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Friday, February 24, 1918 31

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Comfort in the Arava: JNF
Park Provides Area to Relax

By JUDAH RAVIV

JERUSALEM — Travel-
ling through the Arava a
few years past one noticed
utter bleakness of mountain
and sand, a solitary car on a
lonely highway, the tiny dot
of Kibutz Yotvata in the
evening twilight, the rush
to reach Eilat before dark.
Today, the traveller
comes upon an oasis: shade,
food, water, animals. Sud-
denly, there is a park in the
desert.
The park is three-
branched. First there is the
National Biblical Wildlife
Reserve, run by contribu-
tions from nature-lovers in
Israel and abroad. Herds of
wild animals, indigenous to
the area in biblical times,
now wander free over 8,000
acres.
They have been
gathered from their own
diaspora, some on the
verge of extinction: Som-
ali and Asiatic wild
mules, oryx, addax, - Nu-
bian ibex, ostriches and
gazelles. They are
cherished ancient pets,
now free to roam a desert
garden.
Adjacent,—on 10 dunams
of land, sand gives way to
vegetation. Twenty years
ago, Kibutz Yotvata
planted a date orchard.
Now, in the shade of tall
date palms, the Jewish Na-
tional Fund has created a
recreation park and picnic
grounds, with tables and
water fountains. For older
children, there is a log and
beam obstacle course and
treehouse; for the little
ones, swings, slides and
sandboxes.
For the hungry traveller
and his car, there is a large
restaurant and gas station

Seminar Visits
M.E. Countries

NEW YORK — A travel
seminar which will explore
the peace prospects in the
Middle East this summer
was announced by Educa-
tional Travel Seminars in
New York.
According to Dr. Samuel
D. Freeman, its director, the
group will visit Egypt, Jor-
dan and Israel during its
three-week program, which
includes interviews and dis-
cussions with officials in the
foreign offices and by jour-
nalists in all three coun-
tries.
Included are visits with
Knesset party leaders, talks
on Israel with Arab leaders
and Arab League officials,
and visits with representa-
tives of the Jewish commun-
ity of Cairo.
The seminar will be led by
Moses Schonfeld, UN cor-
respondent.
The seminar is conducted
in conjunction with the
World Zionist Organiza-
tion.
For information, contact
,Educational Travel Semi-
nars, 1140 Avenue of the
Americas, New York City,
N.Y., 10036.

owned and run by the
kibutz.
The park, completed in
August, was designed for a
capacity of 500. Ze'ev
Tempkin, director of
tourism and landscape con-
servation for the regional
council said that the park's

present success is far be-
yond the expectations of its
creators. A survey taken
over the Sukkot holiday
showed that 80 percent of
all motorists, including the
tourist and youth groups
passing north and south,
stopped there.

Ancient Jewish Divorce Rite
Gave Women a Greater Role

TEL AVIV -- What were - divorce. The Palestinian
the attitudes of our Talmud in the early Fourth
medieval Jewish ancestors Century also refers to a
towards women's rights? similar divorce stipulation
Much more liberal than within the marriage con-
might have been supposed, tract, which assured - the
it appears, from a research wife of this right.
project on divorce rights
In texts of marriage
undertaken by Tel Aviv contracts found in the
University's Dr. Mordechai Cairo Geniza from the
A. Friedman.
10th and 11th Centuries,
Today, the outstanding evidence is indicated of
feature of Jewish divorce is continued use of this
its unilateral aspect. The stipulation. The marriage
husband may initiate di- was defined as a partner-
vorce proceedings, whereas ship and divorce was
the wife may not.
permitted even for the
Dr. Friedman, a senior wife's own subjective
lecturer in TAU's Talmud reasons, i.e. "hatred
Department, reveals a dif- without cause." The di-
ferent tradition of women's vorcing wife would lose
rights which existed from her ketuba payments, but
antiquity throughout the keep her dowry, the pro-
Middle Ages — a tradition .ceedings taking place
which recognizes the wo- through the discretion of
man's right to initiate di- the courts.
Maimonides, too, took the
vorce proceedings.
approach that when a wife
Three marriage docu- hates her husband, he
ments from the Jewish should be compelled to di-
Egyptian community of vorce her; that she should
Elephantine of the Fifth not be a captive forced to
Century BCE specify corn- cohabit with someone she
plete divorce stipulations finds hateful.
which place the wife on an
Later Jewish thought did
equal footing with her hus- not accept these trends, and
band in divorce proceed- from the later Middle Ages
ings. The wife would stand onward, with the exception
in a public assembly, proc- of Yemenite Jewry, there is
laim she hated her husband, no further incidence of di-
take back her dowry, and vorce independently in-
this resulted in a complete itiated by the wife.

Begin and Jabotinsky Plans
for M.E. Peace Compared

JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
Prime Minister Menahem
Begin's peace plans are now
being compared to his men-
tor's, Vladimir Jabotinsky.
Jabotinsky's last book,
"The Battlefront of the
Jewish Nation," written in
1940, dealt with civil equal-
ity, languages, cultural au-
tonomy, the holy shrines
and the land.
He called for full equality
in all respects for all com-
munities, regardless of race,
religion or language.
He further added, "In
every government
cabinet where a Jew
shall be premier, an Arab
should be deputy pre-
mier; and vice versa."
The Jewish and Arab
communities shall be re-
garded as autonomous
areas which will be
treated equally in the
eyes of the law.
Each national group shall
elect its own parliament
which will be entitled —
within the limits of its au-
tonomous authority — to
issue decrees and to impose
taxes.

Insofar as the holy places
are concerned, Jabotinsky
wrote, "The most sacred
areas of Old Jerusalem
shall have extra-territorial
status, and every sector in
that city shall manage its
own municipal affairs."
The fundamental differ-
ence between Jabotinsky's
and Begin's plans is the
time and setting in which
they were conceived.
Jabotinsky wrote his book
as a blueprint for the rescue
of European Jewry. He as-
sumed that in the land of
Israel, on both sides of the
Jordan River, there would
be a Jewish majority. The
Holocaust changed that.

Devotion in U.S.

NEW YORK ,(ZINS) — A
group of Bobover Hasidim,
unable to fulfill the com-
mandment to say the bles-
sing for the new moon be-
cause of clouds, recently
chartered an airplane to fly
above the clouds.
Landing after a 45-
minute flight, the Hasidim
danced on the runway in a
pouring rain.

British Nab Terror Suspects

LONGON (JTA) — Four
men and a woman, all be-
lieved to be Arabs, have
been arrested on suspicion
of engaging in terrorist of-
fenses in London. These in-
clude the New Year's eve
bombing which killed two
Syrian Embassy officials
and the shooting, a few days
later, of Said Hammani, the
Palestine Liberation Or-
ganization's representative
in Britain.
Scotland Yard's anti-
terrorist squad which is in-
vestigating these and other
incidents, says it is also anx-
ious to interview other
people besides those already
being held.
Earlier this week, leading
PLO officials attended a
London memorial service
for Hammani. They in-

eluded Shafiq al-Hout, a
veteran PLO functionary
from Beirut, and Issam Sar-
tawi who, like Hammani,
has engaged in talks with
sympathetic Israelis.
In Jerusalem, a man
was killed and a woman
was injured Sunday by a
bomb explosion at the
Hebrew. University.
Both were Arabs from the
West Bank. University
sources said neither were
students.
According to police, the
bomb exploded under a

bench on the main square of
the campus. Another explo-
sive device found nearby
was defused.
Last week, police in Tel
Aviv, called to check a sus-
picious parcel left on a
street, found a day-old baby
inside.

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Miami Jewish
Tours Begun

MIAMI BEACH (JTA) —
A series of regular tours to
points of Jewish interest in
the Miami area have begun
under sponsorship of Bnai
Zion, the American frater-
nal Zionist organization.
A spokesman said the
"phenomenal" increase of
the Jewish population from
a handful 80 years ago to
more than 200,000 at pre-
sent, had prompted the cre-
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NEW YORK — Accord-
ing to a Newsweek-Gallup
poll, Americans believe that
Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat has done more than
Israeli Prime Minister
Menahem Begin to achieve
a Middle East peace.
Of 654 people inter-
viewed, 33 percent said
their sympathies were with
Israel. A similar poll of
1,500 in October showed 46
percent supporting Israel.

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