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By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
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(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)
(Editor's note: Joseph
Polakoff recently visited
Israel. His article deals
with the mood of the coun-
try during his visit there.)
An American exposed to
the barrages on paper and
screen of Israel's political
difficulties and continuing
need for external financial
support might logically ex-
pect in this critical period to
find despair, self-pity or bit-
terness dominating its peo-
ple.
Israel's deficiencies and
troubles are numerous and
real. Nevertheless, so little
time and space are given to
its virtues and realities that
a visitor undergoes psycho-
logical shock in discovering
that the images drawn for
him are mostly murky, mis-
leading or in many aspects
simply untrue. One has only
to talk with the ordinary
Israeli of whatever age or
vocation to realize, for ex-
ample, that this talk abroad
of Israeli "intransigence" is
bloated and inverted. Peace
is the first desire of every Is-
rae .
General caution is re-
flected in the rifle-carrying
'veterans patroling streets
and roads, alert for infil-
trating terrorists. But peo-
ple walk about day and
night, without fear. The ter-
ror raid or bomb angers but
does not dismay. The thea-
ter bombed one night was
jammed the next. The open
markets, like Tel Aviv's col-
orful Carmel, teem with
vendors and buyers. Despite
all the hardships and bur-
dens of military require-
ments, education. contin-
ually advances as indicated
at schools, museums, re-
search centers.
Jack Crockett, the U.S.
cultural affairs director in
Israel, who has introduced
American stars of science,
arts and sports for a quarter
of a century in many coun-
tries, describes the Israelis
as "a super-intellectual peo-
ple" with the highest stand-
ards for knowledge. "They
want the best, they expect
the best, and we give them
the best we can get," he
said.
Full of knowledge and
perhaps too frequently
thirsting to show it, young
Israeli intellectuals some-
times try to trip the lecturer
like counterparts elsewhere.
For instance, author Saul
Bellow was explaining his
understanding of literature
to a limited audience of
about 50 specially invited
guests at the American Cul-
tural Center in Tel Aviv.
Some of them insisted on
prefacing narrowly based
questions with long intro-
When the tour bus un-
loaded its passengers at
the foot of Masada rising
from the Dead Sea plain, a
visitor looked at the an-
cient fortress where some
960 Jews died rather than
submit to 'Roman slavery
1,900 years ago and asked
the guide skeptically,
"Why is this so impor-
tant?" The guide stif-
fened. "I have come here
more than 350 times," he
replied quietly. "Each
time I come I have the feel-
ing like this is my first
visit. The meaning of Ma-
sada is its history. That's
why it is so important."
A supermarket clerk in
his middling years observed:
"We have now been in four
wars. The soldiers in those -
wars, boys and girls, are
now men and women, many
with families. Nobody -
wants to carry guns or wear
uniforms. But when there is
no peace, what can we do
but be ready to fight." •
At the Golan Heights, at
the checkpoint opposite
Kuneitra where Israelis face.
Syrians with a United Na-
tions -d-etail between, a
young Israeli soldier man-
ning a machinegun in a
bunker was asked whether
- he thought war would come
-again soon. "I don't know; I
don't ask," he answered.
"I'm here. If it comes, okay.
If it doesn't, that's much
better." No panic, no blus-
ter, just matter-of-fact
duty.
Naturei Karta Support for PLO
Splits the Ultra-Orthodox Sect
By MOSHE RON
Jewish News Special Israel
Correspondent
TEL AVIV — The ultra-
Orthodox group Naturei
Karta with its headquarters-
in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem,
publish from time to time
political declarations, which-
enrage the population of Is-
rael. This group does not
recognize the authority of
the state - of Israel and de-
clares, that its life is a life of
the Diaspora in the Zionist
state.
Over the years the Na-
turei Karta have attacked
Orthodox rabbis and reli-
gious parties who cooper-
To the true believer of ated with Zionist leaders
Jewish destiny, the age- and helped to build the state
old vision of Israel as of Israel.
teacher and healer to the
After the establishment
world can never have been of the state of Israel they
clearer in 2,000 years.
even criticized the Orthodox
Israel's elan is especially Agudat Israel and its high-
visible in the young. An est rabbinical authority,
Australian visitor was Moezet Gdak Hatora. The
asked what in Israel im- small fanatical faction has
pressed him most. "The vi- only a small influence on
tality of the children," he re- public opinion in the coun-
plied. "Did you ever see such try.
intelligence in such healthy
Recently the Naturei
, little bodies?" At a party, a Karta declared support for
girl of 15 was asked in En- the terrorist Yasir Arafat
glish what language she and said it will recognize
spoke. "Hebrew, German an exile government of the
and English," she re- PLO when it is estab-
sponded. Fluency in three lished.
languages is common, with
Several months ago a
English so general one never meeting was held to unite
hesitates to use it with any a ll parts of the Naturei
passerby.
Karta under the leadership
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Passover
ductions. Finally in a burst
of exasperation, Bellow told
a pompous exhibiti-onist
that long ago his Yiddish-
speaking father in Canada
had advised him "Saykel iz
an aydele zak" (common
sense is a delicate thing).
The roar of laughter implied
broad appreciation of the in-
struction.
of the son of the late Rabbi
Amram . Blau, Rabbi Uri
Blau, but the ultra-radicals
opposed his election.
One of this group, Rabbi
Moshe Hirsh, the son-in-law
of the chairman of the Yesh-
iva Torah Wajira, published
the news item that the Na-
turei Karta support the
PLO and Arafat.
This angered his father-
in-law, Rabbi Kosenelbo-
gen. He termed the ultra-
radical group as law-break-
ers, and condemned the
murderous actions of the
PLO terrorists.
"We-are against the Zion-
ists and we do not recognize
the Jewish State," he de-
clared. "We Wish that Jeru-
salem should be proclaimed
as an international city in-
stead of the capital of the
Zionist state, but we are
against murderers of Jews
inside and outside of Israel."
On the door of the apart-
ment of Moshe Hirsh in Je-
rusalem is a poster saying:
"Here lives a Jew, not a
Zionist." Hirsh is re-
garded as a man who pur-
sues personal publicity.
His statement in favor of
Arafat and the PLO aroused
a storm of indignation in
Israel. Orthodox religious
circles in Jerusalem have
strongly condemned-
statement, calling it a
"provacative act against God
and Jewry."
The Yeshiva scholars of
Ponivesh in Bnei Brak and
their leader Rabbi Elizer
Shach, demonstrated
against Hirsh's statement.
Hirsh's small group, which
advocated cooperation with
Yasir Arafat and the PLO,
is even isolated within the
extreme ultra-Orthodox
Naturei Karta.
Dutch Minister Cancels Trip
Due to Saudi Arabian Bias
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — cially because only eight
Dutch Foreign Minister journalists were to be in-
Max van der Stoel has can- cluded in van derStoel's of
celled his planned visit to ficial, party.
Saudi Arabia because that
A newspaper in Kuwait,
country refused to approve a Al Kabas, was reported as
visa request for a Jewish declaring that because the
,journalist.
Dutch. Foreign Minister; -
The journalist, Jaap van Max van der Stoel, has de-
Wesel, is the Israeli corre- cided not to visit Saudi Ara-
spondent for the Dutch bia at this time, the
weekly, Vrij Nederland. He 20-nation Arab League
has both Israeli and Dutch should act strongly against
citizenship and has been liv- Holland "to mal4 it realize
ing in Israel for several the folly of its course."
years.
The Dutch Foreign Min-
ister as well as Dutch
Premier Johan den Uyl,
both warned that they
would not tolerate any
anti-Jewish discrimina-
tion against Dutch citi-
zens.
Tourists Plant
33,000 Trees
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Some 33,706 trees were
planted during 1974 by tour-
ists as part of the "plant a
Van Wesel's visa request tree with your own hands"
was refused twice by Saudi project. According to the
Arabia. The first applica- JNF, this vas only a slight
tion was made by van Wesel drop in the number of plan-
himself, declaring his resi- ters, in comparison with
dence as Jerusalem. This previous years. The planters
request was refused- offi- came from 37 countries.