THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 26,1972-15

Israel Haunted by Problem Facing Big Nations: Technology versus Ecology

By AMOS BEN-VERED

Chief of JTA Middle East Bureau
" (Copyright 1972, JTA, Inc.)

JERUSALEM —The first thing
visible of Tel Aviv when von an-
proach by sea or air is the 460-foot
high smokestack of the Electric
Corp. and the gray smoke rising
from it up into the air and then
descending upon the city.
In Jerusalem, little houses hug-
ging the hillocks are being dwarfed
by 16 and 18-storied buildings, by
masses of concrete and stone in
new housing projects — built by
various government departments
without a master plan and with-
out coordination.
The technological pace in Israel
has quickened in recent years
due to rising industrial produc-
tion. I lowever, so much of the
country is desert that only a small
segment of it, the coastal plain
between Haifa and Ashdod and
the Judean hills on the way to
Jerusalem, is really densely popu-
lated.

of the country's industry is lo-
cated. Consequently, it is here
that technology has its most
devastating effect on the quality
of life. •

Nothing else seems to mean
much to the decision makers when
the subject under consideration is
expansion of the productive
capacity.
Lake Tiberias has become a re-
ceptacle for sewage from Sated
and all of Upper Galilee. The huge
Reading 'D' plant in Tel Aviv was
built and placed right in the
middle of the country's most popu-
lous city by a special cabinet
decision setting aside the usual
procedures of urban planning.
Now it is the turn of Nahal
llataninim (Crocodile Stream).
five miles north of ancient
Caesarea on the road to Haifa.
Nahal Hataninirn carries ,water the
year round and is unpolluted only
because it has been declared a
nature preserve.

The other rivers, from the
little Alexander brook to the
Jordan. have long ago become
open sewers, carrying chemical
and organic waste. Now the
Electric Corporation wants to
erect its next massive power
plant at Nahal llataninim.

Expert upon expert has already
been called in to find alternative
locations. But, as with Tel Aviv,
the corporation's argument is iron
clad: more time for planning is
not advisable because the country
is presently using more electricity
than had been anticipated and a
massive power shortage is in
store.
Due to inadequate water supply

natural elevations. electric
current in Israel must be gen-
erated by burning oil. There are
no hydroelectric plants. And there
is the perennial shortage of funds.
Last month, the Knesset formed
a committee on ecology. However,
even the staunchest protagonists
of the ecological balance can only
watch developments with sinking
hearts.

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Survivor Identifies
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but Story Conflicts

NEW YORK (JTA)—A concen-
tration camp survivor charged
three times that Mrs. Hermine
Braunsteiner Ryan "killed" a
woman prisoner while serving as
a guard at Majdanek in 1943.
But at another point the witness.
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Brooklyn. said Mrs. Ryan "clob_
hered - the prisoner with a stick.
and by the end of the day's testi-
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Defense attorney John J. Barry
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who often responded "I don't
know" or "I can't remember."
Barry told the JTA afterward
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stein's - credibility - and had "seri-
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