The Human Element ...The Water Problem.
And Israel's Era of Increasing Challenges
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
contend with. Many of the Israel that the moment the ment served the health needs Mrs. Isadore Breslau, Washing-
DIMONA, Israel—The major people who come here have a Jewish State undertakes to di- of schools and various centers ton; the Benjamin F. Saltzsteins
problem facing Israel becomes low standard of living, due to vert the waters of the Jordan, in the land established by social of Milwaukee; the Irvinc , Shay-
the conditions under which war will be launched to stop it. service movements.
itzes of Teaneck, N.J., and
apparent here more than in the they were humiliated in the Israel's present scheme is to
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many others of distinction.
larger cities. Dimona exempli- lands whence they fled. They take the water, by means of an UJA Leaders Pledge
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fies the new life in this pioneer- must compete with the higher underground passage, from the Unstinting Israel Aid
Every
room
in the major ho-
i
standards
of
the
older
settlers.
Lake
of
Galilee—also
known
as
ing land. This commmunity,
HERZLIA, Israel. — Winding tels in Israel now is provided
There is a conflict here that Lake Tiberias and Lake Kineret
whose beginnings this corres - I ! has
to be adjusted.
—and assurances have been up a two-week study tour of Is- with a set of the Jewish Pub-
pondent witnessed five years
rael, 150 American Jewish lead- lication Society's Holy Scrip-
Israel is growing rapidly—as given by Baruch Wenderoff, ers pledged unstinted support tures, in Hebrew and in Eng-
ago in the embryo stage, when I Dimona demonstrates. But the chief engineer of Mekoroth, Is-
there were only half a dozen I means are meager. UJA funds rael's Water Planning Author- to the major fund-raising ac- lish. It is a gift of Maxwell and
tivity in the U. S.
Fannie E. Al3bell and has been
huts in a totally deserted vii- [have not increased, and the ity, that the diversion of the
Moved to action by the in- distributed by the Zionist Or-
lage; which developed into a need is many times greater to- Galilean seawaters will in no
ganization of America. It
thriving community of 4,500 day
than it has been for many sense diminish the water sup- creasing needs for aid to large proves helpful to many tourists
'
numbers
of
newcomers
from
ply
of
the
Arab
nations.
three years ago and is today a years. Whence cometh help?
man y lands , the American rep- I who wish to trace their steps
municipality of 13,500, is one Only the confidence of the Is-
Six years ago, Eric Johnson,
resentatives are leaving Israel Biblically - and to refer to the
•
,
p
of the spots where large num- raelis keeps them moving ahead the Amer•
to mobilize forces historic references to the trips
proposed a joint water develop- , determined
bers of newcomers are being —and what they do.
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ment project in which Israel in the communities they repre- they have taken to Israel.
settled.
was to share in the planning sent for funds that are so
They come from 62 countries, Water-Harnessing
of water utilization with the vitally needed to assure the in- Hebrew Corner
speak a score of languages and
Arab nations. The plan was re- tegration of, * the * immigrants.
dialects, yet are being rapidly Is Answer in Negev
*
jected by the Arabs. Under
Rabbi I. A.
integrated into the country's
ROSH PINAH, Israel.—From that plan, Wenderoff states,
Many
distinguished
Ameri-
economy and are being trained this area, within about a year,
Halevi
Herzog
to become part of its cultural water will begin to flow from more water would have been an Jewish leaders shared in
In 1914 a young genius, who was
diverted
by
Israel
from
the
the
responsibilities
of
the
1962
life.
only 24 years of age, received a
the farthest north of the coun- Jordan than under the scheme UJA Study Mission. The 14 De- doctor's
degree from the University
But the transformation is try down to the heart of the now promulgated. The Arabs, troiters already _have been men- of
London. He was already a grad-
slow. It's not easy to link Negev . When that takes place, he concludes, will therefore not tioned. Included among them uate of the Sorbonne in Paris.
His knowledge in the various sci-
Polish refugees with those one of the gigantic water har- be the losers by Israel's devel- were Charles Gershenson, who ences,
languages, philosophy, law,
from Morocco and Algeria, to nessing schemes in the world opment project.
mathematics, he acquired after he
will
head
the
next
Allied
Jew-
already had a fluent knowledge of
create a fraternity of men who will have been achieved and a
the Talmud and all subjects of
When the water project is ish Campaign; Israel Davidson, Judaism.
speak either Yiddish or French • major part of Israel's irriga-
completed,
it will be one of pioneer Zionist; Mrs. Max In the year 1937, this genius, Rabbi
but not both, who may be from tion problems will have been
Israel's greatest achievements Fisher, who will head the Wom- Isaac A. Helevi Herzog was elected
Persia (Iran) and must have a solVed.
Chief Rabbi of Eretz Israel, after
and will mark a turning point en's Division in the next drive, the had
Persian to translate for them
served for several years as
It is for water that tribes in Middle East economic de- and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Holtz- he
Chief Rabbi of the Jewry of Ireland,
and to teach them the Hebrew
man.
and fought for the rights of the Jews,
tongue that must eventually have fought in the parched velopment.
organized his community with its
areas of the world for cen-
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The national leaders heading and
unite all of them.
educational and religious life. In that
turies. It is for water that
period Rabbi Herzog became known
the
mission,
Rabbi
Herbert
a great genius, with a broad
The problem is one of people. bedouins search and those who A Detroiter in a Vital
Friedman and Joseph Meyer- as
knowledge of all subjects of Torah
It is an internal human prob- settle down anywhere seek to Role at Hadassah Hospital
hot
never
tired
and
were
at
and science, a man with an excep-
km that is, in a sense, even assure for themselves.
JERUSALEM—Hadassah has work 16 hours a day planning tional memory; and mainly for the
distinguished trait of a leader and
more serious than that of se-
learned that it pays to adver- the activities.
spiritual guide.
While there has been a lot of tise. Finding itself in need of a
curity.
the time that he served
Edward Warburg and Dewey as During
Chief Rabbi in Eretz Israel, the
You see 280 people arrive talk about oil being the cause pharmaceutical director, it ad- Stone
were
in
the
Mission.
The
Jews
struggled
for their right of
of
Israel's
difficulties
with
its
vertised
in
professional
periodi-
from six different lands, speak-
to Eretz Israel and for
memberS included such noted immigration
ing several languages. Among neighbors, it is water that cals. As a result, Edward Su- personalities
political freedom. Rabbi Herzog
as Isaac Taylor of played an important role in this
really is the root of the major perstine, who was a special in- Baltimore, who
them are more than 100 chil- i.ssue
established the struggle, and he appeared honorably
dren. You rejoice: a wonderful issue. What this part of the structor in the h l of ph
before foreign nations and their
Jewish
Communit
y Cent er bear- leaders.
element is coming into Israel; world is especially in need of macy at Wayne State Uver-
m
ing his name in Kiryat
After the destruction of European
the children are vital; they'll is water. The Middle East is city, now is director of phar- I Sam Rotheberg, prominen Yovel, Jewry,
Rabbi Herzog made a "rescue
icat- m aceutical services at the lanta leader; Saul Ron, t
into Israel speedily parch ed, an d Israel
crusade" among the remaining fugi-
se
ing
it
at-
s
t-
ma
j
or
t
a
talents
ts
and
it
is
deds
re-
tives,
encouraged
and consoled the
and will become its most whole-
Hadassah Hospital.
terson, N. J., 1 e a d e r ; Moses rescued, and saved orphans from
g the problem.
some factor. Yet, when the sit- sources to solving
foreign
hands.
He
the spiritual
Superstine, who now lives Katz , of Denver; Mr. and Mrs. leader of the Jews was
the world over,
b 'c,' by means here with his wife and three Robert Feinberg,
uation is examined, there is an- It ,:, ' solved,
of Omaha; Mr. and the man who made
decisions in
other aspect to the issue: it is of a vast pumping system, to children, is the son of Mr. and and Mrs. David Litvin, and Mr. halachi, in response to great rabbis
who
turned
to
him
from
all
countries
that of the home upbringing of be completed in 1964, to make Mrs. Claud S. Superstine, 23531 and Mrs. Morris M. Messins, of the world.
Translation of Hebrew Corner
the youth. The school, and it possible for 180,000,000 cubic Marlowe, Oak Park. Under his Newark, N.J., leaders; Rabbi and
Published by Brith Ivrith Ilamith.
eventually the army, will train meters of water to flow from direction, 250,000 orders a year
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them well, but in the meantime ' the Sea of Galilee to the Negev. are being filled and 800 patients
there is a home atmosphere to The Arabs have threatened are cared for daily. His depart-
South African Reprisals Promised
For Israel's UN Stand on Apartheid
(Continued from Page 1)
position of South African Jewry
which had given much support
to Israel. The article added that
South African Jews "must now
decide .where they stand — with
South Africa or Israel. It is not
South Africa which forces Jews
to make that choice — it is
Israel!!
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UNITED NATIONS — Is-
real was clearly on record
here Wednesday as opposing
some of the harsher terms in
a resolution calling upon the
security council to consider
possible expulsion of South
Africa if that country does
not alter its racist policies
of apartheid.
Israel is also opposed to an-
ther clause in that resolution
calling for a break of diplomat-
ic relations with South Africa
and for the interruption of trade
with that country.
Israel voted for the resolution
as a whole in a plenary session
of the Assembly on Tuesday,
but only after the body had
turned down efforts to ballot
on separate clauses in the draft
including those opposed by Is-
rael. Ambassador A b r a h a In
Aron, Israel's representative in
the Assembly's special political
committee, which had previous-
ly passed the identical resolu-
tion adopted by the Assembly,
had told that group prior to the
voting that Israel was convinced matic relations. Dar o m had
that some of the clauses "go stated, "each government i s
beyond what the assembly could obliged to exercise its own best
properly a s k o f sovereign judgment and then to account
states." to its parliament and its peo-
Concerning the article calling ple for its action."
for banning trade and diplo-
Concerning the article re•
questing the Security Coun-
cil to consider South African
expulsion from UN member-
ship, Israel declared it "does
not consider that such a step
would be conducive to the
result which it sought. On the
contrary, if South Africa
(Continued from Page 1)
ceased to be a member of this
its own citizens, Jewish or Arab. organization t h e possibility
But is it really hard for him to o f influencing i t s policies
imagine that in a State which is would be greatly diminished
90 per cent Jewish in the compo- and such action would there-
sition of the people, which has fore be self-defeating."
profound ties of brotherhood,
history and religion with Jews After his government's objec-
elsewhere, which has welcomed tion to some of the clauses,
to its shores htmdreds of thou- Darom had declared, "My dele-
vote for the resolu-
sands of the survivors of Nazi gation
Germany — we should feel un- tion as a. whole even if it con-
involved and undisturbed with tained the particular p a r a-
our fellow Jews elsewhere which graphs on the formulation of
are threatened with or suffer which I have expressed certain
reservations. We would do so
discrimination?"
"He might as well demand because we are mindful above
that the representative of an everything of the need for the
African state should turn his UN to take a clear and strong
back on the situation of Africans stand on any matter which con-
elsewhere. I would have thought cerns policies of racial discrim-
that the moral right and duty of ination."
the State of Israel to come here
In the final voting on the
and expres sour concern in this entire resolution, Israel joined
debate would not have been chal- 66 other members in voting
lenged — not even by those who "yes" while 16 voted against
are hostile to us."
and 23 abstained.
UN Takes Steps
for International
Outlaw of Bias
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