54 Frida (I, 1918 ""w sc CARDS /QUALITY 9 ' / CUSTOM PAINTING Interior & Extenui Reasonable Prices Call 3*I-1053 e 1101E1h. Arad M s 15th Annivr sarY . By MOSHE RON The Jewish News Specizli Israel CorresP,-- dent years an d< It is an elegant ern town. Arad is situated six TEL AVT' — Our Sages kilometers from Bersheba. said that ;di depends on Its name comes from the an- luck, even a Torah scroll cient Arad in the times of and the Holy shrine. The the Kings. Even in the 14th same can be said of the town Century there was a Jewish 53—ENTERTAINMENT of Arad in the Eastern community in this place. Its SINGING guitarist,* also plays Negev, which was born 15 livelihood was animal breeding. violin. Jewish-modern. 398- After the first World War, U-M Microfilms 462. soldiers of the Jewish Judaica Collection Legion wished to settle University Microfilms In- here, but they did not have 4. ternational of Ann Arbor enough water and left. Elagiren't music has created 11 collections, a Until 15 years ago the place total of 340 reels of mic- consisted of desert and Odeabfls rofilm, entitled "Judaica stones. First a road was Collections from the Li- built. The stones were re- 731.6081 brary of The Jewish moved. Water and gas were Theological Seminary of found in the vicinity. Today America" for use by lib- Arad has 12,000 inhabi- tants. They are mostly new .PRT institute raries around the •iorld. Sets have beenipurchased immigrants from Russia, Records GrOrth , in this coun- Latin America and Euro- NEW YORK —13.etween by univerSitiev including Pean countries. They have broad, a and try March 1974 and June 1977, Tel Aviv University, UCLA built and developed a mod- ti-.7- ,41TsVP-1,11 e earned dip- Frandeis University. e town. ,throu' the Celit ► The Mayor of Arad, .. xpected buyer was Institute and the in Abraham Shoham, 'a Z...Taisversity, - neva Technical High Oral Ri)oeii. young energetic man, has hoollhey were qualified Tulsa, Okla., whicV, has shown great initiative. If Inarchased the collectitin on pro*Sions ranging from we would have more .e, civil engineer- biblical manuscripts featur- • trical engineering, ing Araniaic and Arabic apartments, we could easily absorb many hanical engineering, versions of the Bible. The library of the Jewish -thousands more, he told -c.yenlical engineering and Theological Seminary con- us. New industrial “ediliClear engineering,” an- tain,s one of the most com- enterprises were de- :- 1 . .nouliced Joel Szajn, insti- plete collections of Judaica veloped with an invest- tuft director who is himself and Hebraica in the world. ment of 40 million ta graduate of the institute's The library contains bibli- pounds. They will employ ` -=first class, which was or- cal commentaries, rabbinic more than 300 people. _4anizecl 28 years ago. ,, texts, philosophical and his- Arad this year received "Outstanding students - torical tracts, liturgical three awards made by the who did well at our school writings and Hebrew litera- Israeli government for and at the technical high ture. enterprises which increase Sections of many pri- --3,00l are now attending -sities or technical vate libraries mated to on scholarships in the seminary ave been recorded st their Toulouse-in France, and in wealth of =_ Geneva and Lausanne in can be coO eniently NEW YORK (JTA) Ac- Switzerland." shared by scholars from tivities at the El Al termi-. all over. Among these col- nal would have been routine Along with its program of **.mining teachers, in- lections are the Judge last week e*cept for the tqrs anirte—Chnicians Mayer Sulzberger collet- presence of a first-class ; regular ORT net- tion of some 3,000 rare passenger named Klatu the Central Institute books, the Solomon who was bound for Tel Aviv Ames its work in de- Schechter collection, and where he is hosting a sew- apment and technical as- the Elkan Adler Library, ing machine exhibit. Klatu is no mortal. He is a stance for Third World one of the greatest pri- 5 ft. 2-inch, 240-pound vate Jewish libraries. ountries. This work is sub- In the Judaica collections, robot, produced by Quasar sidized by the U.S. "Agency_ for International Develop- , there are reel sets devoted Industries of Rutherford, to the Kabala, philology; N.J. ment. Klatu has a vocabulary of polemical manuscripts, rare :In the past three years, - books, philosophy and more. 4,800 words and is pro- 're than 30 special . grammed to converse in irses, seminars and Golda to Receive Hebrew for this special as- fining ng programs have signment. Klatu can also tt organized through S ynagogue Prize recognize up to six indi- institute. Training NEW YORK — Former viduals as well as vacuum been: tts, wide-ranging Secretary of State Henry A. floors, answer doorbells, eogralihy, with short Kissing will present the serve refreshments, and monitor homes or offices for Al° ".*'"• tr'lning "Covenatitof Peace Award" red in mechailcs, pre- of the Synagogue Council of fire or burglary. lion mechanics, `2th) Ainerice to former Israel The first robot ever to chanics and electric- 1 lime Ministri Golda Meir travel to Israel, Klatu was , building and con- at its a)nual dinner in the observed, photographed and uction wiring and Waldor' Astoria Ballroom interviewed during check- d- construction and Nov. 12. in and later in the King - Antenance. The Synagogue Council is David lounge where he the coordinating organiza- served refreshments. Spe- Ither training has tion of the Conservative, , :red agriculture, diesel Orthodox and Reform cial arrangements provided for Klatu included an ex- \ le and heavy machin- aintenance and bank- branches of American tendable seat belt, since he made the entire trip to Is- minars on Jewish Judaism. rael standing up. a also have -been — and last year, a Holocaust Show Israelis Exhibit young leaders of Hit by British Jewish Appeal LONDON British tele- at Frankfurt Fair i States spent a :vision critics have assailed JERUSALEM — Some 25 institute on ',:IVBC-TV's "Holocaust" pro- Israeli publishers and prin- ,ion. ,,, .gram as inadequate, super- ters, the largest number 1.90 -,..stitute a) -‘ ficial and a Hollywood ever of Israeli exhibitors, cg- 'production. participated in the 1978 cleadnut:aPcPhiliri The program was aired Frankfurt, Germany, Book vet the BBC this week. Fair in August. ,, ' El Al Handles Special Flier — — t - - aeli exports. They have exported to $1,4003 000. They have a factory for manufacturing towels, one for sacks and one for toys. Arad is famous for its dry air, which is suitable for people suffering from asthma and breathing diffi- culties. People suffering from slLin diseases go from here to bathe in the Dead Sea. The housing problem is the most difficult. People who have small apartments of two rooms are leaving to look for bigger apartments in other places. There are 5,000 apartments in Arad, some of them cottages. There is an unpleasant problem of the so-called "Hebrew Negroes," who came a few years ago from the U.S. Abolit 200 of them are living in Arad under difficult housing conditions. Many families came to Arad with their children for a few weeks and rent rooms or apartments. Last year more than 1,000 people came. Part of them are working in the hotels. Others come to bathe in the Dead Sea. There are many school buildings for the 3,500 pupils in Arad. The city has a public swimming pool, sport grounds, a cinema and a big library. The vicinity of Arad, the ancient Tel Arad with its archeological excavations, Massada and the shores of the Dea Sea draw many tourists and nature lovers. There are pensioners com- ing to Arad to live in the Old Age Home of the Sochnut. A new market is being built. There is a plan to build a youth village. The town of Arad is situated on 70,000 dunams. Up till now only 15,000 dunams were used ' for building and green belts. Preparations are being made for planting a big park on 75 dunams in which the central munic- . ipal institutions will be located. The leaders of the town are not satisfied with their achievements and wish to increase the population of the town to 20,000. TEL AVIV ( of the leader of the Jewish illegal immigration into Palestine, head of the arms purchasing adventures that brought arms to the Hagana in pre- state days and later deputy minister of defense and David Ben-Gurion's right hand, died Aug. 29 at age 79. Mr. Avigur was the foun- der and head of the Haga- na's intelligence depart- ment, which later became the Mossad. Born in DviAsk, Latvia, he arrived in Palestine when he was 14. He studied in Tel Aviv Herzlia School where he was an outstand- ing student. During World War I he had to leave Tel Aviv and he helped found Kvutzat Kinneret. In 1921 Mr. Avigur was among the defenders of fol-u-n -a-0,yipti:,_olle Szymon Gotesman RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Szymon Gotesman, who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and -was later active in the Zionist movement here after his ar- rival in Rio following the war, died recently at age 92. hi pre-war days he was a well-known attorney in Cracow. He left that city during the war and joined forces with Itzhak Zucker- man, a commander of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. entrusted with t moth task of arming the - Jewish Yishuv against the Arabs. He was in- strumental in purchaisng land and then settling the northern kibutzim. Later he became the cen- tral figure in the worldwide movement of illegal Jewish immigration, recruiting sailors in the U.S. and Canada, purchasing bi arranging the exodu,.. _1 Jews from various countries in Europe and North Africa to prearranged coastal hideouts from where the "shadow navy" of the Jews took them to their home- land. Mr. Avigur also initiated the wide effort to buy arms for the new state. His origi- nal name, Meiroff, was changed to Avigur, after his son, Gur, was killed in the War of Independence. In re- cent years Avigur deiroted much of his time to writing a history of the Hagana and was active in campaigns on behalf of Soviet Jewry. J. Wieselthier Joseph Wieselthier, co- founder of the Weller Linen Serivce, died Sept. 5 at age 84. Born in Austria, Mr. Wieselthier lived most of his life in Detroit. He was in the linen business for 60 . years. He was a member of S.H. Bluestone Cong. Beth Abraham — of Sentry Drugs now -Cong. Beth Abraham Sidney Harold Bluestone, Hillel Moses — for 72 years. president and foulider of He resided at 27646 Aber- Sentry Drugs, Inc., with deen, Southfield. stores throughout the De- He leaves his wife, Rae; a troit area, died Sept. 5 at son, Morris West; two age 47. daughters, Mrs. Henry Born in Poland, Mr. (Sylvia) Gilford and Mrs. • Bluestone was graduated Gerald (Sally) Rosenberg; from Wayne State Univer- seven grandchildren and sity's College of Pharmacy. eight great-grandchildren.. He was a member of Cong._ Bnai Moshe, the American and Israeli Numismatic Helen Solomon Helen Solomon, former Society, the WSU Alumni Association and Alpha Zeta owner of the Solomon Gen- Omerg Pharmaceutical eral Store in Glennie, Mich., Fraternity. died Sept. 6 at age 80. Born in Au Sable, Miss He leaves his wife, Ei- leen; a son, Neil; two daugh- Solomon lived 50 years in ters, Michelle and Pamela; Detroit. She sold her store and two brothers, Louis and in 1929. Miss Solomon was a member of Temple Israel Saul. and its sisterhood and the National Council of Jewish Dr. J.M. Erman Women. Albert Silver Dr. Joseph M. Erman, a She leaves two sisters, Albert B. Silver, retired physician in Detroit for Ann and Mrs. Saul (Har- vice president of sales for more than 50 yeras, died riet) Jackson; nieces and the Sealy Mattress Co. of Sept. 2 at age 79. nephews. Born in Russia, Dr. Detroit, died Sept. 4 at age Erman lived 60 years in De- 61. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., troit. He was graduated in Alan Fidelmai-, Alan Fidelman, a man- Mr. Silver was a member of 1921 from the Detroit Col- the Furniture Club of De- lege of Medicine. He was a ager of Fidelman's resort in troit and the Furniture member of the American South Haven, died recently Travelers Association of and Wayne County Medical at age 26. Mr. Fidelman was the son Michigan. A woodland was Societies and Cong. established in Israel in his Shaarey Zedek. Dr. Erman of Mrs. Sheila Fidelman, was the founder of the who owns the resort, which name. He leaves a daughter, Kingsmen Chess Club. He her son helped manage Mrs. Karl (Marjorie) Stern; resided at 4854 Faircourt, along with his three brothers. two brothers, Paul W. and West Bloomfield. Dr. Erman leaves a He was a technical con- Dr. David I.; two sisters, Mrs. Herman (Ceal) Zim- daughter, Mrs. Leonard sultant with a computer merman of Lauderdale (Mivi) Rachmiel; three sis- firm and originated several Lakes, Fla., and Mrs. Bar- ters, Lillie, Mrs. Miriam computer programs for the ney A. (Min) Ross of Smiler and Mrs. Harry (Vi- hotel industry. He leaves his mother and Lauderhill, Fla.; and one vian) Greenberg; and two granddaughters. three brothers. grandson.