150 Friday, September 13, 1985 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year
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to all
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Mr. & Mrs. Sam Flatt,
Donna & Ami
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Steven Jacobs
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May the coming year be
one filled with health,
happiness and
prosperity for all our
friends and family.
May the coming year be
one filled with health,
happiness and
prosperity for all our
friends and family.
Mr. & Mrs. Morris J. Flatt
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NEWS
Olim: Hardship
And Success
Jerusalem — One of Israel's
bravest chapters was undoub-
tedly written in the five years
after the state was established
when a population of 600,000
absorbed an equal number of
immigrants, the majority of
whom arrived destitute.
Most of these new immig-
rants, who came from the dis-
placed persons camps of Europe,
as well as from hostile North
African and Middle Eastern
lands, were accommodated for
periods ranging from between
six months and five years in
ma'abarot (transition camps).
Some camps were small and
consisted of several hundred
immigrants who were quickly
moved to agricultural settle-
ments or alternative urban
apartment houses.
But many were huge,
refugee-like camps with
thousands upon thousands of
residents who lived at first in
tents or tin huts, and later in
wooden shacks or asbestos pre-
fab housing units containing one
or two rooms.
The population suffered se-
verely from overcrowding, in-
adequate facilities, lack of em-
ployment and resultant social
problems.
At first, meals were provided
at the camp for all the immig-
rants, but this proved to be too
demoralizing and other systems
were introduced.
The Jewish National Fund,
which financed the ma'abarot,
and later the fledging Israeli
Government were afraid that
the camps might foster. an un-
productive, underprivileged
population and made efforts,
both privately and publicly, to
prevent this.
Veteran citizens opened their
homes to the newcomers, while
volunteers taught Hebrew to the
children and to the adults.
Meanwhile, the government
embarked on a massive building
campaign to construct perma-
nent housing for the immigrants
and, indeed, 78,000 units were
completed between 1948 and
1951, a remarkable achievement
for the tiny, struggling state.
But still, there was only one
room for every four newcomers.
About 100,000 people lived in
ma'abarot in 1949. By 1951, al-
though 400,000 new immigrants
had found permanent housing,
250,000 were still living in 23
transition camps throughout the
land.
By 1954, the policy changed
and immigrants were sent di-
rectly to settlements from the
ships or planes they arrived in.
However, even in 1958, there
were still 20,000 families in
ma'abarot.
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Les, Marcia, Yale, Mitch,.David & Chris
Despite the difficulties, people
who experienced life in the
transition camps remember the
visionary and communal spirit
which characterized the atmos-
phere, and the idealism and
comradeship which flourished
there.
Most of the former meabara
settlers have gone 'on to become
valuable members of Israeli
society and some are today lead-
ers in various fields — in poli-