78 Friday, February 1, 1985 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS N NEWS In loving memory of Silos Used In Negev Could Help Alleviate Worldwide Famine 53—ENTERTAINMENT PIANO BAR ENTERTAINMENT You plan the party, I'll bring my own piano and hundreds of tunes. Sing-a-long! Dancing! All Your Requests. JEFF LINDAU, Piano-Song Stylist 646-9531 eves. 54—CEMETERY LOTS ONE LOT available at Machpelah cemetery. $450. 356-5298. ARTHUR KLEE ESTHER GASTMAN Who passed away five years ago, Feb. 2, 1980. Never forgotten, always in our hearts and minds. Sadly missed by loving wife, Lily; daughters, Rosetta and Brenda; and grandchildren. Sadly missed and forever in our hearts. Your loving family. BY HUGH ORGEL Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israeli economists and agricultural re- searchers hope that a thaw in the cool relations between Israel and Egypt may revive plans for a joint venture which could help relieve famine in various parts of the world such as the one causing hundreds of thousands of deaths in Ethiopia. The joint venture was based on the use of an Israeli invention de- veloped four years ago and al- ready in use in the Negev for the long-term storage of grains. In Israel, this approach to grain storage is used for stocking im- ported grains. The Israel-Egypt plan, discussed but never im- plemented, - would preserve surplus stock for eventualities such as the Ethiopian famine. The Israeli invention, a product of the Volcani Center for Agricul- tural Research at Bet Dagon near Tel Aviv, is a huge plastic tent- like structure supported on a thick wire mesh. The plastic is the same used to protect Israel's com- bat tanks from the broiling sun. The plastic silos •began as an experiment utilizing dry desert conditons to preserve grain stocks without pesticides. Wheat stored in the plastic silos has deter- iorated by only one-tenth of one percent over two years. According to the data available to Israeli experts, the Ethiopians use pesticides. But rodents, in- sects and mold are said to destroy up to 50 percent of grain stored each season. The secret of Israel's success, according to Jonathan Donohay, of th Volcani Center, is that it is air-tight. "You get a form of hermetic storage where, if there are insects -- and generally there are insects present — or if some of the outer layers of the grain become a bit damp due to moisture ingress and mold starts to develop, you get production of carbon dioxide, and so you get low oxygen concentra- tions and high carbon dioxide con- centrations that are eventually sufficient to kill off the insects — and so you get a sort of self- sterilization effect." Like much of Africa, Israel im- ports most of its grain. But unlike the African countries, Israel has silos around the country for stor- In loving memory of In loving memory of be- loved Wife, Mother and Grandmother MARIANNE HOROWITZ Who passed away on Feb. 3, 1983. Sadly missed and forever in our hearts. JDC aid to famine victims, like those in Ethiopia, pictured above, could be cut drastically with the use of Israeli silos in hunger stricken countries. age, and has an efficient road and trucking system for distribution. The man in charge of the import of essential foods into Israel is Meir Yagil, of the Ministry of Trade and Industry. He main- tains that food shortages can be predicted six months in advance; the famine in Ethiopia was fore- seen three years before it mate- rialized. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FOA) had issued warnings well in advance and has since warned of other food shortages ikely to occur elsewhere in the world. But as so often happens, the warnings were disregarded until it was too late. Yagil says that with the first indication of crop failures, coun- tries like Ethiopia could avert disaster by trucking the Israeli- invented plastic silos into crisis areas where they could be assem- bled and filled with grain stocks to act as a buffer against the lean years. Even though it does not need to truck silos around the country, Is- rael does use the plastic tents. They cost only about $20 per ton of storage capacity and they can be used year after year. A concrete silo, of the type familiar through- out the world, costs hundreds of dollars a ton to build. Israel presently has 30 of the 1,000-ton capacity plastic silos for grain storage in the southern Kiryat Gat region. Zvi Dromi, manager of the southern storage area, helped develop the new silos and he will probably be sent abroad to help set up any that are exported. He claims that the reason Israel has not yet exported the plastic silos is that other countries do not know about them. Dromi says: "We haven't got the right system to market them because that costs a lot of money and I can't send anyone around the world on a marketing tour." He says that to feed eight mil- lion people in a place like Ethiopia, 300 plastic silos are re- quired for each 1,000 tons. "You can use each silo two or_ three times a year. but you don't have to wait for all 300. You can start with something like 50, and even that small number would help the starving people of Ethiopia or those who may starve in the fu- ture in other pfedictable famines." Dromi says that to prepare and ship 50 silos to Ethiopia, and then set them up at the needy sites, would take no more than three months. It was the cooling-off of rela- tions on the part of the Egyptians which shelved the joint venture idea. Volcani researchers hope that now that the "freeze" appears to be coming to an end, the idea may be revived and implemented. The famine in Ethiopia may not be the last shortage in Asia and Africa. Others are predicted. Is- rael is ready with its plastic silos to store the surpluses of fat years to feed the hungry in the lean years. memory of KENNETH S MOSS You are always in our hearts, very much missed and loved by loving wife, Edee; children, Larry (Jean), Jerry (Mimi), Nicky (Bruce); and grand- children. In Loving Memory of Send Someone Special a Gift 52 Weeks a Year. ABE WARSHAWSKY Send a gift subscription to Feb. 4, 1979 (13th of Shevat) THE JEWISH NEWS! ADL Praises U.S. Action On Lockheed Bias New York (JTA) — The Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) last week com- mended the U.S. Commerce De- partment for its handling of the Lockheed Corporation's violation of the anti-discrimination pro- visions of the Export Administra- tion Act. The ADL had earlier brought the violation of the atten- tion of the Department. Abraham Foxman, ADL's asso- ciate national director and head of its International Affairs Division, said the ADL had informed the Commerce Department that a Lockheed subsidiary, Lockheed- EMSCO of Houston, posted an internal job notice for research chemists in Saudi Arabia which stipulated: "The customer has stated no Jewish applicants or women would be acceptable." Under the terms of a consent agreement announced on Jan. 18, Lockheed was fined $10,000 and stripped of its export privileges to Saudi Arabia for a one-year period. In praising Commerce's action, Foxman declared that "it is a clear re-affirmation of the Depart- ment's determination to combat Arab boycott activity, including religious discrimination against Americans." In Always will be remem- bered by Sy and Geraldine and daughters Edith, Sonja, Lillian and Delores, and grandchildren. are house calls a thing of the past?? OF COURSE NOT L t The Jewish News visit your home or that of a friend or relative each week. 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