THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Quality of Life Up
for Israeli Arabs

TEL AVIV (ZINS).— A
study prepared by the
Ideological Commission
of Israel's Liberal Party
finds that the Arab popu-
lation has made impres-
sive gains over the past 28
years.
The natural birthrate
of Israel's Arabs is among
the highest in the world
— 40 per 1000, compared
to 17 per 1000 for the
Jewish sector.
In 1948, the year of Is-
rael's statehood, only 32.5
percent of Arab children
were attending schools,
Now the figure is 92 per-
nt, compared to 60 per-
-nt in Jordan; 40 percent
.: Egypt, Iraq, and Libya;
20 percent in Algeria; and
15 percent in the Sudan
and Yemen.
In 1948 Arab farmers
were cultivating some
340,000 dunams of land of
which only 8,000 were
under irrigation. Now -
they work 895,000
dunams of which 76,000
are irrigated.
In 1948 the Arabs had
only five tractors; by 1975
they owned 1,700.
The average life expec-
tancy for Israel's Arabs is
72 years; compared to 55
years for those resident
in the administered areas
(the West Bank and
Gaza,) As for other Arab
lands, the life expectancy
there is 53 years of age in
Iraq; 54 in Egypt and
Algeria; and 42 in the Su-
dan. Infant mortality
among Israel's Arabs is
37 per 1,000. In Morocco it
is 40 per 1,000; in Egypt
116 and in Tunisia 125.

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UN's Human Rights Agency
Charges Israel With Violations

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and practices; promulga-
tion of discriminatory
eco-_-_.omic legislation; and
the pillaging- of ar-
cheological and cultural
property.
The resolution de-
manded that Israel re-
scind_all measures taken
to change the physical
character, demographic
composition or status of
the occupied territories
and that it release all
Arabs detained or im-
prisoned "as a result of
their struggle for self-
determination and the
liberation of their ter-
ritories."
Meanwhile, a clash
seems to be shaping up be-
tween the Carter Ad-
ministration and key
Senators over U.S. policy
towards UNESCO, the
United Nations agency
that sought to expel Israel
and then relented after the
U.S. withheld its contribu-
tions to it.
In „ testimony last
Thursday before the Sen-
ate Appropriations Sub-
committee on Foreign
Aid, Administration offi-
cials urged approval of
the payment of $67 - mil-
lion to UNESCO which
would wipe out all U.S.
indebtedness to UNESCO.
and meet its dues
through 1978.

The fact that the offi-
cials of the State De-
partment and Treasury
submitted their views to
an appropriations panel
Integration Plan before they did to an au-
thorization group in the
Focus. of Rabbis Senate
Foreign Relations
LOS ANGELES (JTA) Committee elicited sur-
The Board of Rabbis of prise from Capitol
Southern California has sources.
called on the Los Angeles
Senate Foreign Rela-
Jewish community to tions Committee sources
take a constructive role in indicated that the com-
preparation for integra- mittee is prepared to pay
tion of the city's public one year of U.S. dues in
schools.
arrears to maintain U.S.
The city's -Unified voting rights but to go no
School District will soon further inasmuch as
announce an integration UNESCO has continued
plan to implement the to charge Israel with vio-
June 1976 decision of the lations on the Jerusalem
California Supreme excavations, provided aid
Court.
Rabbi Sidney Jacobs,
chairman of the board's
social action committee
which drafted the state-
ment, said it reflected
"the concern of rabbis (Continued from Page 1)
and congregants that the
When it was observed
challenge of school integ-
ration in our community that Israel depends' on
be met intelligently and the U.S. for weapons
in a spirit of goodwill and while the Arabs buy them
from Britain, France, the
cooperation."
Soviet Union and the
Young Is Hopeful
U.S., one official re-
marked that the Ad-
A i
-ri Israel, Africa
ministration's views on
It_ WASHINGTON (ZINS) 'the sale of weapons and
— U.S. Ambassador to the aid to Israel is an element
UN Andrew Young told a in the political process
Senate committee that he that is being overlooked.
was hopeful of a "less "Our arms policy," he
anti-Israel" attitude on said, "is going to clash
the part of the UN and with our policy toward Is-
"Third World" countries, rael and it will come to a
once America adopts a head in the next three or
friendlier and more .sym- four months."
pathetic stance toward
the "Third World" na-
"A 20th wedding anniver-
tions.
Young believes that sary is different to
"Third World" Militancy celebrate. It's too soon to
against Israel was aimed brag and too late to com-
mainly at confounding plain."
the United States.
—Unknown

U.S. to Ban
Bomb Sale

to the PLO for what it
claims to be a cultural
program, while denying
participation in UNESCO
of a scientist from
Taiwan.
The Foreign Relations
Committee sources noted
that they are approving
payment of a year's dues
in view of UNESCO allow-
ing Israel to join the
European regional group
which UNESCO previ-

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