Welfare of Israeli Soldiers, at Front, in Hospitals, Concern of Association.

As Israel gets back to
tasks of everyday life, there
is a new element that its
people must attend to: the
many wounded veterans and
those who still must man the
lines in protection of Israel.
Rabbi A. Irving Schnipper,
who chairs the Detroit
branch of the Association for
Welfare of Soldiers in Israel,
said that the rigors of the
soldier's life are made easier
to bear by the work of the
association, whose volunteers

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provide anything from radios
and razor blades to candy,
cigarettes, books and games.
Because of the heavy
burden of taxation for de-
fense expenditure, there is
little money left to provide
those items that bring
soldiers closer to home.
Rabbi Schnipper said that
his son Danny, a student at
Yeshiva Tik v at Yaacov,
wrote home that he's seen
many volunteers working for
the association, "and I think
it is a very worthwhile or-
ganization. If you can, try to
raise some more money for
them. I've seen a lot of
soldiers on the street and
they look so depressed. One
guy on the street asked me
for some cookies. Who knows

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where I'd be if not for the
bravery of those men. Please
try your best."
The association also is in-
strumental in the rehabilita-
tion of wounded veterans.
It was reported in Israel
that hospitalized soldiers
were refusing to accept gift
packages from the associa-
tion because the servicemen
at the front lines needed
them more. They compro-
mised by each giving IL 20
for the packages and asking
that the money purchase
g i f t s for the front-line
soldiers.
Israelis themselves con-
tribute heavily. One elderly

man turned over his life
savings of IL 1,500 ($375),
and a women gave the IL
15,000 she had saved for a
pleasure trip abroad. Chil-
dren give coins from their
toy banks, and others set up
stands in the streets, where
they also collect gifts for
soldiers.
Zion Square in the heart of
downtown Jerusalem was a
collection point for donations
to the Soldiers' Welfare Com-
mittee. Among the volunteers
manning the station were
young women, among them
the widow of a Mirage pilot
who had been shot down over
Egypt in the Six-Day War.

She told of the tremendous
response of passersby, nota-
bly foreign tourists.
One local merchant who
had just received his callup
orders donated his e n t i r e
stock of over 100 transistor
radios and batteries before

closing his shop to report to
his unit.
Rabbi Schnipper asks that
donations be sent to the As-
sociation for the Welfare of
Soldiers in Israel, c/o Cong.
Beth Moses, 19160 Ever-
green, Detroit 48219.

1 8 Friday, November 2, 1973 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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SHOULD YOU BE
CONCERNED

1. Do you worry about the safety of your family

while you are out of the city?

1. Do you wake up at night with an insecure feeling

Boosting Morale

By HAIM SCHACHTER
Artists and entertainers of
all kinds have made the
rounds of military units on
all fronts in order to boost
the morale among the sol-
diers.
Apart from the 40-odd
army entertainment troupes
that traveled up and down
the lines for almost 24 hours
a day, at least 150 enter-
tainers, singers and actors
enlisted to relieve the ten-
sion under which Israel's
soldiers have been fighting.
These entertainers were
taken to the units by private
citizens who placed both
themselves and their cars at
the disposal of the chief army
education of f i c e r, under
whose auspices entertainment
activities among the troops
are carried on. Day by day,
scores of private car owners
called at his offices in the
hope of being assigned to
such conveyance duty.
The longer the journey, the
more pleased they were,
even though they are expect-
ed to foot the fuel bill.
For many among these vol-
unteer drivers, a short jour-
ney was regarded as "pun-
ishment," and it was an
honor of the greatest signi-
ficance to be asked to take
entertainers to Sinai or the
front-lines in Syria.
Many singers and actors
went out to do their stints at
the front in their own ve-
hicles. Amont these one
might m en tion Yehoram
Gaon, who travels up and
down the country from the
Golan to the Canal.
Singer Avi Toledano was
on a tour of France when
the war broke out. He took
the first available plane home
and reported for service im-
mediately.
Not all the entertainers
are as famous as Danny
Kaye, and not all of them
had previously any connec-
tion with the "light enter-
tainment" f i el d. Among

Lansky's Donation
to Israel Queried

NEW YORK — Reputed
underworld financial brain,
Meyer Lansky, has reported-
ly donated $1,000,000 to aid
Israel in its hour of need an
article in the New York
Times said.
Quoting Tel Aviv news-
papers, the article said Lan-
sky made the donation dur-
ing a U.S. fund-raising tour
by Finance Minister Pinhas
Sapir. In Miami, where
Lansky resides, and in New
York, spokesmen for the
United Jewish Appeal which
sponsored Sapir's tour were
unable to confirm Lansky's
donation.

these are members of the
Habima and Cameri thea-
ters.
The Yom Kippur War has
also seen the return to the
troop entertainment stage of
Independence War veterans
such as Yaffa Y a r k on i,
Shmuel Rodensk y and
Shmuel Segal.

Negro singer Jimmy Lloyd
traveled up and down the
front-lines and carried away
his eager audiences by his
"Israeli spirituals."
Every night ever since the
fighthing broke out many of
these artists called at the
television studios in Tel Aviv
to entertain the home-front,
each for a few brief mo-
ments. Their songs have not
been marked by the under-
tones of war but rather by
the deep-seated urge and
hope for peace.

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