Jerusalem — a United City
By S. SHECIIARYA
Jerusalem as a city has grown
by leaps and bounds in both area
and population. Twenty years ago
the overall population of Jersalem
was under 90,000. Today the city
has a Jewish population of 200,000,
the overwhelming majority of them
immigrants who arrived to the
country after the emergence of the
state. In addition it has a non-Jew-
ish population of 65,000, of whom
54,000 are Moslems and 11,000 are
non Christians. And the city is in
process of continuous growth.
Large numbers of new arrivals are
settling in Jerusalem, which is ex-
periencing an ever-growing rate of
development and building in both
the Jewish and Arab sectors of the
town.
The physical wall that separated
the two sections of the city has
been removed; not so the partition
between the Arab citizen and the
Jewish. It existed 19 years ago
before the physical rampart was
erected and it still exists. By all
signs it may continue to exist for
a long time to come, for a lot of
work and effort will be required
before it can be removed. The de-
sire for the fall of this partition
exists among the Jews. One can
only hope that the same desire will
one day be engendered among the
Arabs. For the time being no one
can make any forecasts as to when
this will come about.
The existing Municipal Council
of Jerusalem was elected before
the unification of Jerusalem and
the residenti of East Jerusalem
are not as yet represented in it.
Mayor Teddy Rolla hopes that
they will be able to participate in
the elections due to be held in
November 1969, so that they may
assume responsibility for the
services accorded to them. For
the time being they do not seem
to be willing to accept the privi-
lege.
It is interesting to note that
under Jordanian rule only some
3,000 people in East Jerusalem
enjoyed voting rights in the elec-
tions to the Municipal Council,
since the• franchise was granted
only to taxpayers over the age of
21. The right will be accorded to
all residents both men and wom-
en over the age of 18, and their
number in East Jerusalem will
come to about 30,000.
From the economic and em-
ployment points of view, the situa-
tion in East Jerusalem is much
improved since the unification.
About 6,000 East Jersalemites work
daily in the Jewish sector of the
city in industry, building trades
and services, about 10 per cent of
these being employed by the muni-
cipality. Their numbers are stead-
ily increasing.
Mayor Kollek was at one time
head of the government tourist
corporation. He is naturally inter-
ested, therefore, in developing tour-
ism to Jerusalem. The municipality
has a special department for the
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encouragement of tourism which is
making an all-out effort to provide
tourist amenities and attractions
for visitors to the city. Jerusalem
attract– visitors from far and wide,
and tourists are no longer satisfied
with a mere bus ride through the
streets of the city. Not long ago the
mayor presented a memento to the
300,000th tourist visiting the city in
1968, but before the year is out he
will be called upon to make a
similar presentation to tourist num-
ber 400,000.
Several new hotels have been
recently opened in Jerusalem and
two or three others are under con-
struction. Most of the hotels in the
eastern and western parts of Jeru-
salem registered full occupancy
throughout the spring and sum-
mer. The municipality also organ-
izes conducted tours to the holy
MISS SHARON KAPLAN
and historical sites which abound
Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Kaplan of
in and around Jerusalem. Increased
tourism will doubtlessly help to Harding Ave., Oak Park, announce
cement closer ties between the two the engagement of their daughter
sections of the population.
Sharon to Hyman Braverman, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Abram Braver-
man of Bfooklyn.
Miss Kaplan attends Eastern
Michigan University. Her fiance is
serving in the United States Air
Force.
Two Pop-Up Books issued by
A Jan. 26 wedding date has been
Random House fill a need often set.
felt for youngsters in providing
them both with reading—and to
be read to—as entertainment, as British Nazi Leader
well as skilfull photographers Is Beaten by 30 Men
marked by action in the form of
LONDON (JTA)—Colin Jordan,
pop-ups.
leader of the British Nazi move-
"The Tournament of Magic" and ment, was badly beaten by 30 men
"The Pop-Up Color Book With in Birmingham while he distribu-
Magic Color Wheels" are certain ted leaflets on a street. One arrest
to become best sellers. There is was made. Jordan, though blood-
a vast need for such attractive and ied by punches and kicks, refused
usable works and Random makes hospital treatment and returned to
them available in most attractive his hotel for a meeting to discuss
formats.
the formation of a new nationalist
These books require engineering political party.
as well as narration and illustra-
tion. The engineering task for
these books has been done by Tor
Lokvig. The stories are by Albert
G. Miller. The designs were made
by Paul Taylor.
"Like the designs, the stories lend
themselves to fascination for the
very young. The animals and the
humans grouped with them, King
Awkward and the ancient Land of
Nix, and the action that turns into
adventure, combine to assure
readership, approval and applause
CAL
for this children's literary-artistic
effort.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, November 22, 1968-33
A disciple reported that his remarked: "The next time your
father had appeared to him in a father comes to you, ask him to
dream and counseled him to be- appear in a dream to others, and
come a Zaddik.
persuade them to become your
Hearing this, Simchah Bunam followers."
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Edward Levi President
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CHICAGO—Edward H. Levi, 57,
was inaugurated Nov. 14 as presi-
dent of the University of Chicago.
University provost since 1962,
Levi was its law school dean for
12 years before that.
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work and obtained his law degree
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