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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Jet Sale Foe Packwood to Speak at Milan JNF Dinner
U.S. Senator Robert W.
(Bob) Packwood (R-Ore.), a
staunch champion of one of
the leaders of the Senate
opposition to the sale of war
planes to Egypt and Saudi
Arabia, will be the guest
speaker at the Jewish Na-
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tional Fund testimonial
dinner honoring Charles
and Florence Milan, 6:30
p.m. June 21 at Cong.
Shaarey Zedek.
Sen. Packwood has de-
nounced the State Depart-
ment for a "long-standing
and blatant" anti-Jewish
bias and said it has been
joined by President Carter.
Speaking at a gigantic rally
in New York, he likened the
sale of U.S. planes to Saudi
Arabia and Egypt to the ap-
peasement of Hitler at
Munich. "I would have also
thought that Munich would
have taught us the lesson,
'Never again'," he said.
He coined the slogan:
"Not one inch!," and the
crowd of tens of thousands
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1857. A graduate of the
New York University
School of Law, the
Senator began his politi-
cal career in 1962. He was
elected to the U.S. Senate
in 1968 as the youngest
Senator in. the 91st Con-
gress, and was re-elected
in 1974.
He was awarded the Bnai
Brith Brotherhood Award
in 1970 and the Torch of
Liberty Award by the Bnai
Brith Anti-Defamation
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Fisher and Paul Zuckerman
are honorary chairmen.
Co-chairmen are Louis
Berry, Max M. Shaye and
David P. Zack.
SENATOR PACKWOOD
University of Judaism
Award for Public Service.
The Milan dinner will
also celebrate Israel's 30th
anniversary and 60 years of
Detroit JNF. Joseph H.
Jackier prominent attorney
and communal leader, is
dinner chairman. Max
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Associate chairmen in-
clude Mrs. Morris Adler,
Mr. and Mrs. Morris J.
Brandwine, Irwin I.
Cohn, Dr. William Haber,
Dr. and Mrs. I. Jerome
Hauser; Mrs. Max M.
Shaye, Leonard N. Si-
mons, Mr. and Mrs.
Philip Slomovitz, Mr. and
Mrs. Max Stollman, Phil-
lip Stollman and Mrs.
David P. Zack.
Mark E. Schlussel is pres-
ident of Greater Detroit
JNF and Percy Kaplan is
executive director.
For reservations to the
annual dinner, contact JNF
at 22100 Greenfield Rd.,
Oak Park 48237, or call
968-0820.
The Changing Role of JNF
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By DULCY LEIBLER
Jewish National Fund
JERUSALEM — Was
there a Blue Box in your pa-
rents' or grandparents'
home? Did your pennies
help buy the land or plant
trees in Eretz Yisrael?
The Jewish National
Fund may evoke fond child-
hood memories, but it is cer-
tainly an active and
dynamic organization to-
day. Its projects during Is,
rael's 30 years of statehood
include land reclamation,
road building, drainage and
afforestation. This work in-
volves it in issues of sec-
urity, ecology, immigrant
absorption, employment
and social justice.
The JNF was founded 76
years ago by the Fifth
Zionist Congress at Basle,
to purchase land in the
name of the Jewish people.
The idea of national owner-
ship of the land was and re-
mains the basic tenet of the
Fund.
While land acquisition
was the JNF's primary task
prior to the creation of the
state, after 1948 the em-
phasis shifted to land re-
clamation. Since it was im-
portant to conduct a unified
land policy, in 1960 an ag-
reement was signed bet-
ween the government and
the JNF, and a Land Au-
thority was set up to ad-
minister all public holdings..
The Fund then became the
exclusive agent for all de-
velopment tasks.
At the same time the
Knesset passed laws
adopting the JNF's prin-
-ciples of national owner-
ship of the land. Specula-
tion is largely prevented
since land can only be
leased, and not sold.
They'll be safe from heat and moths. We'll renew their
ereJrz &-
chanted: "Not one inch ...
not one inch."
Contracts run for 49 years
and are automatically re-
newable. This progressive
land policy — which now
applies to all public land in
Israel (over 90 percent — is
considered one of the
greatest achievements of
the Jewish National Fund).
About 130 million trees
have been planted — over
95 percent of them in the
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photography contest.
past three decades — pre-
venting erosion, anchoring
sand dunes, reducing wind
velocity and screening out
the strong southern sun.
During the mass immig-
ration period of 1949 - 1951,
JNF afforestation and
forest care projects absorbed
large numbers of unskilled
workers, as they did again
in the recession period pre-
ceding the Six-Day War.
With Israel's forests
coming of age, the Fund's
policy is geared to meet-
ing the ecological and
environmental demands
of people living in a mod-
ern state. Parks, camping
grounds, playgrounds
and picnic sites are being
developed all over the
country, especially
around built-up urban
areas.
While the original Blue
Box is used less than in the
past, voluntary fund-raisers
are active in 48 countries in
the free world. The JNF re-
lies heavily on average-
income earners, and prides
itself on being a "popular"
organization. Planting
trees, groves or forests gives
Jews abroad a living link
with Israel.
Creating ties between
Jewish children abroad and
children in Israel is one of
the pet projects of Moshe
Rivlin, chairman of the
board of directors of the
JNF. To this end, he has in-
itiated the Jewish Chil-
dren's Forest project, in
which Israeli elementary
school children write letters
to their counterparts
around the world.
To date, 600,000 letters
have been written to
American pupils, on a
one-to-one basis. Every
child will donate a tree in
his own name, and every
couple of pen-pals will
contribute a third tree in
memory of children who
perished in the
Holocaust.
Today's JNF tasks in-
volve restructuring villages
and their lands in Galilee
and Judea, laying infras-
tructure for new settle-
ments in the Arava, the
lower Jordan Valley and
other outlying areas. In re-
cent years, the JNF has car-
ried out such work, upon
government request, also in
the administered ter-
ritories, often benefiting
Arab as well as Jewish vil-
lages.