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Israel Vocational High School Halts Welfare Problem

PETAH TIKVA — Try-
ing to keep restless, un-
motivated, lower-than-
average students in high
school is a worldwide prob-
lem.
Educators, psychologists
and social workers in Israel
have found that the best
way to encourage such
young people to remain in
school is to offer them a con-
structive alternative to the
welfare system and pros-

titution into which many
girl drop-outs drift.
Special two-, three- and
four-year training schools
have been created all over
the country for this very
purpose. TIMON Voca-
tional High School for Girls
in Petah Tikva is one of the
Naamat network of 17 such
schools serving 1,600 girls
who might need them.
Founded 10 years ago
by Naamat/Pioneer Wo-

men, Israel's largest wo-
men's social service
movement, TIMON pro-
vides these potential so-
cial dropouts with the
chance to study fashion
design and sewing, hair-
dressing and for a career
as nursery school aides.
(TIMON is an abbrevia-
tion for the Hebrew word
"Tichon Miktsoit
L'Na'arott" or Girls Voc-
ational High Schools.)

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According to Mrs. Ruth
Schwartz, principal at
TIMON school in Petah
Tikva, the 180 girls that at-
tend this vocational school
come from large low-income
families who are unable to
attend or complete high
school because of an inabil-
ity to cope with formal sec-
ondary school education.
Almost all are from the
large Jewish families who
immigrated to Israel from
Islamic countries.

According to a recent poll
conducted by Naamat, of
the more than 200
graduates of TIMON in the
past few years, 44 percent
stayed in the vocations they
learned at the school,. 28
percent are serving in the
army, 9 percent are mar-
ried, and 11 percent work in
other fields. Of all the girls
who have graduated in the
past five years, not one re-
ceives welfare, not one has
been in trouble with the
law.
The students at TIMON
are offered three basic occu-
pational curricula: three
years for hairdressing, four
for nursery and fashion
work. In fashion design and
sewing, courses go beyond
just cutting and sewing to
include drawing and de-
signing, textile fibers,
chemistry and fabrics.
In hair dressing,
courses include styling,
hair dyeing, tinting and
frosting, and training in
hair texture and chemis-
try.
The most selective of the
three skills offered is that of
nursery school aides. Stu-
dents take courses in child
psychology, children's songs
and stories, budgeting, and
personal hygiene, handic-
rafts and home economics.
Applicants for this depart-
ment are given special
psychological and intelli-
gence tests before being ac-
cepted.
The school also requires
its students to take general
academic courses such as
mathematics, biology, En-
glish, history and citizen-
ship, but at a level suitable

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to their achievement
abilities.
The principal, Mrs.
Schwartz, says that a
psychologist and social
worker are employed at the
school on a regular. basis.
Their role is to discuss with
the students at TIMON
High School subjects such
as sex, marriage, homemak-
ing, and the role of the
woman in modern Israeli
society. These subjects, she
states, are never spoken
about in the girls' homes.
While normal high
school in Israel is costly,
the first two years at
TIMON are free of
charge. The last year or
two require a minor tui-
tion fee, which, accord-
ing to Mrs. Schwartz,
places some piessure on
the girls to take their
school work seriously.
Necessary supplies are all
provided at TIMON, in con-
trast to other high schools in
Israel where they are
bought and paid for by pa-
rents.

Conservatives
Elect Teplitz

KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y.
— Dr. Saul I. Teplitz,
spiritual leader of Cong.
Sons of Israel, of Woodmere,
N.Y., was elected president
of the Rabbinical Assembly
at its 78th annual conven-
tion at the Concord Hotel.

SAUL TEPLITZ
Currently the president
of the Synagogue Council of
America, Rabbi Teplitz will
now head the 1,000-member
organization of Conserva-
tive rabbis. He succeeds
Rabbi Stanley S.
Rabinowitz of Washington,
D.C.

Schdlars Will
Debate Spinoza

NEW YORK — Novel ap-
proaches to the philosophy
of Baruch Spinoza, the con-
troversial 17th Century
thinker, are expected April
9-11 when the Jewish
Theological Seminary of
America hosts an interna-
tional conference on the
subject.
Prof. Abraham Kaplan of
Haifa University will de-
liver the keynote address,
"Spinoza and Modern Un-
reason."
Internationally known
scholars will debate four as-
pects of Spinoza's
philosophy: the mystical
and messianic elements in
Spinoza's thought; the in-
tegration of moral
philosophy and scientific
rigor in his method; his con-
cept of human freedom and
democracy; and his critique
of traditional religion.

