The . Miracle World Zionist Congress Emphasizes Alujah, Education
of Dimona
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chairman of the Zionist Gen-
years for Israel's upbuilding. gress and similar conferences
and the Neumann-directed Con-
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federation in demanding recog-
Israelis' advice that you must nition in the Executive to be
see things twice in the Jewish
formed in the Congress. If their
, State:, when tFiey are in their terms were to
be denied,
embryo stages and then upon Mizrachi and ZOA agreed to re-
their development. No one ever fuse to participate in the new
would believe that the miracle Executive. Such a state of
of Dimona is that great unless fairs would have been a se
e
•, he had seen the initial few
blow to the Agency—whi ac-
shacks, in the forbidding deso-
counts for the Congres deci-
; lation of the desert. Neverthe-
esent
less, it is a fact: the pioneering sion to retain the
four
spirit of the Israeli frontiers- Executive for anoth
months.
men has conquered the desert.
(Three personnel ch ges in
- Today, Ditnona has a popula- the Executive are:
akov
tion exceeding 5,000. It has a Tzur was replaced by
er
, communal center, a cinema, a Prime Minister Moshe Sha
shopping center, schools, a dem- Mapam's Yehuda Braginski is
' ocratically-elected council.
succeeded as head of the ab-
Moroccan Jews predominate sorption department by Aaron
here, and the head of the coun- Gizlink. Meir Grossman, of
cil — the Rosh Hamoatza — the General Zionist faction
' , is Armon Laredo, who was one led by Dr. Neumann, retired
of the founders of this new city. as head of the economic de-
A textile factory now is under partment and issucceeded
construction in Dimona. There is by former Tel Avi
v MaYor
a eucalyptus grove surrounding Haim Levanon. Tzur will re-
it, and the Jewish • National main director of the Jewish
Fund has planted olive trees National Fund and will be
• as one of the means of provid
ing employment and income
Golda Meir Receives
• for some of the Dimonians.
They are still building homes Henrietta Szold Amiard
there, and the workers in the
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Mrs.
area's phosphate, potash and bro- Golda Meir, Israel's Foreign
mine mines reside here.
Minister, was deeply moved when
• • •
Kitan Textile Factory al- she was presented here with the
' ready is operating and em- Henrietta Szold centennial aw
a-
, , ploys 200 workers, although for public service. The pres
a-
the building has not been tion was made by Mrs. S
assah,
completed, and Dimona resi- marsky, president of
World
dents are working on another at the centenary of
. textile • plant. As in most in- Zionist Congress.
Dr. Nahum Gold
, presi-
dustrial instances in Israel to-
day, these enterprises are dent of the World ionist Or-
made possible by the invest- ganization, eulogized e founder
ovement.
ment dollars provided by the of the Youth Aliya
He also extended
etings to
Israel Bond drives.
the jubilee celebra
such as
Sewage water from Dimona ir- Lord Samuel, 90, Y f Baratz,
rigates the olive groves which Peretz Bernstein, Dr. vraham
already have borne fruit. The Granott and Yosef Weit
1 70.
eucalyptus trees were planted to Mrs. Meir's award entitles
prevent the sands from inundat- to choose a student from abroad
ing the city of Dimona during' for a year's study under a fel-
storms. The .JNF provided the lowship in . her name.
trees and the community's fac
tories paid for their planting.
The factories were induced by
the government to start opera-
tions in Dimona by being 'freed
from - taxation for a period of
five Years, in order that work
may be provided for the settlers.-
Now thiS community has elec-
tricity, telephone connections,
fine roads. While the rnajority_of
the ' population is from North
Africa, all elements get along
well together. The chairman of
the Council was elected for four
' years and representatives on it
,are from five parties—Mapai, 4;
Hapoel Hamizrachi, 2; Achdut
Avodah, Herut- and Mapam, one
era]
The success of the recent were urged to establish a "com-
World Jewish Youth Conven- mon framework for all orga-
In the resolutions
n drew acclaim from the Con- nized Jewish youth.
upon. • world Jewry
extend
educational
er
better
• epare the youth
an
erstanding of JewiSh val-
e and of Israel, there was a
warning against the spread of
• •
assimilation in Wester
tries. M ny merica s s
there er n
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pessim
es
relati
the
a
of Je
at
Th ss appeale
the
Sovi government
able the
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future as a religious entity.
Concern was expressed, in
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another resolution, over the
spread of the cold war and
the need for general disarma-
ment. Nasser's aim to "wipe
out Israel" was linked to the
cold war propaganda.
Nominees to the Board of Governors:
The Nazi charaCter of anti-
Pursuant to the By-Laws of the JEWISH WELFARE
Semitic outbursts .in several
FEDERATION OF DETROIT, the following list of nom-
lands, especially in Germany,
. -inees, selected from the membership of the Federation for
caused the delegates to ask the
a three-year term ending in 1964, eligible for election to
governments of the countries
the Board of Governors of the. Federation, is presented
involved to act in preventing the
herewith
to the Executive Vice-President not less than
spread of bigotry._
thirty days prior to the Annual Meeting which will take
Congr
ce on Monday, February 6, 1961 at the Jewish Com-
no •
"A r,•:
blackmail"
ty Center, 18100 Meyers Road:
ch interferes with Israel's
i • Morris Adler
Hyman Safran
-conomic activities; assailed
Dr
arry Arnkoff
Morocco's severance of postal
Phillip Stollman
Dr. ichard C. Hertz
relations with Israel; reaffirmed
Mrs. Henry Wineman
Ju
Nathan Kaufman
the right of access by
Max J. Zivian
Mi
M. Maddin
holy pla
erda 0:
ru-
salem
d • shast
her persons may be nominated by petition or peti-
right to
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s signed by not less than 25 members of the Federation
region
be
d filed with the Executive Vice-President of the Federa-
fami f nations.
tion not less than ten days prior to the date of the annual
Re utions calling for
meeting. Only one person may be nominated in each peti-
tin
and uninterru
ali-
tion and no nomination shall be valid unless the nominee
yah activities also
ealed to
shall have consented to be a candidate.
Jews residing
ide Israel to
Edward I. Fleischman
send thei
dren for, at least
•
Samuel S. Greenberg
a 3'
study in Israel's _high
Jack 0. Lefton
ools and universities.
Sidney M. Shevitz
World Jewry was called
Morris Garvett, Chairman
upon to raise at least a bil-
Committee on Nominations
lion dollars in the next ten
each.
There are more than a
thousand children in the ele-
mentary and religious schools
of the community and the two
kindergartens. The elementary
school has 20 classes, and the
religious school has nine
classes, all conducted by 35
regular and five kindergar-
ten teachers.
The Dimona communal cen-
ter's library has a memorial to
the late Sarah Sheraga, who was
an active leader for many years
in labor Zionist functions. in De-
- , troit. Her husband, David, and
Farband leaders from Los An-
geles, Detroit and New York,
• , attended the library's dedication
last month.
Dimona's progress is not
, new to Israel. What has oc-
curred in Dimona also hap-
pened in Lakhish, Kiryat Gat,
Mitzpe Ramona and other
places.
It is happening elsewhere. Al-
ready, Israel's leaders are map-
ping new areas for new cities.
In the desert where the gas fields
now are operating there already
are plans for new communities.
One stands in awe and wonder-
ment at the sight of such crea-
tivity. That is why the word
"miracle" remains in Israel's
vocabulary.
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