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Experimental Water De-Salting
Plant Put Into Operation in Israel
Agadir Refugees Move to Better
Equipped Center in Casablanca
PARIS, (JTA) — Some 450
Jewish reguees from the dis-
aster which . overwhelined the
Moroccan coastal town of Aga-
dir, who are now in a temporary
refugee center in Casablanca,
will be moved soon to a better-
equipped center in Casablanca.
A special committee was
established under the sponsor-
ship of the Centre Aide Na-
tionale to help the refugees,
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Israel Tourist
Industry Seeks
Detroit Investors
Charles Milan and John E.
Lurie were announced this week
as the Detroiters who are spon-
soring the activities to enroll
investors in the Tourist Indus-
try Development Corporation of
Israel.
Stanley Rubinstein is the
local representative of the cor-
poration. He is prepared to
provide information about the
Israel tourist corporation at the
local office at 2209 E. 8 Mile
Rd., _telephone JE 6-033.
The Israel government en-
couraged the formation of the
new corporation, which invites
local investors, including those
who desire to turn over Israel
Bonds for shares in the corpora-
tion, as a result of the increas-
ing volume of tourism to Israel.
The Tourist Corporation anti-
cipates a vast increase in
;Israeli income as a result of
the expanding tourist trade. It
will serve as a loan fund, ad-
ministered through Israeli
banks, for the industry's expan-
sion.
Lawrence G. Laskey, of Bos-
ton, chairman of the board of
the new corporation, will ad-
dress a meeting of the local
investors in April,---the-dete- and
place to• i e- announced next
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whose present home is the tem-
porary center in the Talmud
Torah of Casablanca. They are
now being visited by friends.
The decision to transfer them
followed a visit to the tem-
porary center by Princess Lalla
Aisha, president of the Centre
Aide Nationale.
Mayer O•adia, president of
the Casablanca Jewish Com-
munity, is president of the spe-
cial committee which will be in
charge of the new center.
In Jerusalem, the Jewish
Agency put on display the first
list of known survivors, an in-
complete one, and large crowds
of immigrants from Morocco—
many of whom had close rela-
tives in Agadir—anxiously
scanned the list. Among those
on the list were Josef Hem,
head of the Agadir Jewish com-
munity, and Rabbi Jehusa Che-
trit.
Rescue workers miraculously
pulled four Jewish children
from the ruins of Agadir. The
Jewish children were given im-
mediate medical attention. They
are Alice Kalfon, 16; Jacqueline
Kalfon, 15; Armand Kalfon, 6;
and Cadiz Gonzales, 13. The
four Jewish children were
among eight survivors rescued.
The others were Moslems.
Plans for the rehabilitation
and resettlement of some 700 to
800 surviving Jews of Agadir,
Moroceo—all who are left of
the community's 2300—are now
being made by the Joint Distri-
bution Committee, together
with local Jewish organizations.
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43%- of Tourists in
Israel Were from U.S.
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Forty-
three per cent of the 83,614
tourists who visited Israel in
1959 were Americans, accord-
ing to official figures revealed.
The 1959 total represented a
sharp increase over that for
1958 which was under 70,000.
Frenchmen and Britons were
next in number among the
tourists, each group amounting
to about 10 per cent of the
total. Germans and Canadians
amounted to about four per
cent each.
Seven thousand Israelis left
the country during the year,
after making official declara-
tion that they intended to set-
tle abroad permanently. They
included 1,244 natives of the
country and 972 persons who
settled in Palestine prior to the
establishment of Israel in 1948.
Of the emigrants, about 4,000
planned to make their homes
in the United States, 953 in
Canada, and 161 . in Brazil.
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First
Load of
Cars Leaves for U.S.
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The first
shipment of Israel-made cars,
600 "Sabra" station wagons, was
loaded in Haifa port for trans-
portation to the .United States:
Israel - assembled ears have
been exported for 'several years
to various EnrOpean, Latin
Anrerican and- African 'coma-
tries. The "Sabra" shipment is
the first to the United States.
The cars were loaded on the
S.S. Gefen. They will sell for
0_,000, about $400 less than
American-made station wagous
and about the same as the
European compact car of that
size. Other shipments of. the
Sabra will soon be.sent to Cey-
lon and Turkey and some
African countries.
Additional details were dis-
closed today .on the agreement
between the Studebaker - Pack-
ard company and the Kaiser-
Frazer firm in Haifa for assem-
bly of Larks and Hawks at the
Haifa plant. The agreement
provides that there are no lim-
its on the amount of Israel
parts in the assemblies; The
contract is for five years with
an option of an additional five
years.
New England Zionists
Name Robbins Candidate
for Presidency of ZOA
BOSTON, (JTA)—The New
England Zionist Region hon-
ored Dr. Morton J. Robbins by
naming him as its "favorite
son" candidate for the nation-
al presidency of the Zionist
Organization of America, it was
announced - by Laurence S.
Wolk, president of the New
England Zionist Region. The
resolution was adopted unani-
mously at a meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee of the New
England Zionist Region.
Prof. Schmidt to Direct
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
experimental water de-salting
plant built on the basis of the
inventions of Alexander Zar-
chin was put unto full operation
this week, the Ministry of De-
velopment announced formally.
Previously, units of the plant
had been tested separately to
iron out the usual initial bugs,
the Ministry reported. It added
that the experimental plant will
require several months of op-
eration before sufficient reli-
able data are accumulated as
the basis for the first large
scale de-salination plant.
Such a plant would produce
about 1,000 cubic meters. of de-
salted water a day. The pilot
plant is expected to provide
enough data to make possible
fairly accurate calculations of
the costs of such water when it
is produced on a large scale.
Engineers of the American
Fairbank-Whitley C o m p a n y,
which signed an agreement for
the development and use of
Zarchim's inventions, cooperat-
ed in putting the experimental
plant into initial operation.
They will also take part in the
evaluation of data and drafting
of plans for the first large-scale
plant. The Ministry said all
basic parts of the plant were
made in Israel.
Canadian Minister Admits
`Loopholes' in Checking Bias
OTTAWA, (JTA)—Canada's
Minister of Works, Dave Walk-
er, conceded there are Some
"loopholes" in Canada's Na-
tional Housing Act regarding
discriminations in the sale or
rental of property on the
grounds of race, color, creed
and place of origin.
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BERLIN, (JTA) — A West
Berlin court sentenced this
week two former Nazi police of-
ficials to prison terms for the
murder of 300 Jews in Zhitomir
in the Ukraine in 1942.
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three and a half years and Fritz
Knop was sentenced to seven
years. Huelsduenker testified in
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