Friday, kme 13, 1970 11
THE DEBIT JEWISH NEM
Role of Israeli Women in Agriculture
Is Increasing at the Weizmann Institute
tural economy and ad-
By MOSHE RON
ministration. They distin-
The Jewish News Specie)
guish themselves in
Israel Correspondent
• TEL AVIV — A new branches which, up till now
spirit is ruling in the ag- have been "for men only."
ricultural faculty at the Prof. Birk told us that
Weizmann Institute of Sci- the bulk of the students
ence. Women, dealing sci- used to be from kibutzim
entifically with agriculture, and moshavim. Today
determine the agricultural they come from all parts
of the country.
development.
In the blossoming flower
A woman professor,
Judith Birk, was recently garden of the school we met
appointed dean of the ag- 25-year-old Michal Rosner,
riculture faculty. Prof. Birk who dedicates herself to cul-
is an international expert in tivating flowers. The export
the field of biochemistry. of flowers from Israel is a
During the last few years big business, amounting to
she succeeded in increasing $40 million per year.
Michal is in the fifth year
the number of women stu-
dents in agriculture from 10 of her agriculture studies.
She is an expert in the
percent to 25 percent.
The women study prob- physiology of flowers and
lems of soil and water, ani- her specially cultivated
mals, gardening, preserve- flowers are one of the most
tion of plants and agricul- demanded export articles.
Navon to Focus on Diaspora
JERUSALEM (JTA) — key groups, and he felt he
President Yitzhak Navon could contribute to the
said he intends to focus his existing channels of com-
time and efforts, on Jewish munication between them
youth and intellectuals ab- -and Israel.
Speaking at a luncheon in
road, seeking to draw them
towards Zionism and Israel. his honor given by the
Newspaper
Editors Com-
He said these were two
mittee, Navon said he was
Entebbe Victims concerned about theses in
the Diaspora in recent years
Sue Air France
that a Jewish culture could
MONTREAL (JTA) — flourish in the Diaspora in-
Solomon Weizman, 52, and dependently of Israel.
Ninette Moreno, both of
Meanwhile, the 57-year-
Montreal, who were among old chief of state, who was
the hostages in a hijacked inaugurated June 5, slept
Air France airliner which in a . concrete security
landed at Entebbe where Is- bunker at Dovev, a settle-
raeli forces staged a drama- ment near the Lebanese
tic rescue in July 1976, filed border. He visited Dovev
lawsuits last month in and nearby Avivim in order
Quebec Superior Court, to experience living condi-
suing Air France for a total tions in border settlements.
of $616,000 in damages.
They charged, in their
Action Against
suit, that Air France was
negligent in not providing Terrorism Urged
security measures which
DOWNINGTOWN, Pa.
would have prevented the
(JTA) — UN Secretary
heavily-armed terrorists
General Kurt Waldheim
from boarding the plane at
was urged to place on the
Athens Airport.
agenda of the UN Confer-
The lawsuit charged that
ence on Disarmament the
the terrorists boarded the
question of the arming of
plane "without having their
non-governmental groups
luggage, hand baggage or
which then use their
persons searched or
weapons
to terrorize "inno-
searched properly and
cent people; engage in
without the necessary care
hijackings, kidnappings
required under the cir-
cumstances." They declared and inflict physical destruc-
tion on civilians not en-
the Entebbe ordeal caused
gaged in military conflict."
them "severe physical and
The plea came from Ber-
psychological damage."
nard Backer, president of
the Workmen's Circle, the
Bar-Ilan Prize
78-year-old Jewish frater-
nal order which held its
Given to Lewis
biennial convention.
Carter-DeGaulle
Similarity Seen
Emanuel
Prof.
Rachman, right, presi-
dent of Bar-Ban Univer-
sity, presents the Bar-
Ilan University medal to
U.S. Ambassador to Is-
rael Samuel Lewis.
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
Israeli newspapers have
begun to compare the situa-
tion in Washington to that
of Paris in 1968 when Presi-
dent Charles DeGaulle con-
cluded the war in Algeria.
DeGaulle felt it would be
necessary to protect Fr-
ance's energy needs after
the less of her African ter-
ritories by ensuring Fr-
ance's access to Arab oil and
limiting its ties to Israel.
She uses special methods
to cultivate for the Christ-
mas period, when the de-
mand for flowers is espe-
cially big abroad. She in-
vented specidl methods for
plucking and packing, so
that the flowers reach their
destinations undamaged.
Michal grew up in Kiryat
Bialik near Haifa. She
finished high school and
served in the Army Signals
Corps. She has no agricul-
tural past and wished to
study biology. She is very
much devoted to her studies
and research. In her opin-
ion, agriculture is an impor-
tant scientific field with
many practical results.
When Michal started
her studies, there were 30
women among the 200
students. Today the
number of women has in-
creased to 70.
The theoretical expert of
the faculty is Zahava
Benhor. She told us that
there is a strong demand for
agriculture studies in Is-
rael. Elsewhere in the world
people stream from the vil-
lages to the towns. Israel,
however, is busy establish-
ing new agricultural set-
tlements and people leave
the large towns for the set-
tlements.
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