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 11111111111WWWW9111111111 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, 16. A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family THE MOSTYN FAMILY ELAINE, EARLE, MICHAEL, DAVID & COREY 111111ffigTh171111111 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