Israel's Ex-AF Chief Recall.4 Single-Wing Planes, Heroism at Nation's Birth
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join the nuclear family of na- vast potential for private invest- America. While here, he also ad-
are always suspect; we must keep
Brigadier General Dan Tolkow-
tions, commenting, "It's bad
ment.
up communication channels . .
dressed Temple Israel Sabbath serv-
sky insists he doesn't reminisce;
enough to cope with conventional
He is a member of the board of
ices,
The people should be intensely
rather, "I close doors behind me." . weapons without seeing the Mid-
governors of the Technion (its
He welcomes such contacts with
devoted to the idea and faith
dle East using unconventional
president, Alexander Goldberg,
StR, it's hard for a veteran of
Jewry abroad, saying "Strangers
in creating a viable Jewish state."
weapons."
two air forces — a man who
was that long-ago boss in Eng-
land who saw his engineer, Tot-
started his mature life expecting '
As managing director of the Dis-
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 14, 1967-11
kowsky, go off to battle in Isra-
to be an engineer and who wound ' count Bank Investment Corp., Gen.
el), and the trip to the United
up being the commanding officer Tolkowsky speaks more freely of
of the Israel Air Force — not to Israel's economic woes. "We're in States was sponsored by the
reminisce. He did a little of it at a tough economic recession," he American Society for Technion.
He told the Detroit Chapter of
The Jewish News Office before admitted, "but we must look at it
Israel's rising quality and quan-
addressing a luncheon for the Allied from the long view.
"The slowing down in our eco- tity of technologically advanced
Jewish Campaign last Friday.
In 1947, Gen. Tolkowsky was nomy was because of two factors: exports to the United States. The
working for an engineering firm reduced immigration, which in turn Discount Bank Investment Corp. is
slowed down construction and other itself an independent company with
in England when the news came: areas, and the deflationary act by holdings in 30 enterprises, half of
the Arabs were out to destroy his
them industrial.
country, the new Jewish State. gmernment to cool down an eco-
Remy that was, in effect, on the
"Private initiative is the wave
Tolkowsky, a veteran of the British
of the future in Israel," Tolkowsky
Royal Air Force, World War II,
"The result was more serious stated. "And we certainly believe
Mediterranean Theater, headed than we anticipated."
Israel is on the wave of economic
home.
Ile added: "As a young nation, expansion from the long-term view.
The deep loyalty that Tolkow-
we have little experience in the Our main problem today is break-
dynamics of an economy, and since ing into foreign markets. It would
sky felt for Israel came of
1948 we've been in this rising tide." be of inestimable value to be with
generations of Zionistic fervor.
Gen. Tolkowsky said the govern. the Common Market, but we must,
Born in 1921 in Tel Aviv to Anne
ment is taking care to reflate the at any rate, develop those areas
and the late Samuel Tolkowsky,
economy slowly, carefully so as not which hold promise. It will take
he was the grandson of Itzhak
L. Goldberg. a delegate to the
to upset it all over again. "Aid much deep thinking."
from Jews abroad is vital," he
First Zionist Congress in Basle.
Gen. Tolkowsky, whose niece
added.
Jennifer Patai is majoring in gene-
It was he who donated the land
In his talks before Detroit groups tics at the University of Michigan,
for the original Mount Scopus
here, Gen. Tolkowsky also devel- was visiting a number of American
campus of the Hebrew Univer-
Produced under strict Rabbinical supervision. Certificate cn request
oped on this theme and on Israel's cities on this, his third trip to
sity, now in Arab-occupied Jeru-
salem.
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he was the first man in Palestine
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history, "Ilisperides," still in use
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Anne Tolkowsky, who now lives
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That day back in 1947, when
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Tolkowsky returned to his country
between
to join the air force, there was a
girl in the airport control tower
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he would not soon forget. Later,
he and Miriam were married, and
she bore him three children, a
girl and two boys. ("One is a keen
aircraft model builder," said his
father the general.)
Leave it to the Scots to find a way to save a
Egypt was bombing Tel Aviv
dollar (whether it's this rare Scottish
that November of 1947, and "the
dollar or the modern American greenback).
gathering of the clan" brought
Thousands of Scots (and Americans, too) are
fliers from America, Canada,
South Africa, Britain. "We had a
switching to Lauder's Extra Light Scotch at
mixed bag of aircraft," Gen. Tol-
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kowsky recalls, "with fighter
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changed except the price.
of derting-do."
One such deed was performed
by the son of an American
clergyman, a flier named Ted
Gibson who -came to help the
land of the Bible." In Norsemen
bukh aircraft — single-engine,
single - wing, single - propeller
planes that dated back some 10
years — Gibson kept the supply
line open to the Dead Sea. "We
could never have made it with-
out him," Tolkowsky said.
Gibson bier was killed in a civil
aviation accident while flying an
empty transport plane.
One month after Gen. Tolkowsky
took command as the top officer
in the Israel Air Force, in 1953,
Israel's first jet aircraft, British
Meteors, arrived.
Three years later, with French
Mystere jets — "We had caught
up with the state of the art" —
Gen. Tolkowsky led the air force
to victory in the Sinai Campaign.
Today, the air force boasts fine
French Mirage jets, aircraft that
successfully knocked six Syrian
MIG planes out of commission last
week.
Although he is no longer in the
military, Gen. Tolkowsky maintains
a fierce pride in Israel's fighting
force. On reports of Egypt's mount
ing armament capability, he said:
"One never counts heads in this
area; one counts quality. Egypt is
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