14 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Fr iday, (Tune 17, 1960 -- New National Museum Planned in Israel Tel Aviv Granted Israel to Build for Expansion Industrial Plants Loan NEW YORK, (JTA)—A $3,- 000,000 loan for expansion proj- for $9,000,000 ects has been granted the Tel (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) Artist's conception of the new National Museum of Israel for which $1,500,000 will be raised in the United States by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. To be built on a 25- acre plot in Jerusalem, adjoining the Hebrew University campus, the new buildings will house the Bezalel Museum, the Archaeological Museum and the Billy Rose Sculpture Garden. $1,500,000 is already available for the building in grants from the United States and Israel governments. Set Special Depots for Voter Registration Fire and Police Precinct stations, as well as several de- partment stores, will be util- ized for the acceptance of voting registration and record- ing changes of address from June 27 to 30, July 1, 2 and 5, according to Thomas D. Lead- better, City Clerk. The special election stations will be open from 12 noon to 8 p.m. Regular hours of 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. will also prevail at the office of the City Election Commission, room 202, City- County Bldg. In announcing the regiStra- ton sites, Leadbetter advised that July 5 is the final date for registration for the Aug. 2 Primary Election. Electors who have registered or voted since Jan. 1, 1956 are not required to re-register. Among the department stores with special registration booths will be J. L. Hudson's main store; Demery's, Sam's two downtown and Conner Ave. stores, and five branches of the Federal Department Stores, Grand River-Oakman, • Grand River Greenfield, Gratiot and W. 7 Mile, Michigan and 33rd and Schaefer-McNichols. Israel Increasing Its Exports of Citrus Despite Competition from Many Lands LONDON, (JTA) — Israel's the shipment and marketing of exports of citrus fruit — the next year's product. At the same time, it was re- country's principal export item —is constantly increasing, ac- p o r t e d here that Israel exports to Britain during the cording to Moshe Levine, head first two months of 1960 were of the Israel Citrus Marketing more than double in value com- Board in Europe. Citrus ex- pared with imports from Britain ports to West Germany alone in that period. For the two this year rose by 29 percent, months Israel exports to Britain as against last year's figure. reached an all-time peak of 5,-. Overall, Israel is exporting 300,000 pounds sterling, while abroad 10 per cent more of Britain exported to Israel prod- citrus fruits by comparison with ucts valued at 2,600,000 pounds sterling. 1959, Levine stated. The comparable figures for Despite these increases, how- ever, Levine declared that Is- the same two months in 1959 rael's income from citrus sales were 5,200,000 sterling pounds is on the decline and is likely worth of imports from Israel to go lower, due to stiff com- and 1,900,000 sterling pounds petition from other Mediter- worth of exports to Israel. The ranean countries and due also largest single commodity ex- to the customs agreement ported by Israel to Britain among the countries belonging was citrus fruit. However, other to the European Common Mar- Israel products, including tex- ket. These countries are France, tiles, are being exported to Brit- West Germany, Belgium, Lux- ain in increasing volume. embourg, Holland and Italy. Current registration at the Undeterred by this stiff com- petition, Levine said, Israel is Beth Zeiroth Mizrachi, Tel Aviv, already planning to step up a vocational high school spon- next year's citrus exports. A sored by the Mizrachi Women's special mission will come here Organization, is 467 girls. Sixty soon, he said, to negotiate for teachers are on the staff. Aviv Municipality by the Ampal- American Israel Corporation with the participation of the Bank of America International, it was announced here by Tel Aviv Mayor Mordechai Namir and Peretz Naphtali, chairman of the finance committee of the Tel Aviv Municipality. The loan will be used primar- ily for expanding Tel Aviv's school building program, for a sewage disposal plant" and for the purification of the city's b aches, according to the two officials. Mayor Namir and Naphtali came to the United States to negotiate the loan and to attend the International Con- ference of Municipalities held in Chicago earlier this month. The Ampal Corporation has also opened preliminary discus- sions with various brokerage houses regarding the placement of .a Tel Aviv_ Municipal bond issue of $15,000,000 repayable in 25 years; the Tel Aviv' offi- cials said. They also announced that an agreement in principle had been reached with a group of private investors • from Cleve- land concerning the building of parking facilities in Tel Aviv. JERUSALEM —Details were disclosed Wednesday of plans for creation of Israel's first petro-chemical industry, based on two new plants for the pro- duction of ethylene and poly- ethylene. The plant to produce ethy- lene will be a $4,000,000 project to be built by Haifa Refineries. The second plant, which will produce polyethylene, the basic raw material of the plastics industry, will cost $5,000,000. An agreement for the construc- tion of the second plant was signed Tuesday by Pinhas Sapir, Israel's Minister for Com- merce and Industry, and Virgil Stark, president of the North American Services and Con- struction Co., which will build R. Stark also signed Tuesday an agreement with the Haifa Oil Refineries for the required ethylene. The government will lend the company half of the cost of the polyethylene plant, which is expected to become the nucleus of a $50,000,000 petro-chemical industry. The two-plant operation for bin production of polyethylene, now made in only 10 countries, Sid Shmarak's is expected to begin in 1965. Polyethylene is widely used in food packaging and in container production of more than 750,000 tons. The new Haifa plant is ERNIE DEUTSCH, owner of expected to begin production at a rate of 3,000 tons a year. 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