THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
22 Friday, September 24, 1976
Underemployed Pioneers in Yamit, New Sinai Development Town
FRANK PAUL
JERUSALEM — Israel Yamit is projected to
and His ORCHESTRA
has begun development
grow into a regional
"Music and entertainment at
of the northern Sinai and
center and port city of
its Best for Your Guests"
the construction of the
250,000. Now it is home
town of Yamit is one of its
for some 80 families.
first projects. Ultimately
According to an article
in the Jerusalem Post, by
Katherine Phillips, the
town has a surplus of con-
Annual Memorial Evening
struction jobs and simul-
Cantor Hyman J. Adler will officiate
taneously a startlingly
large number of undere-
Wed. Sept. 29, 8:30 p.m.
mployed citizens.
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The editor of the 500-
No Charge
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For Further Info
"The Yamiton" Zvi
contact Esther Achtman 543-2827
Arenstein said, "There is
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no ready-made employ-
ment in the area.
Whereas people were al-
ready working in the
Arad area before the
town was built, we have
no reason (economically)
for existing."
Mcist of the town's
people who either operate,
or are planning to operate
businesses in town, came
to Israel in order to live in
Yamit. They came with
more skills than the town
has need at its present
state of development, to
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Bob Smallman, a
hotelier in Long Beach.
California, now heads an
eight member American
seed group planning to
build a 60 room motel. Be-
cause Yamit is in former
Egyptian territory he
said he "had more than
the usual difficulties"
getting his project ap-
proved. "I kept getting
pushed back and forth be-
tween the different
ministries, until finally,
in June, a coherent policy
was formulated."
Smallman expects that
gound would be broken by
the middle of August.
Most Yamit residents
work outside of the town,
at a computer firm in
Ashkelon, teaching in
Beersheba, and doing odd
jobs in nearby Kibbutzim
and moshavim. There are
also about a dozen small
businesses and 20 people
employed in municipal
jobs.
The pioneering spirit
seems to carry Yamit re-
sidents over their discon-
tent over employment.
Only one family has left
the town for that reason.
Rafi Leshem, the-hous-
ing ministry official who
heads the intra-
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governmental council
which administers Yamit
municipal affairs, said,
"This is the land of future
opportunity; being here
now is like being a
pioneer in the '50s."
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