THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Arabic Studies
Growing in Israel

JERUSALEM (JNI) —
About 70 Israeli Arab
teachers are teaching
Arabic in Jewish schools. At
a study day for teachers of
Arabic at the Akiva Ulpan
near Natanya, it was re-
ported that about 500 stu-
dents in teachers'
seminaries and universities
are training to teach
Arabic, while about 200
Arabic teachers are taking
advanced courses in the
latest teaching techniques.
An Education Ministry offi-
cial said that ever since
Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat's visit to Jerusalem,
interest has grown in study-
ing Arabic.
In 1978, 103,000 pupils
studied Arabic; in 1979,
121,200; and in 1980,
132,750. There has been a
20 percent increase in the
number of high school
pupils taking matriculation
exams in the language.
Next year, Israel educa-
tion television will offer a
new course in Arabic.

Israelis Drive
Fewer Miles

JERUSALEM (JNI) —
The average Israeli family
automobile traveled 770
miles per month during the
past year, according to the
Central Bureau of Statis-
tics. This is a drop of nine
percent over car usage dur-
ing the previous year.
Commercial vehicle use
also dropped by three per-
cent to approximately 1,620
miles monthly.
Public transport remains
the favorite means of get-
ting to work, with 37 •er-
cent of the Israeli working
population taking the bus
each day. One out of four go
by car, 16 percent walk and
two percent prefer bicycles.
About six out of 10 persons
require at least a half-hour
to reach their jobs and 80
percent of the employment
force leaves for work before
8 a.m.

Friday, March 20, 1981 49

Technion Scientists Extract Sugar from Citrus Peels
HAIFA — A new

FRANK PAUL
tons of fruit a year for use as bitter elements. The re-
ported sugar. The Technion
method enabling use by the juice, juice concentrates, maining liquid is sweet, and
and
His ORCHESTRA
citrus and soft drink indus- jam, etc. After the juice has can be used in a variety of process will enable a reduc-
DUO's — TRIO's
tion of some 12,500 tons of
tries of sugar found natur- been squeezed from the products. The resulting
SOLOISTS
sugar imports a year — a
ally in citrus fruit peels has fruit, some 350,000 tons of sweetner is some 20 perCent
saving of some $10 million
557-7986
been developed by resear- peels remain, most of which less expensive than im-
dollars at current prices.
chers in the Department of are used as aminal feed. It is
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Food Engineerina and possible to ,extract juice
Biotechnology of theTechn-
b
from these peels, eight per-
ion.
cent of which is soluble sol-
The method removes bit- ids, mostly sugar.
terness from juice extracted
The citrus industry
from the citrus peels, and today makes - use of large
A0 OFF a select group of
can greatly cut costs to the amounts of imported
industry by reducing the sugar in the production
need for sugar purchases. of soft drinks and other
The Technion process re- products. Until now, the
quires no addition of chemi- sugar found in the peel-
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cals, and only a small extract juice could not be
one week only — all sales final = sale ends 3-28-81
amount of energy.
used because the juice it-
The Israeli citrus indus- self was extremely bitter,
try processes some 700;000 limited to use in citrus
vinegar.
Professors Isaiah Kopel-
Parisian Puppets man
and Shimon Mizrahi,
on Display in NY heading the research team,
NEW YORK = Some 35 developed a technique for
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created for the Jewish Pup-
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tist Simha Schwarz will be
on exhibition at the Jewish
Museum in New York
through May 10.
The puppets, which aver-
age 15 inches in height,
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Israel Prof Wins
Literary Award

WASHINGTON — Prof.
Jacob Katz, an Israeli histo-
rian from Hebrew Univer-
sity, has been named reci-
pient of the 1980 Bnai Brith
International Literary
Award.
The award, which in-
cludes a grant of $1,000,
will be presented April 12 at
a luncheon at the Bnai
Brith International Confer-
ence Center in Washington.

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row from left, Leonard Bernstein, artist Louise Nevel-
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