48 Friday, February, 18, 1983 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Israeli. Delinquent Youth Aided By BARBARA SOFER World Zionist Press Service A Full Service Supermarket 5530 Drake Rd. It Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield, Mich. UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP WEST BLOOMFIELD TWP. STORE HOURS: Mon-Sat 8:30 am - 9 pm Sunday 830 am - 6 pm - We carry a wide variety of Kosher Products WHOLE NEW YORK STRIPS Cut & Wrapped Free $ 2 4 9 b. Lieberman's Grade A CORNED BEEF BRISKETS FLATS WHOLE FRYING CHICKENS $ 2 691 Garden Fresh GREEN CABBAGE 53c (cut up 69c lb.) lb. Valet ICE CREAM • All Flavors Half Gallon Carton $ I 48 MANY OTHER SAVINGS AVAILABLE Specials Good February 21 thru February 27 . 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 FREDDY SHEYERI discipline, and play a major 2 pc. Orch. role in running their own $35/hr. kitchen, and social activi- Jewish, Hebrew ties through committees. Oldies, Rock, Disco Basic studies fill the 542-3359 morning; vocational studies are in the afternoon. In the evenings are political dis- FRUIT BASKETS' cussions and committee FOR ALL meetings. Together with OCCASIONS youth leaders, the boys go on hikes and day trips. 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