TEL AVIV (JTA)—Engineers
touched a button this week to
blast away the final barrier be-
tween the southern tip of Lake
Huleh near the Syrian border
and a newly-built canal leading
the lake's water to the Jordan
River, thus completing Israel's
largest-single development proj-
ect.
Spectators quietly watched
the water drain from the 3,500-
acre lake, uncovering new areas
to be converted into fertile land
from swamps.
The project involved building
of straight canals to replace the
winding Jordan River bed which
has been too narrow to carry
all the water. The building of
the network of irrigation canals
was the subject of constant
Syrian efforts at interference
because a' section of the canal
is located in the Syrian-Israel
demilitarized zone.
Children at Hulata, a fisher-
man's settlement, were among
the fascinated observers as the
edge of the water receded, sig-
nifying a major change in the.
life of the settlement—a switch
from a fisherman's to a farm-
ing economy.
The entire lower lake area
was drained within 48 hours,
turning 60,000 dunams of swamp
into land containing more than
40 percent of organic matter of
great fertility.
Work on the Huleh project
was first started in 1951 by the
Jewish National Fund. It in-
volved deepening of the Jordan
River bed south of Lake Huleh
for accumulation of the waters
to be drained later.
The second stage, under di-
rection of the Construction Ag-
gregates Corporation of Chicago,
brought heavy equipment to the
job of dredging eastern, west-
ern and northern' canals with a
,Kosher• Meat Strike
Ends in : Los Angeles
on
,,AUGELES (JTA) — In
ASZ first strikes j the
kosher slaughtering industry,
10 butchers returned to their
jobs this week to end the
threat of a shortage -of kosher
meat for Los Angeles Jewry_-
The butchers quit work in
support of. a demand by a
local that the Los -Angeles
Beth Din withdraw its dis-
qualification of two butchers
accused of permitting non-
kosher .meat to pass inspection.
When the religious court
refused to do so, the men quit
their jobs at three slaughter
houses.
connecting network of smaller
canals.
Eventually, the irrigation ex-
perts said, a total of 15,000
acres of new cultivatable land
will be created and the project
also will provide 65,000,000
cubic meters of water for irri-
gation purposes, part of which
will be used outside of the Hu-
leh region. The final eradication
of sources of malarial infections
also will be achieved.
Uncover Plot
to Slay Goldmann
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — One
of three men held in con-
nection with the assassina-
tion here of Dr. Rudolph
Kastner, Hungarian Jewish
editor, told police that the
territorist organization had
a "long-range" plan to slay
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, presi-
dent of the World Zionist
Organization and chairman
of the Jewish Agency, it was
revealed here in magistrate's
court.
A recording of the state-
merit by Zeev Eckstein was
played back in court during
-the hearing. Eckstein , said
the underground had planned
to murder Dr. Goldmann, but
that Dr. Kastner's was "the
more urgent case."
Moscow Rabbi
Not at Parley
" Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
AMSTERDAM — Chief Rabbi
Israel Brodie of Great Britain
told the opening session of the
EtIropean Conference, of Ortho-
dox Rabbis Monday that he was
disappointed about the absence
of Rabbi Yehudi Levin, Chief
Rabbi of Moscow, and Rabbi A.
A. Hanael, Chief Rabbi of
Sofia, both of whom he said
had previously intimated they
would attend the conference.
Stressing- that one quarter of
world Jewry lived in Eastern
Europe, Rabbi Brodie said he
hoped these Jews would soon
"regain their place amid world
Jewry." His audience was corn-
-prised of 25 leading Orthodox
Rabbis from Switzerland, Italy,
Great Britain, Greece, Belgium,
Western Germany and Ireland.
They were greeted by Chief
Rabbi Aron Schuster of Amster-
dam. Rabbinical delegates will
hear reports on the Jewish re-
ligious situation in each coun-
try.
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By PHINEAS J. BIRON
In the 100th Anniversary is-
sue for the Atlantic which ap-
peared a few days ago, is pub-
lished a rather disconcerting
report on Israel . . . Since it is a
serious , analysis, written obvi-
ously by a student of Israeli af-
fairs it deserves attention, al-
though many friends of Israel
would prefer to dismiss it . .
But we shall assume that the
author of the report is intellect-
ually honest and so we will try
to understand the arguments of
a presumably, objective observ-
er. . . . Let us first quote some
of the highlights of the report:
"A great strike this summer
in the Ata textile factory, the
largest industrial enterprise in
the country illustrated the di-
lemma. (The key point of this
report is that Israel finds itself
in an all-embracing dilemma)
. . . Israeli workers are or-
ganized in the Histadrut, a com-
prehensive union which is re-
lated to Mapai, the labor party
in control of the government.
. . . The conditions of employ-
ment are therefore most favor-
able. . . . But those conditions
discourage investment, without
which the economy will not ex-
pand. . . . The Ata strike, which
involved the right of manage-
ment to fire laborers in the in-
terest of efficiency dragged - on
for three months before the
Mapai members of the union's
executive board decided to
press for a settlement favorable
to the employers. . . . In this
issue the government was com-
pelled to make a desirable so-
cial end give way to the need
for a greater productivity."
Well, this is the first point of
the report and there is nothing
wrong in this interpretation.. : .
It is not new that the Israel
government is, at this time, pri-
marily concerned with survival
and that it cannot affOrd the
luxury of jeopardizing the gen-
eral economy of the country....:
Israel is a pioneer country boy-,
totted by her neighbors. . . .
Short in foreign currency, Is-
rael must make the most of her
domestic industry . . . Under
such stringent circumstances,
the Mapai showed selfless wis-
dom in settling the strike for
the sake of the much needed
production. . . .
The report then deals with
the Kibutz: "Yet while the
kibutz remained appealing as
an ideal, in practice it never
attracted more than a tiny mi-
nority of the population. . . .
The great cities of Tel Aviv,
Haifa and Jerusalem grew fast-
er than the frontier settle-
ments. . Of the total popula-
tion of almost 2 million, only
80,000 people live in kibutzim.
. . Ten years ago, the Negev,
the great desert area reaching
southward from the Judean
hills, challenged the nation's ca-
pacity for communal action. . . .
David Ben-Gurion gave up his
premiership to live in a settle-
ment in the hope that his ex-
ample would call forth the emu-
lation of others. . . . The re-
sults have been disappointing.
. . . Israeli youth have not been
drawn to the kibbutzim. . . •
"Instead it has been necessary
to channel newly arrived immi-
grants there, and in the process
the character of the settlements
has changed. . . . They have lost
much of their communal and
agrarian nature." . .
In the above paragraphs the
report tries to prove that be-
cause of its difficult political
and economic position, Israel is
sacrificing cheriThed social
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THE HAGUE — Joseph Luns,
Dutch Foreign Minister, on
Tuesday asked the Dutch Am-
bassador to Cairo, Dr. William
Koopmans, to make inquiries of
the Egyptian government about
the arrest 'of Michael Zerner, 22,
an Israeli fireman.
Zerner was arrested aboard
the Dutch steamer Raki at Alex-
ander. He had been living- in
Holland and possessed a Dutch
labor permit.
No information was available
concerning the reason for Zer-
ner's arrest nor when it took
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To Erect Monument
for Dutch Martyrs
AMSTERDAM — A national
monument to the memory of
/00,000 Dutch Jews, who passed
through the former concentra-
tion camp of Westerbrook en
route to extermination camps
of Hitler's Germany and Po-
land, will be erected at the
Westerbrook Camp Site, it was
announced Tuesday.
The plan was disclosed by
Dr. Jan Cramer, Governor of
Drente Province at a meeting
here in behalf of Israel Bonds.
Chanan Cidor, Israel Minister
to Holland, has contributed 300
pounds toward the cost of the
monument, Dr. Cramer said.
ideals. . . . "In coming to Pales-
tine" writes the author, "the
Jews had no intention of creat-
ing another small Levantine
state that would serve the in-
terests only of its inhabitants.
. . . Rather, they were cosmo-
politan, optimistic, and dedi-
cated to social justice." . . . But
now, implies, the author, Israel
has forgotten all about its lofty
aims. . . . In our next column
we shall analyze this report
further. Coming from so dis-
tinguished an American publi-
cation as the Atlantic it must
be taken seriously.
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9-THE DETROIT -JEWISH NEWS—F riday, Novemb er 8, 1957
Huleh Drainage Project Completed;
Israel's Largest Development Plan