THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Likud Supporters
Seek Satisfaction
from Government
NEW YORK — The main
political challenge Israel's
new government will face
will be to "satisfy" Israelis
of Asian/African back-
ground, whose votes in the
June 1981 elections pro-
vided most of the support for
Prime Minister Menahem
Begin's Likud party.
This assertion was made
by Dr. Hanokh Smith, elec-
tion analyst for the Israel
Broadcasting Authority
and director of the Smith
Research Center in Israel,
in a post-election report for
the American Jewish
Tommittee.
Another result of the elec-
tion, according to Dr. Smith,
is that the religious parties
have gained in political
power even though they
won a smaller proportion of
the vote than they had in
previous elections. Dr.
Smith notes that no gov-
ernment - could possibly put
together" a coalition with-
out the religious parties,
since the two major parties,
Likud and the Labor
Alignment, received nearly
identical shares of the vote.
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Recent terrorist activity has caused a serious crisis which
none of us can ignore. Excerpts from a cable received from
Tel Aviv reveal a situation of extreme gravity.
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TAU Professor
Joins Colleagues
in Antarctica
TEL AVIV — Tel Aviv
University's Dr. Jacob
Garty has joined a scientific
delegation to study the mys-
teries of life on the Antarc-
tic.
The three-man delega-
tion, funded by the Ameri-
can National Science Foun-
dation and the National
Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration recently set
out to examine what wild
life could survive in the
harsh climate of extreme
dryness, strong winds, and
serve cold of the dry valleys
of the Antarctic.
The delegation, headed
by Prof. E. Imre Friedman
of the University of Florida,
includes Prof. Ludger Kap-
pen of the University of
Kiel, Germany as well as
Dr. Garty, who is in the
botany department at TAU.
They have discovered a
hearty breed of lichens
capable of growing on the
rock of that severe climate.
Named to Post
NEW YORK — Rabbi
Henry D. Michelman has
been appointed associate
executive vice president of
the Synagogue Council of
America, the national coor-
dinating agency fcr the
Conservative, Orthodox
and Reform rabbinic and
congregational organiza-
tions.
Friday, August 14, 1981
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"FOREST FIRES ARE CURRENTLY RAGING
AT SEVERAL POINTS IN THE FORESTS OF
THE JEWISH NATIONAL FUND IN NORTH-
ERN GALILEE AND THE GALILEE PAN-
HANDLE. CLOSE T0100,000 TREES HAVE
BEEN DESTROYED • SIRES HAVE CON-
SUMED OVER 700,000 DUNAMS°.USE
OF FIRE-EXTINGUISHING PLANES IS
PROVING TO BE THE SOLE METHOD BY
WHICH THE FIRES CAN BE PUT OUT B
THIS IS COSTING ENORMOUS SUMS UT
OF MONEY."
Reform Board
NEW YORK — Gerard
Daniel, president of the
World Union for Progress-
ive Judaism, is visiting
South America to help Re-
form Jewish congregations
in Argentina, Brazil and
Chile establish a Latin
American board of the in-
ternational movement of
Reform Judaism.
It is vital that we send help within the next few days. Please
respond immediately and generously to what is one of the most
critical situations in JNF history
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