16 Friday, January 15, 1982 WC. Trojan "Son of C. Trojan" CUSTOM FURNITURE & CARPET CLEANING ON LOCATION FREE ESTIMATES Phone 576-1140 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Israeli Festival Held in Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — More than 3,000 youths attended the first Latin American festival of Israeli songs and dances. Zionist youth movement groups from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico performed in the program which was held last month in Sao Paulo's Jewish Cen- ter, the Hebraics. Change in State Dept. Policy on Asylum for Iranian Jews ALBANY, N.Y. (JTA) — New York State Senate Democratic leader Manfred Ohrenstein praised an an- nounced change of policy by the State Department re- garding asylum for Iranian Jews and Christians. The State Department Bureau of Human Rights has decided that the situa- COMPLETE SICKROOM EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES WHEEL CHAIRS • WALKERS COMMODES • HOSPITAL BEDS RESPIRATORY EQUIPMENT ELECTRONIC PAIN MANAGEMENT LICENSED THERAPIST & NURSE ON STAFF LINDEN MEDICAL SUPPLY, INC. 968-5000 Spec:allsts in Home 21120 GREENFIELD ROAD OAK PARK , MICHIGAN 48237 Health Care SALES • SERVICE • RENTALS 7 DAY - 24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE FREE DELIVERY & SET-UP We MottetCord bill the Insurance Carrier -- not the patient --- on covered items. UNNIMI VISA tion in Iran has deteriorated for Christian and Jewish minorities and, therefore, if people seeking asylum can prove they are Iranian -Jews or Christians the State De- partment will now accept this as proof that they'would be persecuted upon their re- turn to Iran, according to a department spokesperson. The spokesperson said "roughly 2,500 Christians and 2,000 Jews from Iran have filed asylum claims" since the Khomeini regime was established. 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Mrs. Jacobson is well known throughout the world. u-7 She has visited the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakz'm Hungary, Romania and studied the Jewish situation and has led the fight for free emigration of Jews from ehe Soviet Union. - URGENT JNF TASKS: Mrs. Jacobson is taking over the presidency of the Jewish National Fund in America at a time when the JNF is facing urgent tasks. - The first is the relocation of the Jewish settlers in Sinai. They must be evacuated within the next two or three months in accordance with the Israeli-Egyptian agreement concluded at Camp David. The settlers will be relocated in the Negev, and their transfer is no easy matter. The Jewish National Fund will need at least $2,500,000 to move about 100 settlers from one desert to another; to move in the desert is by far not the same as moving from one settlement to another in inhabited territory. Thousands of cubic meters of sand have to be leveled in preparation of the area in the Negev for human -habitation. Roads must be built to connect the new settlements with neighboring settlements and with main highways to bring bread, milk and other food by trucks from Beersheva. Irrigation pipes must be set in place in an area which has no water. Electrical installa- tions must be built and so must gas mains. Already, JNF engineers are laying drip irrigation hoses so that the settlers can begin the long and hard process of becoming self-sufficient. All this will cost many millions of dollars which the 'Jewish National Fund will seek primarily from Ameri- can Jewish communities and individuals. In Los Angeles the JNF has al- ready announced the be- ginning of a campaign to raise $1,500,000 in one year. The second urgent task _which the JNF is facing now is the replanting of hun- dreds of thousands of trees destroyed-during two weeks by the Palestine Liberation Organization in northern CHARLOTTE JACORSON Galilee by rocket attacks which touched off the worst forest fires in Israel's history. The fires gutted more than 130 acres of forest land. Fire- men and JNF foresters did their utmost trying to save the trees, which were planted over the past 30 years, but it was very difficult to get the forest fires under control with the shells falling repeatedly and rekindling the fire. The dam- age is tremendous. The JNF must now start to create new forests from ashes by re-afforestation. THE GALILEE CHALLENGE: A third urgent task for the JNF is to establish, at the request of the Israel government, over 30 new agro-industrial settlements in the Galilee. Once the most densely-settled Jewish region in Pales- tine, the Galilee has been neglected during Israel's exist- , ence and is now underpopulated. The Jews are now a minority there, constituting only 31 percent of the popula- tion because of the high Arab birthrate. The number of Arab villages is now larger there than the Jewish. The JNF now faces the task of developing the hilly and bare land in the Galilee to encourage Jewish settlement in this impor- tant part of the country which delineates Israel's northern border. There are also other immediate challenges to the JNF, including preparation of 12,000 acres of wasteland fr' farming. There is the Jerusalem Green Belt project vi, utilizing the creation of a forest belt around Jerusalem over an area of 2,500 acres on state-ownded land. American Jewry has always given backing to Jewish National Fund projects. The 4,000-dunam American Inde- pendence Park, which is located 10 miles southwest of Jerusalem, signifies the strong ties between the American Jewish communities and Israel. So does the Kennedy Peace Forest, the Hubert Humphrey Parkway, and other Ameri- can projects which dot Israel from north to south. Mrs. Jacobson, with her energy, prestige and influence in American Jewry, will, as new JNF president, stimulate many in this country to take an interest in meeting the serious and urgent tasks which the JNF faces now. They Cs„