20 Friday, April 11, 1981 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS A Happy and Joyous Passover To Our Many Friends Passover in Pre-State IsraerWas Special ing Passover. Only there was no dancing in the streets owing to the mourn- TEL AVIV — It was in ing for the victims of the the years of the bloody bloody events of 1936. events (1936-1939) in Eretz On the eve of Passover, Yisrael. The population was the president of the World worried about the Arab at- Zionist Organization, Prof. tacks on the Jewish settle- Chaim Weizmann, arrived ments, villages and cities at the new port of Tel Aviv and the anti-Jewish laws by- after his difficult political the British Mandatory ,work in London. 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Weizmann requested that they sing also the "Song of the Em-ek" and the crowd danced a Nora until late at night: During the last days be- fore Passover many Jews came from the vicinity to Tel Aviv. Haifa was full. The shops were crowded with buyers. The flower business was blooming. One had to stand in long lines to get flowers. Tourism was scarce owing to the bloody events but buses brought thousands to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. On the Seder-night all synagogues and small prayerhouses in Tel Aviv were full of people. The streets were illuminated and created _a holiday atmosphere. One could hear the Haggada recita- tion from the houses. There were the special styles of Yemenites, Sephardim, Polish Jews and those from the Bal- kan countries. The radio broadcast Passover pro- grams. The Histadrut sponsored a special Seder in Mograbi Hall for 700 guests. It was conducted by religious writer Alexander Syskind-Rabinowicz. His grandchildren asked the Four Questions. The direc- tor of the cultural depart- ment of the Brenner House, Chaim Friedman, wel- comed the guests. After the Seder artists of Habima and Ohel performed a musical program. After the Seder the crowd moved through the streets of the city rejoicing with song and dance. The cele- brations lasted till the early hours of the morning. Hundreds of families were invited by their rela- tives and friends to the kibutzim where collective Seders were held. The tourists came especially to Jerusalem to hold the second Seder. Jews could pray at cer- tain hours at the Western Wall, which was sur- rounded by armed British police forces. Most tourists came from the U.S., Britain, France, South Africa and Au- stralia, but among them were 70 from Poland. The King David Hotel in Jerusalem was the most prominent and famous place where distinguished guests from all over the world stayed. Since Jewish tourists were staying in this hotel, the management or- dered a strictly kosher Seder, which was led by the Jerusalem Cantor Bardaki. Non-Jewish guests partici- pated in the Seder. After the meal, the or- - chestra of the Jerusalem police played Jewish and hasidic melodies and all participants joined in danc- ing. A second Seder - ,e held the next day a Jewish Menora Club. In those days there were many poor Jewish families, mostly from Oriental coun- tries, who needed public as- sistance in purchasing Passover supplies. Today many families in Israel spend the Seder out- side their homes. They go to hotels or special halls, where collective Seders are held. Israel Program for Engineering Students in U.S. NEW YORK — A six- month study/work program for American and Canadian Jewish engineering stu- dents will begin July 1 in Israel. The program, which is being offered by numerous Israeli industries in cooper- ation with the Jewish Agency, is open to under- graduates majoring in industrial, mechanical, and aeronautical engineering, computer sciences or elec- tronics. Among major Is- raeli firms participating in the program are Israel Air- craft Industries and Iscar Ltd. of Nahariya. The program provides students with work experi- ence in Israeli industries, exposes them to Israeli life and offers them college cre- dit through the Cooperative Education System in the U.S. For information contact: Professor Stephen Kane, Dept. of Cooperative Educa- tion, Northeastern Univer- sity, Huntington Ave., Bos- ton, Mass. 02115. Good Samaritans Are Repaid JERUSALEM (JNI) — Israelis who suffer loss or in- jury while aiding law enforcement authorities will now be eligible for corn- pensation by a government to fund, — according Attorney-General Yit Zamir. The first person to benefit from the fund was a woman, who received $1,100 to re- pair her apartment which was bombed in an attempt to deter her from testifying in a sexual harassment case. The fund was established as a public trust under the direction of representatives from various ministries and receives allocations from the treasury and from be- quests to the state.