THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Third World Looks to Israel for Help in Nation Building

By DANIEL L. ADAMS

rica and Latin America to
JERUSALEM — Third learn how to boost their na-
World countries which once tional treasury and how to
believed wealth and power make the lives of their
lay in emulating the indus- 'peoples. healthier and hap-
trial giants are realizing pier.
Women come to Haifa
that development is a
many-faceted problem, and to learn to become kin-
that certain skills are better dergarten teachers, and
acquired in associating with study the principles of
other developing countries nutrition. 'Medical stu-
which have had to find solu- dents come to Jerusalem
— not to learn heart
tions to similar problems.
Consequently, many of _surgery, but how to treat
these countries are sending tropical diseases with the
their young men and limited medicines avail-
women to Israel to acquire able •in the world's poor
such skills in a variety of countries. Farmers come
to learn how to find water
fields and subjects.
They come from Asia, Af- and use it efficiently, how

S. Africa Jews Flee,
Shun Israel as, Target

By STAN ROSE

Publisher, the Kansas City
Jewish Chronicle
(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)

Our host shook his
head. "Comparatively
few. Not many South Af-
ricans, especially edu-
cated young people, are
prepared for the hard life
that Israelis face. As a
way of rationalization,
maybe I should add that
South African Jews give
very generously to Israel
and most who leave here
soon have the earning
power to continue doing
so.
"You may not know," he
added proudly, "that we
raise millions for Israel in
our annual fund drives and
not one cent of it is tax-free
money. In Capetown alone,
with less than 27,000 Jews,
we raised the, equivalent of
more than $3 million last
year. We keep our 13
synagogues busy. Only
eight other countries in the
world have more Jews than
South Africa (118,000 at
last official count and drop-
ping), and I believe we are
right up at the top in per
capita giving."
But all this may soon end.

JOHANNESBURG —
The Jews are leaving South
Africa in a quiet exodus un-
paralleled in Jewish his-
tory.
There are no pogroms, no
crackdowns on civil and
religious liberties, no bla-
tant anti-Semitism, no hos-
tile government restrictions
behind this latest move-
ment of Jews from a home-
land.
In many respects, the
paradox of this departure is
that the Jews have never
had it so good. They are
'leaders in this fabulously
wealthy nation's business
and industry, its political,
professional and cultural
life.
In a recent visit to
South Africa, traveling
from Johannesburg to
Capetown to Plettenberg
Bay, Port Elizabeth,
Durban, Pretoria and
back to Johannesburg —
a circuit of more than
3,000 miles — my wife
Shirley and I talked with
South African Jews in
their homes, in their
NEW YORK — Plans
business places and at
hotels and resorts, and have been completed for the
learned that most had first national Havura con-
ference, which will be held
one thing in common:
A belief that the good life on the Busch Campus of
in South Africa, one of the Rutgers University, July
garden spots of the world, 4-8.
Approximately 200 indi-
cannot last. As a wealthy
South African businessman viduals from "havurot"
and synagogue leader told (Jewish fellowships) are ex-
us at dinner one evening, pected to attend the confer-
"Too many African coun- ence, which is co-sponsored
tries around us are yearn- by an inter-havura plan-
ing to close in on us. Time ning committee and the Na-
tional Jewish Conference
will tell."
",Where are the majority Center, with the assistance
of a grant from the Los
of the JeWs going?" I asked.
"To the United States. Angeles-based EMET
The land of opportunity. Foundation.
Aren't you aware that there
are sizable colonies of South
African Jews — mostly
HAMBURG (ZINS) —
young, highly-specialized Egyptian film-maker Yosif
people, living in cities such
Shahin says he has com-
as Houston, Dallas and San pleted a movie about a
Diego? Those are cities with Jewish girl who falls in love
climates similar to South with a Moslem.
Africa. Of course, some
Shahin claims he had a
Jews have gone to live in Jewish girlfriend while he
other American cities,
was studying film-making
others have' moved to Au-
in California and says the
stralia and Canada."
PLO's Yasir Arafat had a
"Aren't many going to Is- Jewish girlfriend at one
time.
rael?" I asked.

to boost egg proudction,
where to market produce
and when to rotate crops.
Fifty thousand of them
have come to Israel in the
last 20 years from 103 coun-
tries, many of them from
nations which have no dip-.
lomatic relations with
Jerusalem.
Mirtha Olivarez, a 26-
year-old economist, came
from the Dominican Repub-
lic for a 10-month course in
regional development at the
Settlement Study center in
Rehovot, one of the most
successful and sought after
of the dozens of interna-
tional cooperation pro-
grams in Israel.
"The course has a good
reputation," according to
Olivarez. "It doesn't give
you recipes or too much
theory. It teacheg‘ you
how to do what you have
to do."
Israel began a serious in-
ternational program in
1958 after several Third
World countries had asked
it to share its unique ex-
perience tackling the spe-
cial problems facing a newly
independent country in the
social and economic
spheres.
It is their experience in
nation-building that Israel
can export to the Third
World, not funds. "It
works," says Olivarez. "The
people who took advantage
of this course from Santo
Domingo are doing good
work and have become
leaders in their professions.
Now everybody wants to
come here to study."
Mrs. Olivarez is spending
four months in the
classroom in Israel. Then
she and the other 28 stu7

dents in the course will live
nearly . six months in
Guatemala, planning the
development of a specific
region down to the last de-
tail.
By the time she returns
to the Dominican Repub-
lic, she will have the prac-
tical experience of work-
ing on an integrated team
and "acquiring the tools"
she says she will need at
the National Institute for
Water Resources in
Santo Domingo.
Conditions are often hard
for the thousands of foreign
students who come every
year to this unfamiliar
country with the "impossi-
ble" language. Olivarez left
a four-year-old son at home

to attend her course. "But
this a beautiful - country,"
she said. "And on Christmas
Eve I was in Bethlehem!"

Friday, June 29, 1919

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