THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Commission Israel Has Toxic Waste Problem 41111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 -: NEW YORK — Rabbi Herschel Schacter, former By ROCHELLE chairman of the Conference SAIDEL-WOLK ' of Presidents of Major 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 9e. R hazardous waste facility at DE F this site, 12 kilometers from 3 "B 2 C vo Beersheba, Dr. Philip Alkon told the Jewish Tele- graphic Agency. Alkon is senior research scientist at the Desert Ecology Center of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Sde Boker. 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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. - 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. They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear. NAOMI SAYS / Annual New Year's Day Sale - f. ti Jan. 1st, 1981 1 DAY ONLY from 11-4 FALL & WINTER MERCHANDISE 15%0FF CASH ONLY No charges or 'layaways cumki. 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