srael's Fantastic Sports Enthusiasm
38—Friday, November 27, 1970
trip to Israel such a truly breath- customs bothered no one," Cohen
taking and marvelous experience. said. "They got along great, ex-
"He is still giving us little details changing ideas, making friends,
It has been a recent tenet of our
above all, they got to know
ociety to complain. We rarely take and comments on the three great- and
and its people. The festival
le time or make the effort to est weeks of his young life and it Israel
such a success that we are
peak out about what is good or is hard to believe that a 'city kid' was
thinking
about running it again
ight or inspirational. However, could be left with such a deep
summer instead of on a two-
le trend has been dramatically feeling for what he left behind in next
year
basis.
The momentum is
eversed as far as Harold Zimman Israel.
"Mark naturally lives and there, so why lose it? Even the
f Lynn, Mass., and Haskell Cohen
Israelis
were
flabbergasted at its
breathes basketball," the letter
f New York City are concerned.
continued. "It's his first love. success." sports was intimately
Zimman is chairman of the Na
While
onal Jewish Welfare Board's But he was so impressed with
involved, it was only part of the
ealth and physical education corn- the kids from other countries
festival. The primary aim was
and each one becoming part of
iittee. Cohen is chairman of his
cultural, and in keeping with it
family—or
so
he
says—'like
WB's basketball committee. To- being with many brothers and
the youngsters all toured Israel
'?ther, they were responsible for sisters'—that the basketball and
widely, from the Golan Heights in
re First International Israel Youth
the north to Masada in the south.
'estival in the summer, and now tournament part of the festival
The whole trip was inspirational,
hey were in the JWB offices in became secondary.
especially for the Zimman and
Mrs.
Glazer
contin-
"In
fact,"
slew York City glancing through
Cohen,
who both agreed they gave,
ued, "Mark already is correspond-
he mail.
ing with Olaf from Holland and which was much.
"It's absolutely unbelievable," Sonja from Sweden. Isn't this
"We'll use the same selection
said Zimman, who served as the great?"
system next time," Cohen said.
head of the U.S. delegation.
"First,
commitment to Judaism,
Twelve nations participated in
"Fantastic," agreed Cohen, who the festival and the youngsters and sports second. And we'll get
served as the international chair- were as diverse as the Twelve the youngsters from the same place
man of the festival, and whose Tribes. Besides host Israel, the —the yeshivot, Jewish Community
business is public relations. "We USA, Holland and Sweden, they Centers, YM-YWHA's and Hebrew
took along 63 boys and girls be- came from Denmark, Ireland, Day Schools."
"After all," Zimman said, "it's
tween the ages of 15 and 17. So far, IL ly, France. Argentina, Brazil,
a wonderful way to spend the sum-
we've received 50 letters of com- Peru and Columbia.
mendation from both the young-
"The difference in language and mer, and these 50 letters prove it."
sters involved or their parents."
STOREWIDE SALE
nedeedr
y,ri
20 to 70(y.
By JESSE H. SILVER
(Copyright 1970, JTA, Inc.)
The memories of the festival.
which mixed culture and sports,
and ran from July 20 through
Aug. 9, were pleasant, indeed.
"Let me tell you about the
closing ceremonies," Cohen said.
"Schmuel Bialik, the chairman
of the Israel organizing commit-
tee, told me the closing cere-
monies would be held at mid-
night. I told him he was crazy.
Nobody would come because the
next day was a work day. You
know what?" Cohen continued.
"They were sold out. At mid-
night!"
"What about the farewell at the
airport?" Zimman prompted.
"Equally unbelievable," Cohen
said. "The Israeli youngsters who
participated in the festival dis-
banded and left /Cfar Galim outside
of Haifa when the festival was
over. I thought we'd seen the last
of them. But when the American
delegation left Lydda Airport, the
Israelis all came down to say
goodbye. Each of them brought a
bouquet of flowers to give to our
kids. It was quite a moment,"
Cohen said.
Zimman thumbed through a
folder of letters and extracted one.
"Read this," he said.
The letter was from Mrs. Ted
Glazer of Jersey City, N.J. It read
in part: "With all the sincerity of
our hearts, Mr. Glazer and I wish
to thank you and all of those in-
volved in making our son Mark's
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Political the French ruling applied to for-
circles here saw no anti-Israel mer French nationals in many
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of French authorities to reactivate
a law that withdrawn French citi-
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Under the original law of return,
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Elsner was born in 1903 and was
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