Friday, October 24, 1969-5
Israeli Sailboat Brainchild of 11-111 Graduate THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
I Abraham Menes, Scholar, Bundist; YIVO Founder
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Sweeps Interitatimuil Cl tainpionship
— Abraham Europe of YIVO, the Jewish
• Contest, NEW YORK (JTA) and
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author Scientific Institute.
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On Aug. 10 at Sandhamm, Swe-
den, Israel won its first world
championship in any sporting
event.
A "420" Class sailboat, manu-
factured by Snapir Sailing Craft.
Ltd. of Haifa and manned by two
young sailors from Bat Yam, a
suburb of Tel Aviv, won first prize
in both the singles and doubles
events.
By carrying these two events.
they swept the first prizes for the
competition. So important was this
event considered in terms of
Israel's world image that the re-
turning sailors were met by the
prime minister herself, Golda
Mein
Snapir Sailing Craft, Ltd. is a
young company. In research and
development for the past three
years, it has only started manu-
facturing boats during the last
nine months, yet, in addition to
taking the international champion-
ship in Sandhamm, it has con-
sistently been winning races all
over the world. In April,. it won
the Israeli National Championship
at Haifa. In June, two sailboats
were sent to the National Regatta
at Rye, N.Y. There, they took first
and sixth places, and the craft
was declared American champion.
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Walter ;Ind Fannie Rabinowitz of
Tracy Ave.: Adele A. Bayer, Ed-
able to attain to date. A model
was proven at the test tank at the
University of Michigan and on
Whitmore Lake, near Ann Arbor.
Presently, a full-scale craft is
being developed at the Ilaifa
ward A. and Tami Bayer, Charles
S. Bayer. Gerald E. Bayer and
Irene Shirley Bayer, all of Bir-
min:di:du: and Mrs. Eva Cherow,
a former Detroiter and now re-
sides in Jerusalem. Other family
members in other cities also have
ontributed.
The outlook for the company is
11,-; reputation has been
established internationally and (br-
iers
are
pouring
in from all over
t
the world. The future of Snapir
Sailing Craft, ltd. ,not only is in
the field of sailing boats, but is
in various projects with the Israel
Defense Department. Also, it has
spread into other than boating ap-
plications of its haste technology.
While at U-M, Steinberg built
and proved the practical possibility
of a hydrofoil sailboat that would
sail at far greater speeds than
any sailing craft has ever been
excellent.
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plant and will be ready for in-
troduction to the sailing world
within the next few years. Ber-
nard Cantor of the law firm of
Cullen, Sloman and Cantor of
Detroit, was the attorney in-
volved with the development of
the patent rights in the United
States. Through his guidance,
patent rights have been obtained
in all the major countries of the
world.
Menes, 72, a scholar
of studies relating socialism to
the Prophets, died here Saturday.
Interment will be in Israel.
Menes, a member of the staff
of the Jewish Daily Forward since
1947, was a graduate of the Mircr
and Grodno yeshivas in Poland
and was active in the pre-war
Jewish community in Grodno.
He was an active member of
the Bund, the Jewish Socialist
Part y. SIe settled i ❑ Paris after
the rise of Hiller and, with his
family, was brought here by the
Jewish Labor Committee in 1940. 1 z,.. 1
He was - one of the founders in'
The long-run potential for this
Israel company will be the sale
of sailboats to Europe and the
United States. Snapir Sailing Craft,
Ltd. has proven its ability to com-
pete in price and technology with
boats manufactured in the United
States.
iNo Peace in Middle East Foreseen
in "Suez: the Twiee-Fought War'
University of Michigan.
While taking the U-M naval'
architecture and marine engineer-
ing course, Steinberg took all
honors that could be given to him.
Consistently on full scholarships
throughout his years at Ann Ar-
bor (1961-1966), he was constantly
in demand to work with his pro-
fessois as a consultant to the
American shipbuilding industry.
Among the "companies" where he
acted as consultant was the. United
States Navy.
When he obtained his master's
In naval architecture and marine
engineering in 1966 at the Uni-
versity of Michigan, Steinberg re- 1
ceived many lucrative offers from
all over the country, urging him
to remain in the United States. He
refused all of these offers from
both consultant and shipbuilding
firms, and he returned—out of pa-
triotism—to Israel. Incidentally.
his name, translated, means
"my country is supreme."
While at the University of Michi-
gan, Steinberg decided to use his
developing skills in Israel and
establish a boat manufacturing
company. His improvements in
sailing craft that had been worked
out at the university were put into
practice in his plant on the docks
of Haifa. Since then, his boats
have taken all honors in its class
throughout the world.
Haim Sharett, son of the for-
mer prime minister, Moshe
Sharett, excited by the young
inventor's vision, left the em-
ploy of Kibutz Hamadia to join
Steinberg in establishing the
first location for the factory in
Jaffa. After a short stay in a
small development shop, a very
modern plant was finally estab-
lished in Haifa.
Steinberg's family in the Unitcd
States, under the leadership of
Harmon S. Bayer, president of
Bayer and McElrath, Inc., man-
agement consultants, have poured
substantial sums into the develop-
ment of the company.
Other local members of the
family who have inv e sted in this
company and who are supporting
It are Philmore Leemon, president
Of Guardian Loan and Savings;
al White House mission to Nasser
resident correspondent for the and Ben-Gurion in the winter of
1955-1956 which is still top-secret.
East
and
Times in the Middle
London from 1953 to 1959, has un- Robert B. Anderson was sent to
covered a number of diplomatic the Middle East to link an Ameri-
secrets that cast new light on the can offer of aid for Egypt's High
policies of great powers as well Dam at Aswan with a peace settle-
as of the antagonists in the Middle ment between Egypt and Israel.
East itself.
Using the Suez wars of 1956 and
1967 as the focus of a study of the
explosive Arab-Israeli enmity, the
author draws the conclusion that
there is no foreseeable peace in!
the Middle East.
President ' Eisenhower's prom-
ise of help to Nasser was de-
livered by Ambassador Ray-
mond flare on Nov. 2, 1956, Love
reports, in response to a desper-
ate appeal from the Egyptian
leader. Eisenhower said the
United States would not inter-
vene with military force, which
disappointed Nasser at the time,
-hut he pledged that this country
would exert its diplomatic power
through the United Nations to
halt the attack on Egypt.
The fact that Britain and France
were the major North Atlantic
Treaty Organization allies of the
United States was cited by Eisen-
hower in his refusal to use force.
Eventually he used economic as
well as diplomatic power to make
Britain. France and Israel evacu-
ate their forces from Egypt. Nas-
Nasser was receptive to peace
explorations, Love reports, al-
though he refused to acknowledge
any strings between them and aid
for the dam.
According to Lo.ve's narrative it
was Ben-Guriorrr already planning
war against Egypt before the
Anderson mission, who wrecked
the mission by insisting on public
imeetings with Nasser, which have
always been politically impossible
for any Arab leader. Dulles' sub-
I sequent renege on the high dam
triggered the Suez Canal national-
ization.
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Egypt were damaged before the
Suez crisis, according to Love's
evidence, by the failure of a
The author, Kenneth Love.
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a secret promise by, ser told the author that Eisen-
President Eisenhower to President bower's role was "decisive," and
Nasser to halt the Anglo-French- that credit for stopping the war
Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956, belonged to Washington, not Mos-
are disclosed by a former New , cow.
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In
sailing race in Denmark, Sna- York Times correspondent in al
Relations between the U.S. and
pir's boats won first, second and
third places. Twelve days after
winning the world championship
at Sandhamm, they won first
and third prizes and became the
United States and Canadian In-
ternational Champion at Baby-
lon, N.Y.
There is a Detroit connection.
In 1961, after two years at the
Technion in Haifa, Amiram Stein-
berg of Tel Aviv arrived at the
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