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NEW YORK — Rabbi
Herschel Schacter, former
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chairman of the Conference
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ALBANY, N.Y. (JTA) —
American Jewish Organ- Ramat Hovav may become
izations, has been elected the "Love Canal" of Israel,
chairman of the commission according to some
on Jewish chaplaincy of the environmental experts.
Jewish Welfare Board.
The Israel government
has proposed a national
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this site, 12 kilometers from
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Alkon told the Jewish Tele-
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senior research scientist at
the Desert Ecology Center
of Ben-Gurion University of
the Negev in Sde Boker.
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Protection Service (EPS),
has stated that "Israel is
(already) sitting on a
bombshell of waste."
He said: "The sites are
full and there are no new
ones available. Since.
1973, I've been pushing
for using waste for
energy."
In addition to the poten-
tial threat of hazardous
waste at Ramat Hovav,
there are already four
chemical companies in the
area.
Alkon's unit is planning
to study the impact of these
industries on the soil, vege-
tation, wild life, air and
water quality. A New
Yorker who made aliya in
1978, Alkon is project
supervisor for Ben-Gurion
University's Ramat Hovav
research.
"Our study is to find out
what the Ramat Hovav pol-
lutants are, by taking
measures of air and water
quality," Alkon said. "We
will begin to measure as
soon as we have the right
equipment and support.
There have been incidences
of illnesses among the
workers at Ramat Hovay.
"Right now no one lives
there but Bedouins, and
animals also graze in the
vicinity. Our plan is for at
least a three-year study,
to see if we can deduce
what in the environment
is responding to pollut-
ants."
Two of the Ramat Hovav
offenders, the Dead Sea
Bromine Works and
Makhteshim, a manufac-
turer of insecticides and
other agricultural chemi-
cals, also threaten the resi-
dents of Beersheba with air
pollution, according to
American environmental
engineer Jack Lauber.
Lauber, chief of the Toxic
Technology Section, New
York State Department of
Environmental Conserva-
tion in Albany, spent two-
months in Israel last year,
as a consultant to Israel's
EPS.
He is a member of the
advisory board of the U.S.
Committee for the Israel
Environment, a group of
American
scientists,
engineers
and
environmentalists who for
the past six years have de-
voted time and professional
expertise to improve the
environment of Israel.
The U.S. Committee for
the Israel Environment
was founded and is
largely supported by
P.E.F. Israel Endowment
Funds, Inc. The group
provides expert inde-
pendent recommenda-
tion for environmental
concerns in Israel, brings
Israeli environmentalists
to the U.S. for training,
and educates the public
here and in Israel about
Israel's environment.
Dr. Haim Gunner, a pro-
fessor of environmental sci-
ence at Amherst Univer-
sity, Mass., is secretary, and
Joshua Morrison, a director
of the Israel Discount Trust
Co., in New York, is chair-
man.
When Lauber was in Is-
rael he discovered trouble
spots that range from mere
nuisances to potential kil-
lers. After he returned to
the U.S., one industry he
had called a major offender,
the Frutarom chemical
plant in Acre, made head-
lines in Israeli newspapers.
In April 1980, residents of
Acre and members of a
nearby kibutz, Ein Hamif-
ratz, became ill and several
were hospitalized with res-
piratory ailments caused by
emissions of large quan-
tities of toxic gases from a
series of accidents at
Frutarom. The plant man-
ufactures vinyl chloride, a
building block for vinyl
plastics.
Lauber recommends
education here and in Is-
rael about environmental
hazards, to motivate the
public and the govern-
ment of Israel to take ef-
fective action. He further
finds "much apathy and
ignorance" about these
hazards, both here and in
Israel, and he urges
major Jewish American
organizations to put
environmental education
on their agendas.
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Along with dangers of air
pollution and hazardous
waste, the water supply is
scarce and vulnerable.
Other areas, some not now
regulated by EPS, require
environmental control.
Solid waste, noise, pes-
ticides and chemicals, land
use planning and urban
transportation are yet to be
dealt with sufficiently.
NY Schoolteacher
Defeats Husband
in Wine Contest
NEW YORK — Julie
Feinberg, a Brooklyn
schoolteacher, was declared
the winner in a recent wine
tasting contest sponsored by
the French Government
held at the Plaza Hotel.
After identifying the vin-
tage, region and grape
variety of nine wines in a
blind test and surviving a
two-wine tie-breaker, Mrs.
Feinberg was declared the
winner.
Charles Feinberg, the
winner's husband was
among the runners-up in
the contest. Mrs. Feinberg,
who won a trip to Paris for
two said she planned to take
him along.
NY Rabbis Honor
Television Host,
Congressman
NEW YORK — The radio
and television commission
of the New York Board of
Rabbis recently honored
Ormond Drake, host of the
WCBS-TV program "The
Way to Go."
Also honored by the board
last month was Con-
gressman Benjamin S. Ro-
senthal who received the
Maccabean Award at the
board's annual Hanuka re-
ception for legislators and
other elected officials.
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