.0041. ■ ■ ••• ■ •04 ■ ••• 1 ■ •11. I ••■■• ■■■ •• ••■■• 04•1111•• 1?est Jewish National Fund During Israel's Statehood T HE II islics For 1 Hupp 1 • Possorer By HERBERT FREEDEN tending the JNF principles of (Copyright 1973„ITA, Inc.) inalienability of the soil and CHARLIE ROBINSON'S JERUSALEM — The role its use in terms of hereditary SHELL SERVICE of the Jewish National Fund leaseholdership to almost all 8 Mile Rd. and Mark Twain in the national renaissance is public land holdings in Israel. 864-7915 one of historic dimensions. A This arrangement constitutes pioneering generation settled the finest vindication of JNF ■•••■•■■■■ ■ ■ on JNF holdings in areas work during seven decades. which seemed forlorn. on soil By 1947, the JNF had ac- which seemed uncultivable. quired 1.089,000 dunams Ilapp. ). Puss° 1 e r The JNF helped them not (272,250 acres), much at high Northland Building only to occupy the land. but prices — and 87 per cent of to ameliorate it and improve all Jewish settlements were Maintenance, Inc. it. The fund's land policy was on JNF land. After 1948, the orman Tarockoff amply vindicated: in Novem- JNF turned its efforts to vast ber 1947 the United Nations land reclamation projects to Eugene Bon n1(1, drew the' boundaries of the clear the way for the re- proposed Jewish state almost settlement of the hundreds entirely in accordance with of thousands of immigrants Holiday Good Cheer the land holdings of the Jew- pouring in. The fund was I GLOBE PARCEL 1 ish National Fund. In the allotted the exclusive task of War of Independence, settle- "conquering" the wastes — SERVICE i ments on land, bought by the no small undertaking. The Gift Parcels For JNF in strategic areas, area of cultivated land was Overseas Countries i helped to stop the invaders. 4,500,000 dunams, out of a 6460 Michigan With establishment of the total of 22,000,000 dunams. TO 5-7560 State, a new era in land de- The first step in develop- ■ ■ ■1■ velopment opened. The ac- ing new regions is the con- cent shifted from land pur- struction of a road, demar- Happy Passorer To Our chased to land reclamation, cating for the first time the Cusiomers and Friends from the redemption of the border, which till then was soil to "making the desert a hunting ground for infiltra- JACK'S bloom." tors and marauders. Verit- CARPET CLEANERS The Keren Kayemet is the able feat s_ of engineering exclusive agent for all land were accomplished in road Our Work Is Guaranteed development tasks in the building. The road to Adamit 13251 Irvine, Oak Park country. In 1960, a law was crossing the Tiger Canyon, LI 3-6860 adopted by the Knesset ex- the road to Biranit along the Lebanese frontier, the road A Happy Holiday to All Our Relatives to Mount Gilboa of Biblical Friends and Patrons fame, the road to lonely Mei Ami; the highway from Arad to the Dead Sea; roads built by the JNF to make the fron- tiers of Israel safer, from the north to the south — the road Our Specialty Truck Painting and Lettering along the River Jordan, the 3569 Superior 923-2210 link between Adullam and Etzion; and the mountain road up mighty Hermon. Holiday Greetings Some 540 new settlements to My Friends and Customers were set up between 1948-71. twice the number •in exist- 4 ence when the state was 4 established. To speed up set- Manufacturer of Fine Furs 4 tlement, even before the nec- 271 W. MAPLE, Birmingham, Mich. 642-4440 4 essary minimum of arabl ,, soil for new villages was available, the Keren Kaye- met devised in the first years of statehood a new, transitory Passover Greetings form of settlement, the "work village" whose inhabitants, in the initial years, based Coils, Strips, Sheets — Galvanized, Electrolytic their livelihood on their work as hired laborers of the Jew- 10621 Capital Oak Park LI 8-8111 ish National Fund. The fund guaranteed them the number of annual workdays neces- sary for the upkeep of their families. Best Wishes for A Happy The second phase began in the middle '50s with the Passover idea of rural settlement on a regional scale, the Lakhish Region becoming the proto- type. The Hula swamps were drained in a huge and com- plicated operation which took eight years and brought 100,- 000 dunams (25,000 acres) un- der cultivation — by now the finest soil in the country. The Jewish National Fund took }OM. 1 •...O. 1 "AMOY 1,•• ••• •• o..• 041 I L 1 INEM.0.11.1.0 11,4=NPIIMI.4.4M1M.11.1 01, •••,11 BRADY TRUCK PAINTING & LETTERING CO. JOHN KEYSTONE INTERNATIONAL METAL PRODUCTS CORP. OKLAHOMA SERVICE STATIONS S incere Re31 for a Jlappy, -Wealthy and Peaceful Pa33over Mr. uir and ene Ja3hion3 eoutique3 25266 creenfield led. O at Parh, Mich. 398-3/20 DONATE BLOOD TO THE BLOOD BANK DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, April 13, 1973-41 the initiative for the devel- opnYont of particularly dif- ■ ■•■ ■ ■ ■■■ •• •• ficult border areas like the Pa ssot'er G reel lags Adullam Region of southern llo(r I 11‘1111, I S: JO Mt, Judea, or later, the Adorayim and Yatir regions still fur- Bagel Restaurant LLOYD 'S ther south, or the smaller & Caterers i Patio Furnitkiii, projects for the Modi'im 15410 Fealtell .11 1:,..,,,n,•1,1 Area of northern Judea, the 11,2 39 Woodward 10 24255 Orchard lake Korazim Region north of g Hihlan d Park 867 0003 Lake Kinneret, etc. 7,41• ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ FON! A third phase, initiated in ■ ■ 11.11 .12 D jg the early '60s, runs paral- (Mu 1/w% Happy Pa.c.s()ret lel to regional settlement l'rwrid: awl ( fuslotrier, planning. It is characterized 11,111,1 yr by the close cooperation be- WAYNE tween the Jewish National Sid and Lou Fishman STANDARD SERVICE Fund and the Israel army. OLYMPIC 20141 W. 8 Mile Rd. Nahal (Army Pioneer Settler Detroit, Michigan 1! Corps) outpost villages have [ Sporting Goods Co. KE 8-9875 been set up on border sites c,•„. 19129 Livernois because of their strategic im- tirrtilirirri-W1515111r1M071, portance. The settlers are Happy Passover To m a 1 e and female soldiers who give part of their service Our Friends and Customers in the form of work in land development a n d farming. The JNF in these. cases has MR. AND MRS. MARTIN WEISS AND FAMILY taken upon itself not only the 13735 W. 9 Mile Rd., Oak Park reclamation of the soil and 26060 GreenfieldLincoln Center the building of access roads, Closed Passover Week but also the construction of all the installations needed in the initial period. Althogther, the Keren Kaye- Passover Greetings met has emerged as an im- portant factor on the labor market. The number of work- days provided in land reclam- ation and afforestation pro- grams rose from 60,000 in 1948-49 to 295,000 in 1949-50 and '715,000 in 1951-52 and IOC N5CCX*X 'XV.< ';40( vstk-marc:›m: >UK AVOW" then settled down to 500,000 Pa.ssorer Greettngs annually. By 1975, contemplated pro- jects would extend land prep- aration to an additional 137,- Silk Screen -Colors — Supplies — Equipment 000 dunams of agricultural acreage; and the planting of 6340 Fenkel; 12,000,000 trees, with invest- 862-1115 ments totaling IL 258,000,000 ;ow (864,500,000). Some 55 per cent of con- Happy Passover templated development will be carried out in settlements which came into being after the 1967 war. These projects will call for an investment of IL 164,000,000 in land reclam- CORRUGATED CARTONS ation, drainage and road building and will be carried 23823 Dequindre, Hazel Park 566-8640 out in nine regions with the bulk of the expenditure going to land improvement for ag- I lapp Ir. I lealthy riculture: in the Jordan Val- Passorer ley, 46,000 tlunams; in the Golan Heights, 36,000 dun- To 411 ams; and in the Arava, 14,000 dunams. The afforestation allocation for the next four years of IL 94,000,000 — in addition to new forests — will bring the total of trees planted to 120,000,000 by the end of 1975. 670 E. Woodbridge Ave. In the 25 years of state- hood, JNF land holdings grew Detroit, Michigan from 936,000 dunams (231,- 000 acres) to 2,520,000 dun- ams (641,000); 450,000 dunams of land were reclaimed and another 200,000 dunams won by drainage operations; some 2.600 kilometers of roads From were built and over 100,000,000 trees planted. 1 11, • 1.1=. ..1 0i. • .1111l., 4111M. •■ ■ ••• vul.mn• •• • •••• • • MIMI, 0 011.111.4 .1.1i.•••• 0,••••••• •1 - 1.81111 4 141111 41.4•01.1.1 04•0101114=1•10- 11.111•160•11n. 1,41•0.1.1.1.1=1.1.0 L. o van. I ••••• 1.1•• • •• ••11,.... I 1+=l•P I ..11111.1 All MODERN BAKERY BLUE FLASH CHEMICAL CO. DESMOND PROCESS SUPPLY CO. MANHATTAN CONTAINER CORP. r HANDLEMAN COMPANY Passover Greetings MTRO ll SnOKE Last year, the University of Michigan, with a W. K. Kellogg Foundation grant, helped install coronary care units in 10 smaller hospitals across the state. EDDIE CITRON 23077 Greenfield Advance Building (Lower Level) Southfield, Mi. 48075 Harry and Ann Schwartz and all the Girls of Small Fry Holiday Greetings BERRY & SEYBURN Property Management Wish their friends and customers a Happy, Healthy Passover r ‘.\ 28th Floor, Fisher Bldg., Detroit 48202 871 7 6700"2"u - ".: 23077 Coolidge, Oak Park • 1