Friday, February 1, 1980 45
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Metropolitan Division Telethon Starts Sunday
More than 100 volunteer
solicitors will be telephon-
ing more than 2,000 area
residents who are not affil-
iated in the Allied Jewish
Campaign structure
through trade or profes-
sional groups. The Met-
ropolitan Divison Telethon
effort begins Sunday and
continues through Tuesday.
Bill Greenberg and Jef-
frey R. Kravitz are chair-
men of the division's Tele-
thon. David Levine is
chairman, and Edward
Gordon, associate chair-
man, of the Metropolitan
Division.
The last in a series of par-
lor meetings to benefit the
1980 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign - Israel Emergency
Fund will be held at 8 p.m.
Feb. 13, at the Farmington
Hills home of Campaign
General Chairman Irving
R. Seligman.
Guest speaker will be
Prof. B.Z. Sobel, dean of the
faculty of social sciences at
PROF. SOBEL
Haifa University. A native
New Yorker, Prof. Sobel is a
widely-respected re-
searcher who has won sev-
eral grants and awards.
A graduate of the New
School of Social Research,
he taught at Miami and
Brandeis universities be-
fore joining the faculty at
Haifa University in 1969.
• • •
Federman, Jan Hauser,
Marilyn Katz, Donna Mad-
din, Sue Marwil, Lois
Shaevsky and Rissa Win-
kelman.
Shelby Tauber is Cam-
paign chairman, and Jane
Sherman, associate chair-
man, of the Women's Di-
vision. Dulcie Rosenfeld is
division president.
For information, contact
the Women's Division 965-
3939.
Young Leadership
Program Feb. 16
The second of three
events sponsored by the
United Jewish Appeal
Young Leadership Cabinet
(YLC) to promote under-
standing of current issues in
the Middle East will take
place 8 p.m. Feb. 16 at Adat
Shalom Synagogue.
Aaron D. Rosenbaum, di-
rector of research for the
American Israel Public Af-
fairs Committee, will pre-
sent the historical basis for
Israel's position in the Mid-
dle East.
Peter Alter, a member of
the Detroit area YLC, will
chair the meeting. The pub-
lic is invited. Dr. Richard
Krugel is area chairman.
For information, call
Michael Berke at the
Jewish Welfare Federation,
965-3939.
•• •
Campaign Staff
Are Appointed
Allan M. Gelfond has
been named director of the
Allied Jewish Campaign
Women's Division
$300 Section
How does a typical Israeli
homemaker cope with the
problems of staggering in-
flation?
The Kadima section of the
Allied Jewish Campaign -
Israel Emergency Fund will
investigate that question at
a Women's Divison fund-
raising meeting for con-
tributors of $300 and more,
Feb. 14 at the Jewish Com-
munity Center.
ALLAN GELFOND
Professional Divisior , and
Susan L. Weisberg has been
named planning associate,
according to Sol Drachler,
executive director of the
Jewish Welfare Federaion.
Gelfond formerly worked
as director of professional
services for Phoenix Place, a
mental health facility for
The program, called adults with developmental
"Supersol" after the Is- disabilities or emotional
raeli supermarket chain, problems.
begins at 9:30 a.m. and
In his new position he will
runs to 12:30 p.m. Par- be responsible for the fund-
ticipants will assume the raising activities of the Pro-
identity of an Israeli fessional Health and Pro-
woman from one of sev- fessional Service Divisions
eral economic strata and of the Allied Jewish Cam-
will have an opportunity paign - Israel Emergency
to "shop" for that Fund.
woman's family, thus ex-
Gelfond was associated
periencing the budgeting with the Jewish Commu-
problems faced by Is- nity Center staff for many
raelis.
years, and served for a time
Janet Levine, section ad- as director of group services.
viser, will speak. Coffee and He has also worked as an
Israeli snacks will be alcoholism therapist for
served.
Metropolitan Hosptial and
Diane F. Klein is chair- has taught social work
man of the Kadima section. courses at the University of
Diane J. Klein is associate Detroit and Marygrove Col-
chairman and Sally Krugel, lege.
briefing chairman.
He has served on the
Section vice chairmen are boards of the Jewish Com-
Bobbie Blitz, Margie munity Center and Hillel
Day School and is active
with the National Associa-
tion of Social Workers. He
holds BA and MSW degrees
from Wayne State Univer-
sity.
Ms. Weisberg, a native of
Detroit, had been working
in Washington, D.C. as a
project director for the
American Bar Association
and as a management con-
sultant with Booz, Allen &
Hamilton, Inc. She also did
freelance consulting work
for other companies. Before
going to Washington, Ms.
Weisber•was a staff assis-
SUSAN WEISBERG
tent in the Executive Office
of the Governor in Lansing.
She is an honors graduate
of the University of Michi-
gan and holds a master's
degree from U of M's school
of social work.
• • •
Israeli Role
in Gaza Described
The life-saving role
played by Israeli doctors in
the Gaza Strip was related
here last week at a meeting
on behalf of the 1980 Allied
Jewish Campaign - Israel
Emergency Fund.
Dr. Eli Lasch, director of
health services for the Gaza
Strip and Northern Sinai,
told his audience, many of
them physicians, that since
1967 Israel has spent $200
million to better the lives of
5,000 Gaza residents.
"In 1967, they were living
as though it were the end of
the 19th Century. In 12
years, we've moved them
into the 20th Century —
about '1965,' I'd say."
What that has meant in
terms of health care is a re-
duction in infant mortality
(from 150 per 1,000 to 40 per
1,000), the eradication of
malnutrition in children,
the disappearance of
malaria and cholera and the
near-complete elimination
of tuberculosis, polio and
typhoid.
Dr. Lasch, director of
pediatric services at Gaza
Hosptial, said that when Is-
rael took over the adminis-
tration of the area after the
Six-Day War, "there were
only rudimentary health
facilities" — 39 physicians
for the entire Strip. Today,
250 doctors are practicing in
the area; and for the first
time, they are undergoing
postgraduate training in Is-
rael. There are more than
500 nurses, most trained by
Israel. One one percent of
the staff in Gaza is Israeli.
In 1967, Lasch said, there
were no primary health
clinics in the Gaza Strip.
Today, no village is without
such a clinic. Lasch's
pediatric hospital was
opened in 1973.
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He described comprehen-
sive child health centers —
both preventive and cura-
tive in one unit — where
each child gets care from
birth till age 5. Hospital de-
liveries are up to 40 percent;
in the past, deliveries were
performed at home, by
midwives. More than 90
percent of the children are
vaccinated.
Until two years ago, all
services were free. Now,
under a health insurance
scheme, a family pays $5
per month for services.
The work of Lasch, who is
spending the current year
as a Fellow at the Yale Pub-
lic Health Service School,
has not gone unrecognized.
He has developed extraor-
dinary relationships with
Egyptians in both Egypt
and the Gaza Strip. The
World Health Organization
has expressed admiration of
the Israelis' work on behalf
of the Gaza residents, and
African nations are begin-
ning to emulate the health
program.
Recently, Nobel Peace
Prize winner Mother Teresa
of7ndia said that the condi-
of the Palestinian refu-
gees in the Gaza Strip has
undergone considerable
improvement under Israeli
administration. Lasch has
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