98 Friday; September 12, 1980
As in many other coun-
tries, cinema attendance
has dropped considerably in
Israel as the result of the
development of television.
In 1978, the country's 230
commercial movie theaters
drew a total attendance of
22 million, less than half of
what it was in 1968.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Jewish National Fund's Race Against Time
By BEN G. FRANK
(Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.)
Dr. Samuel Cohen, execu-
tive vice president of the
Jewish National Fund,
stood in amazement as he
heard the words of the
Ministry of Agricultural
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settlement representative.
Menahem Perlmutter re-
peated the words slowly:
"More than 1,500 Israelis
are on a waiting list to leave
the big cities and go to the
settlements and towns of
the Negev and Galilee."
"Standing in line to live
in the Negev," thought Co-
hen, was surely a change of
pace. But today the queue is
long for what is perceived by
many as a "better life," in a
rural setting.
And space is no prob-
lem for Israel. Perlmut-
ter, who has the technical
title of manager,
Engineering Division,
Southern District,
pointed out that while
more than 50 percent of
the land area of Israel is
in the Negev, it contains
only one percent of the
nation's population.
True, romantics have
been known to be drawn to
the desert area, Cohen
pointed out. "But to be at-
tracted to the scrub and
wasteland of parts of the
Galilee where the Arab
population, in parts, out-
numbers the Jews 85 to 15,
well, that, too, is true
pioneering."
Why are these young Is-
raeli settlers beckoned to
the forbidding south and the
rugged north instead of city
comforts?
First, with a high infla-
tion gnawing away at the
starting salaries of young
couples, they have difficul-
ties making ends meet.
Enormous down payments
for apartments in met-
ropolitan areas are often
prohibitive for them. In
rural areas, on the contrary,
housing even though mod-
est, is one luxury provided.
Second, in the country,
they avoid urban pollu-
tion and crowds. The
environment is whole-
some. There is freedom of.
wide open spaces, as well
as a relaxed way of life.
There are still young
families who want to lead
simple lives unrestrained
by the conventions of
urban society and who
find, incidentally, that
the education of their
children is often on a
higher level in the settle-
ments than in the cities.
Third, even in the wilder-
ness of the Negev or the
rocky hills of Galilee, life in
this technological and corn-
puter age is not as cumber-
some or restrictive as seven
or eight.decades ago.
Fourth, the Negev no
longer brings as deep a
sense of isolation socially as
in earlier days. In some sec-
tions of the Negev, a settler
can finish work, drive to Tel
Aviv, see a show and return
that night; let alone spend
frequent weekends or vaca-
tions with friends or rela-
tives in the city.
Fifth, armed with tax in-
centives, many Israelis feel
they can manage much bet-
ter economically than in the
populated areas.
Last, but certainly not
least, is the fact that
chalutziut (pioneering) is
alive and well in Israel;
that dynamic spirit
which built the Jewish
state is bringing a fresh
breeze to a land troubled
by hostile neighbors and
hostile nations. There are
young Israelis who want
to be farmers and work-
ers and who believe in the
ideology that their role is
to be the modern "people
of the fields."
The Jewish National
Fund's task is to get those
people now on the waiting
list to the Negev and Galilee
which can become the veg-
etable garden and granary
of the Middle East. It must
prepare the earth for set-
tlement. It must set up the
infrastructures and land re-
clamation, and do it in re-
cord time.
In a year or so, with the
Camp David process mov-
ing at a steady pace, the Is-
raeli army will have relo-
cated from the Sinai to the
Negev where early warning
stations, airfields and mili-
tary bases must be ab-
sorbed.
The JNF must prepare
the sites for the new settle-
ments, towns and develop-
ment areas. This will be the
largest land reclamation
project of the JNF in the
32-year history of the state
of Israel.
"Make the desert
bloom," is not just an
ideological motto. The
Negev is the bridge be-
tween East and West. It is
Israel's gateway to Africa
and Asia through Eilat. If
Israel is not just to be-
come a densely popu-
lated strip on the Eastern
Mediterranean, the
Negev must be settled.
Moreover, with the new
highways paved by the
JNF, Israel's desert will be
even more accessible to veh-
icular traffic, thus boosting
the countryside with an
economic boon and a mush-
rooming manufacturing
and industrial develop-
ment.
Likewise, the Galilee is
crucial for Israel. The popu-
lation of the area between
Acre and Safed is about
220,000 and of this, 65 per-
cent are Arabs. Because of
the high Arab birthrate and
migrations, which in some
areas means that the Arabs
even have a numerical
majority of as much as eight
to one, Jewish settlers are
needed in the Galilee.
The JNF is preparing the
sites for 29 observation out-
posts which put Israeli se-
curity into place and which
begin to farm and develop
the land.
Thus, two of Israel's
keys to the future, ac-
cording to Cohen, are the
Negev and the Galilee.
And he was sure that as
in the past, American and
world Jewry would help
the Jewish National
Fund create those new
centers of Jewish life by
raising the additional
funds to meet the chal-
lenge which includes, in-
cidentally, making the
land ready for an Israeli
population of five million
by 1990.
That means immediate,
massive programs of recla-
mation, road building,
managing the ecological
balance, developing new
technologies of desert ag-
riculture, desert architec-
ture, water desalination.
We often tremble at an
empty terror, yet the false
fancy brings a real misery,
— Schiller
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