Friday, October Z.5, 1957-THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-

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Czechoslovakia, explained. That's how they clarify
the integration issue in the State of Israel. They
do not tolerate discrimination and they feel that
people from varying racial and nationality back-
grounds 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 heard. 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 Ameri-
can 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 how their investments in
Israel Bonds are being utilized. More than S6,-
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 Abe
Kasle upon the return of another Detroit delegation
that is expected here the end of this month.

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 Theater 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 comforts in the new theater—including
hand-driers in the washrooms. which were hitherto
unknown here.
The Detroit theater expert is training a staff
in American ways of ushering. Idzal said that
training of ushers represents his most serious
problem. Histadrut, the Israel Federation 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 approxi-
mates 53 per cent, leaving a narrow margin for
income and possible profits on the theater's in-
vestment. 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 pat-
terned after the American methods of enlisting
public support in the fight on polio.
The Kolnoa Tel Aviv is being operated by the
PBG Corporation, a name derived from the three
streets which cross the corner on which the theater
is located—Pinkster, Beilinson and Glickman.
Idzal will remain here for another three months
to complete the training of staff, to arrange for the
exclusive use of 20th Century-Fox films and to make
arangements for the building' of more new theaters
in Israel.
He said the advance response to the announce-

Report
from

Israel

By Philip
Slomovitz

ment of the opening of a new theater with Ameri-
can ideas indicates that the major centers in the
Jewish State will invite the introduction of more
similar theaters throughout the land, with the
eventual elimination of outdated theaters which
now are packed nightly by audiences seeking
entertainment.
"It may take another five years before Israel
will have television," Idzal said, "and the movie
theater therefore is the major attraction for en-
tertainment-hungry people. That is why private
dances are so popular on Sabbaths and holidays,
when all public entertainment places are compelled
to be shut tight by the influence of the country's
Rabbinate and Religious Ministry."

Urges U.S.-Israel Cultural Partnership

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 Bograchov, who was the co-founder with the
late Dr. Ben-Zion Mossinsohn of the Herziiah Gym-
nasium, 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 prominent 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 department of pediatrics at Tel Aviv's Hadas-
sah Hospital is Detroit-born Dr. Israel Heyman—
has an interesting plan. He proposes the estab-
lishment of summer camps in Israel for American
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 partner-
ship between Israel and the United States will be
of great value to American Jewry—whose youth will
thus acquire a better knowledge of Israel—and to
Israel, which will thus acquire more young tourists,"
Dr. Boger said.
Harry Brager, prominent Washington public re-
lations ,executive, who was here with Mrs. Brager, is
showing a deep interest, 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 Bloom were here. Dr. Bloom
lectured on oral surgery at the Hebrew Univer-
sity, 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 Freed-
man, well known Detroiters. 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.

