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WZO Sephardi Leader Criticizes
Project Renewal, Calls It Rushed

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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Project Renewal, designed
to rehabilitate under-
privileged neighborhoods
throughout the country,
suffers from hodge-podge
administration and is
hardly equipped for the
task.
This charge was made by
Prof. Charles Tapiero, the
36-year-old chairman of the
World Zionist Organiza-
tion's Department of
Sephardic Communities in
an interview with the
Jewish Telegraphic
Agency.
He said the project was
built hastily, because of
pressures by overseas com-
munities for quick results.
The organizers did not have
sufficient time to seriously
study the problems, and

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only now do they realize
that the project is only one
facet of an overall system of
"social construction in Is-
rael," Tapiero said.
He also charged the
project was devoted too
much to the external re-
habilitation of the de-
prived neighborhoods —
neglecting the social
work that needed to be
done.
In addition, there was too
little effort in trying to re-
cruit the population itself
that resides in those
neighborhoods to join in
Project Renewal, he said.
Tapiero said he believes
he knows this population.
He was born in Morocco,
and first arrived in Israel at
the age of 12, leaving his
parents behind in Paris.
After completing studies at
the youth village of Ben
Shemen and the agriculture
school of "The Green Vil-
lage" near Tel Aviv, he was
graduated from Hebrew
University where he
studied physics and math-
ematics.
He then continued study-
ing electronic engineering
in Canada where he
founded the Students Union
of French-Speaking Jews,
which later became the
Moroccan Jewish commu-
nity and the Sephardic Fed-
eration in Canada.
In 1967 Tapiero did his
doctoral dissertation in
administration at New
York University. Until
two years ago he served
as professor at Columbia
University in New York.
Since then, he immig-
rated — for the second
time — to Israel and be-
came a professor at the
School of Business Ad-
ministration of the He-
brew University. Last
year he took a leave of
absence from the univer-
sity to replace the late
Andre Narvoni as the
head of the department.
At the end of his first year
in the department, Tapiero
believes he knows the direc-
tion which should be taken
to get to the Sephardic
community, both in Israel
and overseas.
One of his main objectives
is to build a proper image for
the Sephardic community.
Sephardic Jews should be
convinced that they are
capable of helping them-
selves, he said.
Tapiero said this is a dif-
ficult task because the
Sepahrdic community —
which consists of 60 percent
of Israel's Jewish popula-
tion — faces objective diffi-
culties, such as an economic
and cultural gap compared
to other groups in the
society.
Thus, the WZO De-
partment of Sephardic
Communities has taken
upon itself to improve the
self-image of that com-
munity, not be creating
division, but rather by a
cultural-social synthesis,
Tapiero said.
The program has already
shown results, Tapiero

noted. The mayors of
Tiberias and Yokneam, as
well as members of munici-
pal councils, local police
officers and other senior
public servants are
graduates of the program,
forming an advanced
human infrastructur e at
the margins of Israeli
society.
A second project is the in-
creased number of activities
inside the development
towns and the
neighborhoods. A third
project is cultural activities
in the development towns.
Reacting to the charges
by Tapiero that Project
Renewal is a "hodge-
podge" administration,
Yitzhak Shavit, deputy
director general of the
project, said Tpiero's
charges were based on
erroneous information.
Shavit said that in prin-
ciple the project is built
from the bottom to the top.
That is, unless local steer-
ing committees are set —
with the participation of the
local residents — rehabili-
tation plans are not ap-
proved.

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