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Computer Gets Reprogramed During War
Emergency
Rally to Host
Joseph Almogi
RAMAT-GAN — Normally, the Yom Kippur War.
the Bar-Ilan University corn-
During the emergency, the
puter is used for such re- computer processed classi-
search as the Hebrew Re- fied information, manned by
sponsa project. But, like a student-turned-soldier,
Israel Minister of Develop-
other university personnel.
ment and Housing Joseph
the computer got drafted in Classifieds Get Quick Results Almogi will address an
emergency rally, 8 p.m.,
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, November 2, 1973-11 Tuesday, at the Labor Zion-
ist Institute.
The rally is co-sponsored
by the Labor Zionist Alliance
and Pioneer Women.
A popular Israeli military
hero, Almogi was a member
of the Hagana command and
an officer in the Jewish Bri-
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DetroitWomen Pledge to Replenish
Forest Ravaged by Terrorist Rockets
NEW YORK (JTA) — In
response to the news that an
80,000-tree forest near Kiryat
Shmoneh had been set afire
by terrorist rockets fired
from Lebanon Oct. 29, it was
announced Wednesday by
Abram Salomon, executive
vice president of the Jewish
National Fund of America,
that the forest, which had
been planted by the JNF 10
years ago, will be replaced
by a new forest of 100,000
trees between Misgav Am
and Kiryat Shmoneh, above
where the trees were de-
stroyed.
In a telephone call Wed-
nesday to Salomon, the JNF
Women of Detroit, an organi-
zation which celebrates this
year 50 years of its exist-
ence, and which is currently
Everybody talks about the headed by Mrs. Shirley Kraft,
weather but nobody does any- president, and Mrs. Belle
thing about it.—C. D. Warner Levin, its fund-raising chair-
Minister of Labor
JOSEF ALMOGI
will speak at the
SOLIDARITY RALLY
FOR ISRAEL
on behalf of
the Israel Bond cause
TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER 6
8 P.M.
at the
LABOR ZIONIST
INSTITUTE
28555 Middlebelt Rd.
Farmington
JOIN US
YOU CAN HELP!
LABOR MINISTER ALMOGI
Sponsored by:
THE LABOR ZIONIST ALLIANCE
AND THE PIONEER WOMEN
man, pledged to undertake a
new $250,000 project to cover
the cost of planting the 100,-
000 trees.
An intensified campaign to
restore the ravaged area will
commence after Jan. 1.
The JNF Women of Detroit
have a special kinship with
this region, as they have
planted through many years
many thousands of trees near
Kiryat Shmoneh and have
established recreation areas
and playgrounds in the
vicinity.
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JNF Resources
Vital to Israel
NEW YORK — The Jewish
National Fund is playing a
vital role in the Israeli
emergency in that it has
provided resources and im-
proved roads during peace-
time which proved invalu-
able during the war.
Among the resources, ac-
cording to Shimon Benshe-
mesh, director-general of the
By MAURICE CARR
fund, groves and forests of-
TEL AVIV — Tel Aviv Uri- fered shelter to the soldiers.
versity on the 12th day of the.
The fund has also taken pre-
war is something of a ghost
cautionary measures to pro-
town. Gone "for the dura-
tect 3,000,000 saplings for a
tion" are the university's future planting.
16,000 students. Virtually all
Meanwhile, the land re-
of the young men and some
clamation department is
of the girls have gone into
ready for repair work on
the army, while most of the
roads and settlements dam-
girls who have not been
aged in the war, and as soon
called are either doing volun- as possible, the department
tary work for the war effort will resume the development
or desperately trying to.
of hill settlements.
Finding a job as a volun-
The Keren Kayemet Teach-
teer isn't all that easy. How- ers' Council has asked all
ever, all the 200 young Ameri- school children to contribute
cans who have been attend- to the voluntary loan, in co-
ing special courses at the operation with an appeal
university — all except for which asks each class to
the few who for compelling donate at least IL 100 ($25)
reasons have left the coun- to the fund.
try after the outbreak of hos-
Benshemesh reports that
tilities — are now doing im- his staff is contributing half
portant and arduous jobs to their monthly salaries to the
speed Israel to victory in the voluntary loan. At the head
greatest emergency the Jew- office, a 24-hour telephone
ish state has experienced in information service is in op-
its turbulent 25 first years of eration so that staff mem-
existence.
bers and their families can
Nearly all of Tel Aviv call from the fronts or from
University's 2,6u0 f a cult y wherever they may be on
members are military aides duty.
and the majority of them are
One manifestation of soli-
on war service.
darity with Israel was seen
Faculty members who have as 110 Dutch persons in Is-
not been called and are not rael at the time of the out-
engaged in research work break of the war, planted
which cannot be interrupted, two groves near Nir-Etzion
are volunteers for the war in memory of their Jewish
effort on the home front. comrade Robert de Vries and
Scores are teaching at ele- of their non-Jewish friend G.
mentary and high schools C. Aalders, Benshemesh said.
and in kibutzim replacing The Dutch ambassador at-
regular teachers who have tended the ceremony.
been called. Several proles-
Among the JNF staff
sors are working as Steve• casualties were R e u v en
dores.
Hauser, a young lawyer who
Tel Aviv University's ad- left the head office last year
ministrative staff of some 4._ to establish his own practice
000 has been depleted for and was killed in the war;
they are now doing their bit Gideon Weiler, son of Dr.
in the Israel Defense Forces. Moses Cyrus Weiler; Dov
Two generals and two colo Hadass, son of JNF tourist
nels in the reserves are guide, Mordechai Hadass;
and Assa Ido, son of Avra-
among those called.
For the women's zone there ham Ido (Descalo), head of
are special services function- the accounting department of
ing to help to find them vol- the land reclamation depart-
n in Haifa.
untary work. By now half m
untary
—e-
the women are away doing a
wide variety of war jobs— `Moses' Still in Israel
nursing, farming, factory
JERUSALEM — "I'm not
chores and social welfare, in- leaving Israel now; I belong
cluding assistance to bereav- here," said American film
ed families and relatives of actor Burt Lancaster, who
wounded soldiers. All pay will star in the film "Moses,"
received for voluntary work a joint Italian-French televi-
is turned over to the Soldiers' sion production being shot in
Fund.
Israel.
The volunteers, like the
Lancaster and the other
mobilized men and women, stars — Ingrid Tulin and An-
receive their full salary from thony Quayle—decided not to
the university. The university leave Israel despite the tense
computer is switched off — situation.
its operators are away fight-
On the first day of the
ing — but the skeleton ad- fighting, several members of
ministrative staff will ensure the technical staff asked for
that everybody gets his salary additional assurances for
check at the end of the their personal security. The
month. But it won't be the Italian producer, Vincenzio
usual sum as the university Tabella, responded: "You
workers' union has decided can resign if you want to.
that 50 per cent of its mem- I'll find others to replace
bers' salaries will go for the you. My wife, child and I
purchase of war loan bonds. are remaining here."
Tel Aviv Staff
Goes 'Army'