Train Travels Again
From Lod to Gaza
Religions Party Dissenter Out to Improve Lot of Sephardim
By MARTIN SHEFFIELD
NEW YORK -- When he
returns to Israel from a lec-
ture tour in the U.S., Avner
Shaki, member of the Knes-
set , will nave to make a de-
cision whether to leave the
National Religious Party.
Iihaki's was the only vote
in the coalition for the
amendment of the "Who Is
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6—Friday, Nov. 3, 1972
These ideas, he said. were
A Jew" law, so that it read
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Rail-
"giyur kehalakha" — only perpetuated in the school road service between Lod
IF YOU TURN THE
conversions performed in ac- nothing in the school curric- and Gaza has been re-estab-
cordance with Jewish law curriculum. There is almost lished, it was announced
ulum in Israel on Sephardic here.
UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
are valid.
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And because he voted that poets, artists or statesmen,
One train runs daily in
way, he lost his post as dep- according to Shaki.
each direction to accommo-
He is worried about Seph-
uty minister of education and
date Gaza workers employed
culture. When the govern- ardim who are not taught in southern Israel.
ment said it was a matter about their past and their
There has been no rail
of discipline, the National heritage. He has talked to service between Israel and
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many
Sephardim
in
Israel
Religious Party supported the
Gaza since 1948.
government and "pushed" who feel that if their past is
Shaki out of his post, he said. to be erased—and they have
that feeling—then they s.ant
Shaki believes that second
to change, too. He cites
only to security is the ques-
many examples of Sephar-
tion of social equality and
dim changing their names
social justice in Israel.
from, for instance, Shabazi
This member of the law
to Katz.
faculty of Tel Aviv Univer-
Shaki has some kind words
sity points out that 24 years
after the establishment of for Yigal Anon, the minister
the state of Israel, 62 per of education, for whom he
cent of the Israeli population worked. He notes that Allon
is Sephardic and Oriental he helped form committees to
believes that they do not have discuss and research that
the "minimum representa- part of Sephardic heritage
tion" to enable them to that could enrich the stu-
achieve economic and edu- dents.
Shaki said he helped to
cational aims. '
Shaki may create, with get some of the top "Black
others, an independent party Panthers" in Israel admitted
in Israel "to fight for the to special courses and
social causes of Sephardim." schools, and later jobs. When
He says Sephardim in Is- they feel they are equal in
rael do not go on to higher society they do not need to
education. Out of 100 Seph- demonstrate, he said.
ardim who start school, only
The son of Rabbi Ovadia
six reach metriculation. More Sciaky, sixth generation in a
than 90 per cent of the ju- family or rabbis and rab-
venile delinquency in Israel, binical judges in Safed, Shaki
he said, is committed by has been lecturing at Tel
Sephardim a n d Orientals. Aviv University since 1963
Nearly all maids in Israel and has published numerous
are Sephardim and Orientals. books on law and Talmud.
On going to school, Seph- He has been a member of
ardic or Oriental fathers are the Knesset since 1970.
so poor economically that
they do not have the funds
for tutors or books or other
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The
needs and, moreover, the
student of a Sephardic or kibutz industry added 26 new
Oriental family is often ex- plants in the past year, ac-
pected to himself get a job. cording to secretary Dan
There are too few facili- Carmon. The investment in-
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volved IL 50,000,000 ($12,-
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