Studies in Israel, Assisted by the U.S., Focus on Accidents and Skin Diseases JERUSALEM - The incidence of injuries caused by accidents at work in Israel is about twice as high as that in the United States and Great Britain. This was revealed recently in a survey by an Israeli team, headed by Dr. Kalman J. Manm, director- general of the Hadassah Medical Organization. The survey shows that the highest injury rate in Israel is in industry; the lowest is in agriculture. By contrast, the United States National Health Survey indicates that the reverse is true in America. The survey team believes that this may be due to the fact that the Israeli is more accustomed to agricultural pursuits than he is to industrial activity. Working with Dr. Mann are Dr. J. H. Abramson of the Hadassah Medical Organization and two statisticians of Israel's National Insurance Institute. In their study, they have analyzed the relationship between work injuries and the age, sex, sea- son, employment status and economic levels of the workers employed. \ Levin's 'Stronghold' Named Best Jewish Novel in English NEW YORK - Meyer Levin's novel, "The Stronghold" (Simon and Schuster) has been named the outstanding English-language work of fiction of Jewish interest published in the United States dur- ing 1965. Dr. Gilbert Klaperman, presi- dent of the National Jewish Wel- fare Board Jewish Book Council of America, announced that Levin will receive the $400 Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Award at the Jewish Book Council's annual meeting June 1 in Temple Emanu- El's House in New York. Six other prizes totaling $2,550 for 1965's best Jewish books in Jewish thought, the Nazi Holocaust, Yid- dish, Hebrew and English poetry and in the juvenile field will also be awarded at the annaul meeting. The $500 Leon Jolson Award for the best book on the Nazi Holocaust will go to Zosa Szaj- kowski for his "Analytical Franco-Jewish Gazeteer, 1939- 45." Rabbi David Polish will re- ceive the Frank and Ethel S. Cohen Award of $400 for the best book on Jewish thought as the author of "The Higher Free- dom, A New Turning Point in Jewish History" (Quadrangle Press, Chicago). The $400 Isaac Siegel Memorial juvenile Award has been voted to petty Schechter for "The Dreyfus ,Affair" (Houghton, Mifflin, Bos- ton). The Harry and Florence Kov- ner Memorial Awards of $250 each for volumes of poetry will go to Ruth Finer Mintz in English poetry for "The Darkening Green" (Big Mountain Press, Denver); Dr. Simon Halkin in Hebrew poetry for "Crossing the Jabbok" (Am Oved, Tel Aviv); and to Kadia Molodowsky in Yiddish poetry for "Licht fun Dorenboim" (Kiyum, Buenos Aires). - Kaiser Appeal Dismissed by Israel High Court (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) JERUSALEM - Supreme Court Justice Witkon Tuesday dismissed an appeal by Kaiser Engineering Co. against a decision by the Beer- sheba District Court permitting the Dead Sea Works Ltd. to con- fiscate the American firm's equip- ment at the site of a project for the Construction of phosphate evapora- tion dikes at Sdom. Kaiser had notified the Dead Sea Works that it could not fulfill a construction contract because the specifications were impossible to achieve. A spokesman for the Dead Sea Works said that plans were now being made to continue the Work started by Kaiser. In the study - supported by the Vocational Rehabilitation Admin- istration of the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare - the team found that the injury rate is much higher among people under 40 years of age than among older people, although the latter suffer more serious injuries. This may be due to the fact that older people have safer jobs are more careful in their work. At the same time, it was learned, Israeli men are injured more often than the women; this might be explained by the difference in their occupations alba working hours. Studies in other countries have yielded similar findings even when both sexes are engaged in the same occupations. On the other hand, when Israeli women are injured they tend to stay away from work for longer periods than men. According to the survey, the rate of accidents is highest dur- ing the hot months and in the hot, humid parts of Israel. There are more accidents during this period in Tel Aviv than in Jerusalem, where there is low humidity in the summer. Climat- ic conditions also similarly af- fect the accident rate in the United States. Accidents occur more frequently among employes than among the self-employed. It was found, how- ever, that when the self-employed file for compensation, their claims cover injuries that are more serious than those reported by employes. The team noted an appreciable drop in the accident rate with the institution of safety committees in the factories. The team called for improved ventilation and the in- stallation of air conditioning and other means of combating climatic problems in industrial establish- ments. , * * * The Hadassah-Hebrew Univer- sity Medical Center is one of the few hospitals in the world with an outpatient Department of Psychosomatic Dermatology to treat those who suffer from skin diseases caused or intensified by emotional disturbance. Because so many of Israel's people have come through the living dealth of concentration - and prisoner-of-war camps skin ailments of this kind are prev- alent. This in turn provides a unique human laboratory for comprehensive research and is expected to yield information unavailable till now for research into similar problems in other countries where there are victims of such man-made disasters as national upheavals and air bombardments. A grant from the U. S. Depart- Welfare State Replacing Cod in Lives of Many, Claims Dr. Will Herberg MINNEAPOLIS - While the role of the welfare state is ex- panding in the lives of the people, God and religion have become more and more marginal, religious sociologist Dr. Will Herberg said at the annual convocation of Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary. Dr. Herberg said people in trouble now turn to big govern- ment for help, whereas in the past they turned to the church. Dr. Herberg is a graduate professor of philosophy and culture at Drew University. Dr. Herberg added that as a result of rapid advances in tech- nology, man sees himself as re- placing God. He said the church should show genuine concern for persons and for the quality of personal life, concerning itself with human beings rather than with big, impersonal causes and move- ments. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, May 27, 1966-5 ment of Health, Education and Welfare Vocational Rehabilitation Administration to Hadassah's de- partment of dermatology, headed by Prof. Felix Sagher, will be used for a research study of the rehabilitation of patients suffering from these psychosomatic skin ail- ments. Dr. Jacob Shanon, head of the outpatient department of psychosomatic dermatology, has been appointed chief investigator. * * * The U. S. Public Health Service's Heart Disease Control Program has just issued a five-year research grant to Prof. Michael Davies, head of the department of medical ecology in the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School. Research is to be directed at the prevention of first attacks of rheumatic fever in school chil- dren via health surveillance and prompt detection and treatment of streptococcal infections. Five thousand Jerusalem school children will be examined and ob- served. Cooperating closely in this Rtudy will be the municipal health services, the district health office of the ministry of health and pediatricians a n d cardiologists from Jerusalem's medical agencies. * * * Scientists from Harvard Univer- sity and the Hebrew University- Hadassah Medical School are col- laborating in a food and nutrition research and teaching program. Dr. Fredrick J. Stare, chairman of Harvard's department of nutri- tion, said some of the special areas of investigation will include nutri- tive properties of desert plants; anemias related to dietary lacks; and factors in childhood over- weight. Milton Shapp Runs for Pa. Governor PHILADELPHIA (JTA)-Milton Shapp, a Jewish communal leader and well-known businessman, won the Democratic nomination for Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania. He won over State Senator Robert Casey who was favored by most Demo- cratic Party leaders. 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