Creative Israel---Today and Tomorrow

Story by Carmi. M. Siomovitz .

.ziround the Trorld...

Photos by Efrem ilani

TIBERIAS, Israel—Pictures tell the best story—how Israel. 'builds today, how -its present
compares with yesterday, what the morrow will be like.
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Remembering the difficulties of yesteryears and the hardships the Israelis endured, the
conditions today, are heartening - and the future holds much in store for the battling Israelis.'
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In photo A we see a view of Haifa, the major harbor city of Israel, from near the top of Mt.,
Carmel.
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B shows a pupil of the Mevvoth-Yam School for Navigation and-Fishery at Mikhmoreth. The
pupil is shown "sextant-training." Mikhmoreth is near the Israel diamond-cutting center of
N _ athaniah. Its many beaches provide a popular summer resort.
C shows Baron Edmond de Rothschild on the golf course he donated at Caesarea. The Baron
is planning to build a modern hotel near the golf course and the club house.
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In D you see one of the passages to the famous art colony in the historic city' of Safad. E
depicts a fisherman on the Sea of Galilee—Lake Kinneret—at Tiberias, catching "St. Peter's" fish.
Thousands of tons of fish are caught here yearly.
All who contribute to the Allied Jewish Campaign, those who purchase Israel Bonds, can
feel proud that they had a share in these developments. The industrial developments described
owe their successes in great measure to assistance received through Israel Bonds.

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A Digest of World Jewish Happenings
from DispatcheS of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and Other News-Gathering Media.
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United States

ERIE, Pa.—Local public high schools will award credit for
the first-year course in Modern • Hebrew given at the Jewish
Center Hebrew High School.
HARTFORD, Conn. -- The General Assembly Agriculture
Committee appointed a subcommittee to rewrite the humane
slaughter bills pending in the State Legislature..
NEW YORK—The 50th anniversary of organiZed communal
Jewish, education in New York City will be celebrated Sunday
at a program arranged by the Jewish Education Committee of
New YOrk . The United States Office of Vocational Rehabilita-
tion granted $350,000 to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
of Yeshiva University for a study of rehabilitation of hospital
patients . . . The national Governing Council of the American
Jewish Congress affirmed the right of Dr. Joachim Prinz to
express his personal views "from the platform of the AJC as its
president, for the purpose of prompting a discussion of a vital
issue in Jewish life" ... The New York Board . of Rabbis declared
that Governor Nelson Rockefeller's student aid plan, as revised,
did not violate the church-state separation provisions of -the Con-
stitution.
WALTHAM, Mass.-=A $100,000 grant from - Marvin Kratter,
New York City real estate executive, to endow five scholarships
and fellowships at Brandeis University, was announced here.
PHILADELPHIA—The Israel • Government has decided to
open a permanent Consulate in Philadelphia, with Michael
Deouell serving as Consul.
WASHINGTON—Chairman Francis E. Walter of the House
Immigration Committee, co-author of the controversial McCarran-
Walter Immigration Act, announced that he will retire from
Congress after the current session . . . A bill to establish a
memorial to Albert Einstein in the District of Columbia was
introduced in the Senate by Senators Javits and Humphrey.

Israel

JERUSALEM=An agreement for the construction of a $16,-
000,000 complex of petrochemical plants was signed by Finance
Minister Levi Eshkol and folk groups of investors (among them
an American group, including Max Fisher of Detroit) . . . The
West German government's action in increasing the value of the
mark by five percent will bring a $5,000,000 profit to the State
Bank of Israel, which had built up a large mark reserve in
anticipation of the mbve . . . An Italian archaeological expedi-
tion from Milan will excavate the site of a Roman theater in the
ruins of the Byzantine city of Caesarea . . . The Israel Treasury
announced a liberalization of currency exchange regulations for
tourists and Israelis holding foreign currency . . . A report of
rapid and substantial gains in the expert of - Israeli products was
coupled by Trade Minister Pinhas Sapir with a warning against
the tight credit policy of the State Bank of Israel.
TEL AVIV—Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion renewed
his plea for immigration .from the United States, particularly
of youth,' stating' that this would "strengthen the intellectual
forces in Israel." He declared that Albert Einstein had once
said to him that American Jewish intellectuals Would come to
Israel because they were not fully trusted in America, and that
even after the McCarthy era Professor Robert Oppenheimer had
told him that many American Jewish intellectUals Would go to
Israel because there was no meaning to JewiSh life in America,
France and Britain.

Africa

JOHANNESBURG—The South African Jewish Board of
Deputies opposed an effort of Orange Free State University to
have Parliament eliminate from the University's statute a clause
banning religious discrimination in staff appointments.

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Canada

MONTREAL—Israel exported $2,500,000 worth of goods to
Canada in 1960, against imports of $6,500,000 from this coun-
try, Yechiel Narkiss, Israel's Trade Commissioner in Canada,
reported.
OTTAWA—Israel Ambassador Yaacov Herzog conferred
with Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker prior to the latter's
departure for the Conference of Prime Ministers in London.

Europe

FRANKFURT—President Henrich Luebke of West Germany
appealed to Christians and Jews to "strive toward a new era
of creative existence," declaring that the German people should
squarely "face the depressing knowledge" of past horrons, while
the Jews should not, refuse German efforts at conciliation.
LONDON--Two Estonian members of the Nazi SS pleaded
guilty before a Soviet tribunal in Tallinn to charges of complicity
in. the slaughter of 125,000 persons, mostly JewS, during the Nazi
occupation of Estonia . . ReportS from Prague disclosed that
about 30 Czech Jews imprisoned nearly ten years ago in a purge
resulting in the execution of Rudolf Slansky, a Jew who headed
the Communist party in CzechOslovakia, have been set free, and
that some • have indicated a desire to go to Israel . . Three
Lithuanians, charged with responsibility for the murder of 60,000
Jews, Poles, Byelorussians and Lithuanians by the Nazis, were
sentenced to death by the State Supreme . Court of Soviet
ania in 'Vilna . . . The Council of Jews from Austria in Britain
appealed to • Dr. Alphons GorbaCh, the new Austrian ChancellOr
designate; to help assure indemnifitation to all Austrian victims
of Nazism without discrimination.
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BONN—Dr.- Hans : Globke, Chancellor Xonrad Adenauer's
State Secretary, who has been under fire for some time for hiS
role as a commentator on the Nuremberg anti-Jewish laws under
the Nazi regime, was urged by the opposition Social Democratic
party to request provisional retirement from his post ... Trapped
by Essen police with the aid of .a 25-year-old photograph, Albert
Rapp, an aide of Gestapo chief Henrich Hinunler, was arrested
and charged with the murder of 1,500 gypsies and Jewish women
in 1942 .. . New recommendations for teaching contemporary
history in West Germany's school system, aimed at demonstrat-
ing "Hitler's false -aims, his extravagance, his criminal methods,
and the catastrophe which resulted from his- system," were
issued by the Standing Conference of the State Ministries of
Education.