General Strike at Israel Universities Averted; Demands Lowered to Slow Down Wage Spiral (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) TEL AVIV—Spokesmen for the academic staffs of the Hebrew Uni- versity and the Haifa Institute of Technology (Technion) announced Wednesday that the staff members were ready to forego in part their demands for an increase in basic wages. The spokesman said that stand was being taken as an example to other Israeli employees in efforts to slow down Israel's mounting wage and price spiral. Last Sun- day, the academic staffs of all Israeli institutions of higher learn- ing called off .plans for a general strike after the Israel Cabinet agreed to allocate 3,000,000 pounds ($1,000,000) so that salary arrears of the staff members could be made up by July. The institutions whose academic staffs threatened a general strike are the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, Bar-Ilan Univer- sity at Ramat Gan, Technior and the Weizmann Institute of Science at Rehovot. A proposal by the Treasury for partial payment of the claims was rejected overwhelm- ingly Sunday by the representa- tives of the five academic staffs. The Treasury had proposed to make partial payment now, of- fering the remainder of the salaries due in government bonds. The academicians employed by the government itself have been receiving back pay, but the Treasury disclaimed respon- sibility for payments due to lecturers, although the univer- sities are subsidized by the gov- ermnent. The board of governors of the Haifa Institute authorized its president, Alexander Goldberg, to appeal to Premier Levi Eshkol for aid. Technion administrative board members told an emergency meet- ing of the Technion Senate Sun- day that they would be unable to continue their work unless the government provided enough fi- nancial help to see the Technion through the current crisis, and to plan for several years ahead. Goldberg told the senate that, because of the financial diffi- * Histadrut, Manufacturers Agree on Cost-of-Living Allowance Raise in Israel (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) TEL AVIV—Histadrut, Israel's labor federation, and the Israeli Manufacturers Association signed an agreement Wednesday for pay- mentof an increase in the cost of living allowance of 9.3 per cent of basic pay scales up to '700 pounds ($233), retroactive to Jan. 16. The maximum increase will be 65 pounds ($22) a month. Both the Histadrut and the association expressed reservations about the increase which were in- corporated in the agreement. The employes expressed opposition to paying cost-of-living-allowance in- creases more than once a year and noted that the January increase should be taken into account when new wage pacts are negotiated. The Histadrut reserved the right to insist on twice-a-year calcula- tions of the cost-of-living allow- ances. Both sides agreed that two com- munities should be formed, one to frame a new collective allow- ance payment contract and a second to examine the entire cost-of-living allowance structure. "East Europe may now be en- formity with the desires of the tering the last decade of its un- East Europeans and the hopes of natural divorce from the rest of their friends in the West." John Richardson Jr., president culties, it was impossible to do Europe," according to Z. Brzezin- ski, professor of government and of Free Europe, Inc., in his intro- any advance planning. Goldberg said that the Technion director of the Research Institute duction to the report, stated that needed a budget of 39,000,000 on Communist Affairs at Colum- Radio Free Europe now has 22,- 000,000 listeners in Poland, Cze- pounds ($13,000,000) a year, but bia University. Prof. Brzezinski's statement was choslovakia, Hungary,' Romania was assured of only 26,000,000 pounds ($8,666,000) annually from made in an article, "East Europe and Bulgaria. This is at least 2,- —On the Way to Freedom," writ- 000,000 more listeners than in all possible sources. Two hundred stevedores walked ten for A Free Europe, Inc., 1964, and includes half the adult out on strike at the new port of 1965 report entitled "The Job population of this area. Ashdod Sunday, insisting that a Ahead." number of special payments be in- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS "This area as a whole is still cluded in their new contract. The subject to Soviet - predominance, Friday, February 11, 1966.-31 old contract had expired last Fri- and the East European regimes day. The strikers are the same remain essentially authoritarian," SUPERB FULL-COURSE men who had staged a slow-down Prof. Brzezinski stated. "The im- in loadings at Ashdod last month. portant :point, however, is that The Citrus Marketing Board im- East Europe is moving forward PRIVATE MEETING ROOM mediately ordered a halt to the and the over-all direction—even if COMPLETE FACILITIES FOR PARTIES, BANQUETS, STAGS — SPECIAL RATES shipment of all fruits for loading not the pace of change—is in con- at Ashdod until the situation was clarified. Four ships that were being loaded Friday were com- STEAMER, SAM ROSENBLAT pelled to sail with only partial STEAM BATE AND HEALTH CLUB Master of Ceremonies cargoes, due to the slow-down and STEAM ROOM • MASSAGES And His strike. SLUMBER LOUNGE • SUN ROOM Dance and Entertainment It was feared that the Israel EXERCISE ROOM • RECREATION Band LOUNGE with RESTAURANT Port Authority would have to Arrangement Specialist Party shut down the port because of COOLIDGE HWY. at CAPITAL OAK PARK KE 8.1291 UN 4.0237 the incessant strikes and slow- (bet. 8 and 9 Mile) Phone 544-3611 downs. The authority also has indicated r'4,4 1:41;4 1;.4;111, 11;4 1,14•;41; ■ ;41%; ■ ;41, „t;411' ■ ;4.2..-.$;,±; fiX411;64 ► ,- 6'4 1,-6.4 Ice:4 ► 16;4 1.;±:4 1 ■ 21:412.2 1.;±:4 12.:4 126;4 V. t::74 P7.1 v. v 1 tTIPTIP7.1 r^I r.:57.1 ■ TIP.7.47.1r^i resistance to demands by the stevedores for the same or even lower work norms at the new port, which is ultra modern - in equip- ment, as they have at the techni- cally backward Haifa port. Previously, it had been reported that the authority was considering diversion of all ships from Ashdod to Haifa, which would in effect close down the port unless a bind- ing agreement for labor peace was reached with the stevedores. Former Gen. Chaim Laskov, chairman of the authority, was un- • derstood to be determined to • demand an "uncompromising atti- tude" toward the tactics of the stevedores. 5 STEAK DINNERS _ Are You Looking For Something Different For Your Special Occasion ? 5 WE FEATURE THE FINEST • • PROFESSIONAL ENTERTAINMENT 5 5 • WITH PERSONALIZED SERVICE 5 SEYMOUR SCHWARTZ AGENCY 5 1799 Coolidge, Berkley, Mich. Alcalay's Hebrew-English Dictionary Illustrates Terms With Classic Quotations, Has 12,000 Words Prayer Book Press (410 Ady- lum St., Hartford), which already has to its credit the publication of "The Complete English-Hebrew Dictionary," compiled by Reuben Alcalay, chief of the translation department of the Israel Prime Minister's office, has just issued the complementary volume, "The Complete Hebrew-English Diction- ary." The appearance of the new volume completes a great task and calls attention to a great literary occurrence in American Jewish life: the sponsorship by an Ameri- can Jewish publishing house of the printing of a great encyclopedic work that enriches Hebraic studies. Alcalay's approach, the method of his gathering for incorporation in the new dictionary of "thou- sands of Hebrew 'technical terms' that are lacking in the best • Hebrew dictionaries so far avail- able," gives the new dictionary highest status. The eminent compiler of such terms explains one aspect of his efforts as follows in a preface to the Hebrew-English dictionary: "The challenge of the need to find or coin Hebrew equivalents by innumerable English com- pounds, or compound-forming pre- fixes and suffixes, has led to a considerable enrichment of the Hebrew vocabulary, e.g.: phobia- `b'et anush, ‘b'et, anthrophobia and pyrophobia—`b'et esh'; -ate, -form — `dmui,' spatulate — `dmui- `dmui-gib'ul'. marit,' stupiform Such words and compounds, run- ning into the thousands, are not to be found in any other Hebrew dictionary." As in the Alcalay English- Hebrew Dictionary, the compiler traces many words to biblical sources. For instance, on the very first page, in the Aleph section, developing the words stemming from Ab—father—and Abot — fathers — he illustrates with the complete quotation of "ben khakham yesamakh ab"— "a wise son makes a glad father" from Proverbs 10,1; and "abot akhlu bohser v'shinei banim tikhenah"—"the fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge" from Jeremiah 31, 28. These approaches are multiplied many hundred fold. They offer an enrichment in choice of words and they are, in a sense, like a biblical concordance, guiding stu- dents in search of the origin of words to their proper sources. Thus, the colorful Hebraic idioms, the many words that have come down from Aramaic and other roots for Hebrew words, phrases, word formations, find their explanatory listings in the Alcalay collection. An interesting sample of the Alcalay translations is his treat- ment of the word "bayit" — house, home, its suffixes, pre- fixes and word developments. Adding to the several listed phrases "ashrei yoshvei bei- takho," he gives a popular trans- lation, "no place like home." It is not a translation, but it_ is an appropriate explanation. In an interesting and scholarly preface, Alcalay states that "where words admit of more than one connotation, currency rather than chronology has determined t h e order in which the meanings are shown." He offers this interesting comment on his work: "Unlike many authors of He- brew-foreign language dictionaries, I have endeavored to give equiv- alents rather than explanatory defi- nitions, and I do not have to dilate on the importance of equivalents for writers and translators. More- over, I have freely furnished syn- onyms, which may well help users to augment their vocabularies and variegate their speech and writing. Quotations from the Bible and other ancient Hebrew sources are frequently given at length, the more amply to convey semantic, literary and aesthetic significance to the reader. "In the English biblical quota- tions, I have chosen to replace the E. Europe Moving Ahead to Freedom, Reports Say archaic forms hath, thou, wilt, and so forth, time-honored though they are, by the more prosaic has, you and will. Bible phrases that I suspect of clumsy and inexact rendering have been slightly amended, but no undue liberties are taken. Most of the quotations come from the generally acclaimed translation of the Old Testament published by the Jewish Publica- tion Society of America and from its New Translation of the Torah which recently appeared; a few come, or are adapted, from the Authorized Version." To further illustrate Alcalay's resort to traditional sources are the illustrative quotations for "marbeh" — to increase, mean- ing also abundance, plenty. He quotes: "Marbeh basar—marbeh rimah," "The more flesh the more worms;" "marbeh yeshi- vah — marbeh khakhmah," "the more schooling the more wis- dom;" "marbeh nekhasim—mar- beh d'agah," "the more posses- sions the more care;" (it would have been better to substitute "worry" for "care") ; "marbeh eitzah marbeh t'yukah," the more counsel the more under- standing"—all from the talmudic Aboth. As in his English-Hebrew Dic- tionary, Alcalay has included more than 120,000 words in the 2,883- page Hebrew-English Dictionary. Durably bound, compiled with cau- tion to avoid errors, the dictionary is well prepared, excellently printed — as a tribute to Prayer Book Press—and serves as a chal- lenge to teachers and students who will be fascinated by the methods used by the able scholar. Alcalay previously served as translator-in-chief of the British Mandatory Government in Pales- tine before heading the Israel Prime Minister's translations de- partment. He began work on his dictionaries in 1953 and was as- sisted in his work by a collection of 20,000 words that were gathered by the Hebrew Language Academy. Call 356-8525 Licensed and Franchised by Am. Fed. of Musicians A.G.V.A. and the State of Michigan ■ 41116;4 1'.4;4 X4 I1X4 112.;411:t7411.:•;411:S.4 4 144 irrZi .714 trZi ■ ■ ■ 11 ;4 :•;4 11:64 112.:4 114;4 11: ;4 I,a;4 1.2.;4 ► 4.2.34 b;t2 r7:!1,7•74 r7:7107.7.4.7.4 4:74 .7.4...74 if: 74 SAM KOPPELMAN SAYS: WE HAD ONE THOUSAND CALLS FOR SERVICE IN ONLY TEN COLD DAYS ! WERE YOU ONE OF THEM? A GOOD TUNE-UP AND WINTERIZING WOULD HAVE CUT THIS BY 50% ! ALIGN BRAKE RE-LINE TUNE-UP WHEELS $6" $" $ Most American Cars—Plus Ports 8 " DON'T FUSS — DON'T CUSS — CALL US 1 Mile-Lauder 1 Mile-Mendola UN. 2-9558 DEALER IN fMEtl PROCVC811 342-9777 FREE PICK-UP and DELIVERY