Israel Cabinet Minister Almogi's
Visit Sparks Histadrut Campaign
A major event on the month's
calendar of activities for the
Detroit Israel Histadrut Cam-
paign will be the visit here on
Sunday morning of Yosef AL
mogi, Israel - Cabinet Minister,
confidant of Ben-Gurion, labor
leader and military hero.
Almogi will address Histadrut
leaders and workers at the
Labor Zionist Institute. Brunch
will be served at 11 a.m.
Reservations can be made by
calling UN 4-7094.
All campaign workers and
affiliates of organizations de-
voted to Histadrut are urged
YOSEF ALMOGI
attend and to hear the mes-
sage from Israel from one of
the country's major labor
leaders. There will be no ad-
mission charge.
This will be Almogi's first
visit in Detroit since 1953.
He was for two years gen-
eral secretary of the Mapai
party before he assumed his
Israel Cabinet post in October,
1961. He served as , secretary of
the Haifa Labor Council for
four years.
He was campaign manager of
the Mapai party during the
•election of 1959 and he per-
suaded Mapai to present new
faces; Abba Eban, Moshe Dayan
and others which in large meas-
ure contributed to the Mapai's
victory in 1959.
He has a fluent command of
English, Polish, Hebrew and
Yiddish.
Born in Poland in 1910, he
left to join a Polish road gang.
At seventeen he joined a chal-
utz training camp and came to
Palestine in 1930. There he
worked as a laborer in planta-
tions and gained a reputation
as the hardest worker in the
area. He was elected to the man-
agement of his kibbutz and in
1933 he joined Haganah, where
he rose to the rank of com-
mander. During World War II
he served with the British
Army. He was taken prisoner
by the Germans in Greece in
1941. During the period of his
internment, from 1941 to 1945,
Almogi was the comma of-
ficer of Palestinian
sone
war in Germany n the fin
stages of the
• 1945, a
the Allies a
ced on Ger
many, Almo .lanned
ex
ecuted an •scape fo
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British an
alestini
ers and led em on a
march to s ety.
Almogi's .it to
troit .'n
behalf of H dru
en
as
arranged by
r Sch er,
honorary chairm.
De-
to
troit Histadrut Campaign and
chairman of Arlazaroff Branch
137 of the Farband, Labor Zion-
ist Order.
A large number of volunteer
workers attended the cam-
paign's first roll call meeting
last Sunday. Representatives of
divisions reported to Irving
Pokempner, chairman of the
breakfast session, that all divi-
sions were well ahead of last
year.
Guest speaker at last Sun-
day's meeting was Nahum Gut-
tman, editor of Histadrut Foto
News and public relations di-
rector of the National Commit-
tee for Labor Israel.
Increased returns over the
previous year's drive are being
reported by Mrs. Belle Glen-
ner, chairman of the Pioneer
Women's Division. The biggest
single producing group in the
campaign, as it has been for
several years, is again Arlazar-
off Branch Farband. Other
branches of Farband and LZOA
have scheduled special Hista-
drut meetings during the next
few weeks. A special attraction
has been the showing of a new
color film narrated by Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, entitled
"Golden Harvest." Arrange-
ments for the film's showing
can be made by calling the Hist-
adrut office.
`Generous Contribution' U. of D. Human Relations Center
Made to Heart Fund
Through Torch Drive Sponsors Lecture by Envoy Harman
The request, seen on all postal
trucks, that contributions be
made to the Heart Fund, does
not apply in Detroit, Mrs. Sid-
ney Karbel, Torch Drive region-
al chairman, pointed out.
"Detroit residents already
have made their contribution to
the American Heart Association
through their last Torch Drive,"
she said. "And, it was one of
the most generous made by any
community in the country."
Postal authorities said the
signs were placed on their trucks
under orders from the Post Of-
fice Department in Washington.
A government order of this kind
must be followed by all post
offices in the country, regard-
less of local conditions.
The Michigan Heart Associa-
tion, Mrs. Karbel said, is a mem-
ber of the Michigan United
Fund, which receives almost two-
thirds of its money from the De-
troit-area Torch Drive. During
the past year, Torch Drive con-
tributions resulted in $355,053
being made available for the na-
tion-wide fight of the association
against Heart Disease.
The University of Detroit
Human Relations Center will
sponsor a lecture by Israel's
Ambassador Avraham Harman,
Wednesday, Feb. 28, 8:15 p.m., in
the U. of D. Memorial Building.
An invitation has been ex-
tended to the general public to
hear Ambassador Harman's ad-
dress on the subject "The Next
Phase in Israel." Admissioh will
be free.
The Israeli Ambassador, who
was born in London, England, in
1914, completed his secondary
schooling in that city and was
graduated in law from the Uni-
versity of Oxford in 1936.
After some duties wit
South African Zionist Fe • atio
Harman settled ih Israel
1940
and joined the Jewish Agency
in official capacities.
e was
named deputy directo of the
Israel Government Pr s Office
in 1948 and in July 949 be
came Israel's first Consu enera
in Montreal.
In October 1950 ,he c
the United States as director o
the Israel Office of Information
and as counsellor to the Israel
delegation to the United Nations.
People get the most kick out
He served as a member of the
of life who do the least kicking. Jewish Agency executive until his
appointment as Israel's Ambassa-
dor to the United States in
June 1959.
Katz to Speak on
1st Michigan Jew
In commemoration of the
200th anniversary of the corn-
ing of the first Jew to Detroit,
the Jewish Historical Society of
Michigan will hold a cultural
meeting We
28,
8:30 p.m.
he Jewish Ce er.
president of
e ciety, will Speak on e
ife nd activities of Chap an
braham, a Jewish; trader ho
ettled in P oit in 17
A
o o rah ' last
1 and
a. - • er
uscript
' f
pe •
will be
h .
e meeti
s open to the
lic.
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Fink Takes
Top Foreign
News Award
HERSCHEL P. FINK
Herschel P. Fink, Jewish
News staff member, won first
prize for individual writing in
foreign affairs this week in a
national competition sponsored
by The Overseas Press Club of
America, the United States Na-
tional Student Association and
the Reader's Digest Association.
Fink, 20, an editor of the
Wayne State University Daily
Collegian, is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Irving Fink, 17147 Santa
Rosa.
The Reader's Digest will
award Fink $75 and .a scroll.
Fink's entry included four
stories from the Collegian deal-
ing with his summer trip to
Europe and behind the Iron
Curtain. One story in the entry
was printed in The Detroit Free
Press.
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