18—Friday, Juiy 24, 1970
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
School for Applied Science Set Up
at Hebrew U., Detroiter's Role Told
By ARON ESHEL
(Copyright 1970, JTA, Inc.)
The interplay of American and
Israeli scientists and public-spirit-
ed leaders in different fields has
culminated in another success
story that is currently being writ-
ten in Jerusalem and New York.
It is about men and ideas devoted
to the creation of a new breed of
Israeli designed to give an added
dimension to Israel's economic life
in the 1970s. It is the story of the
establishment of the Graduate
School of Applied Science and
Technology at the Hebrew Univer-
sity of Jerusalem, slated to bridge
the gap between the academic
world and the world of industry by
training much needed applied sci-
entists and technologists for Is-
rael's building science-based indus-
tries.
Sparked by a report of two prom-
inent American experts visiting
Israel under the auspices of the
Robert Szold Center of Applied
Science at the Hebrew University
less than two years ago, the grad-
uate school is now taking shape
with a full teaching program to
start with the academic year 1970-
71 next fall.
Named after Robert Szold,1
New York attorney and Zionist
leader, the center was set up in
1966 with an initial grant of
000,000 from PEF Israel Endow.
ment Funds, Inc., New York
based charitable organization.
Encouraged by Sidney Musher,
head of the Robert Szold Center in
New York, the two American ex-
perts undertook a study trip to rs-
rael in 1968 as Robert Szold Center
Visitors. The team comprised of
Dr. Shirleigh Silverman, associate
director for academic liaison of the
National Bureau of Standards,
Washington, and Dr. Julius Har-
wood, assistant director, materials
science of the Ford Motor Com-
pany, Dearborn, Mich. After a sur-
vey of Israel industrial, scientific
and governmental establishments,
they submitted a definitive report
on the need for a faculty of ap-
plied science at the Hebrew Uni-
versity.
Last August, Avraham Harman,
president of the Hebrew University
and former ambassador of Israel
to the U.S., wrote to Szold:
"Thanks to the initiative and assist-
ance of the Robert Szold Center,
which resulted in the report of Sil-
verman and Harwood, we have
decided to initiate the teaching of
applied science and technology."
Since then, the nucleus of the new
faculty and a tentative curriculum
for graduate students have been
established and plans are being
completed for the physical setup of
the school. It will offer a two-year
program toward an MS degree,
and a continuing program for grad-
uates working toward a PhD. The
first year will be devoted to labor-
atory work and lectures with a
summer program of working in in-
dustry. During the second year the
major effort will be directed to-
ward the preparation of a thesis
and there will also be lecture pro-
grams.
The teaching program will
comprise the areas of basic sci-
ence, engineering, economics,
business administration and lab-
oratory work. By the end of four
years, the school will be able to
provide facilities for about 100
students.
Speaking of the function of the
school within the framework of
Israel's economy, Harman points
out that the need for training sci-
entists for industry in Israel is of
vital importance to the economic
and technological development of
the country. As long as science-
based industries were few, he says,
Israel could afford the luxury of
producing first-rate s c1 entists
whose knowledge was confined to
the areas of pure basic science.
With the rapid acceleration of sci-
ence-based industry, Israel now
finds herself in need of people
trained in the applied sciences.
To meet these needs, the Hebrew
University proposes to develop the
School of Applied Science and
Technology in those areas in which
the university already has a solid
foundation in basic research that
can be readily related to applied
research. It will not duplicate pro-
grams under way in other institu-
tions in Israel.
Among the basic research areas
existing at the university and rele-
vant to the new school are physics
(optics, solid state physics, micro-
waves); chemistry (polymers,
solid state chemistry, physical
chemistry); mathematics (compu-
ter science ,game theory, numer-
ical analysis); biology (microbiol-
ogy, medical electronics); geology
(groundwater research, minerals);
and social sciences (economics,
business administration).
Ghana Ambassador:
Israel Is for Peace
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The new
ambassador from Ghana, Maj.
Gen. S.J.A. Otu, invoked his
Christian background Monday as
he presented his credentials to
President Zalman Shazar.
"To those of us in Ghana who
have been brought up within the
folds of Christianity," he said in
a ceremonial address, "the name
'Jerusalem' is a source of in-
spiration for all those ideas which
make for the continued existence
of mankind. Peace is one of those
ideas. Therefore, the prophets of
Israel, who in their supreme wis-
dom envisioned peace, never
ceased to instill the consciousness
of peace in their pupils."
The African diplomat said he
believed in "Israel's passionate
yearning for peace" and said he
hoped to "contribute to the
achievement of lasting peace in
the Middle East."
Dr. Mengele Reported
Alive and Well in Egypt
BONN (JTA) — Dr. Josef Men-
gele, the notorious Auschwitz ex-
perimenter, is living luxuriously in
a villa in Cairo, where several
other top Nazi war criminals are
also operating at high levels, ac-
cording to German press reports.
Former SS General Oskar Dirle-
wander was said to be training
Arab terrorists in Egypt and to be
among those responsible for Presi-
dent Gamal Abdel Nasser's per-
sonal guard.
Leopole Eilein, former Gestapo
chief of Lublin, is a leading mem-
ber of President Nasser's police
staff.
Karl Westmann, a former SS
officer is an adviser to the Egyp-
tian political police.
Lessons in Fight Against Poverty in 'Diary of A.N."
Exploration of the poverty ills pie on welfare are caught. It is,
in our society gains support and in a sense, a tale of horror, and
a vast amount of evidential ma- A. N. envisions failure:
"The blank pages may be the
terial in a remarkably well-for-
best pages in this diary. They
mulated book written as a diary.
will
reveal that I can keep my
Julius Horwitz, in "The Diary
distance from 104 Street. I do
of A. N. — The Story of the House
not
breathe
in its air of failure.
on West 104th Street," published
This is the welfare sickness.
by Coward-McCann, takes the stu-
To expect failure and to accept
dent through the miseries of the
failure."
ghetto.
A. N. fights, but she is the ex-
Utilizing his experience as a
welfare worker, Horowitz here pre- ception. Her friends, her sister,
sents the day-to-day occurences and the thousands of girls from
in the life of A. N. — the suffer- homes like hers see nothing ahead
ings entailed, the needs that are but their own baby and their own
lacking, the horrors of slum hous- welfare case. Horwitz has created
ing, the rats that infest the A. N. as a possibility, a way out.
neighborhood, the human degra- She is alive enough to see, and
dations involved. hates enough to fight. As the diary
The diary is blunt. It introduces ends, A. N. is just beginning to
the reader to the miserable con- emerge from the welfare trap.
dition in this paragraph: And perhaps, Horwitz suggests,
"This is who is in our family.
My mother, her name is Esther.
My brother Charles, be is 12.
My sister Harriet, who is 13 and
my brother Edgar who is one
year and three months. Here
Herbert Gold, the sensational
on 104 Street we have one room author whose "Fathers" and other
and not even a big room. The works were noteworthy, does it
toilet is in the hallway and all again with a new novel, "The
of the families on this side of Great American Jackpot" (Ran-
the hallway use it. For 2 days dom House).
the toilet was broken. Momma
It is the delight for lovers of con-
told us to go at school."
temporary literature, with lots of
The house on 104th Street, and sex motivation, much action,
all the houses like it, breed some- drama and pathos and comedy.
thing far more dangerous than
In the cast of characters are
rats, cockroaches and junkies. Prof. Jarod Howe and his white
These houses are "the dumping wife, the hippie Sue Cody and the
grounds" of the welfare system, Black Muslim leader.
where failure is a virtue, where
All aspects of modern life are
unmarried mothers wear their included here—the criminal issues
despair like a badge, where tra- of many in our society.
gedy has become lucrative and
Gold does not forget the Jewish
every new unwanted baby brings angle, albeit briefly. He introduces
in another $9.30 every two weeks. the following in relation to Jarod:
The 15-year-old narrator de-
"The majority decision in a cru-
scribes the trap in which the peo- cial Supreme Court rendering had
cited his analysis of the effect of
on the psycho-social
Massachusetts AFL-CIO segregation
structure of black neighborhoods
Urges Jet Sale to Israel
in both small towns and large
BOSTON (JTA)—The executive cities, beginning - with an acute
board of the Massachusetts State comparison of the Negro ghetto
Labor Council, AFL-CIO, repre- with the two-way segregation of
senting over 500,000 trade union- traditional European Jewish ghet-
ists in the Bay State, voted at its tos. The history of Judaism, with a
monthly session to call on Presi- separate culture, language, scrip-
dent Nixon and Secretary of State tures and philosophical justifica-
William P. Rogers "to allow Israel tion 'tended'—as he put it in soci-
to purchase the necessary air- ology—to support family and per-
planes and weapons from us for sonal ego-structures; the Ne-
groes—Blacks--broke down in pre-
her defense and survival."
Expressing "c oncern and cisely the areas where Jews drew
alarm" over "the operational in- renewed strength. It was a dif-
volvement of Soviet military per- ficult analysis for a Negro (Black)
sonnel in the Middle East con- to offer . . ."
Regardless of its effectiveness
flict," the message to administra-
tion official expressed the belief in the story, the view was inserted
that "it is vital that our govern- —Gold dealt with a black charac-
ment should utilize every available ter and he related his thinking to
diplomatic means and channels to the factor some believe to be a
press for the withdrawal of all struggle.
The novel itself is typically in
Soviet troops and military ad-
visers from the Middle East as an the Gold style of powerful descrip-
essential first step toward world tion that lends it strength and
gains readers. —P. S.
peace."
Gold's 'The Great
AmericanJackpot'
she can encourage others to go
with her. What about this rebuke
to the system?:
"I never saw an investigator
who came to see us who knew
what their job should be. Their
job should be to cry out to the
heavens that this building
stinks, that welfare is rotten as
long as it makes people rotten,
that welfare kills and destroys
human life, it's as though 5,000
babies are being burned alive
every week. This is what an in-
vestigator should do.
"And do not ask stupid ques-
tions. And not pretend they are
sympathetic. 0 n e cannot be
sympathetic to the way we live.
One can only hate it. Hate it.
Hate it. Hate it
In the battle against poverty,
in the new struggle for just rights,
Horwitz' "Diary of A.N." serves
a significant purpose. The unknow-
ing have much to learn from the
A. N. experience.
Scientist Sentenced
to 18 Years in Jail
as Espionage Agent .
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A Jewish
scientist, Jean Pierre Selan, was
sentenced to 18 years' imprison-
ment on charges of espionage.
This is the longest sentence ever
imposed on a scientist found guilty
on charges of endangering the
security of the state, officials said.
No details were released on
Selan's place of birth, the duration
of his stay in Israel, or for whom
he was spying.
The trial was held in secret ses-
sion before a three-judge Tel Aviv
district court. But it was learned
that Selan was charged with
espionage, conspiracy and with an
intent to jeopardize Israel's secu-
rity and with maintaining contact
with an enemy agent.
He was found guilty on all
charges.
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A prince . . . a great man . .. has fallen in Israel
Mizrachi Hapoel HaMizrachi of Detroit joins with Israel,
with world Jewry and with the entire Jewish community of
Detroit in mourning the passing of
—II Samuel 3:38
HAIM MOSHE SIIAPIRO
Israel Minister of the Interior, Chairman of the National Religious Party,
Member of the Knesset, signer of the Israel Declaration of Independence
and devout Jewish leader who was a founder of the State of Israel.
. May we find consolation in the fulfill-
Our loss is great and our sorrow is deep-rooted
ment of the departed leaders fondest hopes and aspirations far Israel.
Memorial services for the departed Israel Minister of the Interior Haim Moshe Shapiro will be con-
in cooperation with the Zionist Federation of Detroit, the Detroit Rabbinate, all
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ducted by Mizrachi
branches of Young Israel in Detroit and all congregations and organizations in Detroit.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 8 p.m.
at Young Israel of Oak Woods, 24061 Coolidge
ALL ARE WELCOME