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Friday, April 5, 1985
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
NEWS
Israel's Elderly
Have A Friend
BY LEORA FRUCHT
Special to The Jewish News
Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel — Ask
anyone in Rosh Ha'ayin how to
find the Mashrakis, and you will
be led to the home of the family
known here as "the people who
take in old folks."
During the past 20 years, 55-
year-old Miriam Mashraki and
her 75-year-old husband Yehuda
have adopted more than 30
people, most of them elderly, and
cared for them as they care for
their own. Their own includes
seven children and four
grandchildren.
Currently, they have eight el-
derly residents living with them
in their apartment here near Tel
Aviv. On Shabbat, there are at
least 15 persons gathered around
the Mashraki table, and on
Passover, there are more than 30.
They are a colorful assortment:
religious and secular, healthy and
handicapped, including two who
are totally blind; some Hebrew-
speaking and a sprinkling of
Yemenite Jews who know only
Arabic. Most come from Rosh
Ha'ayin.
They go to the Mashrakis be-
cause they have no one else. Their
own families either could not or
did not want to care for them, and
they refused to be in-
stitutionalized. One even ran
away from a senior citizens' home,
and a sympathetic rabbi took him
to the Mashrakis.
The Mashrakis' reputation has
spread beyond Rosh Ha'ayin, and
they are deluged with requests
from across Israel. The question is
always the same: Is there room for
one more?
The Mashrakis host one of 60
foster homes for the elderly in Is-
rael. Families nationwide provide
elderly people with room and
board, laundry, medical care,
general help and •companionship,
in return for a monthly stipend of
some $75 per person from Isra•l's
Social Welfare Ministry.
In Israel, most foster homes for
the elderly evolve naturally, in-
volving people who were
neighbors, are distant relatives,
or came from the same European
shtetl.
This closeness is a blessing in
that most foster families are de-
voted to the elderly people they
care for. But there are also dozens
without foster families.
It is for these people that the
Joint Distribution Committee has
been looking into the expansion of
Israel's foster home network. Vir-
tually all of JDC's annual $46.5
million budget, including $11.3
million for Israel, comes from
American Jews through the
United Jewish Appeal/
Community Campaign.
Instead of a few dozen random
cases of good will, foster homes
could function as a large-scale or-
ganized network, says Yossi Kor-
sia, who has been researching the
issue at JDC's Brookdale Insti-
tute of Gerontology in Jerusalem.
Tiny services to match ailing el-
derly with potential foster homes
have begun in Lubbock, Tex., and
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
His report, which has been
submitted to the Social Welfare
Ministry, recommends foster
homes as a viable alternative.
UJA Press Service
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