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Israel's Scientific Needs Reviewed at
Technion Society's 20th Anniversary

Detroit Technion Society leaders and program participants at the 20th anniversary
dinner. From left: Murray Altman, Louis Redstone, Leon Kay, Mrs. I. E. Goodman,
Benjamin Wilk, Samuel Brody, Philip Slomovitz, William Schwartz, national Tech-
nion executive director; Salman Grand, treasurer (in background) ; Karl Segall, Jacob
Schreier, Prof. Henry Gomberg, of the University of Michigan; George.Reich, midwest
Technion director; Louis Gelfand, Jacob R. Sensibar, of Chicago, Technion national
leader; Julius Lev and Jack Stone.

The vast importance of tech-
nological research in Israel,
the need to harness energy to
increase available water power
for the small but rapidly de-
veloping country, were outlined
by two guest speakers at the
20th anniversary dinner of the
Detroit Technion Society, at
Temple Israel, Saturday night.
Jacob R. Sensibar, eminent
Chicago engineer, who had just
returned from Israel, told the
300 assembled guests of the
need for increasing Israel's
productivity, in view of the de-
cline of income from the out-
side. Stating that the bottle-
neck in Israel's productivity is
water, becaUse Israel is a low
rainfall area, he told of means
that are being sought to solve
that problem. •
One of the means, he said, is
by converting peat into organic
fertilizer to apply on irri-
gated land. By this applica-
tion, he said, productivity can
be increased 35 to 55 per cent.
He also spoke of the values
of minerals in the Negev, of
the expansion of the citrus in-
dustry and of the development
of an increased tourist trade.
The chemicals of the Dead Sea,
he pointed out, also are a
source of important income for
Israel.
"It all involves technology,
know-how, skill, and the Is-
rael Institute of Technology
in Haifa—the - Technion—pro-

vides that kind of an educa-
tion," he stated.
Prof. Henry Gomberg, head
of the Phoenix Project of the
University of Michigan, who
has been invited to confer with
Technion officials in Israel on
nuclear and atomic energy
problems, next September, de-
scribed the new methods for
harnessing energy in order to
produce the raw material in
water. He said Israel already
is making a definite contribu-
tion in the area of concentrat-
ing heavy water.
"In atomic energy sources lie
potentials for new products
and new opportunities in Is-
rael," Dr. Gomberg said.
Julius Lev, president of
the Detroit Technion So-
ciety, was toastmaster. Mur-
ray Altman, chairman of the
dinner arrangements commit-
tee, opened the program with
greetings. Rabbi Leon Fram
gave the invocation.
The history of the Detroit
Technion Society was reviewed
in an address by Philip Slomo-
vitz, who described the interest
that was taken by Detroiters in
the Haifa Technical Institute
shortly after it was founded in
1924. He reviewed the local
activities from the time the so-
ciety was founded by its first
three presidents, Harvey Gold-
man, Karl B. Segall and Leon
Kay, and told of the activities
of their successors in the so-

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Recall Bonn Envoy to Cairo

NEW YORK, (AJP)—Chan-
cellor Konrad Adenauer, en-
raged over Nasser's dealings
with East Germany, has recalled
Bonn's Ambassador in Cairo, it
was reported . from the West
German capital.

Hebrew Corner

New Caesarea

Translation of Hebrew text.
Published by Brit Ivrit Olamit.

In the days of King Herod,
about two thousand years ago,
Caesarea was a large and im-
portant port city. Today there
are several agricultural settle-
;
ments in the vicinity, and only
'
the numerous ruins and the re-
mains of an ancient quay bear
witness to the glorious past of
the city. However, efforts are
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Caesarea some of its importance.
A new company, owned joint-
by the Government of Israel
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and Baron Edmund de Roths-
child, has now begun develop-
ing the area. It is paving roads,
installing networks of water and
electricity, and carrying out
operations to stop the shifting
(wandering) sands. The activity
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the Caesarea • development
has two aims: one—to
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establish small industrial enter-
prises in the vicinity, and the
second—to convert the Caesar-
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cationing, entertainment and
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To this end luxurious houses
for rent and for sale to resi-
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and the first golf-course in Israel,
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ciety's presidency, Louis Gel-
fand, Louis Redstone, Benja-
min Wilk, Joseph Epel and
Julius Lev.
The 80th birthday of Karl
Segall was honored in a brief
ceremony during which Lev
presented the octogenarian
with a testimonial express-
ing appreciation for his ef-
forts for Technion.
Leon Kay, a national vice-
president of American Tech-
nion Society, in an address to
the gathering, described Tech-
nion's accomplishments and
told of the marked contribu-
tions its efforts had made to-
wards Israel's development. He
also took occasion to express
strong convictions on the con-
tinued need for Zionist activi-
ties as means of assuring Is-
rael's security.

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lionnting immigration
Compels Emergency
UJA Cabinet Talks

The National Campaign Cabinet of the United Jewish
Appeal has summoned 200 national leaders to an extra-
ordinary session on Monday, at the Savoy-Hilton Hotel in
New York, to consider a mounting resettlement emergency
in Israel, growing out of the sudden upsurge of immigration,
particularly from Eastern Europe.
The call to the special session was issued by Morris
W. Berinstein, national UJA chairman.
Isidore Sobeloff, executive vice president of the Detroit
Jewish Welfare Federation, upon receipt of the call to
Monday's session, stated, on Tuesday, that several Detroit
leaders are expected to participate in the meeting.
It was indicated in connection with the emergency
call that the largest Jewish community in Eastern Europe
outside Soviet Russia is in Romania, where the Jews num-
ber 250,000. Poland is next with 40,000. •
Berinstein termed the emergency session of the UJA's -
top planning body "one of the most important UJA meet-
ings since World War II."
The Jan. 19 session was called after UJA officers
convened last week-end and heard Levi Eshkol, Israel's
Minister of Finance, present full implications of the im-
pact on Israel of expanded immigration which is expected
to reach 8,000 in January and a possible total of 100,000
in 1959.
Eshkol, who had just arrived in the U.S., told the UJA
leaders that the number of Jews permitted to leave for
Israel is reaching such proportions that it will threaten
Israel's immigration absorption program "unless large new
resources are immediately forthcoming."

In his call, Berinstein declared: "Israel's people are
steadfast in keeping their doors open to all Jews who can
reach their soil. However, the huge task of providing shelter
and start toward a new life for the entering multitudes
is far beyond our capacities. They must turn to the Ameri-
can Jewish community for financial help in the fullest
possible measure."

Around the World...

A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from
Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other

News-Gathering Media.

Europe

BONN — The Federal Government of West Germany and
the provincial government of Lower Saxony signed an agreement
to pay Jewish organizations the equivalent of $2,250,000 for
Jewish communal property damaged or destroyed in Saxony
during the Nazi regime.
VIENNA — It was revealed here that the Communist-led
Jewish cultural organizations in Poland have intensified their
drive to convince Jews in Poland that they should cease emigrat-
ing to Israel.
LONDON — British financial and oil officials are viewing
Israel's plans to replace its eight-inch oil pipeline between Elath
and Beersheba with a 16-inch line as a possible practical alterna-
tive to the Suez Canal . . . Dr. M. Shaffer, scientific attache at the
Israel Embassy here, said Britain has been and is giving Israeli
scientists aid with a multiplicity of nuclear problems.

United States

NEW YORK — Santiago Petroleum Corporation, wholly-
owned subsidiary of Pan-Israel Oil Company, Inc., and Israel- .
Mediterranean Petroleum, Inc., announced the acquisition of ap-
proximately 3,200,000 acres of petroleum concessions in Queens-
land Province, - Australia.
LOS ANGELES — The Bnai Brith Anti-Defamation Office
here has filed a formal complaint with the President's Commit-
tee on Government Contracts, charging 25 Los Angeles firms
with discrimination in hiring clerical workers.

South Africa

JOHANNESBURG — Dr. L. V. Rex, member of the Dutch
Reform Church synod in the Transvaal, denied that the synod's
recent statement that its members should judge a 'candidate for
public office on whether or not he is of "good Christian char-
acter" was a plea not to support Jewish candidates, and he stated
that the synod's proposal was aimed at the "behavior and char-
acter" of a candidate, not his religious faith . . . Leo Schwarz,
American educator and writer, arrived here to assume the post
of adviser to the South African Board of Deputies on problems
of Jewish students in universities. .

Israel

JERUSALEM — By keeping a squadron of spray planes on
the alert and by taking to the air to spray and attack swarms of
locusts as they take to the air, Israel's agricultural authorities
have initiated a new method of fighting the continuing inva-
sion of locusts, one of the worst insect _attacks in many years
Shmuel Bendor, Israel's Minister of Prague, who was educated
in the United States and formerly headed the American desk at
the Foreign Ministry, was named Minister to Romania . . . In a
meeting with leader of the Mapam and Achdut Avodah parties,
Premier Ben-Gurion proposed a three-month "truce" during
which the three Socialist parties in his coalition government
would refrain from attacking each other, preparatory to next
fall's general election campaign.