THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
44 Friday, August 13, 1982
The Galilee May Become Israel's High Technology Area
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come "a project not only of
Israelis but of the Zionist
movement at large," accord-
ing to former Israel
President Ephraim Katzir,
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chairman of the project's and elsewhere; bringing
back yordim (Israeli emi-
planning committee.
A proposal for develop- grants); expanding invest-
ment in the western Galilee ment from abroad in Israel's
of high-technology indus- high technology industries,
trial and residential area, and increasing Israel's ex-
Region 2000 will stretch port of these products.
from Negev in the south to
Israel's industrial exports
Maalot in the north, with today total $3.5 billion
Carmiel as its center. The (without diamonds), with
plan has been confirmed by $1.5 billion consisting of
the Ministry of Industry completely original Israeli
and Trade, and full gov- ' research and development,
ernment approval is ex- Katzir said.
In addition to increas-
pected in a few months,
ing the number of
Katzir said.
Katzir conceived the idea science-based industries
of Region 2000 during his in Israel, the Region 2000
presidency four years ago. planning committee is
"Because of my scientific concerned with the qual-
ity of life in the proposed
background, I faced quite a
number of problems that area, Katzir explained.
dealt with Israel's highly-
"We want the jobs avail-
trained manpower," he said.
able, educational facilities
"Some were leaving and feeling of community
because there were no responsibility to attract the
jobs. I thought about es- best professionals from
tablishing science-based
within and without the
industries to absorb country," he said. "Our pilot
them, and also as a way of plan tries to build how
attractive academics and
people will live in the year
professionals from the 2000 and afterward. The
Diaspora.
region will have the most
"At about the same time,
modern technology for
then Minister of Industry
communications, education
and Trade Yigal Horowitz
and health services, plus
asked me to head a commit-
advanced industries in
tee on the development of which to earn a living.
the Galilee," he added. With
Prof. Arieh Lavie, chief
some 20,000 Jews and about
scientist of the Ministry of
the same number of Druze
Industry and Trade and di-
and Arabs living in the
area, the western Galilee
has been earmarked for de-
velopment by the Israel
government. Region 2000
was Katzir's answer to both
problems.
Planners perceive the
project as achieving five
significant goals: populat-
ing the western Galilee; at-
tracting highly educated
immigrants from the U.S.
rector of the Region 2000
planning committee, proj-
ects a population of 120,000
in the region by the year
2000.
Industries under consid-
eration by the planning
committee include
biotechnology, medical
•electronics, bioengineering,
computer manufacture and
robotics, Lavie said. In addi-
tion, he perceived the region
as a center for development
of the natural resources of
the Galilee, with industries
based on peat, water reser-
voirs, agriculture, agricul-
tural technology, iron, pop-
lar trees and other vegeta-
tion.
Specific plans include
two new science-based
industrial parks: one for
civilian electro-optics,
based on military
technology developed by
Raphael, the Research
and Development
Authority of the Ministry
of Defense; and the other
to provide services such
as industrial research
and testing for the indus-
tries in the area.
Lavie also said the corn-
mittee foresees a computer
center to provide services
and develop educational
technologies through com-
puters, and a technological
high school, to educate
technicians for the area.
A skeletal structure for
Region 2000 already exists,
with several science-based
industrial parks in Carmiel.
In Segev, 21 American
families have in the last two
years made aliya to
Shorashim, an industrial
village that produces elec-
tronic components and is
currently developing surgi-
cal diagnostic devices.
Also in the Segev area,
three new companies in the
industrial moshav of Ya'ad
deal with medical elec-
tronics, computers and ar-
chitecure. Elcint produces
medical electronic equip-
ment in Maalot, and ar‘
industrial park for met
lurgy is soon to be
Kfar Veredim.
Elmer Winter, a
member of the Commit-
tee for Economic Growth
of Israel, predicts that the
removal of the Palestine
Liberation Organization
terrorists from Israel's
northern borders, the
Galilee will become Is-
rael's "Silicon Valley."
Winter said Lebanon,
with only three million
people, would be a limited
market but also a jumping-
off point for Israeli export of
electronic products.
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I
like people who talk back.
Some folks get upset when Sarah
McClendon of Texas talks back to the
president at news conferences, but I
like it. She's been at it ever since the
administration of Harry Truman,
who was a pretty good back talker
himself. -
Way back in the early 1950's when
Cernoria Johnson was the director of
the Urban League in Oklahoma City
She was frequently confronted in
public meetings by men who said,
"But if we integrate the schools like
you want us to, won't that lead to in-
termarriage?" In those days, in that
place, that was supposed to put a stop
to any further conversation on the
subject. Mrs. Johnson would sweetly
smile and say, "I wonder what it is
about you white men that makes you
think you are so irresistable to black
women, or makes you think that
white women are so irresistably at-
tracted to black men. Now let's get
back to talking about educational op-
portunity for children." Zap. I like
that.
Emma Goldman was called an
anarchist, and perhaps she was. But I
like to think of her as a woman who
talked back. She talked atheism with
clergymen, socialism with capitalists,
and birth control with the judge who
was sentencing her to the County Jail
for giving a contraceptive to a
policewoman "plant" who had posed
as a poor mother of four. Bingo.
I like it when Prime Minister
Trudeau addressed a banquet prior
to. the recent baseball All-Star game
in Montreal and identified Canada's
two major exports to the U.S. as
"hockey players and Cold fronts".
and their two major imports from us
as "baseball players and acid rain."
Zing.
Ste. Therese of Lisieux is probably
my .favorite saint. The sole reason is
that she is reputed to have been
caught one time in a sudden
rainstorm in Normandy. Looking up
to the sky she said, "It is little wonder
that you have so few friends if this is
the way you treat those you do
have." Now that is saintliness with a
lemon twist, and is much too rare
among Christians.
One of the reasons I find Judaism
so attractive is that Jews have a great
tradition of talking back to God, ask-
ing questions, demanding answers,
expressing •contrary opinions to
divine judgments. That is not heresy.
nor is it .impiety. It is one of the
elements that gives Judaism its vitali
ty and survivability.
I like people who talk hack.
(Don A/IcEvoy is Senior Vice President of
the National Conference of Christians and
Jews. The opinions expressed are his otvn.)