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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWT
Sports Scene Boiling in Israel
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By HASKELL COHEN
(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)
written to friends in the
U.S. asking them to inter-
cede on his behalf.
Berkovitz is a good-player
for Israel but certainly is
not of NBA caliber and is
making a mistake in upset-
ting the Maccabi people by
his shenanigans.
TEL AVIV — The Israel
basketball and soccer sea-
sons are heating up with the
imony that exists
onttrn‘;.,ling teams
in both national .kagues
-coming to the fore. Recently
* * *
I saw Maccabi Tel Aviv wal-
' lop Hapoel Tel Aviv by some
Aulcie Perry and Lou
30 points in a very loosely Silver, together with Jim
' played basketball game. Boatwright,- give the
The Maccabi team is Maccabi club a strong
"loaded" with super talent . _ front line. Apparently the
and stands a good chance of hullabaloo over Perry's
.
' g all the way _in Euro- conversion has simmered
_
Cup competition.
down. He was converted
will be remembered by a Brooklyn rabbi, who
-.. that two years ago this club
is not in -good standing
won the European title and with the Union of Or-
from all indications 'this thodox Rabbis, who in
year's team seems stronger turn notified Israel that
than that club with the im- the Perry conversion was
proved -play of Micky Ber- invalid.
kovits, back court stalwart,
The rabbi, who heads his
who has replaced Tal Brody. own beth din, called Israel
-BAs, a matter of fact, Ber- and volunteered to come
kovitz is querying other over at his own expense to
European teams as to the prove the validity of Perry's
possibility of playing for conversion. He, apparently,
--them next year. I have convinced the Ministry of
heard from a reliable source Interior of the authenticity
that he has delusions - of of the conversion and was
playing inthe NBA and has advised not to make the
trip. So, for all intents and
purposes, Aulcie is now a
full fledged Jew and Israeli.
* * *
It appears imminent that
Ralph Klein, coach of Mac-
cabi Tel Aviv will be named
to the head coaching posi-
Americana Complex
tion of the Israel National
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Team. If this comes to frui-
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tion, Klein will retire as the
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Maccabi coach, contending
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that the two jobs are im-
at 1:00 $1.50
possible to handle.
"SUPERMAN"
—
The Basketball Federa-
"CALIFORNIA SUITE"
tion has indicated that
henceforth the Israeli Na-
"INVASION OF THE
tional coach will no longer
BODY SNATCHERS"
be permitted to handle a
"THE LOVE BUG"
club team during his tenure
in the national post.
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Klein raised the hackles
of a few diehard - Hapoel
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members of the federation
at all times
by granting an interview in
HELD OVER 2ND WK!
which he indicated that he
Goldi_erHawn & Chevy Chase
would prefer as his assis-
"FOUL PLAY" (PG)
tant the coach of Hapoel
7:30 & 9:30
Haifa, Roni Kahana.
Sun. 2:50, 5:05, 7:20 & 9:35
Despite the fact that
BERKLEY THEATRE
Kahana is a Hapoel
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coach, that party's bas-
Berkley
ketball committee took
umbrage at the fact that
WASHINGTON THEATER
Klein, not yet selected as
Royal Oak
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audacity to give out an
Richard Dreyfus in
interview with the press.
"THE BIG FIX"
This should give you an
Mon.-Fri. 7:20 & 9:30
idea as to low hysterical
Sat. & Sun.
the sports leaders can get
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* * *
I had the opportunity to
take in an international
soccer game between Israel
and Germany's Moenchen
Gladbach which ended in a
1-1 tie before 11,000 people
in Bloomfield Stadium. The
game was well played and it
appeared Israel would go
down 1-0 when in the last
second, just prior to the gun
going off, Avrami of Jerus-
_ lem Betar socked the ball,
through the net tying the
score. The German goalten
der had his hand on Av-
rami's hard shot but merely
deflected the ball.
Jerusalem Betar, now in
second place in league
standings, is scheduled to
play the strong Liverpool 11
some time in April and, it is
anticipated, a sellout crowd
of 54,000 people will attend
the match slated for Ramat
Gan Stadium. Jerusalem
Betar will-then play a re-
turn game in Liverpool the
Tollowig_inonth.
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* * *
Yossi Miramowich, cur-
rently of Hapoel Tel Aviv,
who once coached Beloit
College in Wisconsin to an
undefeated season, is anx-
ious to come to the States in
a year or two in order- to
handle the reins of one of
the American professional
11s. Yossi is very popular
here, liked by all, with a
keen sense of humor and is
very knowledgeable in the
game and would certainly
be an improvement over
some of the coaches now
working in the U.S.
* * *
With the Olympics not
too far off, it appears that
the only recruited
American out of the
seven "signed" who
seems likely to make the
Israeli Olympic squad is
Dan Gardner, the discus
thrower from the West
Coast. He has been hurl-
ing the discus 66 meters,
aproximately 10 meters
under the world record,
but well enough to qual-
ify him in that sport.
The other tracksters, if
they return to Israel to train
in June of this year, don't
figure to qualify based on
their best times and dis-
tances. . •
I was invited to attend a
meeting of the Israeli
Olympic Committee and
almost all of the committee
members were opposed to
the recruitment of athletes
for the sole purpose of corn-
peting in sports.
The Olympic people feel
that this type of athlete,
basically, is not a true oleh
and is only interested in
getting a free trip to Mos-
cow.
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-- ROME (JTA) — Presi-
dent Sandro Pertini re-
ceived Israel's new Ambas-
sador to Rome, Dr. Moshe
Allon, in an official cere-
mony last week in which
Allon presented his creden-
tials.
He said Pertini expressed
his good wishes for Israel
and peace in the Middle
East.
NCCJ Will Cite Bob Hope
Broken Promises
NEW YORK (ZINS) —
According to two Israelis
writing in the New York
Times, President Jimmy
Carter threatened in 1977
to intervene with "friends of
Israel in the U.S." if Israeli
Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan did not accept the
idea of a Palestinian home-
land.
Dayan reportedly told
Carter that Israel would
never accept a - Palestinian
homeland and listed the
history of American broken
promises: - -
"During the Holocaust,
President Roosevelt saw fit
not to open the gates to
JewiSh refugees. In 1948
while our nation fought for
survival against all the
Arab states, President
Truman though he had
recognized Israel — refused
to give us even one rifle, not
one rifle!
"In 1956, after the Sinai
Campaign, President
Eisenhower promised us
free navigation in inter-
national waters for our
unilateral evacuation of
Sinai. But in 1967, when
Egypt blockaded the
Straits of Tiran, we had to
break the blockade our-
selves. When we asked
President Johnson, in
May of 1967, to fulfill
Ike's promise, the Presi-
dent said to us, "The U.S.
is not the policeman of
the world." '
So, Dayan concluded, Is-
rael did not- expect anyone
to save its people from
another Holocaust. "But it
will not happen, because we
will prevent it."
NEW YORK — Bob
Hope, the globe-trotting
entertainer, will receive the
14th Charles Evans Hughes
Gold Medal of the National
Conference of Christians
and Jews at its annual
dinner at the Waldorf-
Astoria Hotel on Feb. 26.
The award is bestowed
"for courageous leadership
in governmental, civic and
humanitarian affairs. The
award is named for Chief
Justice Hughes, one of the
founders of the NCCJ in
1928.
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