SO Ap riI 2, 1976
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THE DETROIT JEWISH 1 NEWS
$10 Million Science Donation Causing a Dispute in Israel
The
philantropist
wishes to use 40 percent of
the income of the fund
JERUSALEM — An an- (which will be increased to
onymous cultural philan- $15 million) for prizes in
tropist wishes to create an the fields of chemistry,
Israeli "Nobel Prize" of $10 physics, medicine, agri-
million, but owing to a con- culture, mathematics, and
troversy with the scientific arts and 60 percent of the
community in Israel, this income for stipends for Is-
prize may be transferred to raeli individuals and insti-
tutions which foster the
another country.
The late Israeli Minister development of science
of Finance Pinhas Sapir had and art.
tried for 12 years to obtain
Proposals for candidates
this prize for Israel.
the $100,000 prizes can
The anonymous donor for
from all over the
demands that the prizes come
world. A commission of
should be awarded to six scientists with international
scientists each year. The reputations under the chair-
Israeli Parliament passed a manship of the Israeli Min-
special law last July for dis- ister for Culture would se-
tributing the prizes. But lect the winners and the
since then opposition in the President of Israel would
Knesset and in academic
circles has arisen against
distributing such high Costa Rica Leader
awards in a small country
Makes Israel Trip
like Israel.
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
President Daniel Oduber
Quiros of Costa Rica was
welcomed this week at the
start of an official visit by
President Ephraim Katzir,
Premier Yitzhak Rabin and
Latest medically approved
Mayor Teddy Kollek.
dermatology equipment used
Katzir and Oduber both
stressed the close ties link-
ing their two countries.
35 Years Experience
During his visit Oduber is
scheduled to address the
Doctors Referrals
Knesset — an honor re-
served for visiting heads of
state.
By MOSHE RON
Jewish News Special
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make the annual presenta-
tions at a Knesset cere-
mony.
The donor of the fund has
revealed that he is an old
man who has no children.
He earned his fortune in the
scrap metal business. He
has cared for all his family
members (13 brothers and
sisters) and has given
money for social purposes.
He recently donated to
Hebrew University of Jeru-
salem 11 villas for hous-
Yadlin Says Melting Pot
Inappropriate Israel Goal
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Aharon Yadlin, Israel's
Minister of Education and
Culture, rejected the con-
cept of the "melting pot" as
an appropriate goal for the
integration of Israel's Jews
coming from more than a
hundred countries to settle
in Israel.
He told a press conference
here at the office of the Na-
tional Council of Jewish
Women that a synthesis of
the many cultures brought
to Israel by its millions of
settlers was essential, but
said there was no parallel in
Israel for the goal of racial
integration for which the
United States is striving.
Yadlin came to the United
States for a series of collo-
quia with educational ex-
perts of the Graduate
School of Education of Har-
vard University; the Teach-
ers College of Columbia
University; the Education
Department and the Center
for Policy Study of the Uni-
versity of Chicago; and the
Graduate School of Educa-
tion at the University of
California at Los Angeles.
Yadlin said that despite
rocketing budgets for Is-
raeli security, cuts in edu-
cation budgets are being
restricted to the universi-
ties, which he said were
facing heavy reductions.
But the investment in the
culturally deprived school
children had not been af-
fected, though he admitted
that continuing inflation
was reducing the purchas-
ing power of the allocated
funds.
In discussing Israel's edu-
cational gains for the cul-
turally deprived, he re-
ported that about 40 percent
of all Israeli school children
could be considered in that
category. Of those, he said,
currently 60 percent were in
kindergarten, 50 percent in
primary schools, 45 percent
in secondary schools and 17
percent in universities. He
described the 17 percent fig-
ure as a source of dissatis-
faction for his ministry.
Klutznick Suggests Revising
Jewish Community Structures
PRINCETON, N.J. (JTA)
— A proposal that the
American Jewish commu-
nity explore ways of revis-
ing its community struc-
tures was advanced by
Philip M. Klutznick, a for-
mer president of Bnai Brith
and now chairman of the
World Jewish Congress' gov-
erning council.
Klutznick told a Bnai
Brith conference of Jewish
academicians and laymen
that present representative
bodies "are not always ade-
quately staffed or provided
with the capacity to study a
problem before acting on
it." He suggested "re-ex-
aminations of present insti-
tutions" to determine ways
of better reflecting a Jewish
community consensus on
political issues.
Klutznick stressed that he
was emphasizing studies "in
light of our changing
needs," but was not advocat-
ing "abandoning what now
exists" until the validity and
viability of any proposed
change had been adequately
surveyed.
Klutznick illustrated his
thesis by citing — and
questioning — the advisa-
bility of separate national
"roof organizations" that
now deal respectively with
Jewish concerns relating
to Israel and Soviet Jewry.
The two matters, he de-
clared, have become
"inextricably linked as a
single political issue" in
that relationships between
Israel and the USSR must
inevitably have a deter-
mining effect on Soviet
attitudes and reactions to
the issue of Soviet Jewry.
The three-day conference,
one of a series of Bnai Brith
bicentennial year programs,
was devoted to the Jewish
community's "unfinished
agenda." Its 150 partici-
pants included some 20
leading Jewish scholars.
ing guest-professors from
abroad, but he now accuses
the university of selling the
villas.
The donor, insists that
some members of his fam-
ily should help manage the
fund. He says, that be-
cause he is not a citizen of
Israel, there are no tax
obligations on his fund and
the prizes. He has de-
manded that all prizes
should be exempt from
taxe.
But the Israel Academy
of Science wants to manage
the fund by itself, and the
donor has threatened to
transfer the fund to another
country.
"I had many disappoint-
ments in my life" he said.
"If I have to transfer the
fund and prizes from Israel
to another country, it would
be the last disappointment
in my
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