3 Detroiters Named
ADL Commissioners
'Left to right: Murray Altman, Carl Alpert, David Safran,
Dr. William Fondiller and Jules Lev.
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Technion,'s Progress Reviewed at
Local Chapter's Annual Dinner
Ed Levy Makes Gift of $10,000
Israel's Technion, the engi-
neering-architectural-aeronauti-
cal school in Haifa, has made
amazing progress in the past
decade and Detroit's supporters
of the school have made import-
ant contributions to its advance-
ment, it was reported at the an-
nual dinner meeting of the De-
troit Chapter of the American
Technion Society, at Temple Is-
rael, Sunday night.
Dr. William Fondiller, hon-
orary president of the Ameri-
can Technion Society, told the
gathering that a number of the
school's graduates have been
welcomed by American indust-
rialists to pursue their engineer-
ing activities here and to take
back to Israel the know-how
they learned here. He said. that
15 aeronautical graduates now
.are on staffs a American indus-
tries and are planning to return
to Israel with advanced -k-n6w1:
edge in their field of activity.
Dr. Fondiller said that re-
cruiting the ablest men for the
Technion faculty is a major
objective in order to retain.
for Technion its worldwide
standing. He said that 1,000
members of the American
Society are giving
expert advice to Israeli in-
dustries, that the Technion
provides research specialists
to the United States and other
countries and has become an
important assistant in major
projects to the United States
and to the free world.
Carl Alpert, assistant to Gen.
Yaakov Dori, president of the
Technion, the other guest speak-
er at the dinner, reviewed
Technion's achievements and re-
ported that the movement to
the new campus is being at-
attained; that 14 new buildings
already have been opened on the
new campus, with 55 per cent
of the removal from the old
to the new campus practically
completed.
He said that four dormitories
now are already being used by
students, with 3 more to be built.
that there are 3,000 students in
Technion with a faculty of 300
to 400, including 20 Americans
and some East Europeans; that
no difficulties have been en-
countered in using Hebrew as
the language of instruction.
Alpert declared that the
students are developing into
good engineers and architects.
He said that the budget of
$4,500,000 a year is being
met 40 per cent by the Israel
government, the remainder
coming from tuitions and con-
tributions from Israel indus-
tries. Only 15 per cent, he
said, is contributed by Ameri-
cans. He stated, however, that
a major portion of the $10,-
000,000 contributed towards
the $25,000,000 needed for
the construction of the new
campus came from American
Jews
Alpert announced that con-
struction will begin soon on the
agricultural engineering build-
ing towards which Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Brody of Detroit had
contributed $100.000.
David Safran, who presided
at the dinner, announced a
gift towards the Technion
building fund of $10,000 from
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also announced that the De-
troit Technion Society raised
the sum of $350,000 towards
the Technion building proj-
ects during the 21 years of
its existence.
Jules Lev, president of the
Detroit Chapter, reviewed the
local group's 21-year history.
He read a message of greeting
from two former presidents,
Leon Kay and Benjamin Wilk,
cabled to the gathering from
Israel where they are on a spe-
cial industrial mission.
Participants in the program
also included Murray Altman,
chairman of the board of the
local society, and Rabbi Leon
Fram, who gave the benedic-
tion,
Among the guests at the din-
ner, was Dr. Aviva Giladi, a
member of the Technion faculty
who now is pursuing graduate
studies at the University of
Michigan, and Dr. Henry Gom-
berg, head of . the U. of M.
Pheoni ProjeCt -with whom she
is conferring on special proj-
ects at Ann Arbor.
Egypt Reported Alerting Troops
to Stop Israel Irrigation Project
Mrs. Leonard Sims, Mrs.
LONDON, (JTA)—The United
Charles Solovich and Sidney J.
Karbel have been elected na- Arab Republic would intervene
tional commissioners of the militarily "on the very day that
Anti - Defamation League of the Israelis begin to put into
Bnai Brith, at the 46th annual effect their plan to divert the
meeting of the League's nation- flow of the Jordan River," Ma-
al commission, held in New Ijor Salah Salem, Egypt's chief
York last week. propagandist, declared in an
The announcement was made article in the Cairo newspaper
by Judge Victor J. Baum, vice- Al Gumhouria, of which he is
chairman of the ADL Michigan editor.
The First Egyptian Army, he
Regional Advisory Board.
The -four-day annual ADL revealed, had already been put
meeting include "A Salute to on the alert on the Negev fron-
the America Theater" for its tier, and, should the Israelis
contributions to "the enrich- begin the Jordan diversion
ment of American democracy." scheme, this army would en-
Playwright Dore Schary was gage, he asserted, "in large-
chairman of a luncheon session scale operations" with the sup-
at which the America's Demo- port of the Second Syrian Army.
The Egyptian editor called the
cratic Legacy awards were
made to notable actors, writers, Israeli water plan a "matter of
and producers representative of life and death to the Arabs."
If the Negev were rendered
the theater.
fertile, he warned, it could re-
ceive 2,000,000 more Jewish
Schwartzberg Heads immigrants who would form a
wedge between Egypt and the
Scrap Trade Assn.
rest of the Arab world.
At a meeting held Dec. '7, the A London Daily Express cof-
following officers and board of respondent who has just re-
directors were elected for 1960 turned from Cairo said that
by the Greater Detroit Scrap President Nasser of the United
Trade Association: Arab Republic "is determined
President, Sam Schwartzberg; to risk war rather than let the
vice-presidents, Jonas Dworin Israelis carry through their
and Edwin- Robinson; recording plan" to take water from the
secretary, Louis Freeman; fi- Jordan River to irrigate arid
nancial secretary, Phillip Fealk; areas of the Negev. He said that
treasurer, Jack Weiner; ser- Nasser believed. that "if there
geant-at-arms, Ben Davis, trus- is war again with Israel, the
tees, Martin Shulman, Irving Egyptians will win. He counts
Fishman, Henry Miller; mem- on the support of Arabs in other
bers-at-large, Sam Wasserman, countries."
Jack Rosenthal, Louis Alpert.
Reports . received here indi-
The officers will be installed cated that the Egyptians had
at an annual installation affair dropped widely, advertised plans
at which the principal speaker to divert the waters of the Jor-
will be Frederick H. Mueller, dan before they reached Israeli
secretary of Commerce. territory by construction of a
dam in Arab territory. 'A tech-
nical committee had reported
to the UAR cabinet on this
plan and had recommended it.
The cabinet, however, was re-
ported at its meeting yesterday
to have discussed military and
diplomatic means of blocking
the Israelis.
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JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Israel
sources; commenting on threats
by the United Arab Republic
to prevent a' Jordan River di-
version project to irrigate new
areas, said today that Israel re-
gards such projects as of equal
importance with freedom of
navigation in the Gulf of Aqaba.
The comparison of irrigation
projects with the importance of
unimpeded Aqaba navigation
for Israel's southern port of
Eilat was considered an implicit
warning to UAR President Nas-
ser that any attempt on his part
to interfere by force with the
project would elicit the same
Israel retaliation as would inter-
ference with Eilat shipping.
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