14—August 5, 1966
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Harold Margolis to Wed Nixon Visits Israel, Talks with Eshkol, Ben-Gurion
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Richard to Pakistan and Viet Nam before
Natural Hero for 1st Israel 'Western' Dora Treitman in June Nixon, former United States Vice- returning home.
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)
Abraham Shapiro; who lived to
become a legend in his own day,
died recently at the ripe age of 95.
Some day they will make an
Israeli "Western" of which he will
be the hero.
He was among those who in the
80's, weary of pogroms, left
Europe to return to the land of
their forefathers to-•esume where
Bar. Kochba and Rabbi Akiba had
left off.
They knew nothing of farming.
The country had little water and
a lot of malaria, but they took out
their Bibles and read the verse
"And he will turn the Valley of
Affliction into a Door of Hope."
They called the name of the
new settlement The Door of
- Hope or, in Hebrew, Petach Tik-
vah.
Abraham Shapiro became a kind
of symbol of the Jewish settle-
ment. They were always showing
his picture astride a horse.
In the beginning of a new
country, you need horses. Auto-
mobiles won't do. Would any Long-
fellow write about the Midnight
Automobile Ride of Paul Revere?
The men who opened the
American West were horsemen.
An automobile needs good roads,
spare parts, technological de-
velopment. A horse is a much
more efficient machine. It can
travel on almost any road and
all it needs is a little oats and
you can pat it and make it love
you. It is grateful. One can
say that about few automobiles.
The Arabs, too, liked horses. I
remember, some 30 years ago, a
Jewish farmer was telling me of
a visit of an Arab acquaintance.
The Arab told the Jewish farmer
he had stolen a horse. "But don't
worry," he assured the Jewish
farmer, "it was far from here,
they won't get me."
Why had he stolen the horse?
It was to get a wife. Wives were
not courted. You had to buy them
from the father like a suit of
clothes, and he needed the horse
to get a pretty Arab girl for his
wife.
The Arabs would sometime steal
the Jews' horses. Abraham Sha-
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longevity. He didn't know. He
ate simply, he said. Always
smoked a pipe. Liked to take a
glass of cognac in the morning
and another in the evening. If
there was company, he might
take a third glass.
Weizmann was very fond of him.
When Lord Balfour came to Pal-
estine, Weizmann took Shapiro
along. Balfour asked him where
the Jewish settlements were. He
answered: You could tell by the
trees. If there were trees, it is a
Jewish settlement. The Arabs
called the eucalyptus tree, which
the Jews had introduced, the Jew
Tree. The Jews found the roots
of the tree conserved the rain
water and also helped bring shade.
When the Jews returned to
Zion, the trees began also return-
ing.
51 Families to Make
Homes in Israel
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Some
133 Americans and Canadians sail-
ed from here aboard the S. S.
Shalom. The group, which is com-
posed of 51 family units. includes
college professors, students, re-
tirees, skilled workers, profession-
als, pioneers and middle-class
businessmen..
Their immigration to Israel is
the culmination of months of effort
by The Israel Aliyah Center and
tis affiliates in Chicago Cleveland,
Atlanta, Los Angeles, Montreal and
Toronto. When the group arrives
in Israel they will be assisted in
finding employment and housing
by the Jewish Agency for Israel.
This group of 133 Americans and
Canadians is the second largest to
leave for Israel in recent weeks.
On June 30, more than 100 indi-
viduals sailed for Israel, also
aboard the Shalom. The latter
group included 16 teachers for Is-
rael's educational system. A third
group is scheduled to depart later
this month.
Myer Hart, a pioneer Jewish
merchant in the American colonies,
was a founder of the city of East-,
on, Pennsylvania, in the early
part of the eighteenth century.-
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President and a leading figure in
the Republican Party, arrived in
Israel for a 16-hour visit during
which he will meet with Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol, former Pre-
mier David Ben-Gurion and other
Israeli leaders.
In a statement on his arrival
at Lydda Airport, Nixon expressed
"deep regret" for the briefness of
his visit and said that he hoped
to be back soon.
He stressed that his visit had
no political motives and was made
solely to "see the country, meet
the people and confer with the
leaders." He is continuing his trip
piro was one of the shomrim or
watchmen and he would be depu-
tized to lead the posse to find the
thief. And he had the reputation
like Marshal Dillon or other
Guardians of the Law in the West-
erns of getting his man. It be-
came -a by-word that if Abraham
Shapiro came into an Arab vil-
lage, the thief had better confess.
But the Arabs respected him as
fair and square. Often they would
come to him to settle their own
problems.
On his last birthday, he was
asked to what he attributed his
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Mr. and Mrs. Meier Treitman of
Westhampton Ave., Oak Park, an-
nounce the engagement of their
daughter Doris to Harold A. Mar-
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Detroit College of Business. Her
fiance is presently in graduate
school at Wayne State University.
A June wedding is planned.
Seek Withdrawl
of Radio License
in Media, Pa.
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Nine-
teen religious, civic and labor
groups in the Philadelphia area,
including Protestants, Jews and
Catholics, appealed to the Federal
Communications Commission for
denial of a broadcast license re-
newal for a station in suburban
Philadelphia which they accused
of "anti-Semitic" and "anti-mi-
nority" programming.
The station is WXUR, of Media,
Pa., which is operated by the
Faith Theological Seminary, of El-
kins Park, Pa. The petitioners re-
quested the federal regulatory body
to deny a renewal of the station's
license, or, "at the very least," to
hold a public hearing on the issue
before renewing the license.
The petitioners who filed the
brief with the FCC were: The
Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, the Ameri-
can Baptist Convention, the Am-
erican Jewish Congress, Deleware
Valley Council, Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith, the Board of
Social Ministry, Lutheran Synod,
the Catholic Community Relations
Council, the Greater Philadelphia
Council of Churches, Jewish Com-
munity Relations Council of Great-
er Philadelphia, the NAACP, Me-
dia Chapter, the New Jersey Coun-
cil of Churches, the Philadelphia
Urban League and the Women's
League for Peace and Freedom.
Resume Mineral Work
Without Kaiser Backing
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Dead
Sea Works resumed work on the
construction of new dikes for
mineral evaporation which was
suspended three months ago when
the American Kasier Engineering
firm withdrew from its obligations
as the contractor on the project
on the grounds that the specifica-
tions were not feasible.
Although the work was resumed
by Temarit, a subsidiary of the
Dead Sea Works, the company
plans within the next two months
to select a new contractor from
among a number of Israeli and
foreign firms which have submit-
ted offers.
The Dead Sea Works still has
not received satisfaction for its
claims from American insurance
companies which had bonded the
fulfilment of the contract by the
Kasier firm.
The movie explores the impact
that the Nazi occupation has upon
the citizenry of a small Slovakian
town in World War II, and par-
ticularly focuses on an old Jewish
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