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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Jaw, 19, 1973-13
Boris Smolar's
'Between You
... and Me'
Drug Abuse
Down in Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Drug
abuse is on the decline in
Israel, according to Shmuel
Roth, chief of the police in-
vestigating department.
Roth said last weekend that
arrests of drug peddlers and
Editor in-Chief Emeritus, ITA
drug users have dropped con-
siderably and that the police
(Copyright 1972, JTA Inc.)
are making greater efforts to
EXPLOSIVE GROWTH: Ten years is comparatively a small eradicate drug abuse.
span in the life of an organization which will soon reach
He said that estimates of
100 years of its existence. ORT—which was established 93 the number of drug addicts
years ago to develop vocational training among Jews—comes
were based solely on the
this weekend (Jan. 20-21) to its annual conference in New number of arrests made.
York with an unprecedented record of achievements during
Roth said that very little
its last 10 years.
hashish and opium are avail-
To begin with, the number of students in the voca- able on the drug market and
tional schools which ORT maintains in 28 lands is today that recent arrests disclosed
more than 65,000 compared with 36,500 a decade ago. Grad- that what little hashish being
uates last year numbered more than 16,000 compared with peddled here is of very poor
less than 9000 ten years ago. The teaching staff numbers ' quality, containing 30-40 per
now more than 2000 members while ten years ago it num
cent straw and other plant
bered about 1200.
matter.
He said LSD has virtually
This data gives in itself a striking picture of the ex-
disappeared
except for oc-
plosive growth of ORT in the last decade. The most drama-
tic fact is, however, the enrollment in Israel. Of the total casional hauls, largely In
number of students enrolled now in ORT systems all over Eilat, and the police have no'
the world, more than 42,000 are in Israel. The ORT stu- knowledge of heroin use In
dent body in Israel has grown more than 300 per cent Israel.
The police and the health
larger in the course of the last 10 years.
ministry are considering leg-
Ten years ago, one out of three students in ORT's
islative action to curb the use
vocational training schools world-over was an Israeli. Today of
synthetic drugs and medi-
the proportion is four out of six. ORT has also pioneered
cations which addicts use as
recently in the opening of a technical college in Israel which subsitutes for drugs that are
offers two years of university-level studies acceptable for not available in Israel, Roth
matriculation at the Techion—Israel Institute of Technology. said.
Arab youths may now be found in ORT vocational high
schools and in apprenticeship centers in Israel. They are
avidly sought after following their graduation, and they re-
ceive the same pay scale as all other skilled craftsmen in
the country. ORT also maintains vocational training schools
in Arab-populated sections of Israel. Such schools, estab-
lished to service Arab youths in Arab areas, exist now in
Nazareth, Abu Gush and in East Jerusalem. The Israel
Ministry of Labor has now designated ORT to organize
modern vocational high schools for Arab students in Ile- I
bron, Tulkarem, Gaza and in the West Bank.
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"CAFETERIA OF SKILLS:" ORT is now being describ,zd
as • "cafeteria of skills." Its vocational programs list 91
distinct skills.
ORT courses now range from traditional occupations—
such as tailoring, plumbing, printing, welding, carpentry,
construction work, stenography and an all directory of
service trades—to automation, electronics, tele-communica-
BY ATTENDING THE
43rd Annual Donor Tea
Tuesday, January 23, 1973, 12 Noon
Congregation Beth Achim
tions, avionics, chemical technology for industry and med-
icine, and other modern crafts.
Special attention is being paid by ORT in Israel to im-
migrants from the Soviet Union.
An inquiry conducted by the Youth Aliya department of
the Jewish Agency evaluating characteristics of 500 chil-
dren from the Soviet Union established that despite the un-
usually high proportion with academic family backgrounds,
the great majority are from skilled working class families.
They display positive attitudes toward work, aspiring te,
technical careers. The education they can obtain for reach-
ing such careers is given in Israel primarily in the ORT
vocational school system.
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ORT IN U.S.: While functioning in some 90 cities around
the world as the largest international voluntary organization
in the fields of technical and vocational education and man-
power training, ORT is now planning the establishment of
vocational training facilities also in the United States. They
are intended primarily for teaching new skills to Jewish
poor in this country and thus enable them to improve their
economic condition.
A team of experts will arrive next month from Geneva
—the headquarters of the World ORT Union—to study on
the spot a project for an ORT technical school in New York.
The school will be financed by Women's American ORT, a
group with 100,000 members who last year contributed 52,-
350,000 toward the ORT programs in Israel and other over-
seas countries.
The American ORT Federation has long been sponsor-
ing a trade school in New York. This school is named after
Dr. Leon Bramson. one of the founders of ORT in Russia.
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