Jews and Beduin in Joint Zahal Camel. Unit in Sinai By MOSHE -RON Jewish News Special Israel Correspondent Israel has revolutionized the life of Beduin tribes. These tribes live in the surround- ings of Beersheba and after the Six-Day War they spread into the Sinai Desert, where they live in the same manner as thousands of years ago. For many of them, modern times of Phantoms, Apol- los and rockets have no effect and they continue to live in tents and use the same means of transporta- tion as generations did before them —the camel. A few years ago, the Israeli authorities succeeded in persuad- ing some Beduin tribes to move into houses in cities for part of the year. It was a revolution. Some of them left their tents and moved into special buildings erected for them near the town of Ramie. They have become accustomed to their new living conditions. They use modern furniture, radio, television, electricity and running water. Another Beduin-quarter was built in the lower Galilee. The Beduin living near Beesheba, intrigued by modern life, started building pri- vate and modern flats and the sons of the sheikhs acquired luxurious fect. Their task is to patror'vast cars. Some Beduin families left areas of the Sinai Desert, day and their tribes and moved into the night, to fight the activities of big cities. One such group of fam- terrorists and commandos. They ilies lives in Holon, near Tel Aviv. search Beduin to check for smug- This group builds its own houses. gling of hashish or other drugs. Their children are accepted into Whenever they approach a com- Hebrew schools, assimilated quick- pany of Beduins, they are invited ly, and mix with Jewish children. by the sheikhs to participate in Some Beduin children are brought meals and festivities. The Jewish by their parents to school in pri- soldiers are careful not to speak vate cars.. Hebrew to each other on such oc- casions, to avoid an affront to the In the Sinai Desert, the Israeli sheikh and to Beduin customs. army established a special Camel Jewish soldiers thus have the Unit composed of Beduin and Jew- ish soldiers. The Beduin volunteer- opportunity of enriching their ed for this service, which is also knowledge about the mentality and unusual. They serve with Jewish caprices of the camel. It has turned soldiers from Tel Aviv, Jerusalem out that the camel is not only the Haifa, etc., and with students who most patient animal, that it can also volunteered for service in this wander around in the hot desert for special mixed unit. Instead of serv- days without food and water, but ing in the tank corps, or as fighter it also has a delicate nose to sense pilots, they prefer to ride on camels things from afar. Once a Jewish in the Sinai Desert. The Jewish soldier who rode on a camel as the leader in a caravan saw the soldiers are dressed like Beduin. Jewish soldiers have to undergo camel raised its head and perk considerable training and suffer a up its ears, drawing attention to a great deal until they get accustom. certain direction. The soldier drew ed to the tempers of the camel to the attention of his comrades and they decided to follow the direction ride on it. The relation _ s betwen the Jewish shown by the camel. After a two- soldiers and the Beduin are per- hour ride, the soldiers met a group of .Beduin in the desert who were in possession of a huge quantity of hashish. This Week in Jewish History (From the files of the Jewish Telegraphic Ageney) 40 Years Ago This Week: 1932 The only Hebrew paper in Hungary, Hatzofeh, closed after 20 years for 'financial reasons. El Siglo Futuro, Catholic organ in Madrid, insisted "the govern- ment should adhere to the wise decision of the glorious Catholic King (Ferinand) who saved Spain by expelling- the Jews. JTA correspondent Pierre Van Paasen: "When (Hitler takes power) there will not be any wholesale exodus of the Jews from the Reich or a massacre, as some have expected. Hitler is going to crush the Jews economically." German Jewish banker Willy Sundhelmer: "Of course there will be mush unpleasantness under a Hitler regime. Here and there, there may be several Jewish heads smashed, but I don't believe that a po- grom or mass massacre of the Jews in Germany as there used to be in Russia will ever occur in Germany." Baroness Helene Nostitz-Von Hindenburg, niece of German's pres- ident: "I believe the German people recognize the qualities for good in the Jewish people, and the contributions by Jews to Germany, and I do not believe that anything very drastic will occur to rob the Jews of their rights." - • - TIM DETROIT itiV101 NEWS 22 Frieeth Jurauarrtlt,-1972 — calmed them and brought them back to the unit. One of the most important sheikhs in the Sinai Desert, who is a great friend of the Jews, took part in the event, telling the soldiers that it was his greatest joy in life to see how a Jewish soldier of Zahal knows how to handle camels in such an expert manner. Camels are able to wander around in torrents of rain, provided rain and wind strike them from behind and not in front. If they are struck in front, no persuasion or blows can induce them to move forward or backward. The soldiers of the unit learned that the camels have an animosity toward their competitors; jeeps, cars and-even planes. Once a Zahal officer landed in a helicopter near the camel_unit. The camels became- scared and left the area a distance of tens of kilometers. 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Nixon's Staff Has Many Jews; but None in Cabinet, High Court WASHINGTON (JTA)—President ments on other high levels is per- Nixon, in his three years of office, haps not generally appreciated." has named no Jews to either of the On the White House level, these two "show-places" of the federal include Dr. Henry Kissinger, Leon- government—the cabinet and the ard Garment, 'with a broad port- Supreme Court. But there is an folio that includes civil rights, arts impressive array of Jews on 'the and humanitiet; long-term plan- White House and executive branch ring and much more"; William staffs, some of them appointees of Satire, the President's chief speech Nixon and• others holdovers from drafter; Edward David, special ad- previous administrations, accord- viser for science. and technology; ing to Hyman Bookbinder, Wash- and Jerome Jaffee, special con- ington representative of the Amen sultant for narcotics and dangerous can Jewish Committee. drugs. In the executive office, Book. The record of Nixon appoint- binder pointed out, are Herbert Stein, - chairman of the Council Israel to Switch Site of Economic Advisers; Ezra Sol- omen, member of the council; of Embassy in Brazil Arnold Weber, executive director RIO DE JANERO (JTA) — The of the Cost-of•Living Council; and Israel Embassy building here has Ronald Berman, chairman of been placed on th-2 market with the National Endowment for the an asking price cf 1,600,000 cruzie- Humanities. ros (approximately $250,000). Han- In addition, Bookbinder noted, nan Olami, first secretary of the there are Arthur Burns, chairman, embassy, said a new embassy of the Federal Reserve Board, building will be built in Brazil's and Jesse Steinfeld, surgeon gen- capital city, Brasilia. eral of the U.S. A building has been rented in At 'the sub-cabinet 4evel, Jews the Copacabana section of Rio to fill posts of undersecretary of labor house Israel's consulate and public and assistant secretaries of treas- relations department. 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