Engineering Expert Speaks at Technion Parley

Israel. Modern Society- With Modern Problem: Traffic

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 28, 1972-35

By STEVE RAPHAEL
the short distances that most Is-
Complete Selection of
As Israeli society grows through
raelis travel, and the narrowness
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its technological advances, it will
of the roads, the American com-
continue to face an already seri-
pact car is preferred, at least by
ous road problem, is the view of
Dr. Livneh
Dr. Moshe Livnen, associate pro-
The 39-year-old professor, who
fessor of civil engineering at
received his degree from Tech-
Technion in Israel and head of
' nion and holds a doctorate from
that school's road safety center.
the Imperial School in London,
Prof. Livneh was in town last
feels that the biggest problem faced
weekend to speak
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by his center is simply the lack
at the 14th an-
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of money. Budget priorities are in
nual Conference
Eltedal Regostry
other places.
on Science and
Livneh added, however, that the
Technology spon-
Participating in a Sunday panel discussion on "Technology and
government has encouraged
and
sored by the
the Market Place" at the 14th annual American Technion Society
accepted his ideas.
American Society
Conference are (from left) Julius J. Hardwood, co-chairman of the
There is one aspect of Israel
for Technion.
conference; Dr. Aharon G. Beged Dov, visiting professor at the
highway safety that is competitive
This marked the
University of Toledo: William Davidson and Dr. Joseph Epel, ses-
with America Like their counter-
time that
first
sion co-chairmen; and Morn - Rosenbaum, director of Israel Nletals
parts in the U.S., more Israelis
conference
t h e
Corp.. Cleveland. Not shown is Or, Asraham Hermon'. scientific
l•ave died on the highways than
was held in He-
counselor, Embassy of Israel, Washington.
,n all of the wars it has fought
ti-int. Dr. Livneh
There were 20 delegates and First, road and environment: sec-
pedestrians. In America, perhs
over 200 interested persons
on ond. striver and pedestrian safety:
Irian fatalities total 30 per cent.
hand to hear the presentation of and third, vehicle and human
Thus, wider roads and fewer
seven papers dealing with such factor.
streets have been suggested.
diverse topics as "Air Transport
Concerning the first' area. Dr.
But Livneh doesn't I lse the ides
Developments for Israel and the Livneh said "When
a
freeway of making
f.ir the :1,11 ,
'.fiddle East" and "The Trading from Haifa to Tel Aviv was built.
.
and inert
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Cerporation—One Approach to the replacing, the old road. auto acci- Irian
lb
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Marketing Problem. -
dents on the new route dropped hotter
of 7r
trace- • .1'1.1
Dr. Livneh spoke on "Road
try 80 per cent."
pro. ate 7■ ,,l , r111 , 1h1l ,
;
Safety in Israel." lie noted that
He expressed admiration for the
lir •
there is one car for every 10 American road system. but added
things, but everyone
,o.1 ,
c,ir
:.,nt
.
Israelis, compared to one car that the large scale here cannot
ti ou can't educate
. s to
the Beirut nestsp,t; e ■
for every two Americans, "but be applied to Israel.
,
favor a mass transit s ■ stein or
reported
The
liabit
it is predicted that in 10 years
The center also has recom-
drixe cars in suburban areas
an Iraqi news a...ienit, re
there will be one car for every
mended the improvement of in-
iii v
Hence. the second prof,
hort
that
the
eight
were
ordered
fool. Israelis."
tersections and interchanges and
;em area - educating the drier
r,f Kuwait followin,, an attack
Traffic cohgrestion is bad, the
the elimination of existing streets
and pedestrian to obey traffic
on the Jordanian etribassy there
fatality rate is high in Israel, and
that cannot accommodate both
w hichr •-ed
laws.
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Livneh feels that things can only
pedestrians and cars. Prof. Liv-
The generalization that Israelis
get worse. His road safety center' neh's study found that 65 per
are
naturally
born
had
(irk
cc-
ls
By
has found three areas in which
cent of all automobile fatalities
Jews Disavow Fascist
rejected by Prof. Livneh, w ho
roll safety can be improved upon:
in urban areas in Israel are
;.
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i
The
I
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of
that this explanation 4,015 isiet,
l• •,•.,sh Communities has
the problem
_rt. connection with ex-
'I he
main
point
is
that.
1.inizi w ho has an
transportation system just does .7
support of the nes-
- Dr. Jacob Goldman, former head "our
merging with the medical rIlot e the I.;raeli ilmer When
ll
ign Sot Ittl Nlovement
of the physics department at the school a sensible and constructive installed traffic lights. everyone.
in the orrent eke
Ford Motor Co.. now a vice presi- effort."
at first. oho e.1 the red lights
n The Italian press
(tent of the Xerox Corp., chaired
"That is how We are producing
he said. "But miss t hey don't haze
has 11115 , :e much of the Lo t that
the
concluding Technion confer- the complete engineer." he staled. the pati ence to u an
Lin' fcwish
race luncheon meeting Sunday and Frank Theyleg presented to Dr.
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fact honor to the many pioneers Goldberg a photograph of him
WI can dose through an Ii : , ;
,t Technion ranks. and Henry Ford II. taken at the
intersection? ..
He
especially commended Ju- Technion in Haifa and autographed
The Ter hnion now is worko.g on
Is Ilarwood. current president by Mr. Ford.
Complete Seleeties kededieg the Finest 14 it. Geld Jewelry
a blinking green 112ht ti gist-
•of the Detroit Technion Society,
Among the highlights of the con-
See Morris Watnick
motorists more not, e of the ap-
for his devotion and the numerous ference was the concluding ad-
proaching red signiii
contributions he makes to
the dress by Dr. Myron Tribus, Xerox
In the area of the vehicle and
cause of the Technion's advance - senior vice president in charge of
the human failor, the Technion
ment. Dr. Goldman also praised research and engineering, who
Safety Center is in contact with
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the efforts of the former chair- spoke on "The Engineering Entre-
American automakers, but it is
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pretty
much
a
one-way
street.
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tion." Dr. Tribus declared that
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Israelis borrow more from Amer-
Dr. Alexander Goldberg, presi- "the pressing problem in univer-
icans than vica-versa.
dent of the Technion, reported on sity experience is helping stu-

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Technion accomplishments. Noting
that Technion graduates more en-
gineers a year than all of the
technical schools in Belgium, he
said that the 8,000 students are
engaged in "every spectrum of
engineering except naval engineer-
ing," that a medical school has
been absorbed to advance the
science of medicine and that in
addition to the architectural school,
there is research in life sciences
and instruction in sociology and
economics.
Pointing out that in 30 years
the world's population will double.
Dr. Goldberg. stated that a half
million computer engineers will
he needed then on a worldwide
scale, and that Israel's percent.
age would he 1,000 graduates a
year in the computer sciences. He
saw that as an impossibility, but
he emphasized the Technion's em-
phasis on computer knowledge by
every graduate.
Dr. Goldberg pointed to various
studies
being conducted toward
improving the standard of living
of the underprivileged, and he
declared that "science and technol-
ogy properly applied to agricul-
ture will provide the highest pro-
ductivity per acre to help fight
hunger and poverty." He pointed
to application
of technology to

medicine as contributing toward
health improvement, and he called

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The safety center is developing
technical problems and then cre- a seat-belt built specifically to
ate the temptation to advance hu- the physical characteristics of the
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Reviewing experiences in a va-
The center also is experiment-
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educational revolutions in an age motorbikes constitute 30 per cent
of change, he declared that "youth of all motorized transportation in
must be served in its way or not r'israel.
at all."
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ii For safety reasons, Livneh fa-
Dr. Tribus' was 'an extensive c\th.
' vors American cars. They are
analysis of the technical society,
It better and are stable, he
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motives of technological educa- a collision. However, because of
tion, he took into account both
the deficiencies in such educatioal
programs as well as the goals and
objectives. lie said, in reference
to Technion's role, that "Israel
acquired new standards in
life
through its technological projects.
Other conference participants
Ibis. ow/fled it
%films I •me
were Peter Altman. Dr. Aharon
Beged-Dov, Walker L. Cisler, Wil-
liam M. Davidson, Dr. Joseph N.
.
Epel, Dr. Aaron Gelman. Julius
J. Harwood, Dr. Robert Herman,
Dr. Avraham Hermoni and Man-
fred I Morry) Rosenbaum.
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