THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, September 29, 1918 25

Bold Predictions for Year 2000

TEL AVIV — While
others may concern them-
selves with the prospects of
peace in the Middle East,
and the future of Israel's se-
curity and survival, Tel
Aviv University Prof.
Elisha Efrat takes a much
more concrete approach to
the future of Israel. In his
new book (in Hebrew),
entitled "Israel Towards
The Year 2000," he predicts
developments in Israel in
the future on the basis of
present academic and scien-
tific data.
According to Prof. Efrat,
population of Israel in
year 2000 should reach
5.5 million. Israelis will
have more free time at their
disposal, and will be con-
fronted with the problem of
_ creating new ways to spehd
that time, but the quality of
life for the population of the
over-crowded Tel Aviv met-
ropolis will be no better
than it is today.
Efrat says that sophisti-
cated mechanization and

communication systems
will have social effects
hitherto unknown to man.
Local air travel internally
in Israel will increase and
there will be fast suburban
trains between Jerusalem
and Tel Aviv, Haifa and
Nahariya. Use of public
transportation can be ex-
pected to increase due to the
clogging of city centers.
The approach to
technological develop-
ment, both in industry
and in agriculture, will be
unconventional. A shor-
tage of water and land
will change the nature of
the agricultural industry.
New agricultural strains
will be adapted to desert
and mountain condi-
tions, and irrigation sys-
tems expanded to include
use of saline water. The
type of agricultural pro-
duce to be developed will
be largely determined by
the specific demands of
world markets.
Urbanization can be ex-

Israeli Women Indifferent
to Rights, Knesseter Says

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
"According to the laws on
the books, Israel is one of
the world's most progress-
ive countries in the
preservation of women's
rights," stated MK Ora
Namir, at the First Interna-
tional Jewish Women's
Conference in Jerusalem
last week.
Namir, who chaired the
Labor Alignment govern-
ment's Israeli commission
on the status of women, was
one of 200 participants froM
13 nations who took part in
the conference, jointly spon-
sored by the Women's Di-
vision of the United Jewish
Appeal in the U.S. and
Keren Hayesod. Conference
delegates toured Israel and
Holland from Sept. 7-14.
Discussing the status of
women, Namir said that
laws -don't always reflect
reality, despite the fact that
the "founders of the state of

Survivors May -
Convene in 1980

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Eli Eyal, the head of the
World Zionist Organiza-
tion's information depart-
ment, said the Zionist
Executive is considering
convening a world conven-
tion of concentration camp
survivors in 1980 in Israel
to mark 35 years since the
camps in Europe were lib-
erated.
"Now, since most the
orld has viewed the televi-
sion
sion series, 'Holocaust,' the
need, curiosity and readi-
ness to discuss the subject of
the Holocaust have inten-
sified. We wish to deal with
it as part of the debate over
the Zionist idea," Eyal said.
He noted that the conven-
tion will be a means of em-
phasizing the link between
the Holocaust and redemp-
tion and of proving that the
Zionist solution is the only
feasible one for the Jewish
people.

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Israel struggled for an equal
society" and guaranteed the
equality of men and women.
Rapid and unrestricted
population growth, coupled
by four wars, have taken
their toll on Israel's women
and have left over half of
them without even an
elementary education
background, she said.
Namir contended that
the biggest obstacle to
improving the status of
women is their own indif-
ference. "After the toll of
four wars, many women
would rather spend time
with their families than
improve their employ-
ment situation," she said.
She called upon the
women leaders to assist
in reaching the unedu-
cated and actively par-
ticpating in improving
the status of women in Is-
rael.
In other developments,
the UJA Women's Division
pledged to raise $50 million
so that all Jews would "be
blessed with the opportu-
nity to live in freedom and
dignity." The pledge fol-
lowed several days of inten-
sive investigation of social
conditions in some of Is-
rael's distressed neighbor-
hoods.
The women spent a week
in Israel focusing on "Proj-
ect Renewal," the $1.2 bil-
lion social plan sponsored
by world Jewry to re-absorb
45,000 poor immigrant
families into the
mainstream of Israeli
society.

pected to increase -and the
agricultural sector will de ,-
crease, with the agricul-
tural population switching
to sophisticated indus-
trialized agriculture, and
assuming a more urban life
style, Prof. Efrat says.
Israel will rehabilitate
neglected areas and renew
neighborhoods that were
too hastily constructed in
the 1950s. New construc-
tion will be more esthetic
and will come to feature a
characteristic Israeli style
all its own.

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AUGUSTA, Ga. (JTA) —
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has issued a ruling making
is possible for Augusta Jews
to vote by absentee ballot in
the mayoralty election
which, under the city char-
ter, must be held on the sec-
ond Wednesday in October,
which this year is Yom Kip-
pur.
City officials and leaders
of the 1,500-member Jewish
community became aware
of the conflict in dates too
late to have the election day
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NEW YORK — Construc.c
tionhas begun on the Union
of Orthodox Jewish Con-
gregations of America Is-
rael Center in Jerusalem.
The" center will service
American Jews visiting,
studying and living in Is-
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