Israeli Seamen Tie Up Ports to Halt Sale of Passentrer Ships

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
seamen's union said Monday
that it was tying up all Is-
raeli ships in the three main
ports — Haifa, Ashdod and
Eilat — for three days in an
effort to force the govern-
ment to reconsider its plans
to sell Israel's last remain-
ing passenger vessels, the

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motorships Dan and Nili. The
tie-up went into effect Mon-
day.
Ships entering the ports
were immediately idled and
those already in dock or at
anchorages were being held
for three days. Histadrut
called on the seamen to re-
turn to work but agreed to
intervene with the govern-
ment to retain at least one
of the two ships scheduled to
be sold to foreign interests.
The seamen's union is con-
cerned about unemployment.
The Dan and Nili each car-
ries a crew of several hun-
dred. The twin vessels, built

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the red despite severe trail-
ing losses caused by the Yom
Kippur War.
Zim's general manager
Moshe Kashti estimated the
company's Yom Kippur War
losses at IL 10,000,000 owing
in part to the sharp drop in
the import of cement, iron
and consumer goods such as
motor cars.
He said an additional loss
of IL 16,000,000 was attribut-
able to mechanical defects in
four new containerships built
in Italy which had to be laid
up for repairs with a re-
sulting loss of revenue.

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as car ferries for Mediterra-
nean service, have been op-
erated by Zim Passenger
Lines, Ltd., an affiliate of the
national shipping company,
Zim Lines.
The passenger ser vice
proved to be a money-loser
and since the Yom Kippur
War the ships have run vir-
tually empty. Tankers trans-
porting oil from the Abu
Rodeis fields in southern
Sinai to Eilat were not
affected.
The Zim Lines meanwhile
ended the year with reduced
profits but definitely not in

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NEW YORK—A new home
for the aged being built in
Ashkelon will be the first
such facility to serve Israel's
crowded southern coastal re-
gion, it was reported by
Samuel L. Haber, executive
vice chairman of the Joint
Distribution Committee.
The home, which is being
financed in part by a dona-
tion of the late Max Hailpern
of New York, will provide
institutional and extra-mural
services for the aged in
dozens of towns and villages
within a 50-mile radius of
Ashkelon. Haher said.•

cial support of the JDC.
The Ashkelon home will ac-
commodate more than 100
elderly residents composed
of about equal numbers of
healthy aged and infirm and
nursing cases, Haber said.
In addition, it will provide
extramural services for 200 to
400 elderly people in the sur-
rounding communities. These
will include meals-on-wheels
for the homebound, house-
keeping services and home
medical care.
For those who can come
to the home there will be an
outpatient clinic, physical
and occupational therapy
It is part of a network of and special recreational, din-
six similar regional homes ing and other facilities for a
being planned in Israel by full day care program.
the Association for the Plan-
ning and Development of
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Services for the Aged, a vol- lieve in it, at least, for your
untary agency established in good. —Ralph Waldo Emer-
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Something to Crow About

BY DAVID SCHWARTZ

father of daylight saving and
also contributed to our
knowledge of electricity.
Franklin studied many sub-
jects, but Michaelson spent
his whole life studying one
subiect — light.
Michaelson established that
light travels at the rate of
182,000 miles a second. If a
train traveled that fast, it
would get from New York to
California before the con-
ductor could say. "Your
ticket, please." If you went
the same speed. you could
go to the moon from the
earth in a second and a half.
If people could travel that
fast, there wouldn't be so
many people going to the
Catskills. Going to the moon
would take less time.
Light has other values. It
enables us to see. It causes
things to grow. Police say
it reduces crime. Michael-
son's discovery was used by
Einstein in his theories.
Michaelson was the son
of a Polish Jew who came
to California during the Gold
Rush and later moved to
Nevada. Young Michaelson
failed to get his state's ap-
pointment to the Annapolis
Naval Academy, but he was
determined to go there. He
went to ask President Grant.
Coming, to Washington, he
heard that Grant every morn-
ing after daylight would take
his dog out walking. Michael-
son waited until he saw
President Grant stop to let
his dog sniff a bit and then
approached him.
He got his appointment, but
concentrated on the science
subjects at the academy, for
which he was reprimanded.
He seemed more interested
in light than in shooting.
Perhaps when all of us have
more light, there will be no
more shooting.

(Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.)

Light is generally taken for
granted. but now that we are
beginning to save daylight,
maybe it is a sign we are
becoming as wise as the
rooster.
It always emits a kind of
special joy, bursting into
song at the first appearance
of light. The Jewish sages of
old praised the rooster for
it and made a special bene-
diction, "Blessed is the Lord
for giving the rooster the
ability to distinguish between
day and night."
It's a great gift to be able
to distinguish between dark-
ness and light. The rooster
was man's first alarm clock.
Jewish history was changed
by this lowly creature. it
was like this, and this is a
true story.
It was during World War I
... 1917 . . . the year of the
outbreak of the Russian
Revolution . . . the year of
the entry of the United Stales
into the first World War.
General Allenby was pur-
suing the Turks and Ger-
mans in Palestine. Not long
before, Britain had promul-
gated the Balfour Declaration
with its promise of a Jewish
homeland.
"The Jerusalem you love,"
Balfour told Weizmann, "will
soon be yours." Allenby was
making fast headway.
Hanuka was approaching.
What a fitting thing it would
he for Jerusalem to be re-
taken on Hanuka, the anni-
versary of the day Judas
Maccabeus had reaken the
Holy City and restored Jew-
ish independence. But ap-
proaching Jerusalem, Allen-
by halted. The Turks and
Germans. he figured, would
put up their fiercest battle
to hold Jerusalem. It was
better, therefore, not to press
hard. If it were taken a
week later, it would also be
all right.
But the following morning,
Allenby's mess sergeant
awoke at dawn. "Oh, for
some eggs for breakfast," he
thinks. He knows it is an
impossible dream. The New
York Times has been carry-
ing many stories about the
famine in Palestine. No one
has. seen an egg there for at
least half a year. The British
army carries some food sup-
plies, but no eggs.
But still the sergeant pines
for eggs. Then suddenly, he
hears a rooster crow.
If there is a rooster around ,
there must be hens and eggs.
He rushes out — and in the
distance he sees something.
He gets closer. He's dis-
appointed. It's not a rooster.
It was a man waving a
white flag, coming to tell
him that the Turks and Ger-
mans have abandoned Jeru-
salem.
So on Hanuka morning,
General Allenby marches
into Jerusalem.
So the rooster proved its
ability to distinguish between
darkness and light in another
way.
Perhaps it is very appro-
priate that at this time there
should appear a book called
"The Matter of Light." It is
a biography of Albert
Michaelson, by his daughter.
Michaelson is regarded as
one of the three greatest phy-
sicists America has pro-
duced, the others being Gibbs
and Franklin. Franklin it
will be recalled was the

Nazi War Crimes
Probed With Help
of New Evidence

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BONN (JTA)—About 4,000
personal cases involving
Nazi war crimes are being
investigated by the West
German legal authorities, re-
ports the Ludwigsburg Center
for the Investigation of Na-
tional Socialist Crimes.
The center, near Stuttgart,
expects that, because of a
steady flow of new evidence,
preliminary inquiries will be
opened this year against
numerous persons thought to
be connected with about 1,000
crimes.
The Central Council of
Jews in Duesseldorf lists 19
Nazi trials in West Germany
in 1973 in which prison
sentences were imposed on 31
persons, with 20 acquittals.
Seven persons w e r e sen-
tenced to life imprisonment.

Israelis to Sponsor
Dance Festival in NY

NEW YORK — The 23rd
annual Israel Folk Dance
Festival sponsored by the
American Zionist Youth
Foundation, will be held
Feb. 10 in the Felt Forum at
Madison Square Garden.
As a reaction to the Yom
Kippur War, many new
groups asked to participate
in the dance festival. Youths
from 18 different youth move-
ments will participate.

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