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Detroiters Help to Make
Israel a Fruitful Country
Philip Slomovitz, editor of the
Detroit Jewish News, and Mrs.
Slomovitz have been visiting in
Israel. This is another of his
special reports for the Free
Press.
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
JERUSALEM—The barren hills
of Jerusalem and Judea are com-
ing to life again and are beginning
to "blossom like the rose," thanks
to the gestures of kinship that
are being shown by the Jews of
America.
Detroit Jewry
is being conceded
a leading role in
the work of rec-
lamation. T o u r-
ists from Michi-
gan, whose num-
bers are increas-
ing, see the evi-
dence of the De-
troiters' ef-
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f orts in every
sector of the reborn Jewish State.
Israelis are especially delighted
with the most recent acquisition
from the generosity of Detroiters
—a playground named in honor
of Isaac Scheyer, 13-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Scheyer.
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NAMED "Ginnat Yitzhak," this
large playground and public gar-
den is at Kiryat Hayovel, on the
outskirts of Jerusalem. It was dedi-
cated on the occasion of the con-
firmation (Bar Mitzvah) of Isaac
Scheyer, as a gift from his parents
who came with him to Israel to
celebrate the Bar Mitzvah.
The Schavers also have set up
a basketball court at Kfar Schiller
village.
Another Detroit contribution
just made to Israel, through the
Jewish National Fund, the ref or-
estation and reclamation agency,
has enabled the establishment of
a new settlement to be known
as Nahla (settlement) Samuel
and Clarissa Fineman, made pos-
sible by the Fineman's gift.
This workers' co-operative is on
500 dunams of land at Moshav
Moshein, in the southern coastal
region east of Migdal Ashkelon.
The new immigrants settled here
are from Yemen.
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EARLIER, a settlement of 5,700
dunams (a dunam is a quarter of
an acre) was redeemed by the
Ladies' Auxiliary of the Jewish
National Fund of Detroit at Ki-
butz Shoresh, in the Judean Hills,
south of the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem
Highway and west of Jerusalem it-
self.
A large swimming pool and a
recreation area have made Shoresh
Kibutz a popular vacation spot for
Jerusalem's residents.
The Detroit Ladies' Auxiliary
of the Jewish National Fund
raised a total of $342,000 over a
period of five years to assure the
establishment of this settlement.
Contributions from another De-
troit women's group, the Jewish
Women's W elf a r e Organization,
made possible the establishment of
another nahla, a Yemenite work-
ers' co-operative village west of
Jerusalem and southwest of Har-
tuv.
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DETROIT JEWS used two
means of aiding Israel's denuded
areas in the last 20 years—by the
planting of forests of at least 10,-
000 trees each,' and "Miles of
Trees"—each mile having 3,200
trees.
The forest-planting idea began
with the planting of a forest in
honor of the late Fred M. Butzel.
It is located at Ein Hashofet, a
colony formed in honor of the late
Supreme Court Justice Louis D.
Brandeis.
The largest of the forests is
the one planted in honor of Wil-
liam Hordes. In hono., of Mr.
and Mrs. Hordes, there also ex-
ist two Miles of Trees in Israel.
A forest has been planted in
Israel in memory of Isaac and
Simon Shetzer.
Other forests Were planted in
honor of Detroiters Joseph H. Ehr-
lich, Morris L. Schaver, Daniel
Temchin, Harry Schumer, Irving
J. Shevin, the Stollthan Family.
and Michigan's Gov. G. Mennen
Williams and Lt. Gov. Philip Hart.
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ISRAELIS ARE especially proud
of the Williams-Hart forest be-
cause Gov. Williams had come to
Israel to participate in the dedica-
tion of the planting scheme. The
Williams-Hart Forest is near the
Yokneam - Elayakim Road in the
Hills of Menashe.
Miles of Trees also have been
planted by Herman K. Cohen and
Rabbi and Mrs. Emanuel Carle-
bach.
These projects were made pos-
sible by the contributions of De-
troiters to the Jewish National
Fund, whose Jerusalem officials
spoke of Detroit as "one of three
of the most generous Jewish com-
munities in America."
Friday, January 17, 1958—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Detroiters' Supermarket Project
Under Way in Israel; Construction
Begun; Will Open Three Markets Soon
Marked progress was re'
ported this week in the under-
taking inaugurated by two
Detroiters, Herbert Hordes
and Alan Feinberg, for the
establishment of a chain of
supermarkets in Israel.
Enlistment of Bertram Loeb,
of Ottawa, Ontario, head of
the Super-Sol, Ltd., of Canada,
which operates more than
100 supermarkets, as a lead-
ing factor in the project, has
given stimulus to the under-
taking.
It was reported this week
that the supermarket plan for
Israel will definitely get under
way in time for Israel's tenth
anniversary. Construction of
the first building already has
begun, and the sponsors have
in view the opening of three
supermarkets to initiate the
project.
Loeb already has made two
visits to Israel in the interest
of the new undertaking, in
behalf of which leading De-
troit food and supermarket
merchants had pledged to
make substantial investments.
Loeb is well acquainted
with Israel. He knows Hebrew
well, having studied at the
Hebrew University in the
early 1930s.
Hordes and Feinberg stated
last week, in a progress report
of their venture, that they are
working together with Tomaz,
a food freezing and storage
plant in Israel.