54 Friday, August 1, 1975 Ray Raphael, 58 Ray Raphael, chairman of the board since 1959 of En- gineered Heat Treat, Inc., in Madison Heights, died July 28 at age 58. A native Detroiter, Mr. Raphael was a World War II U.S. Navy Lt. Commander- Ordnance, a graduate of Michigan Technological University with a degree in metallurgical engineering and a member of Sholem Aleichem Institute, Work- men's Circle, Jewish Com- munity Center, Oakland Century Lodge of Bnai Brith, Technion — Israel In- stitute of Technology, Knollwood Country Club and Michigan Tech at Houghton Alumni Associa- tion. He resided at 28812 Rockledge Dr., Farmington Hills. He leaves his wife, Ettie; three daughters, Mrs. James (Susan) Rosenfeld, Mrs. Michael (Sharon) Sil- verton of Skokie, Ill., and Mrs. Frederic (Marsha) Newman of Ann Arbor; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis (Esther) Raphael; two sis- ters, Dr. Edna Raphael of Boalsburg, Pa., and Mrs. Leo (Alva) Dworkin; and three grandchildren. Arye Wallenstein, Reuters Unit Chief TEL AVIV (JTA) — Ayre Wallenstein, chief of the Reuters bureau in Israel for 25 years, died July 25 in Ge- neva at age 55. Mr. Wallenstein, known to his friends as "Wally," was a fifth generation Jeru- salemite. He graduated from the Hebrew Gymna- sium and went to Beirut to study medicine. But he was attracted to journalism and joined Reuters there in 1944. From 1945 to 1948 he cov- ered the events leading to the establishment of the state of Israel. Mr. Wallen- stein covered Israel's four wars with the Arab states and was the only foreign correspondent to witness the execution of Adolf Eich- mann. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter Gets modern Restoration its own plans with the aim of giving back to Jerusa- lem and the whole Jewish nation a new Jewish quarter in place of the old, fuller of life and more at- tractive than the old one had been. In the wake of Rav Bineh's courageous action, plans for a magnif- icent new building for the Yeshivat Hakotel were drawn up. he drawn up. Some 150 fam- ilies already live there now and the reminder will come within the next five years. Four synagogues, hundreds of years old — Eliyahu Ha'navi's and Rabbi Yohanan Ben Zakai's amongst them, were mag- nificently restored. A super- market has been opened, an art exhibition and gallery is being- operated, Bar-Ilan Yeshivat Porat Yosef, the University is conducting most famous Torah study cultural activities and re- institution of the Sephardi search work from a branch community the world-over, in the Old City, and the completely destroyed by the Hebrew Writers Associa- Jordanians, was to be re- tion carries out a rich pro- built to answer the needs gram of cultural activities for spiritual leaders of the for youth and adults from community in Israel and the Jerusalem and the rest of Diaspora. the country. Hundreds of applications Yet, what must be con- for housing in the Old City sidered the most challeng- were coming in and the ing and the most delicate master plan for some 600 object for planning has not newly built or completely yet found an agreed solu- renovated residences could tion — the Western Wall An act of charity's of greater worth than all the sacrifical rites on earth. , —The Talmud via The Wall now stands as the conclusion of a wide open space. We know that some 14 tiers of huge Hero- dian stones are still buried underground. What is done with all this — ret, ing the Wall to its forrher majestic height by a com- plete return to Herodian days, certainly a revolution- ary solution, or to find some other way to give the Wall its proper setting as the ho- liest monument of the Jew- ish people, reminding us all of the great past, and beck- oning to what we believe will be an even greater fu- ture. NM Witt These homes in the Old City of Jerusalem were re- built in the massive government rebuilding program in- stituted immediately after the Six-Day War. Rather than mourn the loss of century-old synagogues and homes, the Jerusalem municipality and the Israeli gov- ernment set about restoring the Jewish quarter making it fuller of life than before and more attractive to pros- pective residents. * * * By JOSEPH GOLDSCHMIDT Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem When Israeli soldiers rushed to the Kotel Hama'- aravi (Western Wall) on June 7, 1967, they found the old stones lying in the tiers as of old. The emotions of these youngsters, many of whom had never seen the Wall before, were those of finding an old friend, lost long ago and missed ever since. But when they walked up the steep hill to the Jewish quarter of the Old City, a very different picture awaited them. Destruction everywhere, heeps of rub- bish, where world famous synagogues, like the Huva, had stood. No sign of the hundreds of Torah scrolls that have served tens of syn- Mildred Gerstman agogues, nothing of their Mildred Gerstman, wife hallowed interior equip- of the retired advertising ment. director of The Detroit Wherever residential News, died July 28 in West buildings had been usable Palm Beach, Fla. after the war, the Arab pop- Born in Buffalo, N.Y., ulation of the Old City had Mrs. Gerstman lived in De- taken possession. Yet a few troit for several years and landmarks had withstood was a resident of Florida at the savage onslaught of the the time of her death. She Jordanian army. Notable was a life member of the among them, part of the Ba- Brandeis University Na- tei Mahse, an example of a tional Women's Committee, 19th Century housing pro- Temple Beth El in Birming- ject built around a central ham and Temple Israel in square known then as the Palm Beach. Deutsche Platz — because She leaves her husband, the whole project had been Max. J., a daughter, Mrs. sponsored by the German- George C. Galanty of South- Dutch organization for the field; a sister, Mrs. Joseph poor of Eretz Yisrael. Blumenthal; and two grand- The scene that unfolded sons. Worth of Charity and its environs. The sce- nery has changed radi- cally since the Wall area was freed from all the ugly and historically worthless buildings that crowded in on the Wall and made it accessible only by a nar- row lane of a few yards. itself could have inspired another Tisha b'Av—a day of weeping and mourning for what had been lost. But the Israel of 1967 reacted differently. Within 24 hours, literally, the head of the Netiv Meir Yeshiva' (Bnei Akiva) in Jerusalem, Ray Arieh Bi- neh, had recruited a group of his senior students, a number of camp beds and the most necessary books and established in the ruins of Batei Mahse, a new Bnei Akiva Yeshiva — Yeshivat Hakotel. This was the spontaneous answer of this generation of the builders of the new Is- rael to the challenge of de- struction: no weeping, no mourning, but to build for a new, better, stronger, more beautiful life on the old holy ground. The government soon took matters in hand by invest- ing the authority for re- building the Jewish Quarter in a prestigious ministerial committee headed by the prime minister. This com- mittee was to ensure proper planning and procedure and, no less, to protect the interests of the Arab invad- ers, or let us call them Arab squatters, of Jewish houses. The whole of the Jewish quarter was expropriated and a government company was founded to deal with the planning of the rebuild- ing of the quarter, the reset- tling of Arab residents who had no title to live there and with the claims for compen- sation to owners of prop- erty. At first the going was hard and there were few families who could afford the large investment needed for making a new home for themselves in the Old City, strong and compelling as was the lure and the charm of a life in sight of the Tem- ple Mount, being a daily witness to the pilgrimage of thousands and tens of thou- sands to the Wailing Wall. The company for the re- building of the Jewish quarter set about -Taking , a subscription to THE JEWISH NEWS 17515 W. NINE MILE ROAD Suite 865 Southfield, Michigan 48075 THE JEWISH NEWS 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd. Suite 865 Southfield, Mich. 48075 Gentlemen: Please send ift subscription to: Name Address City State From• El $10 enclosed Zip Code