THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

6 Friday, March 20 1981

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cabia, 1,700 competito r C s
came. This was the "aliya"
games because many of the
participants stayed on in
Palestine, wisely prefer-
ring not to return to a
Europe threatened by Hit-
ler.
The next Maccabia was
not until 1949 and the halv-
ing of entries to 800 re-
flected the catastrophy that
had befallen the Jewish
people. But numbers have
picked up and 2,700
sportsmen participated in
the last Maccabia in 1977,
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from 34 lands this time.
Some Zionists see the
Maccabia as a contradiction
in terms: Jews coming to Is-
rael and then competing
under, not one flag, but the
flags of other nations. At
this Maccabia participants
will be housed together and
for the first time not sepa-
rated by nationality.
There will be three new
sports in the coming games
— rugby, softball and yacht-
ing. For the first time box-
ing has been left out due to a
lack of interest. It is a sign of
the times because over the
years there have been do-
zens of Jews as American
and British, not to mention
world champions. But box-
ing may have been the sport
of the hungry man in the
ghetto and it seems that
these days most Jews are
neither hungry nor in the
ghettos.
For the combative
minded, karate, judo and
wrestling remain in the
games. Other events in-
include track and field, bas-
ketball, tennis and table
tennis, while for the less
physical minded there are
chess and bridge.
A gallery of Jewish sport-
ing superstars have entered
the games over the years.
These include Dutch tennis
ace Tom Okker and one of
the greatest Olympic
sportsmen of all time, Marc
Spitz. He took all the
swimming honors in the
1969 Maccabia. Sadly,
though many of today's top
world tennis stars are
Jewish, they will be missing
the games, preferring to
participate in lucrative
tournaments rather than
showing their Jewish sol-
idarity. But Israel's rising
tennis star Shlomo Glicks-
tein will be at the games
and will bear the torch to
light the Maccabia flame.
Glickstein has had stiff
competition for this honor
because Israeli sport has
never had a greater abun-
dance of stars. Israel's bas-
ketball players, a blend of

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home-grown stars like Mic-
key ,Berkovitz and Ameri-
can immigrants like Lou
Silver, are among the best
in Europe, while yachtsmen
Shimshon Brockman and
Eitan Friedlander have a
European championship
under their belts.
Israel's soccer teams have
had a string of good results
,against top European oppo-
sition, while stars like Avi
Cohen with English cham-
pion Liverpool have been
distinguishing themselves
abroad.
In
tennis,
many
youngsters like 13-year-old

Gilad Bloom have won
world championships for
their age group, the fruits of
an ambitious national ten-
nis program.
' This year, Israel will have
to fight hard to retain her
place at the top of the med-
als table. The challenge
from the U.S. is bound to be
strong. Israel has the edge
in numbers but America
hasmore depth in talent
and more people who have
trained in better facilities.

While competition will be
keen, it will not be cut-
throat. The Maccabia

U.S. Sales to Saudis

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believes that a protest
would have any positive ef-
fect.
Moshe Arens, chairman
of the Knesset Foreign Af-
fairs and Security Commit-
tee, said in a radio interview
that the supply of arms to
Saudi Arabia from the U.S.
and Europe represented a
grave ,danger for Israel. .
"Some people in Washing-
ton may see these arms as a
great danger to the Soviet
Union and that this is the
way to halt Soviet penetra-
tion of the area.
am not of that opin-
ion. I find it very difficult
to believe and assign al-
most zero possibility to a
scenario in which the
Saudi air force will wage
battle against the Soviet
aid force, but there is a
not insignificant proba-
bility that all this equip-
ment will be used against

Israel."
Arens said the American
supply of weapons would
only encourage the Euro-
peans to sell even more of
their own military
hardware to the Saudis.
In Cairo, a Maariv corre-
spondent reported that
Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat expressed strong
reservations over the sale of
sophisticated American
weapons to the "primitive
Saudi army."
Sadat doubted that the
Saudis could effectively use
the advanced equipment
and said the deal may
threaten the stability of the
Saudi monarchy by
strengthening radical ele-
ments in Saudi Arabia.
Michigan Rep. William
Brodhead strongly con-
demned the sale of more
equipment for the Saudis'
F-15s in a Congressional
statement March 11.

WB Settlements Gain

JERUSALEM (JT,A) —
Local government wa -s es-
tablished for two more
Jewish settlements on the
West Bank last week in an
effort to further entrench
Israel's presence in that
territory whose Arab in-
habitants are supposed to be
given autonomy within the
framework of the Camp
David accords.
Town councils were
named in Maale Ephraim,
north of Jericho, and in
Ariel in the Samaria dis-
trict, and similar bodies are
expected to be established
shortly in Kiryat Arba adja-
cent to Hebron and in set-
tlements north of the Dead
Sea. A town Council was set
up in Elkana in Samaria the
week before.
The drive to convert the
settlements into self-
governing townships, sub-
ject to Israeli laws, is
headed by Agriculture
Minister Ariel Sharon,
chairman of the Ministerial
Settlement Committee, and
Matityahu Drobless, co-
chairman of the World
Zionist Organization's set-
tlement department.
Their aim is the rapid
expansion of settlements
and enlargement of the
Jewish population in
order to create "facts"
that a Labor-led govern-
ment could not reverse
should it come into office
after the June 30 Knesset

elections.
The WZO settlement de-
partment announced that it
will spend 150 million
Shekels ($16 million) on
four new settlements on the
West Bank and expand 11
others in accordance with
government policy. Accord-
ing to Drobless, 400 new
housing units will be built
in the settlements to in-
crease the Jewish popula-
tion by 4,000.

Games are traditionally
friendly with little of the
commercialism and politi-
cal intrigue that has become
so prevalent at other big
meets.
The games are receiving a
budget of $3.25 million and
will wind up with a lavish
closing ceremony at th6'Sul-
tan's Pool Amphitheater
beneath the walls of the Old
City of Jerusalem,. The site
can hold 20,000.
As well as the corn
tors, thousands of spo,
fans are expected to visit Is-
rael especially for the event.

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