48 Friday, February, 18, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israeli. Delinquent Youth Aided
By BARBARA SOFER
World Zionist Press Service
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JERUSALEM — Last
year, Shmuel, Eitan, Dan,
Rueben and Shalom were
no more than delinquents.
This year they are no less
than university students.
They had either dropped out
or been thrown out of more
than 20 different institu-
tions. Now they study well
into the night to prepare for
tough pre-academic exam-
inations.
This strange but genuine
transformation came about
because a group of teenage
boys taking part in a unique
social-educational rehabili-
tation program called
Manof, (an acronym mean-
ing a mechanical crane in
Hebrew), threw out a chal-
lenge to the program's or-
ganizers. It was true, they
agreed, that they'd left the
street and that the voca-
tional skills they were
learning as part of the pro-
gram — photography, car
electrical systems and elec-
tronics — were of a higher
status than the carpentry
and shoemaking usually
foisted on them in other
courses.
What they really wanted,
however, was a chance at
university studies. Most of
them had only finished a
few years of elementary
school and realized advanc-
ing along traditional paths
of education would be im-
possible for them. Haifa
University was receptive,
and the new section of Man-
of's rehabilitative program,
Maof, (literally "flight"),
was born.
They had to take an in-
tensive equivalent of a
high-school level course. In
the first year, 12 signed up
for the 1,400-hour course;
seven took the tests and
they all passed. This year 13
more students joined Maof
— 10 qualifying for a one-
year, and three for a two-
year pre-academic course.
Just how extraordinary
the success of the program
is, can be seen by looking at
the background of the
young men who are now
students. They are all part
of a large minority in Israel.
Sociologists call them
"marginal youth." They got
to Manof after being re-
ferred there by probation
officers, social workers and
desperate families.
For many the choice was
between jail or Manof.
One-third of the boys come
ZOA Delegates
Irving Laker, president of
the Metropolitan Detroit
District, Zionist Organiza-
tion of America, will lead a
large contingent of area
delegates to the 83rd na-
tional convention of the
ZOA to be held April
28-May 1 in Pittsburgh.
Major sessions will be de-
voted to evaluations of
U.S.-Israel relations, the
anti-Israel propaganda
campaign in the United
States, the status of the
Camp David peace process
and the Reagan Mideast
peace plan. Workshop-
seminars on youth work and
aliya are also planned.
A Haifa University counselor, second from left,
talks with new students from the Manof program.
* *
from families of between 10 and youth leaders try out'
and 15 children. Almost their new social skills on a
all of them are from trou- kibutz, where they continu e
bled Sephardi families in studying and endeaiior to
which the culture shock of integrate into the kibutz
moving to Israel and the society. This part of the pro-
strain of bringing up chil- gram was so successful that
dren on low salaries in poor numerous graduates of
conditions produced prob- Manof, even some prev-'
lematic offspring.
iously rejected by kibutzim.
Manof was created in have been accepted as full ,
1975 by the National Coun- fledged kibutz members.
cil of Jewish Women Re-
The third stage of the
search Institute for Innova- program involves choosin g
tion in Education of the He- a position in the outside
brew University. It is world, while maintaining
funded by the Rothschild contacts with the Manof
Foundation, Youth Aliya counselors. The majority of
and the Ministries of Edu- the graduates decide to go to
cation and Culture, and the army. Most of them are
Labor and Social Affairs. accepted into regular com-
There was a creative at- bat units, to which they
tempt to break the negative might not have gained ad-
patterns of teenage boys re- mission before the Manof
jected by all other institu- program.
tions. (Retarded or mentally
It was at this last stage of
ill boys would not be dealt the program that some par-
with in this framework.)
ticipants demanded or-
For eight months, teen- ganizers find a way to pry
age boys, mostly around age open the closed doors of the
16, live in a residential set- academic world for them.
ting in Nahariya. They are
responsible for their own
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