THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Agricultural Benefits for Israel
Egypt in Joint Recycling Project
HAIFA — Using the
power of the sun and single
. celled algae, Egyptian and
Israeli scientists are turn-
ing domestic waste water
into valuable animal feed
and at the same time pro-
ducing purified water for ir-
ri/-
with the signing of
the Israel-Egypt peace
treaty, photosynthetic
waste water treatment may
-become one of the first sub-
jects of the long awaited sci-
entific cooperation between
Israel and Egypt.
The Israeli system, which
has been developed at the
IF ~ Technion, Israel Institute of
Technology, is based on
shallow (50 cm.), meander-
ing, channel-like ponds con-
taining waste water; scien-
tists introduce micro-algae
- to 'the sewage, which al-
ready contains a certain
amount of algae naturally,
and the combination results
in a green, 'soupy liquid.
The mixture is exposed
to natural sunlight which
enables the algae to re-
lease high quantities of
_-,oxygen, helping to break
down phosphates, ni-
trates and 'other mate-
rials found in waste
water. Most of the nutri-
ents are then incorpo-
rated into the algae, and
after the algae are re-
moved and the water is
filtered through sand, the
water is made available
for irrigation.
The algae is dried, mixed
with other ingredients and
-
Survivors Get
Social Security
WASHINGTON — Sena-
tor Alan Cranston (D-Calif.)
said the U.S. government
has removed the restric-
tions that have prevented
thousands of American sur-
vivors of the Nazi Holocaust
from obtaining Social Secu-
rity benefits.
Many German Jews and
other victims of Hitler's
persecutions told the Nazis
they were younger than
they actually were because
those under 30 often were
spared for work.
When survivors of the
death camps came to the
U.S. they lied about their
age on their visa
applications fearing that
contradicting camp records
might jeopardize their
chance for admission to this
country.
'w, 35 years after the
V.
these people, now
American citizens, have
been denied Social Secu-
rity benefits because,
though actually over the
age of 65, "legally" they
are not.
Cranston, who co-
sponsored legislation to cor-
rect the situation, says that
the problem has been solved
administratively and these
people can now apply for the
Social Security benefits de-
nied them in the past.
Some men by ancestry are
only the shadow of a mighty
name.
turned into pellets or flakes,
which are fed to poultry,
fish and cattle, replacing
between 25 and 30 percent
of soy meal in chicken feed
and all fish meal in fish
feed. Israel is currently im-
porting 95 percent of its
sources of protein for the
production of feed for poul-
try, cattle, sheep and fish.
Egypt is in even more ur-
gent need of sources of pro-
tein for development of its
dairy cattle and poultry in-
dustries and such algae
production would obviously
alleviate the protein shor-
tage.
The concept of introduc-
ing algae into sewage is not
new. The original idea came
from California and impor-
tant research is being car-
ried out in Woods Hole,
Mass., South Africa and
elsewhere. The Israeli sys-
tem, said one participating
scientist, is the most suc-
cessful in terms of opera-
tional efficiency. "It is
ideal," he said, "for areas of
the world with severe limi-
tations in labor, technology
and protein sources — in
other words, developing
countries in Africa, Asia
and Latin America."
Prof. Gedalyah Shelef
of the Technion, who
heads the project, points
out another benefit of the
solar-powered waste
water reclamation
scheme: after the algae
are separated from the
effluent, the high quality
of the safe nutrients re-
maining in the reclaimed
waste water can substi-
tute for a good portion of
fertilizer needed by coun-
tries like Israel and
Egypt. "Fertilizers are
expensive," Shelef ex-
plained. "They consume
energy and there is a side
effect: pollution."
The parallel research
conducted by Egypt and Is-
rael is cosponsored by West
German industrial inter-
ests, noted Shelef. "Until
now, we had to send infor-
mation to Germany, and
from Germany, it was trans-
ferred to Egypt and vice-
versa. We are looking for-
ward to doing away with
this indirect, inefficient
way of exchanging informa-
tion."
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