56 Friday, December 17, 1976 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS HUD Allocates $2.5 Million for Additional Federation Apartments Federation Apartments has received a "reservation of funds" from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development totalling $2.5 million for the construction of 100 senior citizen apartment units, accord- ing to president Mark E. Schlussel. The agency's board of directors accepted the reservation of funds from HUD under provisions of Section 202, which provides financing for the development of senior citizen housing. Plans for the additional 100 senior citizen apartment units are now underway. "A committee, headed by former Apartments president Samuel Hechtman is now preparing plans for the project to best serve the community's needs," Schlussel said. Hechtman initiated the request to Washington before retiring as agency president last fall. Other members on the committee are William Avrunin, Mrs. Henry Krolik, Jack 0. Lefton, Leslie Rose, Gilbert Silverman and Sheldon Win- kelman. The committee will submit final plans to Jewish Welfare Federation's Community Services Division and the capital needs committee for further consideration. Federation Apartments presently provide housing for 200 senior citi- zens 62 or older, who wish to remain independent but would like the companionship of others with similar interests in its 168-unit high-rise structure on Ten Mile Rd. in Oak Park. Federation Apartments, a member agency of the Jewish Welfare Federation, was built in 1971 with the assistance of a government loan and funding from the United Jewish Charities. "We are quite aware of the need for added senior citizen housing in the Jewish community," Schlussel said. "As our older Jewish population increases more housing becomes essential. It should now unquestionably receive our top communal priority." Allied Jewish Campaign Initial Gifts Reach $6,523,00 By ALAN HITSKY More than 100 particip- ants in the second major gifts meeting of the 1977 Allied Jewish Campaign- Israel Emergency Fund helped boost the 1977 AJC-IEF pre-Campaign total to $6,523,000 on Sunday. Combined with the funds raised at a meeting three weeks ago, also at the home of AJC-IEF general chairman Daniel M. Honigman, and the Women's Division pre- Campaign phase, the $6,523,000 represents an increase of 8-8 1/2 percent over the large-gift pledges of the 1976 Cam- paign. Honigman told the meeting of major donors Sunday that their pledges have a serious af- fect on the upcoming Campaign, and that the substantial increases al- - ready reported augured well for the 1977 Cam- paign. He said that an incom- plete review of pledges being conducted by a committee under the di- rection of Philip T. Warren will help the Campaign, and that "Operation Re- covery" under the direc- tion of Phillip Stollman AHARON YARIV has added 500 former and new donors to the list of pledgers for 1977. In urging major in- creases over their 1976 pledges, Honigman re- minded the audience Sunday of ever increas- ing needs at home and ab- road. "War does not exist today," he said. "but the threat of war is ever pre- sent. Israel is isolated, and will be increasingly isolated by Arab economic power." Guest speaker Aharon Yariv, former Minister of Information and former chief of intelligence for the Israeli army general staff, in outlining Israel's needs and predicting the diplomatic pressures she will face in the coming months offered• no ex- cuses for the troubled image at home that Israel is currently projecting. "We were never super- men. We have all the fail- ings and all the strengths of a human, democratic society," the general said. "You are aware of our in- ternal difficulties and it is a fact we have to live and work with. Unfortu- nately, there are external difficulties at the same time." Yariv predicted an end to the diplomatic "respite" for Israel in the Middle East. He said Arab rival- ries will not permit stabil- ity in the region. He said the Lebanese crisis has more or less been solved on the basis of the follow- ing formula: Syrian pre- dominance in Lebanon, the continued functioning of the Palestine Liberation Organization and accep- tance of the Egyptian strategy regarding Israel. The Egyptian strategy, he said, would be to push for a major diplomatic "peace" effort shortly after the inauguration of Jimmy Carter as U.S.• President, with the con- tinued role of the U.S. as diplomatic broker. Gen Yariv_ predicted that the Carter Adminis- tration will have basi- cally the same foreign policy as the Ford Admin- istration. The former Israeli in- telligence chief gave a scathing review of Egyp- tian President Anwar el-Sadat's current "peace offensive," citing news- paper articles of the last two months and historic precedents of the past 25 years. "There are no differ- ences in the Arab world between radicals and moderates in the context of Israel," Yariv said. He pointed to recent news- paper and magazine inter- views given by Sadat which indicated no nor- malizing of relations be- tween Israel and Egypt in the event Israel accepts the Arab version of peace. quo of 1967, but with a dif- ferent name. "We face a tough political battle. We have not played it well up until now, but we still have a good case," he said, and predicted that Israel faces "critical and fateful tests" during the next 2-3 years. Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund leaders gathered at the home of general chairman Daniel Honigman Sunday for the second major gifts meeting of the 1977 pre-Campaign are, from left, pre- Campaign chairmen Norman Wachter and Jack Robin- son; Honigman; Campaign co-chairmen Philip T. War- ren and Irving Seligman; guest speaker Israeli General (Ret.) Aharon Yariv; and associate chairman David S. Mondry. Ex-American Israeli's Project Is Creation of a Desert Oasis watered from the Bssor, the biggest springs in the It has taken several northern Negev, histori- cally known as the ideal years, and it will take at least another four, but place for shepherds. Joseph Ezekiel, 46, prom- This, said Joe, as if he ises that as sure as he was was recounting an event born in Bryan, Texas, a that took place last week, basin just west of is the site of the quarrel Beersheba will one day between Abraham and become one of Israel's Abimelech, at the early most beautiful and stages of Abraham's set- greenest parks. Never tlement in the Promised mind that now it is just a Land. It is also the site of spot in the Negev desert. David's pursuit s of the Ezekiel, for 26 years a Amalekites which ended member of Kibutz Gvulot, with the burning of the city heads the development of of Ziklag, Joe reminds us. Ezekiel plans to create the Levi Eshkol Park, named after Israel's late a 7.5 acre artificial lake, Premier. It is a joint proj- surrounded by 12.5 acres ect of the Jewish National of greenery, a potential Fund, the National Gar- attraction for both Is- dens Authority and the raelis and tourists. Arti- Regional Council, ficial waterfalls will sup= adopted by Pioneer Wo- ply the water for a swim- men. Although plans call ming and a water sports for the park to be opened area. Apart from the mate- by 1980, Ezekiel is as im- patient as if the inaugu- rial pleasures, Ezekiel ration ceremony will take pins his hopes on the place tomorrow. spiritual pleasures. Joe has been working Standing on top of the hill on the project since 1969. which was the site of a Often he is frustrated by Byzantine church and the knowledge that with a will serve as an observa- slightly larger budget tion post in the future, this man-made oasis Joe said: "You cannot im- would materialize sooner. agine what a pleasure it is Close to 1,000 acres are to stand here with a pTanned here to be group of youths and de- By GIL SEDAN (Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.) Jewish Welfare Federation Women's Division lead- ers at the second Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund Advance Gifts meeting are shown in the top photograph talking with guest speaker Annette Dulzin, third from right. Shown from left, Mrs. Reva Taubman, $2,500 Section chairman; Mrs. Paul Borman, associate chairman; Mrs. Max Stollman, vice chairman; Mrs. Dulzin; Mrs. Norman H. Rosenfeld, Women's Cam- paign chairman and Mrs. Paul Zuckerman. Mrs. Irwin Green, left, in the bottom photograph, is shown greeting Mrs. Lewis B. Daniels, former Jewish Welfare Federa- tion Women's Division president and Mrs. Ivor J. Kahn, former Women's advance gifts chairman, at her home where she hosted nearly 100 women at the meeting. Yariv explained, "We are not talking of bound- aries and territory, not of three million square miles, but whether the Arabs will accept a Jewish state in their midst." He said the Arabs want to return to the status scribe to them the mili- tary moves of David against the Amalekites, being able to point at the actual locations." Indeed the place is rich with history. Turkish sol- diers were stationed here in April, 1917 in a desper- ate effort to block the British. During their stay they accidentally exposed a mosaic floor, but did not realize the archaeological importance of the find. Only after the site was captured by Australian units in the British Expe- ditionary Force did they inform archaeolog; the finding. A grc volunteers began digg. up the place. They un- earthed the mosaic floor of a Byzantine church built, according to an inscription between 561-562 AD. Another archaeological site in the park's area is the Bssor Spi_ngs where remains were found of the early Bronze Age of the Third Millennium. Joe is determined to make this site the first artificial oasis in the Negev. But money is slow in coming. If he must depend on de- termination alone, he fears, work will not be completed even by 1980. .