Unemployed Cut in Half Since June, but Still a Problem
NEW YORK (JTA)—Unemploy-
meet in Israel has been cut in half
since the Six-Day War last June,
but it is still a serious problem
which can be overcome only by
increased capital investment in ex-
port industries and increased im-
migration of Jews to Israel, Aharon
Becker, secretary general of His-
tadrut, said here at the closing
session of the 44th annual con-
vention of the National Committee
for Labor Israel.
Becker spoke before 3,000 dele-
gates who attended the four-day
conclave. Other speakers included
Mrs. Golda Meir, former minister
of Israel; and American trade un-
ion leaders Louis Stulberg and
Jacob S. Potofsky. Histadrut is
Israel's federation of labor.
Becker, who came to New York
following a tour of five Latin
American countries, said that
there are about 20,000 unemployed
in Israel, which is half of what
it was at the beginning of last
June but still too large a number.
He said that an estimated $1,500,-
000,000 can be effectively invested
in Israel's economy during the next
five years, of which half should
come from foreign sources and the
remainder from Israel's o w n
economy. "We are asking the trade
unions of the free world to invest
in our enterprises," he declared,
noting that American trade unions
have indicated that they will pur-
chase $10,000,000 worth of His-
tadrut debentures that will be re-
paid to them with interest over a
20-year period.
Another economic expert, Shim.
on Alexandroni, economic minister
of Israel, told a session of the
American Histadrut Development
Foundation that $8,000,000,000 had
been invested in Israel since 1950,
and that the country hoped to in-
crease its gross national product
at an annual rate of 8 per cent.
Joseph Schlossberg was re-elect-
ed president of the National Com-
mittee for Labor Israel. Charles
S. Zimmerman was elected chair-
man of the board of directors;
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Louis Hollander, chairman of the
national executive committee; Wil-
liam H. Sylk, chairman of the
American Histadrut Development
Foundation; and Samuel J. Lefrak,
chairman of the foundation's na-
tional advisory board.
The convention received mess-
ages from President Johnson, Pres-
ident Shazar and Prime Minister
Levi Eshkol of Israel, and Gover-
nor Nelson Rockefeller of New
York.
President Johnson, M . a telegram
to the convention, likening Hista-
drut to America's free trade union
movement, noted that it "has long
been dedicated to helping working
people build beter lives for their
families in a democratic society"
and also, through its Afro-Asian
Institute in Tel Aviv "introduces
the leaders of emerging nations
to the advantages of a free and
open society."
In his message, President Sha-
zar praised the National Commit-
tee for Labor Israel for the "loy-
alty and devotion" of its members
to Israel. Prime Minister Levi Esh-
kol expressed the hope that the
Jews everywhere would "ascend
to the land of Israel and partake
in its upbuilding."
Dr. Sol Stein, executive director
of the National Committee, report-
ed that during the fiscal year 1966-
67, the committee raised $4,727,-
000 for the Histadrut campaign,
including $1 million raised by the
Pioneer Women for Moledet Hap-
oalot, its sister organization in
Israel.
'• Dr. Stein said that the 24 per cent
increase in funds was due to an
extra effort by American trade
unions during and after last June's
emergency. He said that the Am-
erican Histadrut Development
Fund had reached the $1,000,000
mark in the form of wills and be-
quests during the past year.
The Histadrut campaign benefit-
ted 72 new projects in Israel and
allocated $360,000 for the Hista-
drut scholarship fund, which grant-
ed nearly 3,000 scholarships for
secondary vocational training,
higher education and research.
During the past year, Histadrut ar-
ranged for 1,658 adults and youths
to visit Israel, he said.
"Dropsie College." said Dr.
Katsh in his presidential address,
"can become a center that will
serve as a storage house and
source of Judaism, of fresh intel-
lectual Jewish content, that will
help replenish and replace the de-
clining generation of Jewish schol-
ars in other parts of the world
with an indigenous group of Amer-
ican Jewish intellectual leaders."
"American universities and
colleges," Dr. Katsh noted,
"have been displaying in re-
cent years a growing interest
in the teaching of various phases
of Judaism. There is a dearth
of professors at this time. This
is an opportunity for Dropsie
to become a center in order to
prepare professors in Judaism
for American institutions of
higher learning."
Another significant undertaking
for Dropsie. he said, is the train-
ing of scholars for research in the
Jewish field, in order "to rewrite
and reinterpret Jewish history in
the light of the two great episodes
which have occurred in the last
quarter of a century—the Nazi
Holocaust and the re-qstablishment
of the State of Israel."
Dr. Katsh, who received his doc-
torate of philosophy at Dropsie
College in 1944, recently resigned
from his 33-year association with
New York University, where he
had been founder and curator of
the Library of Judaica and He-
braics. He has also been director
of the Summer Professorial Work-
shop in Israel, conducted in co-
operation with the United States
Office of Education.
He is a prolific author and is
known, among other achievements,
for his microfilming of the Soviet
Union's vast Hebrew collection
which includes many thousands of
ancient Jewish documents from
Russia and Eastern Europe.
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Learning into a center that will
"serve as a storage house and
source of Judaism" was voiced by
the institution's new president, Dr.
Abraham I. Katsh, who was in-
stalled in his office at ceremonies
conducted here Sunday.
Dr. Katsh became the third
president of Dropsie, a post pre-
viously held by the late Dr. Cyrus
Adler and, until his retirement
last year after a quarter of a cen-
tury as president, by Dr. Abraham
A. Neuman.
A colorful convocation was held
at the University Museum of the
University of Pennsylvania for the
installation of Dr. Katsh. More
than 125 representatives of univer-
sities, colleges and learned socie-
ties from all parts of the United
States attended the ceremonies.
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on Mrs. Golda Meir, former for-
eign minister of Israel; Pennsyl-
vania Governor Raymond P. Sha-
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renowned American author; and
Dr. William F. Albright, professor
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