6—Friday, July 1, 1966
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Federation Urged to Erect Housing for Elderly 144 Latin Immigrants Arrive in Haifa Port
with modest incomes, it "should report as • the most desirable in
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
aboard the Jerusalem while it was
not exclude persons of lower in- view of its flexibility and low in-
to The Jewish News)
HAIFA
— The Zim liner Jeru- on the high seas, and turned over
come."
executive board of Federation.
terest rates, amortized over a 50-
salem docked here Monday night to Israeli coastal police before the
Simons stressed that low - cost year period.
Hy- Safran, Federation presi-
Safran reminded the committee after a trip from Rio de Janeiro, ship docked here. He was identified
dent, who was present at the government housing for the poor
committee meeting at the Jew-
aged should be encouraged by that such a facility should be con- bringing 144 Jewish immigrants as a man who had tried to smug-
ish Center, said he would call
Federation, even as it works out its sidered a pilot program, that "It's from Brazil, Argentina and Uru- gle himself into Israel 13 years
such a joint meeting as soon as
o•n plans for housing.
unknown ground for us in which. guay• Among the newcomers were ago. The coastal police turned him
possible, the end of July at the
Location and type of financing we must learn by doing. However, 30 young people bound for perm- over to health authorities for psy-
earliest.
also hinge upon the Federation's the problem of the aged is grow- anent settlement in k i b b u t z i m. chiatric examination and said he
The next step after the hoped- approval; however, the Simons- ing all the time. The need is here, There was also one stowa w a y, will be sent back to Rio de Janeiro.
for approval by the health and Cohen report said "we are pres- and our obligation is to serve. Israel Monweiser of Rio de Janeiro.
welfare division and executive ently inclined to the Ten Mile Road 'What's more, we've got the ability Monweiser was discover e d
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proposals to the Federation board Center as a preferable location for Maxwell Jospey, a member of
of governors soon after Labor Day. a Detroit residence." The commit- the committee, added, "I don't
A 10-page report, prepared by tee did not discuss this feature of think our community is the kind
Simons and Samuel Cohen, Feder- the report.
of community that can wait. If
ation assistant director, was dis-
It was felt that the location of
this is the need that exists, I'm
cussed by the committee as the
the building would be the de-
convinced the Detroit Jewish
culmination of months of study
termining - factor in attracting el-
community will underwrite it
and visits to apartment projects in
derly Jewish residents, that they
(the project). Montreal will learn
other cities from Montreal to should be as close as possible to
from its experience, and we'll
Cleveland and Philadelphia.
shop pin g, transportation and
learn from ours. We can do any-
Although details of determin-
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The committee voted that vari- better."
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health and welfare division and
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HARRY ABRAM:
Jewish community, to conduct a
special demographic survey of the
aged. The study, which will probe
the scope of existing problems and
needs, is expected to be ready in
resigning his chairmanship dur- several months.
The housing committee report
ing the general election cam-
paign last fall but had decided estimated that the average age of
to postpone the step until this apartment house tenants would be
in the early 70s, some 10 years
year's convention.
He explained to the convention younger than residents of the Jew
that, in his opinion, there should ish Home for the Aged.
The experience of an apart-
Beigin Quits as Chairman of Herut,
Offers to Leave Seat in Knesset
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV — Menahem Beigin,
chairman of the right-wing Herut
Party and wearer of the mantle
of the late Vladimir Jabotinsky,
resigned his post Tuesday night in
a dramatic announcement at He-
rut's annual convention, being held be a complete unification between
Herut and the Liberal Party. The
at Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv.
two groups now form a political
While the convention's president fusion - called Gahal. After such a
rejected his resignation, Beigin re- party unification, he said, it would
iterated his desire to quit the
be possible to effect a rapproche-
meat between Gahal and Rafi, the
MENAHEM BEIGIN
chairmanship, and compounded
the sensational announcement by
saying he is willing also to vacate
his seat in the Knesset (Parlia-
ment) where he has served for
many years as the principal
spokesman for Herut.
The Herut leader told the con-
vention that he had considered
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The opposition insisted that,
hereafter, the convention, instead
of its central committee, elect the
party chairman and nominate the
party's candidates for election to
the Knesset. In two test ballots,
opposed by Beigin and the con-
vention chairman, A v r a Ii a m
Shecterman, the opposition won by
votes of 253-149 and 257-97.
Aside from the inner-party fight,
the most dramatic occurrence at
the convention was the appearance
at the opening session in Jerusalem
of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol. It
was the first time that an Israel
Prime Minister had accepted an
* Kindergarten through 7th Grade
invitation to attend a convention
in Herut. On the dais with him
* Intensive Hebrew program -
were some of the Cabinet mem-
* Advanced General Studies program
bers, those belonging to Mapai,
the National Religious Party and
* Individualized instruction
the Independent Liberal Party.
Cabinet members belonging to
* Staff of 14 qualified teachers
the two other political groups in
Israel's current coalition Govern-
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ment — Ahdut Avodah and Ma-
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pam—had refused to attend the
Herut rally. Also attending were
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Aryeh L. Pincus. chairman of the
Jewish Agency executive, and
education during the course of the normal school day."
Aharon Becker, secretary-general
of Histadrut, Israel's federation of
labor. Both are members of
Mapai.
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