10—Friday; Febi'Vary 24, 1967
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Another University for Haifa?
with the various classrooms and
By CARL ALPERT
HAIFA—Israeli respect for edu- lecture halls on both sides. Tower-
cation is proverbial. Schools have ing over the whole would be a
mushroomed all over the country, 20-story administration building.
Who is going to pay for this
and even the smallest village makes
the education of its children a monumental structure, a product of
someone's edifice complex? -The
major consideration.
The same attitude holds true with city fathers have the glib answers.
respect to higher education. The Haifa's taxpayers, the government
magnificent Hebrew University in of Israel and friends abroad who
Jerusalem the world-famous Tech- are to be organized into a Society
nion—Israel Institute of Technol- of Friends of the Haifa University.
ogy in Haifa and the elaborate fac-
The vociferous critics have
ilities of the Weizmann Institute at their doubts. Haifa's taxpayers
Rehovot are the pride of every
have not yet paid for the city's
Israeli.
Carmelit subway. There is still
To these have been added in re- need for primary schools and
cent years the Bar-Ilan University high schools and hospitals in
in Ramat Gan and Tel Aviv 'Univer- the city. Can the local taxpayer
sity.
really stand the added pressure
But when the city of Haifa came
of this great new municipal
up with plans for construction of a
expense?
Haifa university, many felt that the
As for the government of Israel
time had come to draw the line
against proliferation of expensive it is today unable to meet the
demands made upon it by the other
universities in a little country with
a population of only about existing universities, some of which
are on the verge of closing their
2,500,000.
The specific plans proposed doors for lack of operating funds.
Since the income of the national
were what caused the storm. The
government is not growing, it fol-
distinguished Brazilian archi-
lows that any help given to Haifa's
tect, Oscar Niemayer, was called
proposed building must necessarily
in to design the new municipal
be at the expense of the other
structure and he came up with
plans that would entail an ex- schools.
And as for the help which is
pense of • almost $20,000,000 for
construction alone. Critics have expected from aboard, many be-
called his plan an "architectural lieve that the Haifa authorities are
naive if they believe that the
colossus," a "bombastic design"
and a "megolomanic project" U.S. or elsewhere will flock to
raise money for a new university
among other names.
The plans are undoubtedly when they are already besieged
unique. They call for construction by so many other institutions.
And after the building is up,
of an enormous, sprawling- build-
ing,. only two stories high, but who is going to pay for the heavy
covering an area of about 10 acres. operating costs?
To avoid having this huge place
sound likes a noisy convention
center, there would be a 42-foot
wide corridor running down the
middle of it for about 1,000 feet,
Gideon 'Raphael
Heads Delegation
From Israel to UN
JERUSALEM (JTA—The for-
eign ministry officially announced
appointment of Gideon Raphael,
currently its deputy director-
general, as head of Israel's dele-
gation to the United Nations, suc-
c e e d i n g Ambassador Michael
Comay, who is returning to the
foreign ministry at his own request.
The ministry's legal adviser,
Dr. Shabtai Rosenne, was named
deputy head of the delegation with
the rank of ambassador.
Sholomo Hillel, a member of Is-
rael's UN delegation, has been
appointed deputy director-general
of the ministry and head of the
ministry's Middle East department
replacing Mordechai Gaza. Hanan
Yavor was named to replace Hillel
at the UN.
Costa Rican Jewry
The Jewish community of Costa
Rica, which dates back to the early
part of this century, now numbers
some 1,500 persons, the vast ma-
jority of whom live in the capital
city of San Jose.
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Jerold C. Hoffberger of Balti-
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Jewish Appeal, will speak at the
annual dinner of the food division
of the 1967 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at
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was made by Paul Borman, Peter
B. Copeland and Reuben Cottler,
chairmen of the food division.
Hoffberger is also a well-
known sportsman, serving as
chairman of the board of the
Baltimore Orioles and as a direc-
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the Jewish Welfare Fund of Balti-
more. A graduate of the University
of Virginia, he served as a captain
in World War II and as a civilian
aide to the secretary of the Army.
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chairman, with Bob Rosenthal as
co-chairman. Associate chairmen
of the division are Charles S. Litt,
Harry J. Modell and David
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WASHINGTON (JTA)—Rep.
Leonard Farbstein, New York
Democrat, Monday introduced
a bill to grant time off to gov-
ernment employes for the ob-
servance of Jewish and other
non-Christian holidays.
Farbstein told the House of
Representatives that "in this
country of many religions, it is
clearly inequitable for all gov-
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time off only to celebrate Chris-
tian holidays." His bill would
allow government workers to
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