Model Children's Village
at Petach Tikvah, to provide
vocational training for young-
sters, in addition to financing a
school there for their religious
education. The Youth Center
at Haifa, financed by Detroit's
Mizrachi Women, now is near-
ing completion.
Tree planting in the Jeru-
salem Corridor is among the
major tasks of all the Detroit
woman's Zionist groups, and
the new reclamation schemes
count the Detroit Jewish wo-
men among the chief supporters
of Israel's upbuilding efforts.
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is the name of an area in west-
ern Jerusalem on which they
are completing the new build-
ings of the Hebrew University.
Th.,. new campus is a new
world and it resembles an In-
dependent and modern city. Al-
ready to-day most of the facul-
ties have moved over there and
in another year or two all the
students will be studying there.
At the entrance to the campus
stands the tall administration
building, seven stories high, and
in it are concentrated all the
administrative offices of the
university. Beyond this build-
ing you see the new city.
You will find everything in
this city: an Institute of Jewish
Studies, an Institute of Social
Science, a building for the Hu-
manities (Spiritual Sciences),
low, beautiful buildings in
which there are new labora-
tories for the study of the Nat-
ural Sciences, etc.
At the other end of the cam-
pus are situated dwellings for
the students. After their studies
the students will be able to go
to the nearby amphitheater
which appea-a-, as though it were
part of the mountain itself, and
see various performances as
well as listen to concerts. The
new campus is the pride of
every student r.ild also of every
Israeli citizen.
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Israel's Two Fears: What Russia
Will Do in M-East, and U.S. Won't
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
TEL AVIV — Israelis have
only two fears—of what Russia
may do in the Middle East and
what the United States may fail
to do to stop Communist in-
filtration here.
While the enemy supposedly
is the Arab, there is little fear
of what the hostile neighbors
may do. The average Israeli be-
lieves that the Arab peoples
know his country can stand its
ground against them and they
will not attack Israel. Israelis
live within a stone's throw of
Arab villages. the entire coun-
try is one long border. In some
areas Israelis and Arabs fra-
ternize across the demarcation
lines.
But every time Russia makes
an effort to get a foothold in
an Arab land—as in the Syrian anti-Semitism in Russia is as-
situation at this time—Israelis suming violent proportions, that
show serious concern.
"Russia already is in the
Middle East, that is why we
are concerned," an important
government spokesman said.
"But what will the United
States do? Will your country
stop the Russian infiltra-
tions? Will the U.S. be firm
against Communist domina-
tion in our area? At the mo-
ment we are skeptical about
firm U.S. action, and that
is what makes us uneasy."
Meanwhile the Israelis are
displaying deep anxiety over
the rate of the remaining 2,500,-
000 Jews in Russia. Israeli
youths who attended the Mos-
cow Youth Festival have re-
turned here with sad fore-
bodings. They maintain that
Jews there live in insecurity,
that they fear to speak least
they and their families should
be compelled to suffer an even
worse fate at the hands of the
Communist terrorists.
"Russian Jews followed the
Israeli delegation around in
hordes, while we were in Mos-
cow," one of the delegates
said, "but they dared not get
too near to us out of fear that
their interest in Israel would
bring punishment. But often
they sent us messages to tell
us that they are suffering from
anti-Semitism and that they
wish they could go to Israel.
Often they sent their children
to us to touch us—we seemed
to them a symbol of some hope
of a better future if they could
escape to Israel."
Completion of Irrigation Project
to End Long Syrian Dispute in UN
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
SAFED—Within a month, an
engineering task which had
created one of the most serious
United Nations controversies
between Israelis and Arabs, will
be completed, and an area that
was a marshland that bred
malarial disease will become
another agricultural paradise
for new settlers in Israel.
The Huleh drainage project
is now nearing its final stages.
The Jewish National Fund, Is-
rael's land-reclamation agency,
began the first stages of the
project of draining this marsh-
land in 1951. Twice Syria ob-
jected, claiming it would give
Israel a strategic advantage.
Twice the UN Security Coun-
cil rejected the objections.
Now this area will be avail-
able for the settlement of more
new immigrants, who are ar-
riving in Israel at the rate of
10,000 a month from lands of
oppression behind the Iron Cur-
tain in Eastern Europe and in
Moslem countries.
The draining of the Huleh
marshland of 60,000 dunams
(15,000 a c r e s) was accom-
plished virtually under Syrian
gunfire. At one point, this area
is not more than a 100 yards
away from the Syrian border.
The purpose of this develop-
ment, financed with funds
raised by the Jewish National
Fund, is four-fold:
1. By draining the swamps,
this area is available for in-
tensive agricultural cultiva-
tion;
2. To make available to the
rest of the country thousands
of cubic feet of water which
hitherto was lost through
swamp vegetation, evapora-
tion and evapotranspiration;
3. To exploit the rich layers
of peat, layers of which are
beneath the swamps and can
become accessible only
through drainage operations;
4. To rescue the entire
neighboring area from mala-
rial threats.
Lake Huleh and the Huleh
swamps, now completely drain-
ed and almost ready for cul-
tivation as a new agricultural
area, were the results of lava
streams from volcanic eruptions.
There was no outlet for the
waters that went into the Huleh
Basin when a barrier was set
up for the original Jordan
River bed about a million years
ago.
The engineers who now are
completing the drainage process
explain that in the course of
time a new river bed opened
up, but it was too narrow and
too shallow to hold the storm
waters. The result was the for-
mation of pools, swamps and
malaria breeding lakes.
The drying up of the swamps
was the first move in the di-
rection of removing the disease-
breeding condition. Jewish Na-
tional Fund directors now say
that Syria will benefit from the
new health conditions brought
to the area.
Of special interest in con-
nection with this undertaking
is the granting by the Jewish
National Fund of several
thousand dunams in this area
to. the Nat u r e's Friends
Society to keep the swamps
intact for a natural park, zoo-
logical and botanical gardens.
One of the delegates re-
ported that an elderly Rus-
sian Jewish couple managed to
invite him to their shabby one-
room home. They opened
their hearts, spoke of the
bitter feeling against Jews
in Russia, and said that al-
though they lost three sons in
the war fighting with the
Russian army their neighbors
nevertheless shout the op-
probrious term "Zhid"—"
damned Jew"—at them.
The Jewish National Fund
Council of Detroit was one of
the first American groups to
provide funds for the drainage
project. This week, Israeli lead-
ers sent word to the Detroit
group that "in the course of a
few years the new lands put
under highly intensive agri-
cultural cultivation will give a
return of a considerable part of
the huge investments put into
the drainage scheme."
The returnees from Russia
are unanimous in their belief
that the vast majority of Jews
in Russia would welcome an
opportunity to escape from
there and go to Israel, but they
are fearful that Russia will
never permit it and that Rus-
sian Jewry may be doomed at
the hands of a people that re-
mains anti-Semitic and that is
not discouraged by its govern-
ment in its retention and prac-
tice of anti-Semitism.
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