72 Friday, November 16, 1919 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Emigre Begins New Career Aboard Ship touch with the Israel Maritime League's re- cruiting department When the Israeli con- which handles special tainer ship M.V. Alon programs for immigrant docked at its Haifa port trainees. They also offer berth after a month-long low interest loans and cruise to ports around the free hostel facilities until Mediterranean, a short, the immigrant has found sunburned ship's officer was permanent lodgings and standing, pencil and clip- intensive Hebrew lan- board in hand, to supervise guage courses — aboard the unloading when the ship. hatches were opened. In the last seven years the His name is Clive Shelter organization has helped and his job is second officer more than 750 new immig- in the Israeli Merchant rants earn their seamen's Marine. papers. "I never thought I'd make "It was the Israel my living from the sea," he Maritime League who fi- explained to me, waiting for nally convinced me to join Clive's train that would the merchant marine," adds Clive, "and helped me over the first difficult period." Clive set sail as a seaman aboard a cargo ship on a six-month cruise that in- cluded a course in basic He- brew. When his ship finally re- turned, his Hebrew was good enough to begin train- ing as a ships officer. He went back to sea as a third Officer and after several voyages was promoted to second. Sailing for Zim Lines has taken him to virtually all the main ports around the world. He is espe- cially partial to the Far One of the Zim Lines' container ships, the Zim East and likes what he Geonova, is shown loading industrial cargo in Haifa calls "the informality of relations between offi- for export. By WALTER RUBY Israel Maritime League take him home to his wife and apartment in Kfar Saba on one of his precious three-day leaves. He grin- ned ruefully in after- thought. "I always did, however, have a bad case of wanderlust." When Clive arrived in Is- rael in 1971, he, like many other immigrants, had no clear idea of what he wanted to do. A long-time resident of England, Clive spent his first nine months at Maagan Michael, a lovely seaside kibutz. There, he met many seamen and the idea of himself going to sea slowly grew. • He was able to get in Shipping for Israel's Exports . Report Says Europe's Jews Share Bonds, Not Ideologies NEWARK, N.J. (JTA) — The Jews of Western Europe share a common his- torical memory, of which the Holocaust is the domin- ant event and face many of the same problems of con- temporary life. But they are separated by national borders and a di- versity of languages, cus- toms and ideologies and even cultural attitudes which stem from their many different places of origin. They are, for the most part, an unknown quantity to American Jews whose own communities, though widely separated by geog- raphy, enjoy a homogeneity of attitudes and ideas. Those observations were contained in a de- tailed survey of Western European Jewry by David Zeff, published re- cently in the Jewish News of New Jersey. Zeff is a consultant to the Jewish Community Federa- tion of Metropolitan New Jersey. There is "a sense of sadness," the report said, "in finding out how little interest American Jews have in the contempor- ary Western European Jewish condition" which leads to a number of mis- conceptions on their part. One of these is that "assimilation is ram- pant." According to Zeff, "In some smaller Jewish com- munities, particularly where the general society is especially open, such as in the Scandinavian countries, the rate of mixed marriages is dangerously high. How- ever, for 90 percent of West- ern European Jews, those in France and Great Britain, the rate is lower than our own. Another misconception, Zeff wrote, is that "Euro- pean Jews are affluent. The fact is that there are some wealthy Jews in Europe but most Jews live with quite modest incomes, in addition to which there are many who are outright poor." The most notable fact about European Jewry today is that it is a commu- nity of survivors, Zeff noted. cers and crew on Israeli ships." Clive receives a high sal- , ary by Israeli standards. But he works double the number of hours of the av- erage worker and in foreign ports also needs to stand shifts of up to 16 hours to supervise unloading and loading of cargo. Aboard ship often with him is his new wife, Aviva. As an officer's wife, she-ac- companies him on many voyages, a practice unusual in most merchant marines. She, too, likes the life even though it takes them away from their home in Kfar Saba. Clive, however, is not completely satisfied with his present standing. He plans to do more studying to obtain the rank of first offi- cer and hopes eventually to become a captain. The Israel Merchant Marine has acquired sev- eral new cargo and con- tainer ships after selling 12 vessels of its old fleet. There are temporarily no openings for ratings, but qualified engine, radio and deck officers as well as electricians are in de mand. For information, write the Israeli Maritime League, 72a Hanassi Ave., Haifa, Israel.. Forty Kfar Silver Students Study for Nursing Careers it‘ Two student nurses at the Zionist Organization of America's Kfar Silver campus in Israel are shown at work in Ashkelon's General Hospital. ASHKELON — An in- novative high school pro- gram designed to provide Israel with sorely needed trained nurses will bear fruit this year as the first graduating class of 18 nurses completes its educa- tion at the Zionist Organ- ization of America spon- sored Kfar Silver Youth and Educational Center near Ashkelon. The Kfar Silver campus is a largely residential facility located on a 550 acre farm. Among the growing 600- member student body is a group of 40 future nurses. The 18 high school seniors spend two days a week gaining practical clinical experience in the various departments of the nearby government hospital in Ashkelon. The hospital, like many others in Israel, suffers from a chronic shortage of qualified nurses. The graduating class, the first for the new nursing program, will serve as nurses in the Israel Defense Forces after their induction. The Kfar Silver Campus of ZOA has students from the United States at the Mollie Goodman Academic High School and new im- migrants from Russia, South America and Iran, as well as large groups of students from the Ashkelon-Ashdod area of southwestern Israel. Scholarships for Detroit students have been pro- vided at Kfar Silver by the Philip Slomovitz Schol- arship Fund of the Zionist Organization of Detroit. Yamit: An Area Being Sacrificed for Peace By WENDY ELLIMAN Israel Bonds YAMIT — In September 1977, shortly after he be- came prime minister, Menahem Begin sent Yamit "best wishes from Jerusalem," proclaiming that the town should be de- veloped "for the joy of our people." A year later, World Zionist Organization chairman Arye Dulzin was describing Yamit as "an important city in Israel," and Knesset Speaker Yit- zhak Shamir called it "the door to a big future." But Yamit's "big future" had only a few more months to run. Early this year, de- spite all assurances to the contrary, Yamit and the settlements which surround it fell victim to world events. By September 1982, in return for peace, Israel will withdraw from the Yamit area and hand over to the Egyptians 15 flourishing settlements coaxed out of a wilderness. "For us, the peace brings with it personal tragedy," says David Hartov, secre- tary of the Yamit residents' committee. "We built our community out of the desert and we're very happy with our life here. We don't fully understand why peace means that we must move, but because we're a demo- cratic society we'll move whether we understand why or not." Jenny Ilan of nearby Moshav Sedot adds, "If it's for peace, real peace, then it's not a sacrifice." A fact sheet which the settlers of Yamit put out in 1977, two years after founding the city, reflects their pride and hope. "The place where you are at present was a desert only two years ago . . . Nobody lived and created here until we came along ... The gov- ernment decided to set up a city of 100,000 inhabi- tants . Once peace is achieved, Yamit will be- come an international crossroads." But peace has created new facts, and 3,500 settlers of the YaMit area are being asked to make a major sac- rifice for the sake of peace. "I recognize that peace is very important for us," says the owner of a successful Yamit ice cream parlor, "but if will be hard to start all over again as a pioneer." In addition to the cost in human discontent, the eco- nomic cost of resettling the inhabitants of Yamit and other Sinai communities will be enormous. An entire new infrastructure — in- dustry, jobs, roads, trans- portation, communications, energy and all the neces- sities of everyday life — must be provided in the Negev. In order to help Israel meet the tremendous ex- pense, estimated at many billions of dollars, the Israel Bond Organization has launched a $1 billion Eco- nomic Development for Peace Loan. The authorities are examining several loca- tions in which to rebuild Yamit and its satellite moshavim, and govern- ment compensation for the residents is now under discussion. But however generous the compensation, it cannot equal the years of build- ing and hope. Members of Jenny's moshav recently went to see the area to which they will be moving. "It's an abso- lutely magnificent place," she reports. "You'd think that we'd have some joy that we're to be moved to this beautiful area, but we're all sitting around as though we've come to the funeral of our best friend, because the idea of being there means we're leaving our home in Sedot .. . "All the same, the peace treaty means to me what it means to almost every other Israeli and to most Jews in the Diaspora. It's something we all hope for and hope will come true." For the Yamit settlers, news of the peace has in- evitably evoked mixed feel- ings. No one in Israel dis- putes the value of a true peace to a country which has had to look to her bor- ders for 30 years, and everyone is prepared to make their contribution toward it. In the case of the 'fa settlers, that contribt consists of their homes their livelihood — all that they have worked toward during the last decade. This uncompleted residence in Yamit is an exam- ple of the magnitude of the sacrifice that Israel is making for peace.