Friday, April 4, 1958—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEW

Danny Raskin's

The Arabs of Israel

LISTENING

By GIDEON WEIGERT

(Copyright, 1958, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

lution has been in progress
among Israel's Arab women
and in the fields of educa-
tion and agriculture. Those
familiar with the traditional
Arab social system realize
that it borders on the mirac-
ulous when dozens of Mos-
lem girls and young women
(only a decade ago hidden
behind closed gates and
thick black veils) now come
out freely to attend voca-
BIG HIT RECORD, "Lazy
tional training classes and go
Bonnie" by the Four Imperials
out to work in nearby fac-
. . . on the Lorelei label owned
tories. Take the case of the
by Harold Marks and ourselves,
dozens of young Druze girls
has hit with a loud smash . . .
in the Galilee coming from
The rock 'n roller master has
a particularly backward com-
been purchased from us by Dot
munity, which for genera-
Records who have already start-
tions had confined women to
ed a nation-wide distribution
the f our walls of their
campaign putting "Lazy Bon-
houses. Today, these
nie" on the Dot label, owned
having successfully stood up
by Paramount Pictures in Holly-
against village gossip, against
wood . . . The Four Imperials,
the opposition of their elders,
sheikha and old - fashioned
Frank, Lynn, Bob and Jim are
family members—now meet
all Highland Park lads whom
twice a week and walk sev-
Hal and ourselves auditioned
eral kilometers by themselves
just a couple of months ago
to Kfar Yassif village to at-
. .. Their wonderful renditions
tend a women's club lecture
have taken the teen-agers by
on hygiene or home eco-
storm and put the record inside
nomics or to learn elemen-
the top ten in Detroit . . . with
tary Hebrew.
New York, Chicago, Philadel-
phia, Los Angeles and points
Another example of the dy-
country-wide yet to come . .
namic development within the
On the flip side of "Lazy Bon-
Arab sector of Israel is to be
nie" is "Let's Make A Scene,"
found in the educational sys-
with The Four Imperials sing-
tem. When the British Man-
ing in tune with the youthful
date was terminated in 1948,
Stroll dance beat . . . Both songs
the bulk of Palestine Arab
are original compositibns.
headmasters and teachers fled
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the country. Within a matter
of a few years, intensive train-
EVERYBODY'S F R I E N D,
ing courses for teachers and
Maxie "Junior" Silk, bossman of
kindergarten teachers almost
the restaurant next to the
completely filled the gap. Not
Flame Show Bar, is currently
only has compulsory kinder-
"holding court" as a TB pat-
garten (5-6 years of age) edu-
ient at Herman Kiefer Hospi-
cation become a rule but even
tal . . . Friends from every
co-education (which when first
walk of life have been coming
introduced in 1950 was vio-
to see Maxie and the only in-
lently opposed) has now be-
dication he gives of being sick
come the accepted system in
is a hangnail on his little finger
all Arab elementary schools.
which he shows whenever any-
The standard of teaching has
one asks what's the matter .. .
gradually risen, and a great
One of the most popular guys
number of textbooks, especially
around town, especially among
written for the requirements
folks in show business, Maxie's
of Israel Arab students, have
room at Herman Kiefer often
been published.
looks more like a busy book-
In agriculture, modern meth-
ing agents office with so many-
ods of cultivation have been
guys and gals from the enter-
adopted, be it in the tobacco
tainment world coming to see
fields, which have been ex-
him . .. If they're comics, you
panded from - 6,000 dunams
can be sure they leave with
(1,500 acres) to 60,000 dunams
enough material for their next
(15,000 acres) or in intensive
show because Maxie rattles the
irrigation, which has increased
jokes off like so much water
almost tenfold from 3,000 dun-
over a dam . . . He told a group
ams (750 acres) in 1949, to
in his room about a bunch of
over 25,000 (6,250 acres) this
his friends holding an all-night
year. The Arabs themselves
poker party in a hotel downtown
now feel that progress in irri-
gation has been too slow and
recently . . . As it progressed
that it may take decades until
the revelry increased . . . Final-
all the Arab villages in Israel
ly, at about three o'clock in the
will have their fields irrigated.
morning a weary guest in the
The wages of skilled Arab
next room started to pound on
workers have been raised
the wall . . . "How do you like
considerably and made equal
to those of the Jewish work-
that!" shouted one of the merry-
ers. Unskilled day-laborers,
makers indignantly. "This is
however, who form the bulk
certainly a hell of a time to be
of the Arab labor force in
hanging pictures!"
the country, still in practice
obtain lower wages than Jew-
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give the Israel Arab the feel-
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laration of Independence, but
also exists in practice.
Little has been done to liqui-
date the sore problem of land
ownership and payment . of
compensation for land. Though
much has been done in the
field of agriculture, the actual
sums spent on rural develop-
ment and water supply in the
fN't•si Arab sector are small com-
it
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The very fact that—in addi-
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to the thousands of Druze
DI. 1-9608 tion
GEORGE FINK
who served with the Israel

JERUSALEM—Looking back
on the ten years which have
passed since the establishment
of Israel there can be little
argument that great progress
has been made in the status of
the country's 200,000 A:r a b
citizens.
The first year was still one
of warfare; over 700,000 Pales-
tine Arabs had just fled the
country. The second and third
years were periods devoted to
the study of the special re-
quirements of this sector of
the population, which con-
sisted of 130,000 Moslems,
40,000 Christians and some
18,000 Druze—the three com-
munities forming the over-
whelming majority of Israel's
minorities.
Positive steps began as early
as 1949 with the opening of
100 Arab schools, staffed with
700 Arab teachers and provid-
ing a thorough education for
over 27,000 pupils. There were
the first Knesset elections at
which Arab women—the first
in the Middle East to do so—
participated freely and helped
to elect eight Arab Knesset
members on various party
tickets. •
By 1953 the road was
finally prepared for the first
large-scale implementation of
development in the field of
agriculture, labor, education,
local government and reli-
gious affairs. Villages in the
"Little Triangle" near the
Jordan border, which for
centuries had sent their
womenfolk to wells miles
away to f etch water in
earthen jugs on their heads,
suddenly found themselves in
the twentieth century: they
could open taps in their own.
village houses and get all the
water they needed.
In the Negev, the Seven
tribes of Israeli Bedouin within
a year or two exchanged their
traditional and ancient Arab
"musmar" (nail) ploughs,
which barely scratched the sur-
face of the soil, for modern
tractors and combine machines
to cultivate the 350,000 dunams
(some 90,000 acres) of crops.
From one single Arab student
in the Hebrew University in
1949 the number increased to
over 70 this year. They in-
clude Druze, Moslems and
Christians from towns and vil-
lages, including a Moslem -vil-
lage girl, who is still an unique
feature.
Nazareth, biggest Arab urban
center with a population of
22,000, had its century-old water
shortage problem solved within
two years by the opening of
the town's own supply; electri-
city was introduced to many
,Arab towns and villages; radio
sets, refrigerators, gas stoves
and modern cars, all these
made their triumphant en-
trance into Arab society in Is-
rael within the brief period of
1953-56.
But above all a quiet revo-

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Armed Forces as early as 1948
—the first groups of Moslems
and Christians are now volun-
teering for the army, indicates
that some Arab circles at least
are beginning to understand
that equal rights also mean
equal responsibilities. The more
the Israel Arab pays his full
share of income tax, volunteers
for the welfare of the State
and shows a keen interest in
the development of the coun-
try, the sooner will he become
a vital factor in raising his
own standard of living. There
are already signs indicating
that the "ice is melting." When
this stage has been reached,
then the road towards equal
status for the Arabs will be
wide open.

PARIS (JTA)—The Associa-
tion of Jewish Veterans organ-
ized a huge rally to protest the
re-appearance of anti-Semitism
in French public life. The most
recent incident was the shout-
ing of anti-Jewish slogans by
thousands of Paris police dur-
ing a recent demonstration for
higher pay outside the French
'National Assembly.
The meeting called on all
French veterans, former fight-
ers in the Resistance and vic-
tims of the Nazis to "unite in
common vigilance and take
action against the reemergence
of Nazism in all its forms."

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