20—Friday, July 23, 1971
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
After 18 Years of Growth
Israel Aircraft Very Popular in Paris
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JERUSALEM—Shortly after the
closing of the 1971 Paris Air Show,
a preliminary assessment indicates
suss for Israel Aircraft Indus-
- try's debut as a leading aerospace
enterprise.
Tp those who had followed IAI's
growth over its 18 years, this hard-
ly came as a surprise.
Although the Paris appearance
marked its first full participation
in this most prestigious and exclu-
sive of aviation fairs, together with
the world's best known designers
and manufacturers. IAI's stature
was built by dynamic, though
painstaking, development in succes-
sive stages of growth and diversi-
fication.
The overhaul and modification
facility (Bedek) that the Israel
Aircraft Industry started out as,
branched out into production of
parts, components, systems and
then complete civil aircraft, with
independent research and design
soon to follow.
Two products of the IAI's capa-
bility starred in the Paris show's
demonstration flights, which also
served as their world preview.
Proving its STOL (short take-off
and landing) capability on less than
100 meters of runway. IAI's Arava
twin-turboprop transport showed
off its handling properties potential.
The Eleven-23 Commodore Jet,
IAI's entry in the field of corpor-
ate aviation, was as great an
attraction.
Options and actual sales racked
up for both aircraft already ac-
count for the majority of the first
production series, scheduled for
1971-72, with the Paris results yet
to be felt.
Bedek announced the opening of
a total modification and service
center for Boeing aircraft of all
models. Another Bedek develop-
ment, an illumination system en-
suring helicopters of safe night fly-
ing in close formation, was also
sought after. Elta, IAI's electronics
subsidiary, scored foreign orders
for its advanced UHF communica-
tions system.
Similar success was met by IAI's
plants and affiliates in diverse
fields connected with aviation:
hydraulics, instruments, plastics,
precision mechanisms, and by the
sophisticated Gabriel sea-to-sea
missile — the first operational an-
swer to the Soviet Styx.
AJCongress Opposes End to Hiring Tests
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Amer-
ican Jewish CongreSS Metropolitan
Council has called for immediate
action by the city to have an out-
side testing agency devise and ad-
minister examinations "that will
accurately measure. the potential
of a candidate to be a good school
principal."
Theodore R. Kolish, chairman of
the council, said he welcomed Fed-
eral Judge Walter R. Mansfield's
injunction last Wednesday against
current examinations for super-
visory personnel in the city school
system. Kolish warned, however,
against abolishing the principle of
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The appointment of NORMAN N.
GREEN as the 1972 Calgary (Can-
ada) United Jewish Appeal cam-
paign chairman was jointly an-
nounced by Maurice Paperny, pres-
ident of the Jewish Community
Council, and Alvin Libin, chairman
of the fund-raising committee. The
appointment was described as indi-
cating a new trend in establishing
ea d e r s h i p responsibility with
younger men and women.
SIMON G. HAKIM, owner of
Hakim Realty in Detroit, has been
appointed to the National Advisory
Council of the Small Business Ad-
ministration for the Detroit Michi-
gan Council.
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Los Angeles business, civic and
philanthropic leader PERCY SOLO-
TOY was elected president of City
of Hope by the board of directors
at the national biennial convention
of the free, nonsectarian medical
center. The convention voted a
record-breaking $17,600,000 annual
operating budget and an $18,000,000
"New Horizons" expansion pro-
gram.
Gen. ROBERTO MOREAN SOTO,
the Venezuelan chief of staff, ar-
rived in Israel for a two-week visit
as the guest of the Israeli Defense
Forces. He met with Israeli Chief
of Staff Haim Bar-Lev; Gen. David
Elazar, chief of the headquarters
branch of the IDF; and Col. S.
Levanon, commander of the Nahal,
the agricultural - military forma-
tions. Sato said he wanted to learn
as much as possible from the Is-
raeli Army, especially the para-
ilitary agricultural Nahal, as
vast areas of Venezuela are unin-
habited and require cultivation.
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