U. of M. Professor Helping Bring Instructional TV to Israel
A University of Michigan speech
professor soon will be helping Is-
rael set up its first classroom tele-
vision programs.
Prof. Edward Stasheff, a leading
authority on school television, has
been named director of produc-
tion for Israel's new Instructional
Television Trust's Studio Center
near Tel Aviv University. He will
take over the post in May.
First broadcasts are scheduled
to start late this year or in January
1966. Up now there has been vir-
tually no television in Israel.
In his capacity as production
director, Stasheff will spend at
least a year training studio teach-
ers iii the techniques of televi-
sion teaching and instructing all
production people, from pro-
ducers to floor managers.
First lessons to be taught will be
Alarmed Jews Call
Special Session of
Argentina's DAIA
mathematics, science and English.
Next Friday, Stasheff flies to Is-
rael for two-week preliminary dis-
cussions with teachers who have
been selected to teach on the air
and with prospective producers and
directors and to set up the train-
ing course.
Stasheff reports that while there
has been no television in Israel
until now, there are some 10,000
TV receivers in the country. The
only programs are beamed from
Damascus and Beirut, and, oc-
casionally, Cairo.
"As a result, the children in
the schools of the test area to
which we shall be broadcasting
(Ramie, Lod, the Jerusalem Cor-
ridor and the Northern Negev) are
from a middle socio-economic
level, and are not likely to have
been exposed to TV before," he
said.
"This factor makes my assign-
ment particularly exciting, since
I shall have the chance to help
start a TV service that will be '
strictly instructional, for school
children who will have no pre-
conceived notion of what tele-
vision is like."
Mrs. Stasheff will accompany her
husband to Tel Aviv in May, and
their daughter, Sheridan, a teach-
er at the Indiana School for the
Deaf, will join them in June.
Miss Stasheff, a University of
Michigan and Gallaudet College
graduate, expects to be assigned
to a school or clinic near Tel Aviv.
She decided to make the trip in
response to a reported need for
trained teachers of the deaf in Is-
rael.
The pilot instructional television
scheme is being financed by the
Edmond and James de Rothschild
Memorial G r o u p. British and
American television experts offered
technical guidance in the building
of the studio center, scheduled for
completion by October.
Equiplpent from Britain and
France is being assembled and
there will be a staff of some 60
persons during the first two to
three years. The Instructional
Television Trust plans to bow out
when the pilot scheme is in opera-
tion, and the government will take
over.
Training is scheduled to begin
at temporary studios in Herzliyah
in March.
A J Congress Seeking
N.Y. 'Fair Sabbath Law'
ALBANY, N.Y. (JTA)—A 300-
member delegation of the Ameri-
can Jewish Cohgress urged Gov.
Rockefeller and leaders of the New
York State Legislature to enact
a statewide "Fair Sabbath" law to
exempt persons observing as their
Sabbath a day other than Sunday
from the state ban on conducting
business on Sunday.
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BUENOS AIRES — The DAIA,
central body of Argentine Jewry,
called an extraordinary session
Wednesday because of recent anti-
Semitic attacks and decided to
warn public opinion that the at-
tacks could spread out in chaos
0 which might become uncontroll-
able.
The organization also decided
to notify authorities of the "pro-
found uneasiness" among Jews be-
cause of the immunity from arrest
and prosecution which was appar-
ently enjoyed by terrorist bands.
The DAIA prepared to pose to
national authorities, the political
parties and the people of Argen-
tina generally the issue of how
long the nation was prepared to
accept the presence and activities
of Nazi groups in Argentina as
inevitable.
B-G Insists He'll Publish
His Book on Lavon Affair
JERUSALEM ( J T A )—Former
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
reiterated his plans to publish a
book on the Lavon Affair "after
military censorship clearance. -
Ben-Gurion made known his in-
tentions after the deputy director
general of the defense ministry
sent a letter to Haggai Eshed, the
Israeli journalist who compiled the
book for the former premier,
warning him ikgainst publication of
the work on the grounds that the
book was commissioned by Ben-
Gurion when the latter was de-
- tense minister and therefore the
copyright belonged to the govern-
- ment.
Soviet Cuort Sentences
3 to Death for Killings
LONDON (JTA)—A Soviet court
Smolensk has imposed death
sentences on three Soviet citizens
found guilty of killing numerous
Jews and collaborating with the
Nazis during the occupation of the
Russian city in the Second World
War, it was reported from Moscow.
Two other defendants were given
15-year prison terms.
Public interest during the trial
was so great that the proceedings
in
had to be held in a local theater
so-that more spectators could be
admitted. The name of one of the
prosecutors was given as Isaac
Schpilberg, obviously a Jew.
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