Advise Me

Israel Reshuffles Army Brass. War Mistakes Are Blamed

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called 'upon counselors from the Jewish Family and Chil-
dren's Service. Other resources will be called•upon as prob-
lems arise in other areas. Address confidential queries to
"Advise Me. - care of The Jewish News, 17515 W. Nine Mile,
Southfield 48075.

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I am graduating from high
school in June. I've been
making applications for ad-
mission to college but I am
not sure what I want to do or
be. My parents are not push-
ing me to go to college. They
tell me to do whatever I want
to do but they seem to feel
that if I go to college, I
should have definite plans
bout the future. Wouldn't it
better for me to go to
work and plan on school
later?
—New Graduate

Dear New Graduate,
Very few young people are
certain about future plans.
However, this is a good time
to seek professional advice as
to what might be best for you.
Sometimes waiting a year

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Dec. 21—To Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Averbuch (Patricia
Bushta), 23820 Morton, Oak
Park, a daughter, Andrea
Gayle.

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Dec.. 15—To Mr. and Mrs.
Barry M. Kelman (Janice
Kamienny), 29095 Franklin
Hills, Southfield, a son, Da-
vid Adam.

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Dec. 14—To Mr. and Mrs.
Allan Anchill (Rhona Pantz-
er), 18921 Hilton, Southfield,
a daughter, Jennifer Beth.
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Dec. 11—To Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley Rosenbaum (Ronna
Edelstein of Pittsburgh), of
Teaneck, N.J., a son, Jona-
thon Ariel.
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Dec. 11—To Mr. and Mrs.
Robert L. Burke (Lynn
Greenberg), 24630 Seneca,
Oak Park, a daughter, Julie
Michelle.
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Dec. 10—To Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Roberts (Deborah
Goss), 23850 Jerome, Oak
Park, a daughter, Erica Re-
nee.

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before college entrance is
good. Have you discussed
your plans with your school
counselor? The Jewish Voca-
tional Service offers career
counseling which may be
helpful. The agency can help
in the following case, too.

I am going out of my
mind. Our 17-year-old son
says he wants to be a nurse.
His father is fit to be tied
and he says he will be
ashamed to face people. I
think the idea is kind of odd
but I feel our son has the
right to make up his own
mind and if he is really suit-
ed for it, I wouldn't want to
talk him out of it. The boy is
willing to talk to someone
about this. He says he is ser-
ious and this is what he has
always wanted to be, but if
someone can show him it is
not the right choice, he will
give up the idea. Where can
he go for help with this deci-
sion?
—A.C.
Dear A. C.,
The idea does seem "kind
of odd" because we're not
used to it. But more and
more men are going into the
nursing profession. I don't
know if your son should be
one of them but I think he
can be helped to decide if he
calls the JVS vocational and
guidance counseling service.

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modern Hebrew contains no
more than 60,000 words.
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in the Tanakh there are also
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Sonnenfeldt Loses
Out on One DC Job,
but Gets Another

By YITZHAK SHARGIL

(Copyright 1973. JTA, Inc.)

TEL AVIV — The Yom
Kippur War caught Israel un-
prepared. T h e preparations
for war by the Arab countries
were apparently known to Is-
raeli intelligence. The leader-
ship of the Israeli security
mechanism — from Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan
through the chief of staff, the
head of intelligence a n d
everybody else — admitted
to be well in possession of all
details of the preparations
for war. Yet the evaluation
was such that they rejected
the idea of an imminent war.
Politicians are a l r e a d y
starting to make the mistakes
of the war a factor in their
election campaigns. Most
surprising, however, is the
fact that for -the first time in
the history of the Israeli
army, ranking army officers
have started to hurl accusa-
tions against fellow officers.
The uneasy feeling that
somewhere a major defici-
ency existed brought about
the decision to set up a ju-
dicial inquiry committee. For
the time being the whole is-
sue of the Yom Kippur War
is sub judice.
But within the army since
the outbreak of war, several
appointments have been an-
nounced, some of them to re-
inforce the high command
with more experienced war
veterans.
The first appointments
were announced Oct. 10, four
days after the outbreak of
war. They related to the re-
turn to uniform of Lt. Gen.
Chaim Barley, former chief
of staff, as special assistant

to the chief of staff for spe-
cial tasks.
Soon it was clear that Bar-
ley was called in to strength-
en the Southern Command
where a relatively new com-
mander d i r e c t e d the war
against the Egyptians. Bar-
ley, as representative of the
chief of staff soon became
the senior officer of this com-
mand. The officer command-
ing it, Gen. Shmuel Gonen,
a Six-Day War hero and out-
spoken armor officer, was
subordinated to him.
Yeshayahu Gavish, major
general of the reserves, was
called in to take up the
Merchav Shlomo r e g i o n
(Sharm el-Sheikh) which was
removed from the overbur-
dened Southern Command.
Two other major generals,
Aharon Yariv and Rehavam
Zeevi, both recently retired
from service, were mobilized
to become special assistants
to the chief of staff. Yariv
became the Israeli represent-
ative in the cease-fire talks.
Maj. Gen. Amos Horev,
president of the Haifa
Technion and a former chief
scientist of the Israeli de-
fense network, was nomin-
inated assistant to the deputy
chief of staff while former
Air Force Commander Maj.
Gen. Mordechai Hod was
called in for special tasks.
Five days later a list of
almost all general in the re-
serves was announced. They
included E z e r Weizman,
Meir Zorea, Meir Amit, Jo-
seph Geva, Moshe Goren,
Shmuel Eyal, Aharon Doron,
Avraham Yoffe, Shloma La-
hat, Uzzi Narkiss and Elad
Peled.

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Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild
Devotes Energies to Israel Arts

TEL AVIV — Not many
baronesses are known cross-
word puzzle fanatics — es-
pecially Hebrew crossword
puzzles — except for Baron-
ess Batsheva de Rothschild,
the first member of the
banking family to make her
permanent home in Israel.
The 59-year-old baroness,
member of the family who
pioneered in Israel, devotes
much of her time and money
in support of science and the
arts for Israel, according to
an Associated Press story.
Among her projectS, either
New York- or Israel-based,
are the Bat-Dor Dance Com-
pany and studio which she
founded here in 1967 with
Jeanette Ordman, a South
African dancer-teacher; the
B. de Rothschild Foundation
for the Advancement of Sci-
ence in Israel; the Batsheva
de Rothschild Foundation for
the Advancement of Science
and Technology; and Bat-
sheva Crafts in New York,
an outlet for Israeli handi-
crafts.

WASHINGTON — A week
after President Nixon with-
drew the much-disputed nom-
The baroness, whose great-
ination of Helmut Sonnen- uncle Baron Edmond was
feldt as undersecretary of "the financial father of
the treasury, the Senate Palestine," and whose cous-
Foreign Relations Committee ins are among the country's
approved his taking another greatest benefactors, zrew
top job as counselor to the up in the luxury of being
State Department.
the daughter of the late
A protege of Secretary of Baron Edouard de Roths-
State Henry Kissinger, Son-
child, head of the French
nenfeldt was his assistant in branch of the family.
the National Security Coun-
However, that luxury had
cil specializing in Russian af-
fairs. His confirmation was to be dispensed with at the
held up for months by sena- outset of World War II when
tors who challenged his qual- the Rothschilds escaped to
ifications for the treasury the U. S. She then went to
job.
England and became a mem-
ber of Charles de Gaulle's
Politics . . . are but the Free French Army, in which
cigar smoke of a man.—Hen- she carried out confidential
ry David Thoreau.
missions. She returned to her

Former Navy Commander
Avraham B o t z e r was ap-
pointed "special missions"
assistant to the chief of staff.
Rehavi Zeevi, the former
Commander of Central Com-
mand was put in charge of
the GHQ Department while
Avraham Tamir, a brigadeer
general, was promoted to
major general to head the
planning department.
Another appointment was
that of Brig. Gen. Aharon
Avnon to be chief informa-
tion officer subordinated only
to the chief of staff. In spite
of his rank he will be sitting
in on GHQ meetings.
A final change was the
transfer of Gen. G o n en
from the important Southern
Command to the tiny, re-
cently created command of
the Sharm el-Sheikh area.
Was it Gonen that had to be
relieved of his previous post?
Was he to blame for what-
ever happened?

Apparently this will have
to be decided by the inquiry
committee. But some people
asked, "And where are the
others who are to blame?"
And if there are others —
why was it necessary to
transfer Gonen prior to com-
mittee findings?

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Dec. 28, 1973-33

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Batsheva de Rothschild

native France after the
country was liberated.
She first visited Israel in
1952, a year after her divorce
from Donald Bloomingdale of
the New York department
store family. She returned in
1956 during the Sinai Cam-
paign, when a friend said
"she became involved."
After the opening of Bat-
sheva Crafts, the baroness
spent more time in Israel.
She bought an apartment,
and later built a house. In
1962 she became a perma-
nent resident.
During the October war,
the baroness said in an inter-
view that she had no inten-
tion of leaving her adopted
home. "I want to be here,
war or no war," she said.
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walk the streets of New York
than to be in Israel."

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