Israelis hurrying home for the Sabbath, the squeaky Carmelit cable ear in Haifa. Security measures kept his ma- chine out of the Knesset, but on the trip home, El Al officials per- mitted Freeling to use It, once he had demonstrated that the recorder was not concealing a dangerous device. A child psychologist with the Penrickton Center for the Visually Handicaped, Freeling said he went to Israel "as a very interested, curious private citizen. A lot of American Jews are very senti- mental about Israel; I don't knock sentiment, but it could possibly distort one's concept of reality. So, I went with an air of skepticism. "I came away believing Israel is vital and vibrantly alive. The people seem to know where they're going and are proud of it. There's a feeling of love of country—not a 'greasy' kind of patriotism, not at all chauvinistic. Most Israelii I talked to acknowledged there are problems and seemed to want to make themselves better people." Because visual experiences are lacking, Freeling relies on his heightened awareness through other senses. At the Western (Wailing) Wall: "I approached it as a very de- tached and level-headed psycholo- gist. But as I touched the wall, I was overwhelmed by an indescrib- able feeling, linking me with the fantastic Jewish heritage of wis- dom and insight. It wasn't a sen- timental thing, but a feeling of a sense of history. Certainly, it was the highlight of my trip." His own work with children made Freeling particularly sensi- tive to how Israel meets their needs. "Children are so very precious In Israel," he observed. "They are strongly encouraged in all kinds of activities and get a great deal of affection." At the Institute for the Blind in Jerusalem, some 100 children of age 5-16 are "cherished as a price- less value. It's very touching to watch." Freeling, who attended the School for the Blind in New York before going on to the universities of Rochester and Michigan for bache- lors and masters degrees, said Israel's services for the blind are as good as those in the United States. •'But it's harder to find the blind in Israel. There's a greater stigma attached to blindness:" Freeing learned that Arabs and North African immigrants actually hide their blind children, and the ministry of social welfare must try to find them. Birth defects have replaced trachoma as the number one cause of blindness in Israel, whose philos- ophy on the education of sightless children is to integrate them into the general community. Severely handicaped blind youngsters are institutionalized, but the Institute for the Blind may begin to take in more multiply handicaped students. Noting that there are a number of blind peddlers in Israel's larger cities, Freeing said it is "difficult to teach the Israeli public that the blind can do more than beg. But while the attitude is less enlight- ened than in the United Stateg, facilities are up to date." His meager knowledge of con- versational Hebrew was a draw- back in Israel,. Freeing admits, but the students of Beth Am's religious school will have no such problem when they visit. At the school, Hebrew is taught by the Habet U'Shma audio-visual tech- nique. There is a strong empha- sis on Israel in the curriculum, he added. Freeling cautions, however, that "Books don't do Israel justice. It's an intensely personal, emotional kind of experience. You have to feel the country to appreciate it." By CHARLOTTE DUBIN Neal Freeling has seen Israel as few see it. Back from a brief trip, the 33- year-old bachelor president of Temple Beth Am describes a court-, try pulsating with excitement, with the sounds of progress and the joy of being. He felt the country with every sense but sight. For Freeland is blind. Wherever he toured, accompa- nied by his father and an Israeli guide, Free ling recorded the mood of Israel—he calls it slices of life —on tape. He took his recorder to a Hanuka celebration and a wed- ding at Kibutz Daverat, where he stayed with relatives. He taped radio commercials. He re- corded the sounds of churches and shops, a bos crowded with Sheila Berman Engaged to Sheldon Bruce - Kohn MISS SHEILA BERMAN Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berman of Park Ave., Oak Park, announce the engagement of their daughter Sheila Jean to Sheldon Bruce Kohn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theo- dore Kohn of Rosemary Ave., Oak Park. The bride-to-be is an educati"n senior at Wayne State University, where she is affiliated with Delta Phi Epsilon Sorority. Her fiance, a University of Michigan graduate, is attending law school there. 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