Increased Interest in Israel's
Ecology Brings Positive Results
HAIFA — Israel environ- 1970s Israel would be the first
mentalists are beginning to country to begin drinking re-
win some battles to preserve claimed water, which he de-
scribed as cheaper and more
the ecology.
The first major battle was feasible than desalted water.
won over the country's larg- Aviv beaches have been
est cement manufacturer, ruined by oil discharges from
Nesher, who wanted to quar- tankers on the Mediterranean
ry about 500 acres of the his- each year. Edible fish drawn
toric and beautifully wooded from Haifa Bay contain mer-
Mount Carmel National Park cury levels four times higher
for limestone. After much than acceptable safe limits.
Air pollution poses another
government study and civil-
ian protest, the request by threat. Smoke stacks clog
the cement company was de- the air and shower cement
dust. To correct this situa-
nied.
In an article in the New tion in Tel Aviv, an air pol-
York Times, correspondent lution monitoring system was
Terence Smith writes that installed.
Other problems affecting
once ecological problems con-
cerned only a few profession- the Israel environment are
als, but now that pollution has noise, soil pollution and con-
reached a threatening degree, struction.
more people are concerned
out protecting the environ- Swastikas Stun
__Aent.
One result of the increased
interest in the ecology is the Jews in Athens
introduction of programs for
ATHENS — Three swas-
instruction on and research tikas daubed on the main
into environmental problems Athens synagogue with black
at maor universities. How- shoe polish is the first in-
ever, Dr. Anthony Peranio, a cident of its kind in eight
senior lecturer in environ- years here.
mental engineering at Tech-
The marking, which had
nion said, "Unfortunately, de- to be done by climbing a
spite the new interest, the high fence to enter the syna-
level of awareness about it gogue courtyard, reportedly
here is at least a decade be- caused anxiety among the
hind that of the United 4,500 Jews in Greece who
States."
a recent
Water pollution is a majcr have witnessed
of defamatory re-
threat the to industrializa- number
marks that have been p int-
tion. Israelis are tapping 90 ed
or circulated orally.
per cent of their reserves
Greek Orthodox bishops
and with increased needs
those reserves will be ex- accused Jews of having been
hausted in five to eight years. "behind such nefarious or-
The Sea of Galilee (Kineret), ganizations as the Free-
which provides a quarter of masons and Jehovah's Wit-
Israel's fresh water is threat- nesses in order to establish
ened with an abnormally world domination. Many
high nitrate level. However, Jews said such views as ex-
legislation was passed to en- pressed in sermons and pam-
able the water commissioner phlets distributed throughout
to cut off the water supply Greece, are responsible for
of an industry that doesn't the anti-Jewish feelings in a
comply with anti-pollution country with a history of re-
ligious toleration.
standards.
Another precaution took the
In the Athens weekly
form of a $100,000,000 five- magazine Epikaira, a reader
year national plan for sewage in a letter to the editor ex-
treatment. One Technion pro- pressed admiration for what
fessor said that by the late Hitler did to the Jews. An-
other incident causing con-
cern was letter from Salo-
Free University
nika, whose 60,000 Jews
Comes to Brooklyn
were massacred by the
NEW YORK — The for- Nazis. The letter said Greeks
mation of an innovative boro- had always hated the Jews.
wide Jewish Free University
for next fall was announced Jews From Southwest
by Rabbi Frank A. Fischer,
director of the Bnai Brith Set Mexico Mission
NEW YORK—Thirty Jewish
Hillel Foundation at Brook-
lyn College. This free uni- community leaders from the
versity will be staffed with Southwest and the West Coast
instructors drawn from fac- will fly to Mexico City Sun-
ulty of Brooklyn College, day for a week-long study
rabbis of the community and mission under the auspices
students with advanced Jew- of the American Jewish Com-
mittee.
ish background
The first community lead-
It will serve Jewish youth
from such institutions as ership delegation to that part
Brooklyn College, Kings- of the world appointed by
Tough Community College, AJC President Philip E. Hoff-
hg Island University, man will study economic, so-
Brooklyn Polytech and New cial and foreign policy ques-
tions with leaders of the
York Community College.
Jewish community of Mexi-
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Town in Jordan Rift
JERUSALEM — Five Dan
Region Israeli mayors an-
- nounced the creation of a
fund-raising drive to estab-
lish a town in the Jordan
Rift, outside the Green Line.
Residents of their town will
be asked to contribute IL
4,500,000 (over $1,000,000) in
the next two years. The
towns are Holon, Ramat Gan,
Givatayim, Bat Yam and
Bnei Brak. The planned
town will be a regional cen-
ter for the agricultural
settlements of the area.
O
co.
Tel Aviv Thefts
TEL AVIV—A special Tel
Aviv police squad has been
set up to halt the rise in car
radio thefts. During the last
six weeks, since the squad
has been formed, 164 sus-
pects have been caught and
117 stolen radios found.
During this period, 350
radios were reported stolen.
New car radios selling for
IL 450 (over $100) are being
bought for IL 100 ($25) once
stolen, police report.
Emigre Studies at Touro College
Friday, March 23, 1973-39
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Sapir: Housing Shortage a Myth
JERUSALEM (JTA)—After have found, we have more
taking a close look at the than we need."
Housing officials said that
building statistics, Finance
Minister Pinhas Sapir feels of the 80,000 units under con-
that the housing. shortage in struction as of the beginning
Israel is a myth and there- of 1973, roughly half were for
fore plans to ask the cabinet the public sector. Of these,
to reduce the pace of building 16,000 are for new immi-
as a way of curbing Israel's grants.
growing inflation, according
Government officials esti-
to Danny Halpern, Sapir's mate that perhaps as many
chief assistant.
as 90,000 new immigrants will
In an interview with the come to Israel in the next
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, two years. Those 16,000 apart-
Halpern said Sapir recently ments would provide space
concluded from a look at the for between 50- and 60,000,
figures that Israel need not they said.
build in larger numbers an-
nually.
Halpern said Sapir was the
first government official to
dismiss talks of a housing
crisis.
"We have looked at the
figures and we estimate that
for your party
there are 80,000 apartments
Only a little more than a year after her arrival in the and other kinds of dwellings
United States from Russia, Rose Tessler is studying to being built in Israel," he
By
become a physician's associate at New York City's Touro said. "According to what we
College. Rose, her father, mother, brother and sister are
among the 650 Russian Jewish migrants who have now
been resettled in the Greater New York area with the aid
of the New York Association for New Americans. Here
Cell
Rose shows her uniform coat with its special symbol to
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Philip Soskis, NYANA executive director, and to Mrs.
Sophie S. Udell, NYANA president. NYANA is the sole
agency providing financial assistance, casework, vocational
and educational services to about half of all Jewish new-
comers to the United States, with funds from the United
Jewish Appeal.
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JDC-Aided Parents Group Aids
Israel's Deaf School Children
TEL AVIV—Through the
introduction of modern equip-
ment and new teaching meth-
ods in Israeli schools, Shema,
a voluntary Israel parents
association supported by
Malben, the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee program in
Israel, is helping scores of
deaf and hard-of-h e a r i n g
school children get a better
education, Dr. Yehoshua
Mazur, chairman of the or-
ganization, declared in an
annual report released last
week.
The three-year-old Shema
Parents Association of Deaf
and Hard-of-Hearing. Chil-
dren is one of the many vol-
untary organizations in Is-
rael that are assisted finan-
cially and given technical
assistance of JDC/Malben,
which is financed mainly by
the United Jewish Appeal.
During its three years of
operation, the organization
has spent almost IL 600,000
($143,000), most on the pur-
chase,of overhead projectors
and group hearing aids.
Foreign Words Used
in Hebrew Catalogued
JERUSALEM—After seven
months' work, during the
last academic year, the "De-
scriptive Study on Foreign
Words Used in Hebrew To-
day" has been completed
and published by the David
Yellin Hebrew Teachers Col-
lege, under the guidance of
Dr. Reuben Sivan, linguist
and Hebrew language teach-
er at the college.
The study was financed by
the ministry of education and
culture and is being dis-
tributed to all teachers col-
leges throughout Israel.
Words were selected from
everyday speech, radio, tele-
vision, the press and con-
temporary literature. The
words were then categorized,
analyzed and recorded to
show the presence of foreign
words in modern Hebrew.
I. A. photographer
ROSEN
Forty group hearing aids,
with earphones for each
child and a central control
system on the teacher's desk,
have been provide d for
schools throughout the coun-
try. The organization is ex-
perimenting with a wireless
hearing aid for hard-of-hear
ing children that will help
them to study in regular
classes.
Shema also joined JDC/
Malben and local authorities
in helping to set up the Tel
Aviv Speech and Hearing
Therapy Unit, which diag-
noses and treats children
with speech and hearing im-
pairments.
Among its other activities,
Shema organizes transporta-
tion for 38 deaf and hard-
of-hearing children to inte-
grated classes and to the
JDC-supported "Niv" School
for the Deaf in Tel Aviv.
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