Tahal Engineers Form
Company with Americans

War Dispelled Generation Gap, Israeli Scouts Report on Tour of the U.S.

By ESTHER ALLWEISS
ment. "It makes the kids too le-
During the Six-Day War, Israeli pendent," he said.
"It's not up to the kids to change
youth realized a common national
unity with their fathers that has things—everything is prepared for
led to new popularity for scouting them," he said. "I have more

and other youth movements.
This feeling in youth was born
of the concern every Israeli felt
for the survival of his nation dur-
ing the war. The generations were
united in their common crisis.
Asher Almon, 15, one of two
scouts on a tour of the United
States this month as part of the
National Jewish Committee of Boy
Scouts' new cultural exchange pro-
gram, explained youth's feeling
before the war.

"Our parents did the pioneer-
ing. We felt like the country was
finished with the
pioneering
movement and didn't need us.
The Six-Day War changed that,"
he said.

"We realized the importance of
youth goals still exists," said Eldad
Powsner, 15, who with Asher is
staying at the home of Charlas
Feinberg, a leader in the boy scout
movement.
Today, Israeli scouting is on the
upsurge, with 50 per cent of the
young people participating in the
movement—a figure better than in
most countries, Asher said.
What makes scouting work in Is-
rael is its number of opportunities
for youth leadership.
Eldad was enthusiastic: "It's
(scouting) such a challenge for a
boy my age!"
Serving as a counselor along
with a few other older scouts, El-
dad arranges meetings and outings
for tribes (troops) aged 9 to 14.
Eldad said he thinks there are
too many adults in the U.S. move-

Yout
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They Made
The Grade

BONNIE ANN BORIN, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bonin of
Sherwood St., Huntington Woods,
will spend next year in Israel as a
student of Gold College for Women

in Jerusalem. She has been award-
ed a scholarship to pursue her

graduate Judaic studies there in
recognition of her accomplish.
ments at Hillel Day School and
Berkley High School. Gold College
is geared to American students
with high qualifications and seeks
to prepare them for a career in
Orthodox Jewish education and
community leadership.

S.

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EUGENE GOLDBERG, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Goldberg of
Essexville, Mich., will spend next
year in Israel as a student cf
Jerusalem Torah College. The
school offers advanced study op-
portunities in Judaic studies to
graduates of Jewish secondary
schools and is geared to American
students with high qualifications.
He attended Yeshiva University in
New York in 1966-1968, continued
studies at Hebrew University the
following year and received his BA
in sociology and music at Western
Michigan University.

TEL AVIV—Control Data Corp.
of Minneapolis and Tahal Consult-
ing Engineers Ltd., of Tel Aviv,
Israel's largest civil engineering
organization, have annclinced the
establishment of a joint company
to provide consulting services fon
commercial, industrial and govern-
ment operations, with emphasis on
the development of computer-based
systems. The company is called
Contahal Ltd.

challenges in Israel."
Adults in the Israeli scout move-
ment hold administrative positions.
They are needed "only for finan-
cial reasons—to sign checks be-
cause the counselors are young,"
said Asher.
With the grown-ups in the min-

ority, the kids themselves actual-
ly run the organization. Some of
the youth-decided changes within
the scouts? Eldad grinned. "Two
years ago we decided it was time
to dance the American dances."
Dancing perhaps isn't a critical
issue in American scouting because
the two systems have different
philosophies. Ceremonies and the
individual competition for badges

are not important to Israeli scouts:
for them, the social aspects of
scouting are what count.
"We have only group activities,"
said Eldad, "We do things demo-
cratically. We volunteer and are
elected to all jobs by the group.
The teen-age counselors do not
hold real authority in the tribe's
decision-making. As Amnon said,
"It's not the army."
The social element of scouting is
fully realized by the fact that girls
as well as boys are within the same
tribes.
Wondering why scouts here are
segregated by sex, Asher said, "It's
logical to have girls in the move-
ment." He said in scouts there is
no prejudice as to sex, religion or
race.
Eldad said there is an Israeli
Scout Federation composed of
scouts of various religions and

Beth Achim Youth Plan
Six Holy Day Services

High Holy Day services to paral-
lel the adult congregations, Oct. 1,
2, 9 and 10 are announced by Abe
Medow, chairman of Cong. Beth
Achim's youth commission.
Children's (age 5-8) and junior
services (9-12) will be conducted
by staff at both in-town and subur-
ban buildings.

Tickets for these six services
are available without charge,
through the synagogue office,
352-800 or at the Beth Achim
branch of the United Hebrew
Schools, after Labor Day, 353-

2581.
The youth congregation (13-18)
will hold services at the new Roh-
lik Auditorium of the United He-
brew High School, two blocks west
of Cong. Beth Achim. Tickets are
available through members of La-
hav United Synagogue Youth,
which is organizing these services
for young adults.

Druse and Sabras Tour
Major Seaboard Cities

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Twenty-
five Israelis, including two Druse,
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A Hebrew edition of the Scout Handbook is presented by Israeli
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boys, in this country on a tour, stopped in Detroit briefly.

races—including Arabs—and all get he'd be active in scouts even after
he was past the age of counseling.
along well.
"T here are no professional
Camping in Israel is not a com-
plicated activity. Asher said little scouts," he said, but added that
groups and their counselors take the feeling of youth national pride
blankets and go off to a meadow will persist.
or forest to camp.
"We're continuing what our par-
Stating that "My friends are ents started," Asher said.

all in scouts, that's why I'm

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who think Israeli scouting is

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it allows.
He said he feels the atmosphere

historical sites last week as part of
a month-long tour of eastern Unit-
Feinberg said the National Jew-
ed States communities.
ish Committee of Boy Scouts has
The Druse were Munir Hamdan
cooperated with Israel for many
of Haifa, one of the group's three
years and sponsored such events
adult leaders, and Sala Azmi of
as international jamborees.
DAILY 9 A.M.-7 P.M.
Osfia, a teen-ager. The group be-
Optimistic as is their host about
longs to Noar L'Noar ("Youth to scouting, Asher maintained that
Youth"), an Israeli organization
affiliated with the Bnai Brith Youth
Organization.
The visitors to the White House
Youth Council to Meet
were greeted by Bruce Rabb,
NEW YORK — Some 150 repre- executive assistant to President
sentatives from 23 national Jewish Nixon. They also visited the Israeli
youth organizations and 30 local Embassy. The group has been to
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scouts for the social experiences

of his country—the feeling of na-
tional unity—is the reason Israeli
youth are not tempted by the
drugs that lure other youngsters to
the Middle East.
Although hashish is cheap and
easily obtained, Eldad said, "Is-
raelis are not tempted."
Asher explained that young
people feel they have a purpose to
their activity and are not just kept
busy so they will stay off the
streets.
The boys were selected along
with 17 others to tour the United
States and scout camps by a rep-
resentative election committee
from every city. The majority of
the original 600 candidates were
girls, but only five were chosen
for the trip because the regular
scout camps in the U.S. exclude
girls.
Some of the Israeli scouts are
staying at Young Judea Zionist
camps while others are at scout
camps. Only Asher and Eldad are
touring the country — going by
Greyhound bus from coast to coast.
While on tour, the boys have met
Jewish scout leaders from major
cities in the U.S. and Canada and
presented them with emblems,
patches and souvenirs of Israel.
They gave Feinberg first-day cov-
ers of stamps commemorating 50
years of boy scouting in Israel.
Of the camps they have visited,
Asher said the Philmont Camp in
New Mexico impressed him most.
He said it is supposed to be the
largest scout camp in the world.
An interesting sidelight to the
exchange program is that the Jew-
ish committee sent over a Catho-
lic scout from New Jersey to
Israel.

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