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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Negev Towns Outlook Positive
Since Signing of Peace Treaty
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7200
By ROBERT HOBEL
Israel Bonds
JERUSALEM — An air
of optimism pervades the
Negev towns of Yerucham
and Mitzpe Ramon. They
will become important
points in the intensive de-
velopment of the Negev — if
they can acquire assistance
to create the new infras-
tructure which they will
need.
With the arrival of peace
between Israel and Egypt,
the Negev will be the focus
of an accelerated develop-
ment program to accommo-
date thousands of individu-
als who must be moved
there from the Sinai within
three years. The Israel Bond
Organization has launched
a $1 billion loan to help
meet the high cost of this
program.
The towns have endured
long periods of stagnation
since they were founded
more than 20 years ago.
They were originally on the
main road to Eilat, but a
new highway pushed them
aside and removed them
from traffic to the desert re-
sort.
The taking of the Sinai
in the Six-Day War les-
sened the urgency of de-
velopment of the Negev.
Now the residents hope
to take advantage of the
region's renewed ac-
tivity.
Yerucham, Israel's first
development town, was
founded in 1951 by immig-
rants from Morocco and
Romania. It is a sprawling
wide-open place, typical of
desert areas where land is
not at a premium. The town,
located 20 miles south
of Beersheba, has a variety
of industries, many of which
use the plentiful raw mate-
rials available close by.
Two of Israel's largest
bottle factories, situated in
the town, produce all of the
bottles for the popular soft
drink firm Tempo, and for
other companies, using the
fine quartz sand quarried in
the nearby Great Crater.
Negev Ceramics, which
brings its clay from the cra-
ter, produces a variety of
tile and ceramic products.
The Lon Cosmetics man-
ufacturing plant is also in
Yerucham.
of
residents
The
Yerucham hope to turn the
town into a cultural center
for the region. A major step
was taken last year when
the Ramat Hanegev College
was opened in the town.
Currently, there are 130
students and the college's
director has ambitious
plans for expansion.
Municipal officials
plan to make Mitzpe Ra-
mon, located 33 miles
south of Yerucham, the
base of a variety of high
technology industries.
The 2,300 resident town is
already home to Israel's
largest slide valve plant,
which enjoys significant
export sales, and to a
plant which produces
oxygen, nitrogen and liq-
uid argon.
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A worker is shown at the Yerucham plant of
Tempo Combined Enterprises Ltd. where glass con-
tainers are produced for beer, wine, soft drinks, jam
and instant coffee.
Other industries take ad-
vantage of the area's
natural resources. The
Even Vasid (Sand and
Limestone) Co. mines gyp-
sum in the Ramon Crater
and quarries marble in the
hills east of Mitzpe Ramon
while another firm mines
clay at the bottom of the cra-
ter.
While local officials point
out that there is much work
to be done in the education
systems and to improve the
municipal services of the
towns, they state that the
area's need is to attract new
industry.
of
residents
The
Yerucham and Mitzpe
Ramon possess the
dynamism and the deter-
mination to make their
towns grow. They seek to
make the most of their new
opportunity.
Adjustment Hard
for Soviet Jewish
Youth in Canada
TORONTO (JTA) —
Soviet Jewish students in
junior and senior high
schools are misunderstood,
ridiculed, disliked and
made to feel unwelcome by
their Canadian peers, ac-
cording to a case study on
the subject.
The study, "Adaptation:
A Case Study of Soviet
Jewish Immigrant Children
in Toronto, 1970-1978,"
written by Roberta Lander
Markus, also states that ac-
cording to their teachers,
Soviet Jewish students
often display violent be-
havior and uncooperative
attitudes toward learning.
Mrs. Markus' 73-page
study was sponsored by the
Jewish Immigrant Aid
Services (JIAS) of Canada
Central Region. The On-
tario Ministry of Culture
and Recreation co-funded
her project while the Secre-
tary of State, which is a fed-
eral agency in Ottawa, as-
sisted in its publication.
The Jewish students who
were interviewed did not_
identify themselves as Jews
but as Russians. Israeli stu-
dents at the school are ac-
cepted because they are
Western and people have
positive feelings about Is-
rael, Mrs. Markus reported.
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