6—Friday, Sept. 14, 1973

Elderly-to-Elderly' Aid Project Helps Aged Conquer Loneliness

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Sapir Discloses 30- to 40,000 Jews
Are Due in Israel Within a Year

WASHINGTON (JTA) — chosen to serve as executive
Veteran Israeli political vice president of the organi-
leader Pinhas Sapir was zation.
hailed here by some 700
Israeli Premier Golda Meir
American and Canadian Jew- telephoned her congratula-
ish communal leaders for his tions to Sapir in an address
contributions to Israel dur- recorded for the dinner pro-
ing his 10 years as minister gram. Focussing on Soviet
of finance and 18 years as a Jewish emigration require-
member of Israel's cabinet. ments, she stressed that suc-
His appearance at an Is-
rael Bond Organization din-
ner at the Washington Hilton
Hotel climaxed the group's
fall leadership conference.
Speaking under a banner
reading "Bonds Mean Jobs
for Russian Jews in Israel,"
Sapir departed from his pre-
pared text to disclose that he
has "an unofficial promise"
that 30- to 40,000 Jews will
arrive in a year from the
Soviet Union and that he ex-
pects 18,000 families "from
everywhere" to arrive in
Israel in 1974. He asserted
that their resettlement in Is-
rael will cost $600,000,000.
MICHAEL ARNON
Noting that Israel's "first
budget item is still defense,"
Sapir said the cost of U.S. cessful integration by the
Phantoms and Skyhawks and 60,000 Soviet Jews who came
other military equipment has to Israel since 1960 will buoy
doubled in the past six years. the hopes of hundreds of
thousands of Jews still in the
He observed that Israel's
USSR.
defense amounts to 17 per
Sapir declared later at a
cent of its gross national
product, twice as much pro- luncheon given by the Na-
portionately as that of the tional Rabbinic Cabinet of'
the Israel Bond Organization
United States.
that "Not all Israel is Hilton
European countries, he and Sheraton. The million.
addecV spent two to five per aire is not the typical Is-
cent "maximum" for their
raeli."
defense.
Sapir's reference to million-
The finance minister also aires came during a question
stated that Israel is in the
and answer session.
process of establishing an
The reference was to a
atomic power plant to pro-
duce electric power and that recent New York Times
Israel will intensify its story from Jerusalem which
search for oil in the near described luxurious living by
future. He said that the only Israel's wealthier set.
Sapir said the rich in Is-
operating oil fields in Israel,
at Heletz, have almost com- rael are those who came
with money and that it took
pletely dried up.
It was announced t h a t only $250,000 to be a "million-
the government of Israel has aire" in Israel.
While there are wealthy
acceded to the request of
the board of directors of the Israelis, Israel is also Hat-
Bond organization to lend ,ikva ( a Tel Aviv slum) and
Michael Arnon, secretary of high income tax, he said. To
the government and the cab- illustrate how hard-pressed
inet of Israel, to assume the the Israeli taxpayer is, Sapir
post of president and chief observed that he himself
executive officer of the Israel paid $207 in income tax last
month out of a gross salary
Bond Organization.
It was also announced that of $725.
Morris Sipser, the national
campaign director, had been Parley on Passover

JERUSALEM — "Elderly-
to-Elderly," aided by Malben,
the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee program in Israel,
founded by the United Jewish
Appeal, is a program which
uses mildly handicaped per-
sons of similar cultural back-
grounds to help care for the
bedridden or house-bound
elderly.
Four years of experience
have shown that this is a
simple, inexpensive and ef-
fective way of helping groups
of aged to conquer loneliness
and depression. -
"It is a 'mix and match'
program," says Dr Claire
Davidson, medical director at
t h e JDC/Malben-supported
Guidance a_n d Counseling
Center for the Aged, which
serves as headquarters for
the project.
Collateral visits, such as
shopping, errands or report-

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NEW YORK—The Ameri-
can Jewish Congress protest-
ed the scheduling of the Na-
tional School Boards Associa-
tion's 1974 convention during
Passover, warning that fail-
ure to alter the date would
force Jewish school board
members "to choose between
their religious obligations
and their educational re-
sponsibilities."
In a letter to Harold V.
Webb, executive director of
the National School Boards
Association, the AJC's New
York Metropolitan Council
said that several local school
board officials had protested
the scheduling of the con-
vention which coincides with
the two seder nights.

ing back to the professional
staff at the Center are also
made. In addition to regular
visits, the visitors provide the
daily and individualized con-
tact which is essential to any
program for the aged, but
which cannot be given by
professional manpower alone.
Bi-monthly meetings with
the staff at the Center give
the "visitors" a chance to
talk over their "cases," to
discuss the problems they
have encountered.
Operating costs for the pro-
gram are minimal. Although
the "visitors," whose ages
range from 60 to almost 80,
receive a small sum for their
services there is more than
just practical value to this
payment.
It is an important factor
in restoring their mental will-
being, in giving them the
feeling that they are still cap-

`Severity' Pledged Against Bias

PARIS (JTA)—French In-
terior Minister Raymond
Marcellin promised to 'act
with e x t r e m e severity"
against the resurgence of
racism and anti-Semitism in
France. He made the state-
ment after a meeting with
Jean Pierre-Bloch, president
of the International League
Against Racism and Anti-
Semitism (LICA).
Pierre-Bloch, who request-
the meeting, also repre-
sented the Representative
Council of Jewish Institutions
in France (CRIJ).
The LICA president dis-
cussed in particular the anti-
Semitic incidents which oc-
curred last month in the
French Riviera towns of
Antibes and Juan-les-Pins. At
that time, Jewish vacation-
ers were attacked by assail-
ants armed with bicycle
chairs, sticks, and iron bars.
Police did not intervene. A
few days earlier, 30 French

mayors told the LICA they
had received mimeographed
letters expressing violent
anti-Semitism.

The town of Antibes has a
permanent Jewish commu-
nity of 450 families. In the
summer, the town has some
3,000 Jewish vacationers,
most of whom are of Tunis-
ian origin and who have re-
settled in the underprivileged
neighborhoods of Paris. They
have been criticized for
speaking Arabic, living in
crowded quarters and for
"not knowing how to act" on
the street.

Anti-Arab feeling has been
growing in France during the
past two weeks following the
killing of a French bus
driver in Marseilles by a
crazed Algerian immigrant
worker. Seven Algerians
have since been murdered in
what strongly appears to be
racial reprisals.

able of earning, still able to
continue as productive mem-
bers of society.
"Inquiries from abroad re-
flect the growing interest in
home-care services for the

elderly," Dr. Davidson said.
"The Elderly-to-Elderly proj-
ect is far from a complete
home-care service, but it can
be an important adjunct to
any program for the aged."

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