THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Defects Seen in Israeli
Civil Defense Services

By UZI BENZIMAN

(Copyright 1973, JTA, Inc.)

JERUSALEM — The
atrocious attack by the Pa-
lestine Liberation Organiza-
tion on the Savoy Hotel in
Tel Aviv several months ago
exposed some severe defects
in the Israeli civil defense
system.
Following the attack,
Ritov, head of the
) Aviv Fire Brigade,
coarged that the rescue ac-
tivities were not coordinated
sufficiently.
As a result. rescue opera-
tions were interrupted with
the wrong assumption that
all those trapped in the ho-
tel — both the injured and
the dead — had already
been found.
Twenty-four hours later
the search was resumed
and another five bodies
were uncovered. (It was
generally believed that the
five were killed when the
terrorists blew up the
room where the five were
held as hostages.) The de-
lay in locating the bodies
was one aspect of several
basic errors in the opera-
tion of the civil defense
services.
• Information: The res-
cue agencies did not know
precisely the number of ter-
rorists and victims in the
hotel. Although such ob-
scurity is natural under
such circumstances, it was
agreed in retrospect that
such precise information
should have been available
sooner.

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• Reporting: The wrong
information was delivered
to the public by supposedly
the most reliable sources:
the Minister of Defense and
the IDF spokesman. Both
told the public that six peo-
ple — three of them soldiers
— were killed at the hotel,
but the total number turned
out to he 11 dead.
• The media: The
events at the Savoy Hotel
were covered by various
communication media.
The detailed coverage may
serve the enemy's intellig-
ence.
• Personal involvement:
The military operation at
the Savoy was of a limited
nature. However, ministers
as well as senior army offi-
cers were involved in plan-
ning the action and in carry-
ing, it out — Premier
Yitzhak Rabin, Defense
Minister Shimon Peres, Pol-
ice Minister Shlomo Hillel
and Chief of Staff General
Mordechai Gur. All were
accompanied by assistants
and advisers.
• Controlling the crowd:
Hundreds of people gath-
ered near the hotel, disturb-
ing the rescue efforts. The
crowd did not obey police
and army instructions.
These defects may reflect
some fundamental flaws in
the civil defense services. A
lack of coordination, a pub-
lic which is not taught how
to behave in emergency
cases such as the Savoy inci-
dent, the absence of accur-
ate information on the rele-
vant facts, no clear
instructions which agencies
— and personalities —
should act in such cases and
what they should do, the
failure to understand that a
detailed media coverage of
such an event might serve
the enemy — all these are
flaws which must be
avoided.

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MISS HORTON

Announcement is made of
the engagement of Jane
Hannah Horton of Chicago
to Kenneth Irvin Arfa, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome
Arfa of Winchester Dr.,
Southfield.
Miss Horton, daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Don-
ald Horton, is a master's de-
gree candidate at the Uni-
versity of Oklahoma Health
Sciences Center where she
is majoring in epidemiology.
Her fiance earned a mas-
ter's degree at the center.
A November wedding is
planned.

An Epitaph

(Editor's note: the fol-
lowing
"Epitaph for
Eliahu Hakim and Eliahu
Souri," was written by au-
thor and poet Paul Eld-
ridge to honor the two Ir-
gun members executed
March 22, 1945, for the
slaying of British Commis-
sioner Lord Moyne. The
epitaph originally ap-
peared in the Answer, the
Irgunist paper of which
Eldridge was an editor.
The bodies of the two men
were recently returned to
Israel from Egypt.)
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By NORMA BARACH

(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)

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the Detroit Council fund a
room in the building.
The center will he dedi-
cated to bridging cultural
gaps within Israeli society,
and to advance all women in
Israel.
Rosalie Grad, former
Pioneer Women national
board member now living
in Israel, will speak on
"An American Pioneer
Woman Looks at Israel."
Council president Ruth
Miller will extend greet-
ings, and James Jelasic
will perform at the piano.
Frieda Leemon of Farm-
ington has been named U.S.
chairman for establishment
of the center. For reserva-
tions, call the Greater De-
troit Council, 551-0750.

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Three delegations of Al-
lied Jewish Campaign-Israel
Emergency Fund workers
and contributors will parti-
cipate in Detroit Service
Group missions which leave
for Israel on Sept. 22, Oct.
19 and Nov. 9.
The missions, organized
by the United Jewish Ap-
peal, will include workers
and community leaders.
Participants will study
humanitarian service
problems in Israel and
meet with government and
Jewish Agency officials.
The briefings will give the
Detroiters the necessary
background for their work
in the upcoming 1976 cam-
paign.
The two-week October
mission will inspect the
Joint Distribution Commit-
tee's work in the major Jew-
ish communities of Poland
and Romania before travel-
ing to Israel.
Detroiters will also be
part of a group of 1,000
young American Jewish
leaders sharing the experi-
ence of the Young Leader-
ship Cabinet's "Koach: A
Mission of Strength,"
Nov. 6-16.
Women's Division Cam-
paign chairmen for 1976
from Detroit and other ma-
jor American cities will at-
tend JDC briefings in Po-
land and Romania before
they join UJA's National
Women's Mission in Israel
from Oct. 16-26.

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Finnish Envoy
Cited With Trees

JERUSALEM — Upon
completing his diplomatic
service in Jerusalem re-
cently, the Finnish Ambas-
sador Algar von Heiroth and
his wife were presented
with a gift of 100 trees
planted in their honor in the
Tapiola Forest near Ben-
Shemen.
The trees were the gift of
Deputy Prime Minister and
Foreign Minister Yigal Al-
Ion and his wife as a token
of their esteem "for the am-
bassador's efforts to
strengthen ties between the
two countries during the
period of his office, between
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