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Jews in Terror
Mid East Ferment Disrupting Ancient Communities; Keeps
and handicaped. Since JDC was
ale in the arts, sciences and the
NEW YORK — The continuing era," he added.
forced to suspend its programs In
- ferment in the Middle East echoes
Samuel L. Haber, JDC vice military."
About 7,000 Jews remain in Poland at the end of 1967, these
and re-echoes throughout North chairman, told the assembly that
Poland,
Br
een
continued,
most
people
have no one to turn to for
Africa and Europe disrupting ten- the special problems confronting
turies.old Jewish communities and the JDC caused it to transfer the of them old people, alone, sick assistance.
keeping tens of thousands of Jews locals of the annual program and
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
in a constant state of anxiety, in budget review from Geneva, where 16—Friday, October 23, 1970
some instances terror, Louis D. they have customarily been held,
Horwitz, director-general of the to New York.
He reported that the JDC will
Joint Distribution Committee re-
have assisted some 313,000 needy
ported last week.
Horwitz sounded the keynote at Jews in more than 25 countries by
the annual program and budget the end of 1970—"unless we are
review of the JDC attended by confronted between now and Dec.
more than 300 Jewish leaders from 31 with another of those unex-
the United States and Canada. petted and unprepared for emer-
More than 60,000 Jews have gencies. Should that happen all
been uprooted from their homes our statistics, all our programs
in North Africa and Eastern as well as our budget, will have
Europe in the 31/2 years since the to be revised. We go by need
Six-Day War, Horwitz said. The and not by arithmetic formulas,"
care and maintenance of these he noted.
Haber said that the expendi-
refugees entailed expenditures of
tures for 1970 will be about
nearly $4,000,000.
"In the 22 years of Israel's $23,000,000, 90 per cent of which
existance over 600,000 Jews comes from the campaigns of the
made their way there from Mos- United Jewish Appeal. More than
lem and Arab countries," for- a third of that budget will go for
witz said. "Many came only with programs in Israel. another third
the meager belongings they in Europe, and the balance in Mos-
could carry. Whatever funds and tem countries and other areas.
Desribing the refugee move-
assets they had, they were forced
ment in 1970, Julian Breen, JDC
to leave behind."
• In Israel, more than 90,000 men, Budget and Finance Director,
women and children are cared for said "Perhaps the most dramatic
by one or another JDC program, was the exodus of 12,000 Jews
Horwitz said. "Malben, JDC's pro- frcm Poland. These represent
gram in Israel, has launched a far- the hard core of those who hoped
reaching program to bring care to up to the last desperate moment
every aged person in Israel who that things would change and
needs it. Its next target is coin- they would be allowed to remain
prehensive assessment and assist- in Poland. Many were partners
ante for handicapped children, in mixed marriages and were
something only an agency like reluctant to leave their non-
the JDC can initiate in a country Jewish partners. Others were
so deeply involved in a life and party functionaries, academi-
death struggle on all of its bord- cians and prominent profession-
IF
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HART
IS YOUR CHOICE FOR. THE
S. SENATE
THEN
Israel Authorities Coping With Rise
in Drug Abuse; Center Is Old City .
JERUSALEM (JTA) —Israeli , inated in Israel's southern district
authorities are grappling with a which includes Jerusalem and the
problem they believed to be foreign Negev.
to their soil and to Jewish society
Last year 345 tourists were
generally — the alarming increase arrested in Isrrael on charges of
in the use of narcotics. illegal possession of drugs. About
' According to an inquiry under 200 of drettr-came from the
way by the Criminological Institute United States and Canada. Ac-
of Tel Aviv University, narcotics cording to authorities, they in-
use jumped sharply during '1970 cluded "quite— a few Jews and
compared to the preceeding three- non-Jews" who came to Israel to
buy narcotics intending to smug-
. year period.
Police opened 373 prosecution gle them into their own coun-
files and brought charges against tries."
Cases of narcotics use have
405 individuals on narcotics counts
during the first half of this year cropped up in kibutzim and at
ulpanim where tourists and new
alone, the inquiry disclosed.
They confiscated 3,179 kilograms immigrants study Hebrew. Among
of hashish and 812 kilograms of the users arrested were students.
opium. Major quantities were seized volunteer youths and Orthodox ye-
at Haifa port and Lydda Airports. shiva students.
In many cases, fines imposed by
Authorities tend to blame the
rising use of drugs here on the in- the courts were paid on the spot by
flux of visitors, especially youths, the kibutzim concerned.
Authorities say the influx of for-
from Western countries in recent
years and the closer contacts with eign dope smugglers this year
stems from the low price of drugs
Arabs since the Six-Day War.
on the Israel market. The price of
The Old City of Jerusalem has hashish in Israel was $160 per kilo-
been pinpointed as the main center gram compared to $2,500 per kilo-
of the wholesale drug trade. Most gram in North America.
of the recent narcotics cases orig-
Israeli police are said to have
information that organized narco-
t
tics gangs in North America are in
regular contact with dealers in Old
'Jerusalem. They have passed on
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their information to narcotics au-
thorities in the U.S. and Canada.
SALAAM
Drug traffic is not new to the
Middle East. But the narcotics
smugglers who once used ships
CHARGER!
passing through the Suez Canal
now route the drugs through Israel.
'70 & 71 DODGES'
According to Dr. Louis Miller,
director of mental health sem
Ices at the health ministry, the
problem would not have assumed
serious proportions were it not
for visiting foreign youths whom
he described as "drifters" rather
than bona fide tourists. He said
that they and some foreign stu-
dents at Israeli universities were
introducing a drug culture to
hitherto untouched Israeli youth.
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Dr. Miller noted that among Is-
raeli drug offenders there has been
a significant shift to - the higher
social and economic levels of the
population. According to statistics,
in 1986 one in 10 offenders was a
• juvenile; in 1970, one in three was
under 18 years of age.
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IS YOUR CHOICE FOR
U. S. CONGRESS
ELECT A LEGISLATIVE TEAM!
"Less than half of the
dollars now spent for war
would enable us to meet
all our domestic prob-
lems without tax in-
crease:
Inflation.
Education.
Pollution Control.
Recession.
Unemployment.
Crime in the Streets.
Housing.
Drug Abuse and Clinics.
Medical Care.
Health Insurance.
Problems of Senior
Citizens."
—August Scholle
December 20, 1969
"Education.
Pollution Control.
Housing.
Parks.
Food for the hungry.
Training for the poor.
That's where that $20 bil-
lion (spent in Vietnam)
ought to go.
That's the way to put our
national proirities into
some sort of sensible
order."
—Philip A. Hart
University of Mich.,
December 13, 1969
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