Problems of Israel's Poor Stressed by Mrs. GoIda 'Meir

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cle of concern" of the org ani
za- was the guest speaker.
the failure among the nations of quiesced
our right to be
came to confer with UJA and
Lion's extensive programs of res- In his response to encomia, the world to stand up against 1 8 where we are. When will there
Israel Bonds and thought, inci-
cue, relief and rehabilitation in Ginsberg renewed his plea for con- Arab countries with their minim) s be peace? When they acquiesce
dentally, that I might also have
more than 25 countries. "The pro- tinuing efforts to assist in pro- of acres of land and their tens of to our existence."
a chat with President Nixon and
grams of the JDC continue to be viding security for Iirael, and he millions of people who are aiming
Pointing to the situation in the
with Secretary of State Rogers.' among the most dramatic sagas stated in part:
at the destruction of the sma ll India-Pakistan crisis, recalling
Mrs. Meir's address followed on the world Jewish scene," he
"The people of Israel live with state of Israel with its 3,000,00 ° how the spokesmen of India con-
several days of reports and dis- said.
Hammer stated: "Housing is the uncertainty and under constant people.
stantly attacked Israel, Mrs. Meir
cussions during which those re-
threat of war. While they man the She pointed to the progress mad e
porting for the major fund-raising most critical problem, and is the battle lines on the borders, Amer- in Israel, to the draining of said that in view of the Indian
i an
agencies and for Israel did not root cause of all of the social im- ican and world Jewry must be swamps, the afforestation, th e refusal to withdraw from -Pakst
all she , now need do is to quote
pull any punches. They told of balances the people of Israel face- prepared to help fight the war high standards set in Israel, an
d
Indira
Gandhi.
the. difficulties Israel encounters, In the next five years, we will against poverty in Israel. This con- in her comment on the world's in
and they did not deny or apologize need $2,000,000,000 for housing tinues to be our responsibility. difference she said: "We no long - On _the question of American
for the troubles that ensue—both needs. In 1972 alone 41,000 hous- with 50,000 immigrants arriving er have swamps but we don't have - friendship; she said that "while
we don't always have a full under-
from the Orientals who have not Mg units are needed and of these thie year and 30,000 still unab- oil."
4
yet fully integrated into Israel's 18,000 are new apartments for sorbed from prior years, the so- Life in Israel, Mrs. Meir said, standing, basically we know that
such
an understanding exists, that
young
couples."
economy and society because of
c ri
iasl is
sitp
u ro
atipoonruon
inIssrael has reached would be easier if not for inter - misunderstandings are cleared up.
Mrs. Ethel Cohen, former De-
the higher standards yet to be
a
nation
l
expediency,
if
not
for
the
"The American leaders can
trotter, director of the JDC-sup-
attained, and from Russian Jews
"We cannot sit idly as people failure on the part of any nation not doubt that we want peace,"
whose standards are so high that ported Micha Center for Pre-
are forced to go without proper to speak up against the-aim by the she said, and she implied - -there
school
Deaf
Children
in.Tel
Aviv,
their demands are mucro greater.
facilities for health care, with ' combined Arab nations to _destroy were very cordial meetings in
Mrs. Meir, too, told of the prob- described the total approach substandard housing, and Made- Israel. "If the nations of
the Washington.
lems of the impoverished, the dif- taken in her agency, which dials quate educational facilities. Not if world acted differently," she said
Nevertheless' she declared: "We
with speech and learning prob-
ficulties large families living in
we have a true Jewish conscience- the situation would be altered. will not put the fate of -Israel's
lems through sophisticated elect In 1972 we must upgrade our com- Because of the existing situation,
cramped quarters encounter when
existence
in any hands except our
a child doesn't have a chair to sit tronic equipment, and highly mitments and raise an unprece- with Arabs threatening another
own."
trained special teachers. "We dented sum. Keep the promise." war the moment they lose
on to pursue minimal studies, and
- one,
Emphasizing the need for nego-
the combined appeal was for such
are thrilled that some of the Mrs. Meir spoke of the Jewish she warned against being lulled tiations, charging that "Sadat
provision of means as to help programs with which we have people wbo,iike any other, want into complacency,
"just because
solve the accumulating problems. experimented at Micha are now to be free, but for whom that we know and Sadat knows that wants to !dictate - the:borders" and
demanding ,"an equal chance' in
United Israel Appeal's role • was being used in similar schools in right is made difficult by an in- we would win
again it there was negotiations," Mrs. .Meir said the
outlined at the conference by counties around the world," she ' different world. "We applaud another war."
. hope is that Israel will be able
Gottlieb Hammer, executive vice- stated. every nation that steps into in-
While expressing such confi- to negotiate freely, and she as-
The conference was an occa-
president of the fund, who told of
dependence as a basic right to
dence,
Mrs.
Meir
said
•"it
would
serted that the only way of acting
sion
not
only
to
get latest details enjoy, but we are alone among
the great needs and of the vast
be criminal to go on the as- freely is by "not growing weaker."
amount of money that must be on Israel's position, to hear Mrs.
the 133 nations in the world or-
sumption
that
there
won't
be
a
A deeply moving . moment at
utilized ' to assure the settlement Meir, to welcome the new chair- ganization who are begrudged
war," and she therefore empha-
the dinner was when Mrs. Her-
and uninterrupted flow of man, Paul Zuckerman, but also that right. What crime has been
sized the need for American as-
bert H. Lehman tenie to take
migrants from Russia and the sur- to honor the retiring UM national
committed that we must ex-
sistance. She said it is sheer
her seat on the dais and she
chairman, Edward Ginsberg.
vivors in Moslem countries.
plain not that we are better, but
nonsense to believe that the
and Mrs. Meir -embraced.
Max M. Fisher, Zuckerman and that we are equal? We see this
Samuel Haber, executive vice
demand for Israel's withdrawal
The presence of Eban, Israel
chairman of the Joint Distribit- other leaders joined in paying sorry sight in the UN that every-
has a basis - of realism. She Ambassador Itzhak Rabin, Is-
UM! Committee, presented one tribute to Ginsberg's services as body is accepted, but we are
charged
that
it
is
"an
excuse
rael's
UN delegate Yosef Tekoah
general chairman for the past four alone among the 133 nations
of the most moving appeals in
because the Arab states, none and a number of other Israeli
behalf of the relief programs years. He was given special hoii- whose very being is questioned."
older
than
we
are,
with
their
which serve through JDC to care ors at a dinner on Dec. 9 at which
She charged that there is a vast populations, their vast ter- notables added to the glamour of
the evening.
for emigres on their road to Israel Foreign Mster Abba Eban leaning toward "expediency" in
ritory, their oil "have not ac-
A number of new appointments
Israel and at the same time
to high offices announced at the
provide for the social service
conference
included the nam-
needs for the aged and ill in
ing of Michael A. Pelavin of
Israel.
Flint as national vice chairman of
Leon Dulzin, treasurer of the
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Smolar pays the new UJA chair- Edward Ginsberg. He also became the UJA national leadership cabi-
Jewish Agency, urged A
'
net.
"We
have
set
the
man
this
honor:
highest
cam-
Jews to make an increased corn-
one of the top members of the
Other appointments announced
"Paul Zuckerman is a man who executive of the Jewish Agency.
mittment to the United Jewish Ap- paign goal ever, yet we must re-
peal for 1972 In view of the member that any of numerous loves everything the UJA stands
"Zuckerman has new views on at the conference included:.
Philip
Zinman, Camtten, N. J•,
unpredictable
circumstances
could
for.
He
loves
people
and
is
always
enormity of human needs the peo-
how to involve new elements from
make even that figure insufficient. ready to help them. He is dedi- all over the country into UJA ac- president of the Israel Education
ple of Israel face.
Fund;
Donald
H. Benjamin, Maple-
"But whatever history has in cated to Israel where he built a tivities. He believes that there has
Dulzin said that "while UJA's
1971 campaign reflects a 30 per store for the Jewish people—in home for himself in Caesarea and been a profound change in the wood, national chairman of the
cent increase over 1971, it is still Israel, in Russia, or anywhere in made substantial investments in a American Jewish community in young leadership cabinet; Mrs.
insufficient to meet the Jewish the world—I am sure of one thing number of industries.
the last years. In his opinion, op- Burt J. Siris, New York, chairman
"Zuckerman is interested in portunities for creative and effec- of the UJA women's division_
Agency needs this year. In 1972 —that we will find the resources,
Michiganians on. the dais at the
we will need much more to keep the energy and the funds to do and possesses a fine collection tive planning of community cam-
Meir banquet, in addition to Fish-
of modern art. Among his humani- paigns have never been better.
our immigration programs viable. what must be done.
er
and Zuckerman, were Dr. Wil -
tarian
gifts
is
an
auditorium
and
Especially with the continued ar-
"Closely watching developments
"We will do it because we
liam Haber, Ann Arbor; Mrs.
rival of Soviet Jewry-10,000 have
have learned that the unity of conference center at Sinai Hospi- in American Jewish life, he as-
Harry
L. Jones, Southfield; and
come in the first nine months of the Jewish people is not a cliche, tal in Detroit and a gift for a lib- serts that the young generation
1971 — we must increase our but a fact. No longer is it `us' rary site. The Fresh Air Society of today does not want to be mere- Louis Basle, Flint.
commitment."
cited him for "giving us food for ly a witness to history; it wants Mrs. Meir Expresses Hope
and 'them'—ft is Anahnu—we.
Traduced
thought and food to live by." to shape history. He therefore sees Her Visit to
"Russian Jews have new hope We are one people.
Some 'Active Results'
and new courage," he said. "Their
"They have survived in exile, President Johnson had named him a great potential for young leader-
TEL AVIV_ (JTA) Premier -
hope is Israel, and their cour- they have survived in slavery, to head ,the U. S. Food for Peace ship in the American Jewish com-
Golda Mgr returned from a two-
munity.
age is in knowing that we, their they have survived in the infernal Committee in Michigan.
"Zuckerman, a self-made man
fellow Jews, are with them."
"He also intends to introduce a week visit to the United Stites and
ovens of Auschwitz and the frozen
who attended the University of De- new level of creativity, courage expressed the "feeling" that Presi-
He denied that any large num- wastes of Siberia and they
bers of recent Russian Jewish stronger today than ever before! are troit, will now be the ninth general and cooperation in these activi- dent Nixon "knows and under=
stands our problems."
chairman of the UJA, succeeding ties."
emigres want to leave Israel.
"I believe that the UJA—and the
Mrs. Meir 'told newsmen at an
"This year we have absorbed 3,000
agencies whose work it supports—
impromptu airport press confer-
from Georgia (Soviet Georgian
is
the
most
magnificent
expression
in
ence
that she hoped fier visit would
Republic) and of this number only
in
9
9
of this enduring unity ever created.
produce "active res ults' ' and that.
10 families wish to return," he
NEW
YORK
(JTA)
—
Sam
neighbors and arrange for a
"I
'good conclusions will be drawfl
said. "This is less than the normal
believe
that of
when
you trans-
sense
identity
with Rothberg, general chairman of the "secure" and "real pe ace" in therefrom." -
return of immigrants from else- late your
Israel Bond Organization, report-
the Middle East and not just sign
She said her talks with Mr. Nixon
where throughout the world. It
your
a commitment to eft that the first 11 months of "a piece of paper."
rk people
for the into
UJA
and Secretary of State: William P.
certainly is not the horrendous work
you
literally 1971 had produced cash Bond
u
Mrs.
Meir
warned,
however,
that
yo
Rogers
ur
very
exi.
gave her a "feeling -that
stence
stories that have received so much
sales of $204,639,000. This result, "if war comes, a heavy defeat things were clarified." _
publicity in the press in the last
"Because I believe—with all my he stated, has "placed us on the faces" Egyptian President Anwar
n.
heart—that each and every one threshold
But she refused to provide details
few weeks," Difizin remarked.
of establishing an all- Sadat "in a short time." She added o f her discussions with American
"The responsibility for main- of us is personally responsible for time record
for Israel Bond sales that "if we work on the assump- o
fficials and evaded a question
taining these humanitarian pro- every Jew living on the face of
the in any year." Rothberg issued this lion that war will come and it does- a bout the further supply of Phan-
grams lies in the hands of earth.
repert at a Bond dinner attended n't come, we can live with that." tom jets.
world Jewry," Dulzin added.
"To you who are joining. hands by more than 2,000 business, civic,
Before entering the grand ball-
"The people of Israel cannot
a nd hearts with me in this historic religious and communal leaders room of the Americana Hotel, Mrs, e Mrs. Meir said -she found an
help you in fulfilling these com- e ndeavor, I give my personal from the New York metropolitan Meir was almost knocked down on a normous feeling of - _friendship
mitments because they are
P ledge—I promise you my un- area. The dinner feted Israel the street outside the hotel by a mong Americans in general and
drained by a defense burden s werving dedication, all of my Premier Golda Meir as her last some 100 demonstrators protesting w mong American organizations to-
which consumes 80 per cent of e nergy, my strength, my re- public appearance before returning against "Israel's conscription of g and Israel. She said there was
reat friendship for Israel among
their tax revenues."
sources and my complete devo-
homes religious girls to serve in civilian congressmen and said there was
The UJA has responsibility for ti on."
The dinner gave special impetus government agencies" and against common agreement between Con-
raising a major share of the
Tribute by Smolar
to a national e f f o r t to sell in
mass autopsies."
Jewish Agency budget of $1,-
Boris Smolar, JTA columnist, $50,000,000 in State of I s r a e 1 The 100 persons, part of some q gress and the administration on the
4.
uestion of loans for Israel. She
1Z...000,000 for 1972, it was de votes his feature this week to Bonds this month to bring to 2,500 Orthodox Jews and Satmar
emphasized in the discussion.
F' aul Zuckerman. Reviewing the $250,000,000 the total proceeds for Hasidim who were demonstrating J h ad warm words for American
ews, who, she said, seemed to
Haber discussed the "cir- D etroiter's personal background, UM.
outside the hotel, broke through a
themselves with Israel
Mrs. Meir declared that Israel police barricades and rushed her b associate
odily and apiritually.
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS was will to sit deem with
her police escort. She was unharmed.

Zuckerman New UJA Chairman

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