THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Journalist Reminds of Israel's Benefits
to Residents of the Administered Areas
By CARL ALPERT
HAIFA — There have
been so many politically in-
spired resolutions of con-
demnation against Israel,
so many fiery denunciations
of Israel's alleged cruel pol-
icy of repression against the
Arabs both within its own
borders and in the occupied
areas of Judea and Samaria,
so much repetition of falsifi-
'zation and manufactured
"evidence" which char-
acterize Israel as a monstr-
ous, inhuman tyrant, tram-
pling on Arab right and
using torture and brute
force in its reign of terror —
so much propagandistic re-
petition of this kind of
thing, that the simple and
modest truth has been ec-
lipsed.
The willful enemies of Is-
rael will refuse to believe,
those who are fearful of oil
boycotts,will refuse to lis-
ten, and those who have al-
ready closed their mind will
be unable to hear — but
even simple truths must be
told. Here is a quick review
of just a few of the high-
lights of Israeli occupation
of the West Bank in the 14
years since the Six-Day War
of 1967.
First of all, the Arab
population of that area,
which was 596,000 in 1967,
is today over 700,000.
In 1967, under Jorda-
nian rule, there were
141,735 children in
school. Today, there are
253,826.
In 1967, 37,995 persons
had an education which
went beyond the ninth
grade. Today the figure is
120,500.
Until Israel took over the
area following Jordan's at-
tack, the health clinics of
the West Bank, of a low
medical standard, treated
some 42,000 patients a year.
In 1979, the clinics adminis-
tered by Israel's health pro-
gram took care of 145,000
patients.
Under the Jordan fla
only 23.1 percent of tl.e
families of the area had
electricity, most of them in
the big cities. Today, 79.2
percent of the families have
electric power in their
homes.
An idea of the extent of
the economic develop-
ment can be seen in the
fact that whereas in 1967
there was one private
automobile for every 300
families, today there are
13 cars.
There have been signific-
ant improvements in the
nature of Arab society as
well. Perhaps this is what
Israel's enemies mean when
they say that Israel is
changing the character of
Arab life. Israel pleads
Holocaust Literary Prize
TEL AVIV (JTA) — An
Israeli family which has re-
quested anonymity, has es-
tablished an annual prize
for the best literary work on
the Holocaust and Israel's
revival for which authors of
any faith or nationality will
be eligible, it was an-
nounced by the board of
trustees of the Yad Vashem
Memorial Foundation.
An inter-denominational
board of trustees has been
appointed to administer the
$7,000 award which has
been named the Ka_ tzetnik
Prize.
According to Joseph
Klarman, a local jour-
nalist, he was ap-
proached by a prominent
Tel Aviv resident about
18 months ago who said
his family wanted to do-
nate $70,000 to establish
an award in the name of a
writer who was an in-
mate of a Nazi concentra-
tion camp and signed his
works "Katzetnik
' 35633," the camp
number tatooed on his
arm.
Falwell Denies
He's Anti-Semitic
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Jerry
Falwell, the leader of the
Moral Majority movement
in the United States, was in
Israel last week on a visit
and denied that he was an
anti-Semite.
Falwell
has • been
criticized by some American
Jewish leaders for fostering
a climate which could lead
to religious intolerance and
encourage anti-Semitism.
According to Klarman,
the donor's only son had
been a drug addict. Exten-
sive treatment in Israel and
abroad failed to help, but his
readings of books from his
father's library by "Katzet-
nik" cured him of his addic-
tion because of the deep
emotional impression they
made, according to Klar-
man's account.
guilty to the following
changes which have been ef-
fected in women's rights.
The law calling for equal
education for boys and girls
alike is effective only in Is-
rael but nowhere else in the
Arab world. Women both in
Israel and on the West Bank
have been given the right to
vote. Under Israel civil law
women have been vested
with rights in their hus-
band's property, and in the
event of divorce, easily
given by the male under
Moslem law, Israel law re-
quires that the women have
rights to the children and to
support.
Under the "harsh and op-
pressive" Israel govern-
ment, Arabs in Israel today
have a life expectancy of 72
years, the highest of any
country in the Middle East.
Under the British Mandate
it was 47 years in 1941, and
49 years in 1948.
Arabs are not drafted
into the Israel Army. Se-
curity is one considera-
tion.
Friday, February 27, 1981
1 BURGLAR ALARMS
while Jewish youth give up
three precious years of their
life in service to the nation."
The Arabs of Israel have
all democratic rights. They
can vote and organize polit-
ical parties and run for pub-
lic office. They have free-
dom of expression and free-
dom of movement and free-
dom of religion. The only
limitations, and these are
applied to Jews as well as to
Arabs, and in every well-
ordered democratic nation,
is when these freedoms are
abused to menace the public
peace or the security of the
state.
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There is another, says
Mattityahu Shmuelevitz,
director-general of the
prime minister's office: "We
Jews, scattered among the
nations, served in the ar-
mies of many countries. It
often happened that Jews in
the service of one land had
to fire at Jews on the other
side. We remember this
tragic state of affairs, and
we therefore exempt Israel's
Arabs from our army, know-
ing that they have family,
religious and neighborly
ties with Arabs living in
states which insist on main-
taining a state of war with
us. And so when Arab youth
reach the age of 18 they can
continue with their educa-
tion, or proceed to build
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