UJA Mission Over in Israel; Needs Outlined
HAIFA, (JTA) — Pinhas Sapir,
Sapir told his audience that
Israel's minister of finance, called Israel's present period of econom-
on American Jews to mount a full- ic transition, with its resultant
scale effort to help his country economic slow-down, has brought
eliminate social and educational increased hardships for thousands
backwardness among Israel's new of , Asian-African newcomers, liv-
immigrants, especially the more ing in Israel's development towns,
than 200,000 Asian and African where they make up 75 per cent
newcomers living in 21 develop- or more of the population.
ment towns.
He stated that help from Ameri-
He made his plea to 200 Ameri- can Jews in speeding the absorp-
can Jewish leaders who were par- tion of new immigrants is now
ticipating in the United Jewish all the more urgent because Is-
Appeal's 12th Annual study mis- rael's people and the government
sion to Israel. The mission was must now concentrate their efforts
headed by Max M. Fisher of De- and energies on overcoming new
troit, UJA general chairman.
economic problems.
Sapir expressed fears that eco-
Before returning to the United
nomic and educational differences States Wednesday the UJA mis-
between Israel's citizens of West- sion members attended a state
ern and Asian-African origin could dinner given by Prime Minister
become permanent, "despite every- Levi Eshkol, and a reception by
thing the government is doing to Israel's President Zalman Shazar
help every Jew who comes to Is- and held meetings with former
rael, no matter what country he Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
comes from."
and Aryeh L. Pincus, chairman of
The reason why Israel's the Jewish Agency for Israel.
750,000 immigrants from Moroc-
The mission's reports and re-
co, Iraq, Yemen and other
countries generally have not yet commendations will be presented
reached the same economic lev- to community delegates attending
els as immigrants from European the UJA annual national confer-
and Western countries, Sapir ence at the New York Hilton
said, was due to "the conditions Hotel, Dec. 8-11, and will, in large
in which these people had to
live in their countries of origin Morocco, Tunisia Jews
over many generations. They
left countries where they had Find JDC 'Only Hope'
been forced to live in poverty
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
and ignorance for centuries.
LONDON — Charles H. Jordan,
Thus, they lack modern Western executive vice chairman of the
vocational know-how, and find
Joint Distribution Committee, said
it difficult to be absorbed into
here Monday night that many Jews
the productional process of our in Morocco and Tunisia were liv-
country," he declared.
ing "in the greatest distress" and
that such agencies as the JDC and
the Central British Fund was
"their only hope."
He spoke at a dinner meeting
of the British Fund and the OSE,
a Jewish health fund, at which
Jennie Lee, British minister for
the arts, was principal speaker. She
lauded the work of the British fund
in alleviating distress "since the
dark days after the Spanish Civil
War and during the Nazi era."
Jordan told the meeting that the
home for aged Jews in Warsaw
has 106 residents and there is a
waiting list of 300. In Cracow and
Wroclaw, 80 per cent of the Jew-
ish population is over 70. He said
there was also a problem of the
Jewish aged in Romania "where
we hope to help in the near fu-
ture."
(Meanwhile, it was reported
from Casablanca that despite de-
partures of Jews, the Casa-
blanca Jewish Committee has
disclosed that the social welfare
work of its institutions is still
urgently needed.
(The disclosure was made in an
ppeal for contributions from the
ewish population to enable the
ommittee to meet its budget. The
ommittee said that 842 families,
omprising 3,000 men, women and
hildren, are dependent entirely on
he comimttee, entailing a com-
A full lb. reg. $1.98
mnal expenditure annually of 88,-
carton's Famous Almond Kisses.
00,000 Moroccan francs ,$175,000).
Made with creamy chocolate
he total outlay of the committee
caramel, and crunchy toasted
n 1965 was 190,000,00 francs ($380,-
00).
almonds! A whole pound in a
festive canister (almost a gift at
(During the past six months, the
$1.58). Stock up—they stay
ommittee has been reduced from
fresh. And save 40C on each
0 to 13 members, because of resig-
pound—'til October 24 only
ations. There was some indica-
on that Casablanca Jewry was
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m to write 'a history of the Jews
Morocco since Morocco became
dependent. The book will be pub-
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measure, guide the delegates in
setting the objectives and goals
of the 1967 nation-wide campaign
of the UJA.
Mrs. Myer Feinstein of Phila-
delphia was honored at a session
of the mission for her efforts on
behalf of the UJA. Fisher praised
Mrs. Feinstein as one who was
"unfailingly devoted to welfare and
Israel's newcomers " Mrs. Fein-
stein was to be present later this
week at the dedication of a library
which she established
Eilat,
Israel's southernmost town, to be
named for herself and her late
husband.
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Friday, October 21, 1966 7
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Heaven ne'er helps the men who
will not act. — Sophocles.
Israel-Gambia Treaty
Pledges Friendship
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM — A treaty of
friendship between Israel and
Gambia was signed here Monday
by Premier Levi Eshkol and Sir
Dawdad Jawari, the premier of the
African country, prior to his return
to Gambia.
Premier Jawari spent a week in
Israel accompanied by his minister
of education and social welfare. A
joint communique stressed the
friendly relations between the two
nations and the need for peaceful
settlement of international issues.
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