By AMOS BEN-VERED,
Chief of JTA Middle East Bureau
TEL AVIV — Hatikva means
Hope, but the quarter bearing this
name here belies it. It is a con-
glomerate of slum houses, with
many unpaved roads. Although one
of the oldest sections of Tel Aviv,
progress has passed it by. Most of
the houses are crumbling and de-
caying. Whoever could afford it
has moved out. Left are families
with many children, some without
one parent or both. At night, gangs
of teen-agers roam the streets.
Until recently even the police could
not break the special sport of the
youngsters: stealing cars from the
well-to-do sections and careening
them at top speed through liatik-
va's narrow alleys, the wrecked
cars left to be towed away in day-
light.
Yet, when Israel's "Black Pan-
thers" tried to win over the youth
of Hatikva some weeks ago into
their organization of protest and
violence, there was an army of
vigilantes to oppose them. The an-
nounced demonstration of the Pan-
thers had hardly begun when a
loud-speaker van called on them
to disperse and go away. "We do
not want our neighborhood to be-
come part of a destructive move-
ment," the voice from the van
said. And when the demonstrators
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proceeded anyway, a group of
' teen-agers emerged suddenly,
charged the demonstrators and
dispersed them within a few min-
utes.
• When I spoke to Mordehai Teori.
the organizer of a group called
• Lehava" (Hebrew for "flame - ) a
little later. he disclaimed responsi-
. hility for the attack. However, he
was frank in expressing his views.
"We want to improve the atmos-
phere of Hatikva. We want to do
away with the image of backward-
ness; with the fact that an appli-
cant for a job from here is
ashamed to give his address."
Lehava has come a long way
since it was founded at the begin-
ning of last summer. Teori, born
and brought up in Hatikva, has
enlisted the help of university stu-
dents, of high school seniors and of
some party organizations in his at-
tempts to lure the slum youth into
constructive attitudes. The main
effort is directed toward raising
their scholastic level. Aid in doing
their homework is one means to
this end.
Taking an active part in games
is another thing (Hatikva has its
own football team, but no sports
grounds). The Labor Party's Bet
Berl put its facilities at their dis-
posal, and a gentleman's agree-
ment was reached that no politics
would come up. Once or twice a
week groups of 50 youngsters go
there and their program includes
sports, folk-dancing, a lecture or
talk on a topical supbject and—
not to be forgotten—a meal. Some
of the youngsters have shown so
much interest that they are being
viewed as future leaders of the
neighborhood youths. The entire
Lehava group at present do not
live in Hatikva.
A kibutz also is an attraction.
and Lehava applied to several of
them for permission to make a
group visit. On one of the last Sat-
urdays, 180 youngsters from Hatik-
va spent a whole day at Ramat
Hakovesh. Buses were provided by
Lehava, from the funds given to
them by unnamed donors.
Slowly, Hatikva has been reced-
ing from the headlines of the coun-
try's news media. The last time
the crowd ran amok, attacking
police cars and breaking shop win-
dows was for a reason: their foot-
ball team faced relegation from
the national league. But even this
was last July. Since then, the
neighborhood has been quiet, ex-
cept for their interference with
the Panthers, this time on the right
side of the law although, strictly
speaking, they were guarding the
peace illegally. But the lack of
publicity is, according to Teori, as
it should be. lie aspires to the day
when the name of Hatikva will
arouse no echo.
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East Jerusalem Residents Receh e
Why the Hatikva Panthers Failed
Pensions From Insurance Institute
JERUSALEM (JTA
Old-age
pensions were handed Wednes-
day for the first time to 600 resi-
dents of East Jerusalem from the
Institute of National Insurance.
The residents had waited five
years since the Six-Day War to
become eligible for old age pen
sions. •
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Groom at Service
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Jordanian control and residents
who retired from work before
the Six-Day War are not eli-
gible but they can get support
(-Tom the Jerusalem Municipal
Welfare Department if they
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Yoself Almog:,
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tial presentation of the pension
checks that since the East Jeru-
salem residents had been Israeli
citizens since 1967 they now qual-
ify for pensions under Israel's
national insurance law.
The residents received their
checks at the branch office of
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is customary for the bride-
groom to come to the synagogue
on the Sabbath morning before his
wedding.
The way some sources analyze
it, it seems that the original time
for the groom's visit was on the
Sabbath after the wedding. As a
matter of fact some (Midrash Tal-
piyyot) expect the groom to come
both on the Sabbath before the
wedding as well as in the Sabbath
after the wedding. These sources
contend that a groom is likened
unto a "king." The King of ancient
Israel was required to have two
scrolls of the Torah. Thus, the
groom comes before the Torah
twice—on the Sabbath before his
wedding and on the Sabbath after
his wedding. First, a marriage was
always regarded as a matter of
general community concern.
was announced . Secondly, a groom
In olden times (and even in
some Jewish communities today)
notice of intent to marry had to be
filed with the rabbinate some time
before the marriage. To. this end,
the presence of the groom in the
synagogue before the wedding was
tantamount to announcing to the
community that a wedding was
about to take place. The synagogue.
especially on Sabbath, was the
place where public information
was considered an honored per-
sonage in the community, especial-
ly the first week after the mar-
riage. In some communities, a spe-
cial reading from the prophets was •
substituted for one regularly as-
signed for that particular Sabbath
and the groom read this portion.
Thirdly, many associate this
practice with the means by which
the wise King Solomon constructed
the Temple in Jerusalem. lie made
a special gate referred to as the
- Gate of the Bridegrooms" through
which the groom would enter the
sanctuary and people who wished
to offer their tributes and compli•
merits to the groom would gather
at this gate. Having the groom
come to the synagogue either be-
fore or after the wedding on the
Sabbath when many people are
there, gives the people of the com-
munity an opportunity to discharge
their obligation of offering good
wishes and congratulations to the
couple in order to augment their
happiness.
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