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- - 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 Orchestra and Entertainment 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. BAR MITZVAS WEDDINGS PORTRAITS Caricatures SAM FIELD Larry Freedman 399-1320 647-2367 Candids by 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. 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