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. , 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. Ruling Allows Jewish Vote Leasing... Where else but Tamaroff of course! , AUGUSTA, Ga. (JTA) — The State Attorney General 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. 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