20 Friday, January 7, 1977 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Israel's Historic Rafiah Area Reports Growth in Housing and Agriculture EXPERT CARPET CLEANING by Von Schrader's Assoc. CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATE 8 A.M. - 1 P.M. BY MOSHE RON The Jewish News Special Israel Correspondent TEL AVIV — It is a pleasure to visit the •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• JOE BOMMARITO 565-6318 TED SNIE111 846-5984-715-9483 MORRY SCHLUSSEL SAYS: WE'VE GOT WHAT YOU WANT! I 863-2388 LIFETIME GUARANTEE ON MUFFLERS & SHOCKS As Long As You Own Your Car 10520 W. 7 Mile Rd. at Mendota l • • I• • • • • • • • • • • • • - • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• SMALL BEQUESTS BUILD A STRONG ISRAEL If the tradition of including the Jewish National Fund in the Will of every Jew were invariably followed, sufficient resources would be accumulated to ensure the future of the young Jewish State on a sound basis of land development, social welfare, and justice. A bequest to the Jewish National Fund should be as traditional as having a Blue Box in one's home. You may want your bequest to be dedicated to afforestation, to a village, a Nachlah, to a children's play area, to perpetual yahrzeit or katldish, or to some form of permanent tribute in the names of persons dear to you. Consult the Foundation for Jewish National Fund, 22100 Greenfield, 968-0820. They will gladly co-operate with you in working out plans to meet your special requirements, in strict privacy. START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT WITH A NEW '77 PONTIAC AL STEINBERG Rafiah Area, 36 kilomet- ers south of Gaza. This area is of great political and strategical impor- tance. It lies on the coas- tal highway. Through many generations, ar- mies of different nations have waged wars on this road. Heavy fighting was going on here in the War of 1948, in the Suez Cam- paign in 1956 and in the Six-Day War in 1967. Recently great de- velopment took place in this area. Desert turned into gardens. New Jewish settlements rose over- night. Soil is fertile. It is hoped this area may be- come a fruit field to grow fruits for export to Europe. All kinds of fruits and vegetables are groWn here. The whole scenery has changed from brown to green. The success of the new Jewish settle- ments promises a great future. The first settlement — Ladot — was established five years ago. It has de- veloped rapidly. There are still some Arab laborers working in the settlement, but they will be replaced soon by Jewish settlers. A year ago the building of a new city, Yamit was started. There are al- ready 200 families there.. Hundreds of new apart- ments were built for new settlers. New roads were constructed. The settle- ments in this area are: Ladot, Netiv HaAssara (in memory of 10 soldiers who were killed here when their 'helicopter crashed( Ugda Haploda (in memory of the victori- ous tank brigade corn- manded by General Israel Tal during the Six-Day War) Nir Avraham (in memory of the late Labor leader Abraham Harsfeld) and Talme Josef Weitz. In the near future building of the new settlement "Prier will start. The chief instructor of agricultural work in the area Josef Nachmios told us: "We are now prepar- ing the establishement of two new kibutzim in this area Sukot and Huliot. We already have here Ahusiat (a military set- tlement of Nahal soldiers) and other Nahal settle- ments like Dikla, Mas- sura, Nahal Morag, Nahal Sinai, Nahal Katif, Nahal Nzarim and Tarssag. We also shall build here a center called Avshalom in memory of the Nili-leader Avshalom Feinberg. By 1980, 15 settlements will be in this area. They will be the continuation of the Eshkol-area and the Jewish settlements in the Western part of the Negev. The colonization department of the Jewish Agency plans to build 15 more settlements in this area. The settlers.work in planting flowers and veg- etables for export. They use the most modern machinery and intend to plant subtropic trees and raise chickens. The colonization in the Rafiah area and Eshkol area is based on a yearly- quota of 8,000 - 9,000 liters of water for each family. Each new settlement will require one million liters of water for one year. The colonization de- partment of the Sokhnut insists, that the water should be used only for in- tensive growing, which would promote the Israeli export. It is already known, that in order to keep up the development plan of the area, 6 million liters water would have to come 'from the central water pipe line of the Hebrew Newscasts Are Cut by Israeli - Radiomen Strike TEL AVIV (JTA,)— Is- remained without their hourly radio news- casts for the second day Monday as the state- owned broadcasting net-. raelis work halted its Hebrew bulletins because of a dis- pute with newsroom journalists. The only broadcasts available were news headlines. Foreign lan- guage broadcasts were not affected. The move by the broad- casting authority's board of governors followed several days of sanctions by radio journalists who Complained that top editors were mismanag- ing available manpower. 'the journalists denied management claims that they were demanding more pay for night work: Management has de- manded that full news service be provided or it will discontinue the serv- ice entirely. Meanwhile, another labor dispute has affected thousands of patients in 25 government hospitals. The 48-hour strike was begun last Sunday by administrative and maintenance workers who are demanding higher wages. state. The question is, how to procure water for 15 new settlements which are - already under con- struction. The experts of the col- onization department hope, that the problem of water-procurement for this area will be solved. The new 30 settlements in this area, are outposts and a basis for a vast de- velopment of the south. There-is much hope that Where You Get The Beautiful Invitations People Talk About INVITATIONS by HATTIE SCHWARTZ 356-8563 all difficulties will be overcome. The success of - this area up till now -- promises good progress and successful building and development in the future. Bilu wa-s the first mod- ern .movement for pioneering and agricul- tural settlement in Eretz Yisrael, founded in 1882 in Kharkov, Russia. 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