ORT School Network Faces New Challenges
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Dr. Haber defined the ORT
role, especially in times of
crises, as being life-saving
for a people. He described
the training provided for Jew-
ish youth who are being pre-
pared for productive pursuits
in ORT schools everywhere,
as being the most urgent-
because they assure practical
vocational training for the
y6ung people who otherwise
would be without training to
earn a livelihood, and because
Israel especially needs their
services after they will have
graduated from ORT schools.
He expressed pride in the
fact that more than 200,000
youths had received training
for productivity in Israel
schools in the last 25 years.
Dr. Haber announced a re-
structuring of the ORT oper-
ation in Israel to accommo-
date and better serve about
4,000 soon-to-be-demobilized
veterans.
"The Yom Kippur War, and
the influx of technically
trained Russian immigrants,
has radically changed the pri-
orities of the ORT operation
in Israel," he said. "The hu-
man fallout of the war re-
quires considerable rethink-
ing. Facilities for veterans at
the engineer-technical level
will have to prepare them-
selves for a large influx, and
all ORT schools in Israel will
have to reorder studies and
training to conform to the
new economic realities."
"The war and the subse•
quent isolation of Israel from
much of the world has pointed
up the fact that a country
such as Israel, practically de-
void of natural resources,
must have a highly modern
industry to survive. It can-
not be too strongly under-
scored that such economic
viability is contingent on the
skilled people to run it."
Dr. Haber reported on the
new ORT College of Engi-
neering, being built on the
Hebrew University campus.
Although construction was
halted by the war, this new
institution of higher learning
will have to be enlarged from
its originally intended enroll-
ment of about 1,600 to a capa-
city of almost twice that num-
ber. This will substantially
raise the cost from an origi-
nal $15,000,000. Newly pro-
jected for this college of en-
gineering are schools for nu-
clear engineering and envi-
ronmental technology.
HARRY PLATT
.
Harry Platt of Detroit was
elected ORT vice president
a n d national organization
chairman.
David Page, also of Detroit,
was named 1974 ORT Man of
the Year.
Among those who were
honored for their many serv-
ices to ORT was. Samuel
Simmer of Detroit.
(Michigan delegates at the
conference included Prof. and
Mrs. Haber, Platt, Mr. and
Mrs. Jerome Hirsch, Mr. and
Mrs. Philip Slomovitz, Sim-
mer and Page. Hirsch has
been named to succeed Page
as president of the 1,200-
member Detroit ORT Chap- organizations and govern-
ter, the largest organized ment agencies." The Presi-
dent further praised ORT,
ORT group_ in the world.
The convention was ad- stating that its vocational and
dressed by General Chaim technical education programs
Herzog and Dr. Max M. throughout the world "stands
Braude of Geneva, its direc- as an impressive contribu-
tor general, who said . that tion toward building more
$20,184,000, almost two thirds stable societies."
G e n . Herzog, the presi-
of the new budget, will be al-
located for ORT's 84 techni- dent of ORT Israel, who ad-
dressed the Saturday night
cal schools in Israel.
A large part of the balance, banquet, defended the disen-
over $9,000,000, will be spent gagement agreement with
in France for the retraining Egypt, but admitted that it
of the almost 300,000 North poses great risks for Israel.
African Jewish refugees who Gen. Herzog said that peace
have resettled there in the with the Arabs depends upon
past decade. About $1,500,000 "a very meaningful change
will be spent in South Ameri- in attitude of the Egyptians
ca (Argentina, Brazil, Uru- toward Israel, politically
guay and Venezuela), and an and economically as well as
equal amount will be divided militarily."
He told the delegates that
between the impoverished
Jews of Morocco and Iran, the present policy of the Is-
both groups largely in the rael government was neee-s-_,
sary and correct because
process of emigration.
ORT has also expended "the war being waged
$25,000,000 for educational re- against Israel is not only a
training programs in 10 sub- military one, it is an eco-
Sahara African, Asian and-- nomic one."
Herzog said the Israel-
Latin American countries, it
was reported by Paul Bern- Egypt agreement "removes
ick, executive director. These from Israel the pressures re-
funds came from the U. S. lating to the blocking of the
Agency for International De- Suez Canal-which are inter-
velopment, the World Bank national pressures-and cre-
and a number of member ates a basis for future nego-
countries of the United Na- tiations. If it is not honored
by the Egyptians, then it is a
tions.
In a letter to Dr. Haber, bad agreement, but at least
President Nixon thanked ORT it leaves us with a shortened
for its cooperation and par- line of defense, giving us good
ticipation in these programs. defensive positions, and leav-
He called it "an excellent ex- ing us with most of the stra-
ample of useful voluntary tegic depth afforded by the
cooperation between private Sinai Peninsula, to say noth-
Prosecution Asks Up to 9 Years
for Boushicki Trial Defendants
OSLO (JTA)-The prosecu-
tion called for sentences
ranging from 6 1/2 to 9 -years
in prison for six alleged Is-
raeli agents as formal pro-
ceedings in the Boushicki
murder trial were concluded
here.
Defense attorneys pleaded
for the release of the defend-
ants, claiming the prosecu-
tion had not presented con-
clusive evidence of the de-
fendants' guilt in the slaying
of Ahmed Boushicki in Lille-
hammer in eastern Norway.
"I can accept that the de-
fendants and the Israeli gov-
ernment view Boushicki's
murder as an act of war,"
State Prosecutor Haakon
Wiker said in his closing
statement. "But for Norweg-
ian authorities it was a crim-
inal act," he said.
Wiker asked for nine-year
prison terms for Abraham
Gehmer, and Dan Aerbel,
both allegedly experienced
Israeli intelligence opera-
tives; a seven-year term for
Sylvia Rafaei; and 6% years
for Michael Dorf, Zwi Stein-
berg and Marianne Gladni-
koff.
The defendants are Jewish
and claim to be Israeli resi-
ing of the oil fields and
Sharm el-Sheikh."
Herzog suggested that the
failings of Israel's leadership
were of lesser importance in
the initial successes of ,Egypt
and Syria in the Yom Kippur
War than the "active, de-
termined part" of the Soviet
Union "in preventing peace
from coming to the Middle
East."
He said there was a very
strong tendency, both in Is-
rael and in the Jewish world
elsewhere, to place a con-
siderable degree of blame on
the Israeli leadership for
what occurred in October. He
asserted that he had "no hes-
itation in apportioning the
guilt where it lies," but, he
added, "we are tending, by
means of the time-honored
Jewish process of self-flagel-
lation," to give the picture
-"a distorted perspective."
Herzog declared that the
face -which attacked Israel
on Yom Kippur day on both
fronts was roughly equivalent
in total force of men, tanks,
artillery, planes, to the total
force that NATO could mus-
ter. It was against this force,
he said, "against which many
countries might have suc-
cumbed, that Israel stood its
ground heroically and not
only held its ground but final-
ly moved over to counter-
attack and to an incredible
military victory."
He said an Israeli defense
force outnumbered 10-1 on
the Golan Heights_fought off
and pushed back an attack
backed by 1,400 Syrian tanks.
Herzog said the spirit of
Israel was such that its forces
reached a line within artillery
dents.
Defense attorneys, led by
top Norwegian criminal law-
yer Annaeus Schoedt, main-
tained in their closing state-
ments that the prosecution
had not presented concrete
evidence of the defendants'
guilt, rejected prosecution
claims that the wrong man
had been killed, and that the
"shadowing and information-
gathering activities" of the
group were not covered by
Norway's espionage laws.
Jewish Study Due
in NYC Schools
JAMAICA, N.Y., (JTA)-A
weekly course on the intro-
duction of secular Jewish
studies in public schools, ap-
proved by the New York City
Board of Education, will be
offered this year to junior
and senior high school
teachers.
, While in-service courses
have previously been offered
in Jewish subject matter and
in Hebrew language instruc-
tion, the American Associa-
tion for Jewish Education
series is believed to be the
first to deal specifically with
the introduction and teaching
of Jewish studies in New
York public school curricula,
Celler Dedicates
according to Bernard Sch-
wartz, the board of educa-
Haifa Aid Station
JERUSALEM-Prime Min- tion's coordinator of in-ser-
ister Golda Meir welcomed vice courses.
Em a n u e l Celler, national
chairman of American Magen Tel Aviv U. Parley
David for Israel, on his re-
LOS ANGELES (JTA) -
cent visit to dedicate the The international board of
Emanuel and Stella Celler governors of the Tel Aviv
Medical Complex in Haifa.
University, whose annual
This new Magen David meeting at the university was
Adorn health station, financed postponed because of the Yom
by American Red Ma g e n Kippur War, will meet in-
David for Israel, is equipped stead Monday-Wednesday, it
with the latest facilities for was announced by Victor M.
blood services, first aid and Carter, chairman of the board
emergency health care for and president of the Ameri-
the Haifa population.
can Friends of the TAU.
range of Damascus in Syria
and occupied 1,600 square
kilometers of Egyptian terri-
tory. He said if it had not
been for the intervention of
the major powers and the
Security Council, the Egyp-
tian Third Army "would have
been destroyed within a mat-
ter of days and the destruc-
tion of the entire Egyptian
army would have followed as
a result."
Herzog said the "political
reality" after the October
cease fire was that the Soviet
Union and the United States
"had resolved not to allow
either side to achieve a deci-
sion in the area."
He said Egyptian hopes to
force Israel to remain mobil-
ized indefinitely were frus-
trated by the fact that the Is-
raeli economy "which you
helped build," had shown "an
incredible degree of resili-
ence and has proven to be
stronger than we ever imag-
ined."
"The American support to
the tune of $2,200,000,000 was
a direct answer to this de-
clared Arab policy. And dur-
ing the war itself, few things
were as encouraging as the
sight of the huge planes load-
ed with equipment and sup-
plies flying in at frequent in-
tervals over Tel Aviv. The
importance lay not only in
the equipment itself, but in
the historical significance of
American support, of this in-
timation that Israel was not
entirely abandoned."
Continuing, he said that Is-
rael will need the help of the
American Jewish people, as
well as the continued aid of
the U. S. government. But he
warned that there must be no
surrender to "Arab black-
mail".
Those countries who have
"given in cravenly to Arab
blackmail" have proven that
such a policy doesn't work.
"The answer to blackmail is
not going down on one's
knees to the blackmailers,
but standing up to them and
giving back as good as one
gets. Blackmail has never
been defeated by cowardly
surrender to it, only by those
who fight it and resist it. We
will never submit to a black-
mail which strives to seek
our destruction by stranglinp-
us economically."
Speaking of ORT's
gram in Israel, which
amounts to about 60 per cent
of the international organiza-
tion's budget of over $35,000,-
000, Herzog said:
"If it needed the vindica-
tion, ORT proved itself during
the Yom. Kippur War. Five
thousand of its students, and
500 facplty members, were
immediately, mobilized. The
younger students, aided by
their training, were also of
constructive service. T h e
younger students, aided by
their training, were also of
constructive service. The
boys proved themselves ex-
tremely useful filling in for
mobilized reserves, particu-
larly in the fields of power-
installations, electronics, air-
craft maintenance and fac-
tories.. The girls served in
hospitals as nurse's aides and
other para-medical fields."
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
8-Friday, February 1, 1974
STUDENT ENROLLMENT-1973
LOCALITY •
TOTAL
Enginaer-
Technical Yeshiva &
ee
o eu r
rage ry Re s
Og tho
h I cd:ic n. Se st co Tnd
a " t r Pos
Institutions
Abu Gosh
42
Antal
498
Ashdod
335
Ashkelon*
985
Ashrat
294
Bat Yam*
853
Beersh OW
421
Benyamina
348
Bane Brak
266
208
Chof Hasharon
Ein Herod
1,108
419
Ein Shemer
103
Eilat
196
Gan Yavne
67
G Were
920
Gilboa
1,971
Givatayim*
2,089
Haifa*
141
Herev Leet
417
Herzlia
1,423
Holon*
183
I usfiya
5,703
Jerusalem*
25
Julis
330
Kfar Abraham
175
Kfar Ata
593
Kfar Habad
913
Kfar Saba*
1,977
Kiryat Bialik
298
Kiryat Get
1,138
Lydda*
124
Meiron
2,248
Nathanya*
237
..
Nazareth
142
Petah Tikva
2,223
Ramat Gan*
_ 709
Rehovot* '
218
Sdeh Boker
117
Sdeh Eliyahu
210
Sdeh Hemed
26
Shaar Ha7leiev
710
Shafir
--13,633
Tel Aviv*
Tel Not -:-- ____ 92
46
Tel Yeruham
45,174
T 0 T A L
Schools
.
s T dll
o e s
It
c A
od ir u ses
Apprr l i l oi n ptica-
Schools
42
498
262
420
294
853
421
256
266
208
379
265
73
565
'
92
126
603
154
103
196
67
317
854
669
1,105
603
12
1,266
154
141
134
360
417
1,289
183
1 447
25
330
1,113
,
1,321
360
1,102
175
593
93
913
1,276
608
298
1,138
124
287
1 961
237
169
2,054
551
218
,
142
158
-
117
210
26
_
2,511
1,509
92
46
4,659
19,783
710
3,771
2,209
7,682
1,931
9,481 -
5,265
*Indicates multiple schools or programs in this locality.
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