THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, September 13, 1985

tics, entertainment, industry,
government service and in the
academic world.
Devorah Batat remembers
well when she arrived in Israel
in 1951 with her widowed
mother and two sisters. They
left their comfortable five-room
home to join 123,500 other Iraqi
immigrants in a mass aliyah
which practically ended the an-
cient Jewish community of
Babylon.
They lived in a transition
camp in Persia with thousands
of other potential immigrants

May the coming

May the coming

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

year be filled

year be filled

Ruth & Jerry Iskow

with health and

with health and

happiness for

happiness for

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

all our family

all our family

Fred & Beverly Kandel

and friends

and friends

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

The Nadlers,

Simon & Esther Tabachnik

Joyce, Bill, Kasi & Robin

Arthur & Irene Kepes

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

Lauren, Alan, Melissa &
Meredith Koenigsberg

•Mr. & Mrs. Max Drew & Family

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Frank

Alice & Max Kushner

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

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Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness

Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness

Devorah Batat

until they obtained an exit per-
mit which would allow them to
'go to Israel. It was in Persia
that they received their first
taste of camp life.
"We slept on mattresses and
there were only a few public
bathrooms and faucets for
everyone," recalls Devorah
Batat.
In the camp "false" families
were organized: young people,
widows and small families were
attached to larger ones to
facilitate the aliyah process and
to fully utilize the few available
exit permits.
Finally, a few days before the
Jewish festival of Shavuot, the
Batat family, plus two extra
"sons," were flown to Israel. It
was a very emotional day in
their lives. They were processed
at an immigrant camp in Atlit,
where they underwent medical
examinations, and then were
sent to the ma'abara at Beit Lid,
near Netanya, where they lived
for the next 18 months.
At first, all the food supplies
were distributed and the family
had to learn how to use mar-
garine and cook fillet. Later, the
immigants received coupons
which could be redeemed for
food of their choice in local
shops or in Netanya.
Devorah's mother had the
foresight to bring a petilya (par-
afin burner) and they were
among the first who were able
to cook a pot of soup or -make
hot tea.
Devorah was then 15 —' her
older sister was 17 and a
younger one was 12 — and suf-

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Wishing all our family and
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Wishing all our family and
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health and happiness

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Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness

Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
. health and happiness

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Wishing all our family and
friends a year of
health and happiness

Sol & Ruthe Zogut, Jacqueline, Diane & Robed

Bill & Ann Zimmerman

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