Israel Aliya Center Branch Opened
HILLEL
HAPPENINGS in Area; AF Veteran Heads NY Office

With the opening of the Israel
Ninth graders of Hillel Day
Aliya Center, Inc., at 17520 W. 12
School, anticipating a trip to Wash-
ington. D.C., held an ice cream Mile, Southfield, it was announced
sale last week. The students used that Col. Yerocham Amitai , a vet-
eran of 24 years in the Israel Air
chocolate sauce, whipped cream,
Force, has been appointed direc-
cherries and imagination to create
tor in the U. S. and Canada of the
dairy delights for fellow students.
Israel Aliya Center of the World
In honor of Mother's Day, girl
Zionist Organization
students and their mothers at-
Col. Amitai succeed...Col. Nahum
tended a dinnar and fashion show
sponsored by the PTO last Thurs. ! Golan, a veteran Israeli army of-
ficer, who recently returned to Is-
day.

50 Nations Getting
Arms from Israel

TEL AVIV (ZINS) Israel arma-
ments went to 50 foreign countries
in 1971 earning foreign currency of
575,000,000, according to a report
in the If
daily Haaretz.
Among the weapons manufactured
in Israel and shipped abroad are
rockets modeled after the Soviet
- Katushye" which were captured
intact by the Israelis during the
Six-Day War. The newspaper said
Israel is producing a whole array
of new and sophisticated weapons
for its own use, details of which
are classified.
Since 1967, Israel's home produc-
tion of defense requirements has
made enormous progress, Haaretz
said.

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COL. YEROCHAM AMITAI

rael after almost three years in
the same post.
The 46-year-old Col. Amitai set-
tled in Israel in December 1948,
when he joined the air force. A
Zionist from childhood, he wanted
to go to Palestine immediately up-
on his liberation from Ebensee con-
centration camp, but he was as-
signed to duties in Italy where
he helped organize aliya and the
shipment of arms to Palestine.
When the Six-Day War broke out
in 1967, Col. Amitai was on the
air force operational staff as as-
sistant to the commander of the
Israel Force. On the second
day of the war, he became com-
manding officer of the El Arish
base
In 1965, he was appointed
chief of training at the air force
headquarters and in 1968, dep-
uty commander of the air force
for personnel , a post he held un-
til 1970- Col, Amitai retired from
the air force in 1972 to assume
his duties as American director
of the Israel Aliya Center,
Col. Amitai completed law

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studies at Tel Aviv University and
became a member of the Israeli
Bar.
As director of the Israel Aliva
Center, Col. Amitai will make his
headquarters at the main office
of the Israel Aliya Center in New
York, 515 Park Ave.
He heads an organization that
has a staff of 31 shlikhim (13 in
the New York area) and in 14
regional offices in New York City,
Forest Hills, Boston, Philadelphia,
Washington, 'Cleveland, Chicago.
Detroit, St. Louis, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Miami, Montreal and
Toronto.
At present, aliya to Israel from
the United States and Canada aver-
ages about 10.000 a year.

By STEVE RAPHAEL.
Stating that Israel's number one
need today is people, and feeling
that the Michigan area offers a
fertile ground for recruiting ohm.
the Israel government is opening
an office in Southfield to spur
aliya.
Col. Yerocham Amitai, the new
director of the Israel Aliya Cen-
ter. based in New York, made
this announcement and clarified
the reasons for opening Michi-
gan's first aliya office Wednes-
day afternoon at the Jewish Cen-
ter. -
The regional office in Cleveland,
under the direction of Ze'ey Ben-
David, formerly served Michi-
gan's needs.. The new Michigan
office will service this state, Can-
ada and Toledo.
Amitai, a colonel in the Is-
raeli Air Force, said aliya is
as necessary to Israel's suprvival
as security is "Now, with security
somewhat assured, aliya is our
major concern."
He discarded the current so-
cial polarization in Israel that
has arisen because native Is-
raelis feel olim are getting spe-
cial privileges from the govern.
ment. "The government just
hasn't made the people under.
stand the importance of aliya.
Aliya doesn't cause social prob-
lems," he said.
So the Israel government, bright-
ened by the projection that olim
from the Soviet Union will in-
crease three-fold over last year,
and that the total number of im-
migrants from all nations this
year will total between 60- and
70,000, has decided to further con-
centrate on America and Michi-
gan.
Government attempts to recruit
more ohm in the U.S. comes at a
time when figures show Ameri-
can aliya has declined by about
5-10 per cent over the past year
Before the Six-Day War, there
was a steady flow of about 2.000
a year from the U.S. After the
war, but before the recent decline.
the number jumped to about 9,000
There were 117 olim from Michi-
gan and 85 from Detroit last year.
Even with the need for more
people, Amitai stressed: "We
don't want people who are
runn'ng away from other prob-
lems. A person who comes
from the U.S. will be materially
worse off in Israel; he has to
want a Jewish life. There is a
cultural, social and psychologi-
cal shock when settling here."
The rate of return from Israel
has never been ascertained, and
Amitai feels that a guess of 20
per cent is z,.'curate. "The ma-
jority of people who leave are
young and single. They have more
problems than anyone else." As an
example of one of the problems.
he cited housing "There just isn't
the money or the manpower to
build apartments for singles who
just don't stay single."
With an office of its own, the
Michigan aliya office will set it.
sights on recruitment. As of yet
a shaliakh for the office hasn't
been named

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 19, 1972-37

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