Esther Ben-David, American Pioneer, Is Killed on Golan

By MOSHE RON
Jewish News
Special Israel Correspondent
TEL AVIV — On the after-
noon of Feb. 14, 27-year-old
Esther Ben-David was to
have addressed, in Jerusa-
lem, a convention of Zionist
youth and student groups.
She was to have appealed to
Jewish youngsters all over
the world to come to Israel
under the slogan "WE NEED
YOU."
The convention, in which

the leaders of the Zionist
movement in Israel took part,
took place ' without Esther
Ben-David, who was killed
two days earlier on the Golan
Heights. She was on her way
with a small child to the in-
firmary in Kibutz Ramot
Magshimim, when Syrian ar-
tillery opened fire and a
bomb hit her near the shel-
ter. The child was safe as if
by a miracle.
Esther Ben-David came to
Israel from the U.S. a few
years ago, with her family
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and decided to settle in a
_Any, March 1, 1974-43 kibutz on the Golan Heights.
She was very active in sev-
eral social and cultural
fields. Thousands, including
many soldiers, took part in
her burial on the Mount of
Olives in Jerusalem, where
she was laid to rest among
for 'your party
the martyrs. The minister
for religious affairs, Dr.
Zerah Warhaftig, gave the
eulogy.

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When Esther had heard
about the youth convention,
she volunteered to take part
in it to appeal to Jews in
the Diaspora to come to
Israel in order to build up
the Jewish country and to
fight for its independence. A
tragic fate prevented her to
address the convention. She
left her husband and three
children.

Black Jewish Boxer
KOs Argentinian

PARIS (JTA) — Eighteen
million European television
watchers Monday night saw
American middleweight box-
er Benny Briscoe, wearing a
Star of David on his trunks,
battle his way to victory
against the younger Argen-
tinian favorite, Tony Mun-
dine, in the Paris "Palais de
Sports."
Unmarked, the Black Jew-
ish convert raised his hands
in victory and rubbed the
Star.
David as a sign of
I good of
luck after he success-
fully defeated Mundine with
a knockout in 14 minutes of
I combat.
Later in the dressing room,
still clad in red trunks and
red robe both imprinted with
a white Star of David, the
31-year-old Philadelphian
said: "I never once doubted
I would win with a knock-
out."'
Fight organizer Maurice
Ben Haim told JTA that dur-
ing his stay in Paris, Briscoe
insisted on eating kosher
food, putting on phylacteries
and saying his prayers.

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Gruzinians Feel at Home as Israelis

By HAIM SHACHTER
JERUSALEM — A year
after arrival in the country
no fewer than 80 per cent of
the Gruzinian (Russian Geor_
gian) immigrants feel "com-
pletely at home" in Israel. A
higher number-96 per cent

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Robert R. Nathan, econo-
mist and government adviser,
has been named national
chairman of the Society of
Fellows of the Anti-Defama-
tion League of Bnai Brith.
The society is a nationwide
fellowship of several thous-
and professional, business
and civic leaders who aid the
ADL in determining policy,
campaigning, recruiting, lea-
dership development, inter-
pretation and planning. A
past president of the Ameri-
can Freedom from Hunger
Foundation and former na-
tional chairman of the Amer-
icans for Democratic Action,
Nathan co-authored "Pales-
tine, Problem and Promise."

Church. Group
Warns on Hate
Propaganda

NEW YORK (JTA)—The
board of directors of the
Coundil of Churches of the
City of New York, in a reso-
lution urging face-to-face ne-
gotiations in the Middle East,
warned "our fellow citizens
and particularly all church
members, to be vigilantly on
guard against the dangers of
hate propaganda intended to
set group against group in
our country, in connection
with tensions arising out of
the present energy short-
age."
The Middle East resolution
was recommended by Dr.
James Sheldon, chairman of
the executive committee, who
exhibited the December 1973
and January 1974 issues of
the American Nazi Party's
monthly "White Power,"
which carried headlines sav-
ing "We need oil—not Is-
rael," and "Jews to Blame
for Energy Crisis."
The council, which repre-
sents 1,700 churches and 34
Protestant denominations in
New York City, called "upon
all parties concerned in the
Middle East conflict to en-
gage in direct negotiations
with each other, with a view
to establishing permanent
boundaries along just and
secure lines." There was no
call for an Israeli with-
drawal as a condition for
negotiations.
The resolution also con-
demned the Syrian govern-
ment for refusing to provide
a list of Israeli prisoners of
war and to allow Red Cross
inspection of the POW facili-
ties.

— feel convinced that they
will remain living perma
nently in the country, despite
their difficulties of absorp-
tion and the drop in their
standard of living. This is
revealed in a survey under-
taken by the Research Unit
in the Israel Ministry of Ab-
sorption which instituted an
enquiry into the absorption
of Gruzinian immigrants dur-
ing the first year of their
arrival in the country.
As compared with other
immigrants to the country,
there is no marked satisfac-
tion among the Gruzinians
during the first two months
of their arrival to Israel.
Only 20 per cent indicated
that they were fully satisfied
with their new life, as com-
pared with 40 per cent who
said that they would not be
satisfied with life in Israel.
For that reason the conclu-
sion arrived at by the survey
that, despite the few expecta-
tions for improvement no
fewer than 96 per cent among
them now believe that their
place is Israel, is both sur-
prising and encouraging. The
survey points to the num-
erous difficulties experienced
by the Gruzinians in learning
Hebrew. They tend to keep
to themselves and not to mix
with other sections of the
community. They still fear
the process of adaptation to
work, to their new form of
housing and to bureaucratic
methods experienced in the
country.
Many among the Gruzinian
olim believe that, as com-
pared with their standard of
life abroad, their living con-
ditions have dropped. An
examination shows that they
are in possession of fewer
durables such as radio-
grams, tape recorders or
cars. Their average salaries

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are also lower. However,
their rate of absorption in
permanent housing is much
quicker than that of other
immigrant. Nine out of 10
Gruzinian olim are perma-
nently housed, and only 7
per cent still live with rela-
tives. 41 per cent among
them have been absorbed in
the southern part of the
country as compared with
only 13 per cent of other
Russian immigrants, while
25 per cent have been ab-
sorbed in the Tel Aviv region
as compared with 45 per
cent of other Russian ar-
rivals.
The enquiry points to an
entirely unhealthy aspect of
their absorption: 44 per cent
of the Gruzinian immigrants
live two or more persons to
a room as compared to a
negligible percentage of
other Russian immigrants
who have to put up with
such housing density. Hence,
their satisfaction with hous-
ing conditions falls short of
that expressed by other ar-
rivals from Russia .. The
Gruzinians prefer to live in
close proximity to people of
their own community, and
reject the possibility of living
in the neighborhood of other
ethnic groups.

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