J.D.

Rudolf Sonneborn Fund
Set Up to Aid Needy

Tackles Housing in Israel

By JACK SIEGEL

(Copyright 1972, J'rA Tor.)

In his 3Cth floor office overlook-
ing the famed New York skyline.
Jack D. Weiler, chairman of the
technological advisory committee
of the ministry of housing and the
Jewish Agency committee on hous-
ing, talked about the crucial prob-
lem of housing in Israel.
He and his committee of experts
from England, France. Denmark,
Israel and America recently corn.
pleted an intensive five-day sym-
posium in Israel. There they began
to unearth the keys to the crisis
problem of housing.
"New York City, with its 510.-
000,000 budget, built 14,000 hous-
ing units in 197.1. Israel, with
its budget of $3,000,000,000, built
38.000 housing units in the same
period of time," Weiler said.
"The problem of housing." Jack,
or J. D. as he is popularly known,
said, "is not peculiar to Israel. It
is universal.
J. D. listed the causes for the
crisis in Israeli housing. First,
a shortage of labor, second, in.
flation and third, a shortage of
materials, But he predicted that,
with proper planning and man-
agement (which presently does
not prevail), the problems could
be overcome.
One of the ways to do this, he
said, is to beat the "feast or
famine" rap. In this case, builders
would gain advantage from the
feast by grabbing up all the avail-
able labor, even to the extent of
indulging in an old American cus-
tom of pirating labor.
Weiler's committee has recom-
mended to the minister of finance,
Pinhas Sapir, the cutting of duties
and thus allowing a larger influx of
supplies. At the same time, there
will be an effort to maintain a
steady labor force by starting
schools and tying them in with
building. At such schools, people
ran study management and co-
ordination procedures.
J. D. pointed out that 50 per
cent of the unskilled labor on the
site of jobs is Arab. Thirty-six per
cent of the total force of unskilled
labor in building is Arab.
Weiler and his committee have
recommended the importation of
skilled labor for short periods of
time. Carpenters, plumbers, elec-
tricians and plasterers could be

brought from Turkey or Italy. This
would ameliorate the problem of
skilled labor and do away with ,
spiriting them off jobs already in
operation. If the government should
drastically reduce the duties on
imported materials, this would
.irnultaneously raise the siege of
the black market on materials.
of which serve to inflate the eco-
nomy,

One of the more severe cur-
tailments is the halting of gov-
ernment, office and industrial
'building and also (where it real.
ly hurts) schools. .1. D. said de-
fense building is an area of
prime priority and conceivably
something for which Israelis arc
prepared to make sacrifices.

How do you overcome a land
inflation of from 80 to 100 per cent
in a two-year period and when an
apartment buyer has to spend 10
times his annual net income? Weil-
er said, "It can be overcome. The
economy must stop chasing the
money. Demand must be dampened
and supply must be bolstered."
And then he added a thought
which could be painful to some
Americans and foreigners from
other well-developed countries:
"Affluent (house) buying must
cease."
It takes one to two years, J. D.
said, to get a job started from the
time of application. The plans have
to go through nine ministries for
approval. He called these proce-
dures archaic and due in part to
a bureaucracy inherited from the
British Mandate.
Weiler is convinced he will have
the support of the government
agencies and ministers. Ile stated
that in 1972, about 7,500 housing
units will be constructed for young
married couples. In time, he said. !
with the new mood of the housin g
ministry and the reconstituted
Jewish Agency, most of the prob- '
lems will be solved.

Final Exams Rescheduled
to Avoid Shavuot Conflict

NEW YORK tJTA) — The Ber-
nard M. Baruch College of the City
University of New York—the only
senior college in the city that had
final examinations scheduled for
Shavuot today has agreed to
move them to Slay 30 following
"wide-spread protests. - A meet-
ing scheduled between Jewish lead-
ers on campus and president Clyde
J Wingfield was canceled when
the colle.2e agreed to the change
ish students constitute -Pt iwr
popilation
•

The American oil magnate and
philanthropist mobilized massi. e
behind-the-scenes financial support
which made possible the post-
World War II immigration to
Israel and the effort which enabled
the flechtling state to defend itself
during the War of Independence.
Sonneborn was presented with
the S. Y. Agnon Gold Medal, the
highest national honor of the Amer-
ican Friends of the Hebrew Uni-
versity, for his unstinting, aid and
support to education in Israel.
Prof. Milton Handler, chairman
of the dinner-tribute, announced •
the projected $1,000,000 scholarship
fund which friends and admirers
plan to establish at Hebrew Uni-
versity.
Handler also reported a donation
of 5500.000 for a new law school
building on the Mt. Scopus cam-
pus, a S300.000 donation for an
auditorium in life sciences and a
$250,000 donation for a scholarship
program in the faculty of agricul-
ture.

Gen. 'Arik' Sharon High on Gahal's Candidate List

TEL AVIV I ZINS) --- Gen. Ariel Weizman.
Ranking military figures appear-
iArik) Sharon. commander of the
Southern Front, will link his polit- ng on the United Labor Party list
teal future to that of the Liberal are Moshe Dayan, Itzhak Rabin
Party on leaving the army. accord- . and Haim Bar-Lev.
ing to a report in Yethot Ahronot.
It is reported that Gen Sharon
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will appear high on the list of
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Gahal candidates for the next
,,entng lo , pood ,ei siu s.
Knesset elections, assuring him of
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a seat in Parliament. Also appear-
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ing on that list will be former
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Air Force Commander Gen. Ezer

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Liberal Party Head
Blames Govt. for Not
Rooting Out Scandal

TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Dr. Eli-
melech Rimalt, chairman of the
Liberal Party, has castigated the
government for its "impotence in
extirpating the chaos and social
corruption now plaguing the coun-
try." This cancer of corruption, ,
said Rimalt, is causing a moral
crisis in Israel and compromising '
the country's image in the Dias- ,
pora. Rimalt's sharp attack was
related to the scandal in the affairs
of Netivei Neft, a government-
controlled oil company in Sinai.
The company head, deemed re-
sponsible for the improprieties, had
to resign under pressure of public.
opinion, despite the fact that he
was exonerated by a committee
of inquiry set up by the regime.

NEW YORK (JTA)—A 51.000.000
scholarship fund, to further the
education of disadvantaged stu-
dents in Israel, will be set up in
the name of Rudolf G. Sonneborn,
it was announced at an Americana
Hotel dinner paying tribute to
Sonneborn.

Friday, May 19, 1972-23

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