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. ALLSTATE ALARM SYSTEMS INC NEW COMPUTERIZED SECURITY EQUIPMENT . • . Central Station Monitoring Thousands of satisfied customers CALL THE ROTT BROS MARTY CY SHEL 255-1540 17534 W. 7 MILE, DETROIT LICENSED BY MICH. DEPT. OF STATE POLICE ,,your "Your 0 0" TOM BO" 4044. 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