Panther Groups
Clash in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (J T A) —
Three persons were injured
and 16 were arrested in a
clash between rival Panther
groups here.
Police said some 150 per-
sons, led by Knesset member
Shalom Cohen, planned to
hold a rally in a school in
the Musrara slum quarters.
At the school the group,
mostly from Tel Aviv, was
met by a rival Panther group
led by Reuven Abargail.
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an exchange of heated
ds the two groups started
to throw stones and strike
each other.
Two cars of the Shalom
Cohen group were turned
over. The three injured per-
sons were taken to Hadassah
Hospital, and 16 persons
were held by police for ques-
tioning.
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IEF Aids Specialized School Curricula
and Israel Technical Education Centers
By MURRAY ZUCKOFF
JTA News Editor
(Copyright 1973, JTA, Inc.)
With the help of the Israel
Education Fund, a program
of the United Jewish Appeal,
students in Israel will be en-
tering secular and religious
comprehensive and vocation-
al high schools; specialized
nautical, tourism, engineer-
ing and fashion schools; and
pre-kindergarten schools.
Many will be children of
Oriental Jewish families who
might have been drop-outs.
Others will be Israeli Arab
youngsters encouraged t o
continue with their studies.
Still others will be Bedouin
children whose parents until
recently felt that formal edu-
cation was a waste of time.
And, of course, there will be
sabras and recent young im-
migrants from the Soviet
Union.
The IEF was born of the
recognition that there were
not enough high schools, that
less than half of those in ex-
istence at the beginning of
the 1960s were four-year fa-
cilities, that an insufficient
number provided full-scale
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vocational training and that
hardly any existed in devel-
opment towns where they
were needed most. The com-
prehensive high school be-
came the key element in Is-
rael's breakthrough education
program.
While the average voca-,
tional schools in the U.S. are
usually dumping grounds for
youngsters considered un-
manageable in academic sur-
roundings, the IEF schools
are geared to mesh with the
industrial, artistic, scientific
and cultural developments of
that young nation.
Kiryat Malachi is a devel-
opment town half-way be-
tween Ashkelon and Ashdod.
There are families from
North Africa, Poland and the
Soviet Union among the
13,000 residents.' The IEF
built pre - kindergarten
schools, a comprehensive
high school and a library.
The high school has an out-
standing industrial workshop
preparing students to enter
the metals industry, a phy-
sics and chemistry labora-
tory, an electric welding de-
partment, and classes in car-
pentry, sewing and fashions.
"The textile factories in the
area need fashion and dress
designers," said Sara Cohen,
chief librarian in Kiryat Ma-
lachi. "The students at our
school are so well-trained in
these fields that they have
no difficulty in making the
transition from classroom to
the factories."
The library in Kiryat Ma-
lachi is geared to meet the
requirements of the high
school. There are, Miss Co
hen related, some 18,000
books used by students and
teachers in the town and by
students and teachers from
neighboring communities.
Olga Shamir, senior con-
sultant to the Beersheba
Board of Education, stood in
the courtyard of the Musicaj
Academy-Cultural Center and
smiled. "It isn't quite like
the High School of Music and
Art (in New York attended
by artistically and musically
gifted children) but we hope
it will one day become a con-
servatory .of music."
Beersheba, she pointed out,
has an excellent youth band.
Last year the youngsters
competed in the International
Youth Bands Festival in
Vienna "and our band was
rated excellent." Before the
academy was completed last
year there were musical edu-
cation programs in this city,
but the academy put it all to-
gether. Some 600 students
from the ages of 6 to 18 are
now enrolled in it.
In addition to this academy-
cultural center, the IEF built
three comprehensive high
schools, a school of engineer-
ing, a religious high school,
three pre-kindergartens and
a library.
In Dimona, the IEF had
what amounted to test tube
educational situation. Almost
half of the town's population
of 28,000 are between the ages
of 1 and 18.E 60 per cent are
from North African coun-
tries, Yemen and Iraq; 15
per cent from India; and 10
per cent from Europe, includ-
ing 50 families from Soviet
Georgia with six or seven
persons per family.
There are other outstand-
ing IEF facilities throughout
the country. In fact, as of
June ire were 369 facilities
completed or under construc-
tion, (The figures last week
were based on an earlier re-
port.)
At Kfar Habad, some 10
miles from Tel Aviv, the
comprehensive high school
for girls is designed to even-
tually fill the educational
needs of 1,200 students in
three curricula : an aca-
demic high school for com-
plete Jewish and general ed-
ucation, a technical high
school and a teachers' semin-
ary. Because the area to be
served by this school contains
families who have a deeply
religious background, the
curriciulum includes about
five hours a week of addi-
tional study devoted to the
Talmud, Bible and Jewish
law. It has 22 classrooms, 14
workshops, six laboratories,
one lecture room, a library
and a shelter.
Baoua el Garbia, a Mos-
lem Israeli Arab village 30
miles south of Haifa, will
have a comprehensive school
consisting of a junior high
school and a high school serv-
ing five surrounding villages.
At Yad Benyamin, 20 miles
southeast of Tel Aviv, the
school consists of a yeshiva,
a teachers' seminary and an
ulpan for students from
abroad. The existing central
synagogue and the new dining
hall will serve the students
of all these facilities, includ-
ing the proposed vocational
school. The school will ini-
tially provide three basic
courses: aircraft and elec-
tricity, electronics and motor-
s a r mechanics, including
tractor and motor electricity.
Educators, municipal offi-
cials and school administra-
tors stressed that the base of
all the educational facilities
are the pre - kindergarten
schools which in many ways
are similar to the head start
programs in the United
States—but more effective in
providing infants with the
training to enter the school
system.
The IEF, determined to
solve this problem, provided
remarkable contributions in
this field. With 104 pre-kin-
dergarten facilities already
completed and 171 under con-
struction, the goal by the end
of 1975 is to have 1,000 pre-
kindergarten schools.
These schools, designed to
double as day care centers
permitting mothers who must
work the opportunity to be-
come productive citizens and
help raise the standard of liv-
ing, are in effect vital early
life centers for youngsters.
The pre-kindergarten pro-
gram currently involves
thre4 and four year olds. But
expansion to include one and
two year olds is anticipated.
According to IEF spokes-
men, the goal is to provide
at least one pre-kindergarten
school in every development
town and immigrant sector.
Israel Anniversary
Ends in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) —
About 12,000 Jews, 5,000 of
them youths carrying ban-
ners and shouting, "aliya,"
filled the Luna Park stadium
to celebrate the closing of
Israel's 25th anniversary
year.
The event was sponsored
by the Argentine Zionist Or-
g a niz a tio n, in cooperation
with the Buenos Aires Ke-
hilla, the Federation of Ar-
gentine Jewish Communities,
the DAIA and the Argentine
Jewish Youth Confederation.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, September 7, 1973-43
Arabs in E. Jerusalem Benefit
From National Health Insurance
JERUSALEM (JTA—East
Jerusalem Arabs are bene-
fiting subsstantially from na-
tional health insurance, old
age pensions and accident
compensation programs in
the city, Labor Minister
Yosef Almogi reported.
He said that figures avail-
able for the past four years
showed a sharp increase in
the benefits paid.
Almogi reported that 4,006
birth benefits were paid in
1972 compared to 2,172 in
1968 in East Jerusalem.
Arab mothers have become
accustomed to giving birth
in hospitals, he said.
The number of large fami-
lies covered by health sub-
sidies rose from 1,465 in
1968 to '7,121 in 1973, he re-
ported.
These families received
more than IL 17,000,000 in
one year for more than
40,000 children.
The subsidies are paid di-
rectly to the mothers, thus
elevating the woman's status
in the family, Almogi said.
He reported that more than
2,000 elderly persons and
250 widows and orphans re-
ceive old age and survivors
benefits in East Jerusalem.
In the past year, 1,368
Arab employes there re-
ceived accident payments
compared to 96 in 1968, Al-
mogi said.
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