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. 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