JDC Acts to Meet Human Needs in Israel
TEL AVIV—Nowhere in Israel is
the shortage of services for the
aged more glaring than in the
lush green Galilee, the country's
northern "bread-basket."
Among the victims are many of
the nation's pioneers — "kibutz-
niks," "moshavniks" and other
early settlers who, within gunshot
range of the Lebanese, Syrian and
Jordanian borders, drained the
marshes, plowed the fields and
planted the vineyards and or-
chards which restored the land of
Canaan to its ancient beauty.
This is why Malben, the Joint
Distribution Committee program
in Israel, has given top priority to
the northern region in its- intensive
effort to develop a nationwide net-
work of community services for
Israel's aged population, Ralph
Goldman, JDC/Malben's. associate
director-general said her!.
Goldman Is acting chairman of
the national voluntary Associa-
tion for the Planning and Devel-
opment of Services for the Aged
which JDC Initiated last year to
mobilize action on behalf of the
aged at the grass roots level.
Over the next five years, the
association will spend $8,750,000.
half from JDC and half from local
sources, for this purpose, he said.
He pointed out that . in all.
JDC/Malben spends about $5,000,-
000 a year in Israel on programs
for the aged, using funds mainly-
from the United Jewish Appeal.
Goldman said that the associa-
tion's decision to act first in north-
ern Israel was reinforced by a
recent survey. For example, he
said, figures in the survey revealed
that 15.3 per cent of the 264 mem-
bers of Kibutz Degania "A" are
over 65; 9.4 per cent of Kibutz
Degania "B's" 350 members are
in the same category. While these
and other kibutzim can provide for
their well aged, he said, growing
old and feeble is nonetheless a
traumatic experience for men and
women who all their lives have
gloried in hard physical work.
He added that these settle-
ments—some subjected to regu-
lar attacks by bands of "feda-
yeen"—are simply not set up to
care for the seriously ill age.'
person who needs special medi-
cal facilities and round-the-clock
nursing care.
The situation is worse, if any-
thing, for urban-dwellers, he said.
In the town of Beit Shean on the
Jordanian border, according to the
same survey, 74 per cent of the
546 residents over 65 are on wel-
fare. In the ancient coastal city of
Acre, half of the old people also arc
on relief, living in near slum con-
ditions. High in the hill city of
Safed, center of ancient Jewish
mysticism and a modern artists'
colony, scores of aged men and
women shiver through the winter
in stove-heated rooms, subsist on
a diet of tea and toast, and go
dirty because they have no place
to bathe.
Goldman said that the first three
institutions of some ten the asso-
ciation is planning will be built in
Upper, Lower and Western Gali
lee. In line with Modern concepts,
they will not only provide critically
needed homes for the aged but
also serve as community geriatric
centers offering a wide range• of
services to aged people in the
surrounding areas.
Goldman stressed that a pre-
condition for allocation of the as-
sociation's funds is the establish-
ment of regional and local bodies
—"agudas," they are called in Is-
rael—to take direct responsibility
for the aged in their localities.
"Agudas" have already been
formed in Afula to serve Lower
Galilee and in Sated for Upper
Galilee, he said, adding that a
third is now being organized in
Acre to serve Western Galilee.
The association's first major
undertaking in the North is a new
regional home and center for
the aged now under construction
in Afula, Goldman stated. With
a population of 16,500, Afula is
the largest town in Lower Gali-
lee. The predominantly rural
area it will serve includes the
kibutzim and moshavim of the
Jezreel, Jordan and Belsan Val-
leys. Afula was chosen both for
its central location and because
it has a good general hospital,
Goldman said.
The new institution will include
living accommodations for 100
aged persons, mostly infirm and
nursing cases requiring special
care. But in its role as service cen-
ter it will reach many more aged
people through counseling and
guidance services, day care, house
keeping help and a "meals-on-
wheels" program.
Two more major projects now
in the planning stage are homes
combined with centers in Safed
and Acre. Each of them will ac-
commodate about 100 aged resi-
dents and provide a variety of
services. They will replace small
out-of-date institutions operated by
JDC/Malben which have been open
only to new immigrants and not
to the general public, Goldman
concluded.
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ORT Adopts $21.8 Budget
NEW YORK (JTA)—A record
budget of $21,840,000 was adopted
Sunday by the American ORT
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of a stepped-up program of eco-
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Jewish communities in 20 other
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ORT president, declared that this
was the "needs budget" to provide
essential services to more than
60,000 persons during 1971. The
sum approved by more than 600
conference delegates, he stated,
was 52,000,000 more than last year
and added that this increase would
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