Womanhood's T Detroit C ntribntion to Israel t r 4r1 • By ANNA G. SLOMOVITZ • TEL AVIV—Jewish women ,.. rn in Detroit worked for Israel's upbuilding for more than 49 w years. Yet, those who visit here and have an opportunity to see E.+ what has been attained with 8 • the contributions towards the E0 rehabilitation of persecuted C.T.4 peoples from all parts of the A globe would be amazed at the • of installations made pos- = chain E-■ sible b y a t troiters. The Ladies' Auxiliary o f the Jewish Na- tional Fund, • whose annual functions have • resulted gifts amount- ing to over a • quarter of a :54 million dollars Mrs. Slomovitz r.t4 during the past decade, have financed the establishment of an entire settlement near Jeru- salem. It is one of the major gifts of Detroit's JeWish woman- hood to Israel. rirTr n.ri rin ntrP14'41xici 117P1 7n ri.79 - 7nI7s nov rr)., 1 "AP'Ptg 71 ,tvpth mts.7 117 -7,tg rinn a17n Ixr onpx z PV rirrT rrg • -11174- ni'z • ,rit4 '7tg Inv 17T .7m 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. 10?1 „.7, '2tg ;14-1.17. 74 ont)r.T1 tr4;.4r1 rq.; tr 7 '''?VP° • Jerusalem Calling Jr1;PrTi ritrtn4711v1'71g rivirm rri rpri New Campus of 13 17i), t.om ti n Hebrew University Hebrew Story tri'D en,417.ini Trxr.41.7 (Translation on of left.) A short distance from the ritx 1-14v. center of Jerusalem there is an expansive area which two years r7rptr trnV ix ryri ago was still empty and desol- Only the plans were pre- .trtp4.71t)pri ► 4 late. pared and people who know of said: "Here will rise the '7tg rtt4ri 7;w1 -77. 117 7r7'2 them new campus (city) of the Uni- sntg 74 ,n'773 ;3 versity." To-day everyone knows what 13,11Vpn ty7 . - r? "Givat Ram" (Lofty Hill) is It . - 1Hrt T %7V . T T tr,:nntgrrn -rxry • 1:4 i? • ntrtr'; nxin rinx trixt x4Ipn Tin?? ,nr7Tr_t Ti • 7:44 'TV? r.:1 4 17a; wn.4 ,r i IrDV? ni- 74. spz tx.-1 .1; srlyinn , rin71 17tP .”7; IV's] '7,;tp nix47?; trilem "1n1't itrPrtlut?;3 trprotgm ,2 i 1 17.3 7iltPwr.)1M'? nriltrtr; 7171 xim - "pri MAO n41 romIln ,its S7 ArtY144ii 71? LID IPV irT31 x" 1 ;17173 1"177 rro '7th r4 . 1 torotop •'1. 2 r1V. OvOiY n'14Y re VIN 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. (Published by Brit Ivrit Olamit) 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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