THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

April 16, 1976 39

Passover Link to Bicentennial: Israelis Invent Metal Analysis
Moses Flight, Paul Revere Ride

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)

Passover is the Jewish
birth of freedom. The cele-
bration of the American
Bicentennial of American
freedom serves to remind us
of some interesting paral-
lels.
There is, for instance, the
midnight ride of Paul Rev-
ere. What American does
not know of that? In the
case of Israel, we also have a
midnight ride or journey,
t in Israel's case, it was
t of one man but of
0,000 people.
The midnight exit of the
Jewish people! That's why
we eat matzot. The Passover
liturgy has a great piece
telling of the many wonder-
ful things occurring at mid-
night.
Moses had gotten the
consent of the Pharoah for
the Israelites to leave, but
he knew about politicians.
They promise you one
thing and a day later they
do something else. He was
taking no chances.
We can imagine that
many Jews said, "What's
the hurry. Let's get a good
night's rest, have a nice sup-
per, watch television and in
the morning, we'll get up,
have a good breakfast and
then we'll go. Besides, if we
have a little time we can bet-
ter prepare for the journey,
make some pumpernickel
bread. You know in the su-
permarket in the desert,
they don't sell pumper-
nickel."
Moses said, "There will be
none of that. You do, of

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Israel Denies
Having Bomb,
U.S. Attacks

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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Israeli officials have again
denied that their country
has nuclear bombs.
They responded to a re-
port in Time magazine that
Israel has a stock of 13 local-
ly-made nuclear bombs and
considered using them dur-
ing the 1973 Yom Kippur
War.
A U.S. Pentagon source
said that if Israel does have
such bombs they are very
unreliable because Israel
has never conducted nuclear
tests.
Israel also dismissed as
"pure imagination" Time
magazine's report that it
ad once tried to shoot
wn an American spy
ane flying over Israeli
nuclear arsenals in the
esert.
Similarly, a British au-
hor's statement that the
Israeli attack on the U.S.
communications ship Lib-
erty during the 1967 -Six-
Day War was intentional
was also called a fabrica-
tion. The author could not
substantiate his informa-
tion during an appearance
on the "Today" television
show last week.

Silence

To be alone with Silence is
to be alone with God.
—Samuel Miller Hageman

course, need bread for the the occasion was too serious
journey, but all you have to for any indulgence in rheto-
do is to mix some flour and ric and there were few ora-
water. You will then have tors.
matzot. They are healthier
John Adams did a lot of
than any bread you buy. It _ speaking, but he was no ora-
has none of the poisonous tor; and certainly Franklin
chemical additives that you was not. Also Thomas Jef-
ferson was there, but he ac-
read about in the papers."
Sure enough the next tually suffered from a kind
morning, the Pharoah of impediment of speech.
wakes up and asks, His voice seemed to acquire
"Where are the children of a kind of hoarseness when
he raised.
Israel?"
The Midrash tells a
"They are all gone to Tel
Aviv," the chief of staff story to explain the impe-
diment of speech in Moses.
says.
"Those racists," says As the Bible narrates, - the
Pharoah. "I am going to re- Pharoah had decreed that
port them to the United all the male Hebrew chil-
Nations. Give me my Rus- dren be thrown in the Nile,
sian gun," he adds, and he but his daughter pulled lit
takes his Russian gun and tle Moses out and raised
starts "rushing" after the him herielf. One day the
crown was lying on the
Israelites.
"Be careful, says his chief table and little Moses be-
of staff. "I think they have a gan playing with it. The
secret weapon. I don't know soothsayers were alarmed.
what it is, but I think they Was this an omen that one
day Moses would seize the
call it matzot."
Yes, indeed, it was mat- crown?
They decided on a test.
zot. If they had waited to
make pumpernickel bread, The crown and a lump of
they would not have suc- coal were placed on a table
ceeded. It was the "fast near Moses. It was decided
food," matzot, that saved if little Moses reached out
for the crown, that would be
the situation.
There is another striking a sign that he constituted a
parallel that occurs to me. peril and should be done
Moses was unique among away with, but if he reached
the great liberators in that out for the coal, then it
he was no orator. To arouse would show that his reach-
a people to throw off their ing out had no special mean-
chains usually requires men ing.
At the test, the hand of
able to stir them with
words. But the Bible tells us Moses was reaching out for
that Moses was not only not the crown, then the Angel ,
an orator, but that actually Gabriel, seeing it from a dis-
he suffered from an impedi- tance, swerved it with such
force as to permanently af-
ment of speech.
In the case of America, fect his vocal chords.
A great rabbi once said
historians tell us that the
day in July when America that if Moses had been a
declared its independence speechmaker, the Jews
was notable for its absence would probably still be
of oratory. For one thing, slaves in Egypt.

HAIFA — A highly ac-
curate determination of the
amounts of various metallic
elements in an alloy, pre-
sented in a convenient color
TV display, can now be ob-
tained rapidly due to an in-
strument invented by Israeli
scientists.
The first of its kind in the
world, this apparatus is the
result of a cooperative effort
between researchers at the
Israel Institute of Metals of
the Technion-Israel Insti-
tute of Technology and El-
scint Ltd.
Metallurgists have long
been interested in knowing
the exact composition of
mixtures of metals (i.e. how
much of which metal is lo-
cated where, in a particular
sample). This quantitative
micro-analysis has a vital
effect on the finished prod-
uct's essential qualities such
as mechanical properties,
and heat and corrosion re-
sistance.
In the new instrument
(called Periferal Display
and Processing System for
the Electron Probe Micro
Analyzer) the colors
shown on the TV display
are proportional to the
amounts of the various ele-
ments comprising the sam-
ple. This "technological
sabra" is the result of a
marriage between a com-
monly used tool in the

analysis of tiny sections of
metallic, and other, mate-
rials (called "Electron
Probe Micro Analyzer")
and a video display and
processing unit which had
been developed by Elscint.
The versatility of this new
system was recently demon-
strated at the Opening of the
International Conference on
Applied Metallurgy, a joint
U.S.-Israeli meeting organ-

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