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WITH COUPON 11 "..-AIR- Frorafilinr g i r EVACUATE & RE-CHARGE - + Freon $ 1 95 Reg. $19.95 • Israelis take stock of their Los Angeles performance WITH COUPON a Diane Von Furstenberg polyester crepe de chine fashion blouse that usually costs $40.00 is $14.99 at donlevy's back room coming thurs., sept. 20th to 29121 northwestern hgwy. at 12 mile rd., southfield doqlevym backroom To say the least, Israel's athletes didn't make a real strong showing at the recently completed Olympics. Just before I sat down to write this column, I received a call from an Israeli radio an- nouncer, a long-time friend, who was headed for home after a short vacation. In discussing the Israeli contingent's performance, he felt that too much was expected of the athletes and the pressure on them, apparently, had a negative reaction. There's no question that Israel has a long way to go before it can take its place in the sun with the more accomplished sports people from around the world. Then there is always the problem of an Israeli athlete, particularly an immigrant, who gets enthused and decides to become a yored, an emigrant. One of the better weight lifters, who placed fifth in the Montreal Games in 1976, has settled in Canada, while a top- flight wrestler also has left the country. The most outstanding example of yerida is the American woman's volleyball coach, Arie Selinger. After receiving his edu- cation in Israel, he came to the States and got his master's and doctoral degrees and stayed there. There's no question he's one of the foremost volleyball teachers in the world and the U.S. net people grabbed him as coach of the women's team which went to the finals in the Los Angeles Games and finished with a silver medal. THE Israeli contingent, which in- cluded some 38 male and female athletes as well as 12 coaches and six officials, made a profound im- pression upon the Los Angeles Jewish community. They attended services at three differ- ent synagogues and huge crowds came to the various synagogues involved in order to greet the Is- raelis. It was reported that in one of the synagogue assemblies, the rabbi waived a rule against applauding and the Israelis were given a fine round of cheers and applause by the congregants who were present. IT'S been reported that coach Ralph Klein of the West German basketball team will definitely re- turn to Israel after he concludes his contract with the Cologne Five this year. He left Israel for a sort of two-year vacation, to get away from the pressure of his coaching duties with the Tel Aviv Maccabi team. Klein now feels that the pressure will be off him, so that when he returns he will be able to pick up the coaching position with either Maccabi or any other team which would be interested in his services. There's no question that he's the top coach in Israel, and while his departure for West Germany created quite a stir and irritation to some of the basketball officials, they are willing to forget his tern- porary absence and will welcome him when he returns next year. Copyright 1984, JTA, Inc. Bar-Ilan scientists develop early cancer detection test BY ARNOLD AGES According to the Israeli daily Maariv, scientists working at Bar-Ilan, the country's only uni- versity under religious auspices, have developed an early warning system for cancer detection. Profs. Arieh Weinrib and Motti Deutsch, specialists in physics, are the two men most closely asso- ciated with a new technique that has apparently been perfected to determine an individual's cancer proneness through blood testing. Prof. Weinrib described more specifically the way in which the Bar-Ilan testing method operates. It involves the labeling of lym- phocytes (white blood cells re- sponsible for the body's immune responses) drawn from aggluti- nated blood with a fluorescent marker. Scientists are able to measure the rate at which these lymphocytes move and any devia- tion in their normal trajectory may be indicative of some begin- nings of malignant growth. Iden- tification of abnormal growth at the earliest stage will permit the application of treatment when cancerous cells are in their mic- roscopic incipiency. Part of the Bar-Ilan break- through involves the refining of the machine used for detection purposes and measuring the lym- phocytes. The application of com- puterized technology has vastly accelerated the processing method by which abnormal movement in lymphocytes may be detected. While the old identification procedure was a laborious and time consuming one, the new method developed by Bar-Ilan's researchers will permit testing to cover a much larger number of patients — up to 250 in one day. The new vaccine functions by increasing the level of lympho T cytes in the human organism and thus works in tandem with the body's immune system in its fight against invading malignant bodies. The new vaccine has been tested in Bar-Ilan's biology lab- oratory where animals with tumours were treated with the A.S. 101 vaccine. A 95 percent survival rate was noted among the animals that were injected with the A.S. 101. Another recent discovery at Bar-Ilan focused on a medication developed by Prof. Rekah Beitner which accelerates the healing process in severe burns. Beitner showed a film in which laboratory rats had either been scaled by boiling water or burned by ultra violet rays. Within one hour of the administering of an injection all signs of the burn in- juries of the rats disappeared. The hemoglobin and albumin in the blood serum near the skin's sur- face returned to their normal level and all redness associated with burns disappeared as well. Copyright 1984, JTA Inc. Yom Kippur services slated for Frankfurt Book Fair New York — A North American initiative to provide Yom Kippur services for persons attending the 1984 Frankfurt Book Fair has been undertaken by the JWB Jewish Book Council, with the cooperation and assistance of representatives of the book pub- lishing industry. The Frankfurt Book Fair will take place Oct. 3 to Oct. 8. Oct. 6 is Yom Kippur. The 1984 scheduling, according to a story that appeared in the New York Times last year, drew reactions of "anguish and as- tonishment" from publishers in America, Great Britain, France, Brazil and Israel. Officials of the fair said that they had been unaware of the 1984 date of Yom Kippur and could not reschedule the event. To accommodate persons at the fair who wish to attend Yom Kip- pur services, the JWB Jewish Book Council, in cooperation with the JWB Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy and an ad hoc com- mittee of representatives from the book industry, has arranged for a Yom Kippur service beginning with Kol Nidre prayers before sunset Oct. 5, and continuing throughout Oct. 6. Those who want to attend Yom Kippur services at the fair should contact Ruth S. Frank, director, JWB Jewish Book Council, 15 E. 26th St., New York, N.Y. 10010- 1579, (212) 532-4949. Agora short changed Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel's smallest monetary unit,, the Ag- ora, a tenth of a Shekel, may soon disappear, only five years after it was introduced. Dr. Moshe Man- delbaum, governor of the Bank of Israel, is scheduled to introduce a bill which would abolish the Agora as legal currency. Such a law would only formalize an exist- ing situation since the Agora has not been in use for the past two years.