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Detroit Group Mobilizes Forces
to Stimulate Aliya Enrollments

A project to increase aliya and
bers and other persons not con-
provide private economic assist- templating aliya within three
ance for Israel has been developed years, but who are interested in
by the Detroit area chapter of the the enterprise and in helping
Association of Americans and Can- those going on aliya. AACA
membership consists of indivi-
adians for Aliya (AACA).
The proposal has been submitted duals and families who will un-
to and will be discussed with Israel dertake to settle in Israel within
officials by Albert Best, chairman three years.
The AACA has been recognized
of the Detroit AACA, who will be
by Israel and the World Zionist
in Israel this month.
The basic concept of the proj- Organization as the official aliya
movement in the United States and
ect is establishment of an in-
dustrial enterprise in Israel by Canada. This action resulted from
forming the company structure, Israel's intensified efforts to pro-
everything but the physical plant, mote aliya from Western coun-
in Detroit and recruiting Amer- tries.
"Israel requires additional busi-
ican and Canadian employees
ness and industrial knowledge and I
to move with it to Israel.
"Uivierlying the concept is en- experience as part of its struggle
couragement of aliya," Best for security, survival and economic
stated. "Such - an enterprise will growth," Best said.
"Aliya is fundamental to this '
enable Americans and Canadians
who are interested in aliyah, and struggle. In recognition of this,
who have been stymied by the de- Israel has created a ministry of
sire and need for prior job ar- absorption under Yigal Allon, who
rangements, to settle in Israel with also is deputy premier, with whom
the AACA has direct working con-
employment assured."
A meeting of the Detroit AACA tact to expedite assistance and in-
chapter will be held 8 p.m. Mon- formation for individuals and fam-
day at the Jewish Center, and
will be addressed by Rami
Amitz-Lev. a sabra and veteran
of the Arab-Israel wars in 1956
and 1967 and former official of
Israel's ministry of industry and
commerce a nd the finance min-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Foreign
istry. He was chief economist for
Histadrut and assistant manag- ministry officials have indicated
that Israel will ask the British
ing director of the Bank of Ha-
poalim before being assigned to government to reverse a decision to
a two-year tour of duty in the
cancel the British Broadcasting
Corp. (BBC) Hebrew broadcasts
Detroit area as the Israel rep-
resentative with the Jewish Na- to Israel.
The decision, announced in the
tional Fund. The meeting is open
House of Commons just before a
to the public.
Amitz-Lev is providing assistance recess, touched off sharp criticism
and advice to the Detroit area among members of the British_Par-
aliya organization, as is another 'lament and Jewish organizations.
Israel representative, • Mordecai The cancellation was scheduled to
Tel-Tzur. director of the Hebrew become effective in October.
The officials here said that no
department at the Jewish Center.
Jobs not filled here will be off- similar cancellation or even cur-
ered to members of other AACA tailment of BBC overseas broad-
chapters and to Israelis, Best an- casts in Arabic were planned, a
fact which casts doubts on the
nounced.
The project will be created as official explanation of budgetary
a branch of an existing Detroit difficulties as the reason for the
area company or as a new corp- action.
It was indicated that Israel con-
oration.
It is proposed that the enterprise sidered the cancellation as being
manufacture one or more products of a political, and not economic,
in Israel for export or to replace' character and therefore having no
present imports. This would help justification.
Letters of protest have poured
ease Israel's balance-of-payments
problems by creating additional ex- in from all over the world in
port markets or by reducing the connection with the impending
suspension of the BBC service,
need for imports.
a daily half-hour short-wave
Financing of the project will
broadcast that apparently has a
come from Detroit AACA mem-
considerable' audience.
(Adv )
Erwin Bienenstock, head of the
BBC service, told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency Tuesday that
many letters came from Eastern
European Communist countries
Harry Thomas. popular clothier and even from the Soviet Union.
at 15200 W. 7 Mile Rd, admits he There were also many letters from
Israel, some of them indignant,
isn't a Gin-Rummy expert.
"When -I go out with the boys he said.
Listeners in the Communist bloc
and beat my brains out at Gin-.
Rummy, I only come out ahead countries were apparently cautious
some of the time," Harry com- in their correspondence. Bienen-
stock cited a letter datelined Buda-
plained.
"Is that bad?" we asked. "Plenty pest, written in "very good mod-
of players would be tickled pink to ern, colloquial Hebrew" which
-was signed with the pseudonym,
win any of the time!"
"Sure," Harry admitted. "I'd "P. Almoni." The word means
love to win all the time . . . it's "Somebody" in Hebrew.
One correspondent from Israel
. only natural . . . but I guess it's
my style. At Gin-Rummy Harry wrote that he had acquired most
Thomas hasn't any style . . . but of his knowledge about England
.- - --.7A in clothes, Harry Thomas has ALL from the BBC Hebrew service.
,,,,` the styles," he beamed. _ , , Another wrote that the broadcasts
:,, "Why, I've got the finest in had helped him trace a Jewish
everything . . . just EVERYTHING boy he was looking for in Tunisia.
... and when Harry Thomas styles Some writers attributed the end-
a suit it looks like a million dollars ing of the service to anti-Israel
or it doesn't leave the shop. You'll elements in the British Foreign
see clothesat Harry Thomas mark- Office.
One of the reasons given for
ed $69.50 that carry price tags of
the suspension was the relatively
$95 all over town."
If you're looking for a good Gin- limited audience compared to the
Rummy game, Harry Thomas isn't BBC's world service broadcasts in
exactly the one to thrill you with English. But a listener pointed out
his style of play. But, if you want that the Hebrew service was on
something in suit style, just go to the air only 30 minutes while the .
15200 W. '7 Mile Rd. and let Harry British program was broadcast all
Thomas show you a thing or two! day.

Columbia Prof Awarded Prize by Fellow Poets

NEW YORK — Stanley Kunitz,
adjunct professor of writing at
Columbia University, has been
named to receive the 1968 Fellow-
ship of the Academy of American
Poets, one of the most disting-
uished awards in literature in the
United States.
flies, arranging to settle in the
The prize, which also carries a
Jewish homeland.
"In line with its responsibilities, $5,000 cash award, is for a body
the Detroit AACA is developing ac- of poems. Kunitz is still working
tion programs to motivate and en- on his fourth volume of poems,
courage aliya, one such effort
being the industrial enterprise."
A COCKTAIL
The project was outlined by Alan
Hausner, an electronics engineers
and member of the local chapter.
He is a nephew of Gideon Hausner,
who was the Israel prosecutor at
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the trial of Adolf Eichmann.
Dr. Dan Deitch is vice chair
man of the local AACA chapter. 1 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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"The Testing Tree," scheduled for
publication next year. His last
book, "Selected Poems, 1928-58,"
won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize.

TRAVELING—

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YESHIVATH
BETH
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15751 W. 101/2 Mile
353-6750 or 862-0963

Friday, August 9, 1968-11

For giiidness sake..

Israel Is Angered
by BBC Decision to
Cancel Broadcasts

...a new name!

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Harry Thomas and
Gin-Rummy Don't Mix

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MT. WHITNEY is a pretty good name for ripe
olives. In fact, it's the most popular brand in the
Detroit area. So why are we changing the name
to LINDSAY? Simply because over two years
ago, the Mt.Whitney people joined with the
world's largest ripe olive grower and packer, the
Lindsay Ripe Olive people. And whenever you
bought Mt. Whitney, you were actually buying
the most popular brand in the whole country—
Lindsay. So we finally decided to change the label.
But not the quality. That will always stay the
best. So please remember, the next time you're
looking for Mt.Whitney, it's now spelled
L -I-N-D - S -A-Y.

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