18—Friday, Dec. 22, 1972

TNE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Revealing Facts About Israel's Population Growth

By HAIM SHACHTER

SYNAGOGUE

SERVICES

TEMPLE EMANU-EL: Services 8:15 p.m. today. Linda
Feldman and Alan Maisel will speak on "What Effect
Has College Life Had on My Outlook Toward Judaism?"
Kerry Kaplan, Bar Mitzva.

CONG. BETH SHALOM: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi
Nelson will speak on "A Jew on Campus—To Be or
Not to Be." Wendy Berger and Susan Rayberg, Snot
Mitzva. Services 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Nelson will
preach on "When Life Terminates."
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Loss
will discuss "The Best Years of Your Life." Mitchell
Wiatrak, Bar Mitzva. Services 11 a.m. Saturday.
CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 4:30 p.m. today and 8:45
a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Lehrman's sermon will be
"Strange Grandchildren." Michael Bumhaft, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BNAI ISRAEL of Pontiac: College Homecoming
Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Berman will talk on
"The Legacy of Joseph." Services 7:30 a.m. Saturday.
CONG. MISHKAN ISRAEL: Services 5 p.m. today and 9
a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Kranz will speak on "To Life,
To Life—L'Hayim."
CONG. BETH ABRAHAM-HILLEL: Services 5:30 p.m. to-
day and 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Halpern's sermon will
be "Something for Young People to Consider."
TEMPLE BETH JACOB of Pontiac: Services 8:30 p.m. to-
day. Rabbi Berkowitz will speak on "Gates of Prayer,"
Part V.
BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE: Services 8 . 30 p.m. today. Rabbi
%file will discuss "A World Religion—Fact or Fan-
tasy.'"
CONG. SIIAAREY SItOMAYIM: Services SAS p.m. today
and 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Goldman will talk on "The
Life of Jacob."
A1)AS SIIAIA)M SYNAGOGUE: Services 5 p.m. today and
9 a.m. Saturday. Jeffrey Gale, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BETH ACHIM: Services 4:45 p.m. today and 8:45
a.m. Saturday. Neil Silver, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BNAI DAVID: Services 4:50 p.m.'today and 8:30
a.m. Saturday. Jeffrey Mertz, Bar Mitzva.
Regular services will be held at Temple 'Beth El (See
story), Young Israel of Greenfield, Cong. Beth Moses, Tem-
ple Kol Ami, Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Young Israel of South-
field (Stevenson School), Livonia Jewish Congregation,
Young Israel of Oak-Woods, Cong. Shomrey Emunah, Cong.
Beth Isaac of Trenton, Cong. Bnai Israel-Beth Yehudah,
Downtown Synagogue and 13340 W. Seven Mile.
hlinyan will be held at 7:30 a.m. Monday through Fri-
day and 8:30 a.m. Sunday at Temple Israel. A daily minyan
and Sabbath services are herd at 17376 Wyoming.

Two Young Jews Escape Syria;
Report Continuing Persecution

LONDON (JTA)—A first-
hand account that depicted
the remaining 4,500 Jews in
Syria as virtual prisoners in
their own homes, harassed,
degraded, isolated and, in
many cases, deprived of the
means to earn a livelihood
was given to the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency by two
Jews who recently succeeded
in escaping from that 'coun-
try.

The informants, a man of
30 and a 24-year-old girl
whose names were withheld
to protect their families still
in Syria, also identified
seven Syrian Jews currently
imprisoned without trial.
They said that Albert Ella,
the secretary of the Jewish
community in Beirut, Leb-
anon, who was kidnaped by
Syrian agents last year, is
being held In a Damascus
prison.

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mas and New Year's Day,
The Jewish News will
have early deadlines for
the Issues of Dec. 29 and
Jan. 5. Copy for those
days must be in The Jew-
ish News office no later
than noon today and Dec.
29.
The holiday rush makes
it imperative to mail copy
early to meet deadlines.
When in doubt, please
hand deliver.

According to the witnesses,
restrictions on Syrian Jews
are imposed by "ordinances"
to avoid legislative proce-
dures.

Under these ordinances,

Syrian Jews are absolutely
forbidden to leave the coun•
try. The ban includes Jews
who hold French, Iranian or
Italian passports.
In addition, foreigners are
forbidden to visit the Jewish
quarters, Jews in the pro-
fessions are forbidden to
practice their calling, and
the possessions of deceased
Jews revert to the state.

According to the account,
only two Jewish schools re-
main open In Damascus, but
their headmasters are Mos-

lems who are members of
the secret police.

Jewish religious instruction
is at a low level, and exam-
inations usually are sched-
uled on Saturdays. The
synagogues are controlled by
the government, and most of
the ancient Jewish ceme-
teries in Damascus have
been destroyed. Palestinians
have been permitted to oc-
cupy former Jewish homes.

The situation, the infor-
mants said, has become even
worse in Aleppo since Jews
staked a public demonstra-
tion there five months ago.

The Jews in custody with-
out trial were identified as
Nissim Katri, Joseph Swed,
Itzhak Fax, Ousa Hasbani,
Ouad Geradeh, Elie Suliman
and Albert Kishik.

JERUSALEM—The Israe
population census shows a
decided migration tendency
from rural to urban areas.
Tel Aviv was the only excep-
tion.
The population of Israel in
May 1972. was 3,160,000. This
number included the perma-
nent residents of Israel as
well as potential immigrants
(about 27,000) and temporary
residents and tourists who at
the time of the census had
been in the country for a one
year period. It did not in-
clude about 6,000 ultra-
orthodox residents, mainly of
Jerusalem and Bnei Brak.
who, for religious reasons,
refused to be counted; about
1.000 persons living in flats
that were found closed when
the census was taken, and
about whom no details could
be obtained from neighbors
or other persons, and about
80,000-90,000 people with two
addresses.
At the time of the 1961 cen-
sus there were 2,179,550 per-
sons in the country, so that
the population in between the
two censuses had grown by
almost 1.000,000. This rise
is ascribed mainly to natural
increases — about 588,000 —
and to a migration balance
of 315,000.
The southern region of the
country showed a greater in-
crease than any of the other
zones. The Ashkelon district
showed a population increase
of 99.2 per cent, from 76.750
in 1961, to 152,800 in 1972,
while the population of the
Beersheba district grew by
104 per cent, from 97,200 in
1961 to 196,500 in 1972.
Tel Aviv is the only city in
the country whose population
dropped from 386,100 in 1961
to 362,200 In 1972.
The population of the Tel
Aviv district, however, In-
creased In the period between
the two censuses from 699,.
300 to 905,100. This Is ex-
plained by the fact that there
has been a constant migra-
tion of Tel Aviv residents to
the suburbs and neighboring
towns. Thus, for example,
the population of Bat Yam
has grown from 31,700 in 1961
to 99,800 In 1972; that of Ho-
ban from 49,000 to 98,000; that
of Ramat Gan from 90,800 to
120,100; Petah Tikvah from
54,000 to 92,400 and Rishon
LeZion from 27,900 to 51,900.
The largest population in-
crease was recorded by Ash-
dod — from 4,600 in 1961 to
40,500 in 1972 — an increase
of 780 per cent.
Jerusalem's population
grew from 164,000 to 304,500.
Most of this increase, how-
ever, is to be ascribed to the
annexation of East Jeru-
salem after the Six Day War.
Haifa's population, which
in 1961 was larger than that
of Jerusalem — 183,000 — in-
creased to 217,400 in 1972.
Thus, 86.9 per cent of Is-
rael's population is concen-
trated in urban settlements
and 13 per cent in rural settle-
ments. In 1961, 85.3 per cant
of the population lived in Or-
ban settlements and 14.7 per
cent in rural settlements,
which shows that there has
been a tendency to migrate
from the countryside to the
towns.

In the Jewish villages there

has been a 71.8 per cent drop
in population, while the mo-
shavim showed a 5 per cent
rise in population and the
kibutzim a 14 per cent rise.
Despite the fact that the pop-
ulation In the kibutzim has
grown from 77,100 in 1961 to
87,900 in 1972, this increase

A democracy is more than
a form of government; it is
In Tel Aviv, the average primarily a mode of asso-

is smaller than the natural
increase In t h e kibutzim, number of persons per fam- ciated living, of conjoint com-
showing that in the past 11 ily is 2.9, in Haifa 3.1, in municated experience.—John
years there has been a tend- Jerusalem 4, in Tiberias 4.5, Dewey.
ency on the part of members in Beth S h e a n 4.7 and in
to leave their kibutzim.
Beersheba 4.1.
The average number of
A fact that was more than
persons per family has re-
astounding is that at the time
mained stable in the past 11
of the census there were no
years at 3.8. On the other
fewer than 51,400 empty flats
hand, in the towns there has
in the country. The reasons
been a rise from 3.6 to 3.7
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ure have not yet been fully
from 4.9 to 4.5 persons per
analyzed, but it should be
family. The largest families
borne in mind that these in-
are to be found in non-Jewish
clude dwellings condemned
villages, with 6.6 persons per
for demolition, dwellings pur-
family, and the smallest fam-
Energeticcommunity repre-
chased but not yet occupied
ilies in the kibutzim with 2.3
sentatives wanted on part-time
by the purchasers, dwellings
basis to distribute twenty les-
persons per family.
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vative rabbi who is convinced the empty devalings were sit-
515 Park Ave..
New York. N.I. 10022
that "a new and different uated in the Tel Aviv district.
kind of lay leadership is de-
veloping in the synagogue
which is making greater in-
tellectual and spiritual de-
mands upon the synagogue
program" has reported ma-
jor changes in worship pro-
Sat., Dec. 30, 1972 — 9 p.m.
cedures in his synagogue in
Bnai Moshe, 14390 W. 10 Mile, Oak Park
efforts to meet those de-
mands.
Music by Eric Rosenow and his Continentals.
The challenge and the re-
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the current issue of the Re-
view of the United Synagogue
of America, the association of
Conservative congregations.
Rabbi Silverman, in spell-
ing out the changes he con-
tends the synagogues must
introduce to hold its congre-
gants, added that "many of
our intelligentsia
are dis-
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of our college students and
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the quality of program that
the synagogue today offers
them."
Rabbi Silverman said that
the younger generation is re-
pelled by "the spectacle of
the rabbi on the pulpit in un-
traditional, Protestant-type,
black robes," which he said
was, for the young Jews, "a
symbol of sanctimonious es-
tablishment."
He also expressed the view
that "the sermon as such is
dead and deserves a decent
burial and kadish." More-
over, he added, the rabbi who
"mouths psychiatry, soci-
ology or philosophy" may
have among his auditors
listeners who are experts in
these fields. He proposed,
accordingly, a reversion to
"what the rabbi was and al-
ways must be: namely, the
teacher," and a moratorium
on use of the sermon and its
replacement by lessons, dia-
logues or teaching discus-
sions.

Children of Religious
Families Adjust Best

JERUSALEM (ZINS)—Ed-
ucators say that children of
new immigrant families with
a religious upbringing have
a much easier time adjusting
than do children for nonre-
ligious or secular homes.
Orthodox youngsters wear
skullcaps in common with
their classmates, helping to
create an atmosphere of
classroom equality. They are
also better grounded in He-
brew language and Bible. A
rich background of "Yiddish-

keit" makes their integration
into the life of Israel much

easier.

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