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Israel's Stability on Its 14th Birthday

Arts and Crafts, Food Divisions
Vie for Highest Allied Campaign
Honors and Service Group's Cup

) created. During the time a 460,000,000 pounds in 1949
broken Jew froin Hitler's infe r- to 2,150,000,000 pounds in
(Copyright, 1962, Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
no was being re-trained an d 1961. Exports rose from some
The objective observer of Is made whole again—physicall y $30,000,000 to an estimated
rael—if there is such a pundi t 'and psychologically—he nece s- $315,000,000, for a truly re-
—might well feel that the mos sarily consumed far more tha n markable increase of nearly
distinctive aspect of the Jewish he produced. Multiplied by but 1- 1,100 per cent but imports
State as it approaches its 149 h dreds of thousands of sue h • also rose and the payoff was
anniversary on May 9 is a n Jews from scores of countri es the rise in the trade gap from
atmosphere of stability bot h of oppression and persecution , a deficit of about 12 per cent
domestically and on the inter a tremendous trade deficit wa s in 1949 to one of 55 per cent
national scene.
the inevitable answer. The I S. in 1961.
The pangs of birth and th e raelis have learned to live with
The gains were by no means
first years of hectic struggl e , it.
restricted to Israel's Jews.
If
Israel's
political
life
is
for survival seem to be a thing
Whatever might be said about
of the past. While amazin J; still dominated by far too many the restrictions which Israel
parties.
government
has
been
progress continues to be re
authorities felt it necessary. to
cord on a variety of problems surprisingly stable and continu- impose on Israeli Arabs in the
the process seems to be taking ous. This too the Israelis have border areas—and this typically
Place am ng a people who hav e o learned to live with and they aroused cries of protest f r o in
settled down to a more or les s can change it whenever they Israeli keepers of the national
normal national life If som e wish .
conscience and a modification
major problems continue to re
Within the framework of of those restrictions early in
sist solution. there is at least a this formula—fix what can be 1962—Israel's Arabs shared in
calmer atmosphere. The raw.
fixed, Iyarn to love with what Israel's growth.
seething crisis - ridden society cannot be — Israel has some
The death rate of Israel's
of the early years of statehood
extraordinary records of Arabs was cut 'almost in half
has been replaced by a more achievement. On the eve of in the 14 years — from
settled pattern.
statehood in 1948, there were deaths per thousand to 71/2 per
879,000 men, women and chil- thousand. Infant mortality tum-
If the conflict between the
dren
in the state-soon-to-be- bled from 68 deaths per thou-
Orthodox and non-Orthodox sec-
born.
Last year, Israel passed sand live births to less than 48
tors of Israel society has not
been resolved, the eruptions in- the 2,000,000 mark in popula- per thousand—the lowest regis-
tered infant mortality rate
to public strife are far less tion.
frequent than they were. If the
Sustaining this record were among all Arabs in the Middle
position of Israel's Arabs re- some striking gains in life ex- East. Forty per cent of Arab
mains, darkened by the unre- pectancy, and lower rates of mothers in Israel now have
lieved hostility of Israel's Arab death and infant mortality. The their babies in hospitals — ten
neighbors and the continued life expectancy for Jewish men times the proportion of a decade
pull on Arab loyalties within in Israel in 1961 was 70.7 and ago.
It may be unfair to compare
Israel. Israel's 200,000 Arabs 73.5 for women. Only Holland,
continue to make progress along Norway and Sweden throughout living conditions for Arabs in
with the Jews, if not at as fast the world share Israel's record Israel with those in Moslem
Peter Copeland (left), chairman of the food division of the
a pace.
of a life expectancy of more countries because this is a com-
1962 Allied Jewish Campaign, and Irving Goldberg, chairman
parison of a modern welfare-
If the conflict between Is- thin 70. years for both sexes.
rt and crafts division, are both sure that
of the campaign's arts
The death rate dropped from minded society with poverty-
rael and her Arab neighbors
remains totally deadlocked, seven deaths per 1.000 in 1952 stricken feudal ones. But the
the Detroit Service Group Cup, awarded annually to the cam-
the balance of forces among to 5.7 deaths in 1960. Infant comparisons are instructive paign's leading division, will be theirs once all the returns are
those neighbors—as well as mortality fell from 43 deaths nevertheless. Arab industrial in. The Arts and Crafts Division is at 108 per cent of its 1961
the overwhelming fact of per 1.000 live births in 1952 to workers in Israel earned six
campaign achievement while the food division is at 93 per cent.
dollars per day, the average
Israel's continued existence 31 in 1960.
However, both chairmen could be wrong as the race for the cup
and growth and strength —
This record was made possi- wage, in 1961. In Egypt, striving
provides a balance, however
ble in part by an almost em- to industrialize, the average is still wide open. The services division, under the chairmanship
delicate, in which the borders barrassment of riches in doctors daily rate of pay for an indus-
of Myron D. Stein, and the mechanical trades division,"with
are nominally peaceful. One —5.225, a world record of one trial worker in 1961 was 95
Harry B. Aronow as chairman, are both at 99 per cent of their
cents.
has only. to think back afi for every 412 inhabitants.
1961 achievement. The mercantile division, Lewis H. Manning,
The annual average income
little as five years ago to ap-
After 14 years, Israel still of an Arab family in Israel
preciate the difference.
chairman,
is at 96 per cent, and the professional division, under
could not afford free secondary
If Israel remains cut off by education but it managed to in 1961 was between $1,500
the chairmanship of Dr. Abraham Becker and Milton J. Miller,
and
$1,600
—
far
above
any
the Arab wall of hate from its record a 400 per cent increase
is at 90 per cent. The real estate and building division, tradi-
comparable family income in
natural place in the Middle in the number of children at-
tionally a late finisher, under the chairmanship of Lewis S.
the
Middle
East.
East. it is far from isolated tending primary schools—from
Grossman, is at 78 per cent. Finishing strong but not eligible
Clearly, Israelis could claim
from the rest of the world. Its , 130.000 in 1948 to 600,000 in
to compete for the Service Group Cup is the junior division,
harbor at Haifa and new ones 1 961. A similar increase was with justice that its minorities
under the chairmanship of Mrs. Harold Robinson, at 99 per
building on the Mediterranean r ecorded in the number of were sharing in the benefits of cent and the Metropolitan Division, under the chairmanship of
sea symbolize Israel's maritime eachers—from 5,900 to 23,500. I srael's unique welfare society.
Nathan Rubenstein, at 80 per cent.
The Jews of Israel have much
links with Europe and to the
The base of any society—its
western world through the At- ertile land—was vastly expand- . t o celebrate on Yom Haatzmaut
lantic• ocean which its ships ply e d in the 14 years of statehood. a nd the Jewish communities of
regularly with cargo and pas- C ultivated area rose by nearly t he free world, particularly
sengers. Through its port at its 3 00 per cent. from 412,000 acres American Jewry, can justly
northern tip, Israel has forged o more than a million acres. claim a share in the advances
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of the bustling free society of
maritime links through the Red
arm output rose, in Israel
Sea to the other half of the
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and totaled 75.000 acres in
If Israel continues to wage a I 949 and 350,000 acres in 1961.
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imbalances, it can point to the c •rease was recorded in affores-
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taking in the equivalent of a voodland to 76.000.
Why is the thing so? Because in
Israel
it
is
not
easy to acquire an
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Tent titles for Inn nio- rants to Israel
Are Gone as Result of UJA Help

to acquire a larger sum of money
and to buy a home of your own.

"Ha 111ifde Ha Ezrachi" is a corn

pany that saw beforehand the neces

and the apartments are made with
good taste.
This company also cares for the
regular life of the inhabitants of
the country. In partnership with the

Jewish Agency, was set up the insti-

Nothing symbolizes more effectively the dramatic growth of
Israel since its establishment 14 years ago than the improvement
in the housing conditions for immigrants. Using funds raised by
the United Jewish Appeal, the Jewish Agency for Israel, together
with the Israel government, is continuing to construct housing
units for more than one million newcomers who have entered
since 1948. Gone are the tent cities (above) and most of the
other types of sub-standard housing that were used in the early
years.

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sity to build housing projects for
immigrants and old-timers. Even
before the setting up of the State
this company began. like public
companies of the kind, to build pri-
vate housing projects in various
parts of the country, that helped
the Israeli citizen to get Into a
home of his own, even if he does
not have at hand the full sum to pay
the price of the apartment. So there
were founded in the country. neigh-
bourhoods and housing projects of
honourable parts of the cities and
the "Ha Mifde Ha Ezrachi" that
turned, in the course of time, to
settlements. The housing projects
built by them In Jerusalem, Tel
Aviv. Haifa. Ramat Can. Nathanya,
Tiberias. etc. are beautiful projects

tute "Edud" that gives loans to
immigrants. There was also founded
a central fund that unites 300 free

loan funds that gives loans to the
needy without interest.
Israel is a country that absorbs

immigrants and "Ha Mifde Ha Ez-
rachi" that was set up by old-timers
in the country, has turned into an
instrument to help absorb this im-
migration.
Translation of Hebrew Column
published by Brith Ivrith Olamith,

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