THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year
Friday, September 9, 1983 89
Chief of Staff 'Moshe-and-a-Hal
MILTON, IVAJEAN, ALICIA,
ANDREW & LESLIE ERLICH
By SIMON GRIVER
World Zionist Press Service
JERUSALEM — A joke
went around Israel in April
about the time that Major
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May the coming year be
one filled with health,
happiness and
prosperity for all our
friends and family.
JERRY, FRAN, MARCI
& MARK UZANSKY
To All Our
Relatives
and Friends,
Our wish for a
year filled with
happiness,
health and prosperity
General Moshe Levy took
up the post as the country's
12th chief of staff. "In bibli-
cal times," the joke went, "it
took Moshe Rabenu (Moses)
to lead us out of Egypt. But
today it will need Moshe-
and-a-half to get us out of
Lebanon."
"Moshe-and-a-half,"
Levy's nickname, reflects
his unusual height (6'6"). It
is difficult to know whether
the joke reflected doubts
over the army's continued
presence in Lebanon, or a
deep-felt confidence in
Levy's leadership qualities.
During the war in Leba-
non Gen. Levy was fre-
quently seen wandering
around chatting with the
soldiers in the field. Levy
prefers those that work with
him to call him by his
nickname, "Moshe-and-a-
half."
Moshe Arens, the new
defense minister, is a cau-
tious man. In choosing
Levy, Arens opted for
prudence over impulse
and a man who could
bridge the rift of a di-
vided country.
A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our Friends
and Family
LEE & MOE R. MILLER & FAMILY
MOSHE LEVY
around. This highly-risky
and illegal practice was
traditionally considered
a mark of valor amongst
Israelis in their late teens.
In 1954, Levy joined the
army, originally volunteer-
ing for the crack Golani In-
fantry Brigade and par-
ticipating in the Sinai
Campaign of 1956. From
1963 to 1967 Levy served in
command positions in the
paratroopers, seeing com-
bat in the Six-Day War and
afterwards becoming a
brigade commander in the
Jordan Valley.
In 1974 he joined the gen-
eral staff as chief of opera-
tions, was given a tank di-
vision to command in 1976
and in 1977 became chief of
IDF command facing the
Jordanian border.
He became deputy chief of
staff during the Lebanese
war when Aluf Yekutiel
Adam was killed in action.
May the New Year Bring
Levy lives with his wife
and five children on Kibutz
Beit Alpha in the Jezreel
Valley, where his wife was
born — a kibutz of the .left
wing Hashomer Hatzair
movement which is affil-
iated with Mapam. Levy is a
soldier, not a politician, and
although he is expected to
be less hawkish than his
predecessor, he tends to be a
hard liner rather than a
Levy remains some-
dove. Though he lives on
the kibutz, he is not a thing of an intellectual,
member there and has no frequently carrying a
political affiliations with book under his arm. He is
seen as a quiet profes-
the settlement.
sional
who will lend the
Levy was born in 1936 in
the poverty of Tel Aviv's job a low profile, follow-
Shapira Quarter. His par- ing the controversial
ents had emigrated from reign of Raphael Eitan,
Iraq three years earlier and who was criticized for in-
his father ran a fruit and troducing politics into
vegetable market in the the army.
It remains to be seen
nearby Carmel Market.
whether power may trans-
The young Levy enjoyed form Levy into a more out-
reading and was fascinated spoken personality. Is it a
by his oriental roots. At 16, coincidence that one of his
he worked in a bank by day first actions was to abolish
and studied for his univer- some of the harsher
sity entrance exams by guidelines for treatment of
night. At Hebrew Univer- dissident Arabs? Levy's
sity he graduated in eco- greatest challenge is to re-
nomics and the history of Is- store the confidence and re-
lam.
spect of all Israelis in the
It is -rumored thatas a institution whose unity is
youngster Levy would vital for the survival of the
dress up as a Bedouin state.
tribesman and cross into
Then he really will be
Jordan to have a look "Moshe-and-a-half."
To All Our Friends
Fighting the Nazis
'AARON & ANNE GINSBERG
To All Our
Relatives
and Friends,
Our wish for a
year filled with
happiness,
health and prosperity
MR. & MRS. IRVING PITT
and Family
Health,
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A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our Friends
and Family
THE MOSTYN FAMILY
ELAINE, EARLE, MICHAEL, DAVID & COREY
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May the coming year be
one filled with health,
happiness and
prosperity for all our
friends and family.
MR. & MRS. WM. SIMON GOTTLIEB
To All Our
Relatives
and Friends,
Our wish for a
year filled with
happiness,.
health and prosperity
GEORGE & BARBARA VINE & FAMILY
May the New Year Bring
To All Our Friends
and Family
Joy, Prosperity
Joy, Prosperity
and Everything
and Everything
Good in Life
Good in Life
ROBERT A., ROSALYN, JOEL,
HOWARD & MICHEL SCHWARTZ
These Jewish partisans are shown in the forests
of Lithuania, fighting against the Nazis. The Jewish
units often had to battle anti-Semitic partisan units as
well.
Health,
MINOWITZ FAMILY