irolssitsteers Keep _Phones Ringing Volunteers from many sectors of Detroit's Jewish community have been manning the phones during the Israel Emergency Fund drive at the Jewish Welfare Federation's Butzel Building. On this crew are (from left) Mrs. Donald Mahler, Ben G. Frank, Rabbi Samuel Wohlgelernter, Mrs. Wil- liam Deutsch, Mrs. Merle Harris, David Sislin, Reuben Levine and Ben Jones. Mrs. Jones and Associates Report on Israel Trip NEW YORK (JTA)—In the first eyewitness account of conditions in Israel since the cease-fire, a Unit- ed Jewish Appeal delegation of three top leaders told a nationwide audience on a telephone hookup that the needs of UJA's immigrant aid, relief and welfare programs in Israel have been sharply in- creased by war damage and by an economic dislocation which will continue for some time to come. The cost of maintaining these humanitarian programs in the fore- seeable future is presently unas- certainable. the delegation report- ed to some 500 communities from coast to coast, but is certain to be in the hundreds of millions. The American Jewish community must provide the bulk of the funds need- ed, they declared, through a con- tinued heavy response to the Israel Emergency Fund of the United Jewish Appeal. The delegation, consisting of UJA associate general chairman Edward Ginsberg of Clevelend, Women's Division chairman Mrs. Harry I.. Jones of Detroit and Young Leadership Cabinet chair- man Leonard D. Bell of Lewis- ton, Me.. returned from four days of intensive study in Israel. In addition to key battle points of the recent war, they visited many towns, villages and settle- ments and saw evidence of severe damage and disruption directly affecting the lives of immigrants who had been brought to Israel by UJA for resettlement. Pointing out that mobilization will have to continue through a long and uncertain period of peace negotiations. Ginsberg declared: "The price of peace may be more costly than the price of victory. The severe dislocation to Israel's economy, the loss of tourism al- ready incurred, the loss of indus- trial and agricultural productivity, the cost of rebuilding and repair- ing physical damage caused by war, of constructing new immi- grant houses to replace those des- troyed, of rebuilding agricultural settlements, and the loss or crops burned in the field . . . create an economic burden of impossible di- mensions for Israel's people. Therefore they turn to all Jewry, especially the American Jewish community, to take over complete- ly those functions and programs • • for which the UJA has always been responsible." The five greatest areas of need, he said, were housing, ab- sorption, aid to agricultural settlements, health services and education. Mrs. Jones, noting the courage of a civilian population under fire consisting mainly of women and children, reported that women's volunteer services were crucial in maintaining order and morale. Graphically describing air raid shelters beneath houses on the Syrian border, furnished with cribs and playpens for children who en- dured six days of shelling, she told thousands of women listening around the country that "the part we have played through our plus gifts to the Israel Emergency Fund is small in comparison to the many sacrifices the women of Israel have made and will continue to make." • • • Five days after the cease-fire, Mrs. Harry L. Jones, of Muirland Ave., went to Israel as a member of the three-man fact-finding com- mittee, on behalf of the Israel Emergency Fund. Mrs. Jones is national chairman of the Women's Division of the United Jewish Ap- peal which is operating the fund and a member of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit. Special permission from the U.S. State Department was necessary as Americans had been forbidden to travel in the area at that time. Mrs. Jones was impressed with the amount of damage in Jerusa- lem and the vast waste in the Sinai Desert. "In Jerusalem 20,000 homes were shelled and either destroyed or damaged. Many were homeless but were rapidly being taken care of," se added. In the Detroit area, Americans of every creed have responded to the need of the people of Is- rael and have made contributions to the Israel Emergency Fund for care of the needy, the handi- capped and the helpless, accord- ing to Paul Zuckerman, Emer- gency Fund chairman. Contributions may be sent to Israel Emergency Fund, 163 Madi- son, for immediate transmittal to Israel. Young Leadership Mission of UJA to Study Welfare Needs Abroad NEW YORK—The first United Jewish Appeal mission to visit Israel since the crisis in that country will leave the United States Monday, when the seventh annual mission of the UJA Young Leadership Cabinet departs for a 26-day survey tour. A group of 60 participants, young American-Jewish community rep- resentatives from a score of cities, will make a study of Jewish immi- gration absorption needs in Israel and refugee aid programs in France, Italy and Spain which are aided by UJA funds. The needs in Israel, intensified by the recent crisis, are being met by the nation- wide Israel Emergency Fund cam- paign of the UJA, in which the Young Leadership Cabinet is par- ticipating. The mission is by invitation to young men and women age 25-40 who have demonstrated "leader- ship potential" in their home communities. Each mission First Israel Eyewitness Report UJA Associate General Chairman Edward Ginsberg of Cleveland (left) headed the top-level USA delegation which made an on-the-spot survey of disrupted and war-damaged USA humanitarian programs in Israel. He joined Women's Division Chairman Mrs. Harry L. Jones of Detroit and Young Leadership Cabinet Chairman Leonard D. Bell of Lewiston, Me.. in making the first post-war eyewitness report to a nationwide audience via a telephone hookup. member is paying his own way. For Leonard D. Bell of Lewis- ton, Me., chairman of the Young Leadership Cabinet and also serv- ing as chairman of the mission, this -will be his second flight to Israel in a few weeks. Bell was one of a UJA fact-finding delegation which flew to Israel June 14 for a brief, intensive survey of the in- creased welfare needs imposed by the crisis. While abroad, the mission mem- bers will see at first hand the workings of the life-sustaining programs carried out by the Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency for Israel, the two major beneficiaries of United Jew- ish Appeal fund-raising campaigns, including the Israel Emergency Fund. A group of 26 college and uni- versity students left Kennedy Inter- national Airport on the first lap of a two-month survey of Jewish life and welfare programs supported by the UJA in Europe and Israel. This is the first University Study Mission to be organized by the UJA. Its members are in the 18-24 age bracket and were chosen for qualities of leadership on the cam- pus and for leadership potential in their home communities. The plan for a University Study Mission was originated early in the year by Rabbi Herbert A. Fried- man, UJA executive vice-chair- man, as a logical follow-up of the UJA's Young Leadership Missions. Heading the group is Rabbi Zelig S. Chinitz of New York, national director of special services of the UJA. The group will focus its study on the problems and needs of young immigrants who are being aided in their settlement by funds from the United Jewish Appeal. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 40—Friday, June 30, 1967 Generosity Shown by Local Friends of Israel — Young, Old, Rich, Poor Stories by the thousands will be told of the spontaneous responses to the calls for aid to Israel that are being made by peoples of all faiths, in all lands. Christians as well as Jews, and a number of Moslems, have aided and are aiding the Israel Emer- gency Fund. An interesting experience is re- lated by Murry Hartz, general manager of Joseph Frenkel Co., who has been asking customers to assist in the emergency. He was especially thrilled by responses from non-Jews, and he tells about Cleveland customers who sent funds to the Detroit committee in appreciation of the appeal Hartz made to them- * • • Marilyn Shulman of Mark Lane, Livonia, told the Jewish News of the generosity of a Negro Catholic woman, Nellie Cuellar, 67, who helps her with the housework one day a week. Mrs. Cuellar visited Israel six years ago as a gift from her three children. "When the fighting in Israel broke out," Mrs. Shulman wrote, "she personally took it upon her- self to try and collect $1 from each of the 2,900 families in her Downriver community. "Nellie expressed her deep dis- appointment in her people, for she collected only $1,300! Quite a feat for someone so hard work- ing and not in the best of health . . . I know Nellie expects no thanks. Her philosophy is such that as a human being, it is only a natural thing to help others." Thirteen non-Jewish workers employed at a local packing house have purchased Israel Bonds through Mrs. Irving Isaacs, a vice president of the Metropolitan De- troit Bnai Brith Women's Coun- cil. The purchasers are of varied nationality, race and creed, said Mrs. Isaacs, "including people of Polish, Italian and German descent and Negroes. They came to me and asked me what they could do to help Israel. I have geen greatly heartened by this outpour- ing of sentiment from ordinary people who admire Israel's cour- age and fortitude." • • • Martin Brown, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brown of Whitmore Ave., Oak Park, held an Emergency Fund Carnival June 19 raising $14.12 for the American Red Magen David. • • • Eight suburban barbers, one from Southfield and the others from Oak Park, opened their shops Monday for a "benefit perform- ance" and later turned over $1,453 for the Israel Emergency Fund. Camp Gan Israel, which nor- mally holds its annual dinner at this time to aid its camping pro- gram and other Lubavitcher Habad activities, postponed its dinner until November so that the fullest support can be given to the special UJA fund. 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