Yael Dayan Novel: Diff6ring Israel Favorable Report on Polish Jewry by JDC Official
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Teenagers' Views on 'Puritanism'
To The Jewish News
by Stanislaz Zawadski, Polish

Considerable interest still is
being shown in the novel,
"New Face in the Mirror," by
Yael Dayan, daughter of the
former Israel Chief of Military
Staff, General Moshe Dayan,
which has been issued by
World Publishing Co. (2231 W.
110th, Cleveland 2) and which
was on high selling lists for
many weeks.
The story is about the daugh-
ter of a colonel in the Israel
army, who encounters her
father with a measure of bit-
terness and is an arrogant
member of the Israeli armed
forces. Thus, it was originally
interpreted that her novel is
an expose of a bitter family
feud. That has been denied,
and Miss Dayan now is hailed
as one who loves and admires
her father.
* * *
It is • not known whether
Yael's novel. which she had
written not- in Hebrew but in
English—thereby creating some
resentment among her fellow-
sabras who are reading the
novel in - a Hebrew translation
from the English—will have an
effect on her father's current
campaign for a Knesset seat.
But while it was believed that
it would cause him some harm,
that is now totally discredited.
There is no doubt, how-
ever, that in Israel, "New
Face in the -Mirror" was not
welcomed with acclaim. But
it is being read there as
widely as it is in this coun-
try.
What has, however, created
a more than normal resent-
ment against the novel is the
frankness with which Yael
Da y an spoke about Israeli
youth and their social habits
and mores during her stay in
this country. While she denied
that her story was an account
of her personal life, she said
that young Israelis endorsed
her description of Ariel Ron,
the girl in the story. She said
that Israeli youth wrote to her:
"Let's face' it. We are not puri-
tans. We are not virgins. We
can identify with Ariel."
The 20-year-old author of
"New Face in the Mirror" was

Burmese Give
Israel President
Royal Welcome

RANGOON, Burma (JTA)-
Israel President Itzhak Ben-Zvi .
received a 21-gun salute at the
airport here as he arrived with
his wife, three aideS and an
exchange gift of two rare white
peacocks.
Included among . the Presi-
dents' aides was , Walter Etyan,
director general of the Israel
Foreign Ministry.
This is Ben-Zvi's first state
visit to this country. Dressed
in white with a black hat, he
was greeted with the playing of
Hatikvah, and was met at the
airport by Burma's president
and prime minister, along with
members of the diplomatic
corps and members of the
Burma Jewish community.
In short addresses delivered
at the airport, both President
Ben-Zvi and President Ne Win
expressed satisfaction at the
degree of cooperation between
the two countries and hoped for
still further cooperation.
President Ben-Zvi and his
party will be staying in a
special wing of the Burmese
President's home.
Ben-Zvi flew here from Tel-
Aviv by El Al plane. Prior to
his departure, a pair of pea-
cocks, birds symbolizing Bur-
mese loyalty, were presented to
him by U Tin Maung Gyi,
Burmese Minister to Israel.

quoted as saying: "It's time to
realize that Israeli girls can
be as normal in a negative way
as girls everywhere, concerned
with their small little worlds
and not dedicated to some
eternal, to some Biblical truth."
* * *

Contrasted with Yael Day-
an's views on puritanism is the
view of Edward I. Parsons, a
former Boston lawyer who has
settled in Kfar Blum, in Israel,
and has been writing a series
of interesting news letters
from the Israeli settlement. In
one of his recent news letters,
Parsons wrote:
"I recently read an article in
the New Yorker that caused
me to lift an eyebrow. It cites
a survey, made in 1955, based
on interviews with .5,000 Amer-
ican teenagers. The young peo-
ple were asked ;how far' they
thought it proper for a going
steady couple to 'go.' Eleven
per cent replied, 'Only kiss,'
ten per cent replied, 'Light
necking,' 18 per cent, 'Pet-
ting,' while nearly 60 per cent
felt it was right to do 'any-
thing they want.'
"After having made an ex-
haustiye survey of my own
based on interviews with my
two teenage daughters, I find.
that 'heavy petting' is the abso-
lute 'limit' for even the most
daring of Kfar Blum's going
steady - teenagers."

GENEVA — Gratification
that none of Poland's 40,000
Jews is hungry or shelterless
was expressed Wednesday by
Charles H. Jordan, European
director general of the Joint
Distribution Committee, on his
return from a ten-day tour of
Poland.
"Conditions today are in
marked contrast with what we
found when we resumed wel-
fare operations in Poland two
years ago," he said. "We came
into the country primarily to
meet the needs of the thousands
of Jews repatriated from Russia.
We found, however, that large
groups of the settled Jewish
population — the aged, the in-
valided, the unemployable and
their families—were not eligible
for public relief under existing
welfare programs or were re
ceiving stipends insufficient to
meet their needs."
He said the program JDC
organized "has served 20,000
men, women and children dur-
ing the past year, providing
them with • emergency relief,
housing assistance, cash grants,
feeding programs, medical as-
sistance, vocational training
through ORT, religious educa-
tion and supplies, care of the
aged and support of summer
camp programs for children."
Jordan reported that in com-
pany with Max Braude, direc-
tor general of ORT's worldwide
progam, and Samuel. Haber,
assistant director general of

of food."

Minister of Labor and Welfare,
who "expressed his satisfaction
with the results achieved by
JDC and ORT during the past
few years." Meetings also were
held with leaders of Jewish
cultural, social and welfare
groups in Poland and with the
Vaad Hakehilot which repre-
sents organized Jewish religious
life in Poland.
"The Vaad Hakehilot also
operates 16 canteens through-
out Poland in which hot kosher
meals are served six days a
week," the JDC official . said.
"These canteens supplement the
cash relief we provide to 7,535
families and our school feeding
programs through which 2,500
children are served daily. Thus
every needy Jew in the coun-

He said most of these Jews
were repatriates from Russia
and that during the past three
years 19,000 of them entered
Poland, of whom about 6,000
were not entitled to any wel-
fare benefits after receiving an
initial grant from the Polish
government.

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