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Friday, November 8, 1985
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Desert Park Offers
Tourists Nature, Education
BY AVI GOLDSTEIN
Special To The Jewish News
The newly-opened Park
Ramon Visitor's Center and
Machtesh Ramon (Ramon Cra-
ter) in the desert town of Mitzpe
Raman is the largest nature re-
serve in Israel.
We have an area here that
has been largely untouched by
man," says Aryeh Cohen, one of
two rangers at the Machtesh
Ramon Nature Reserve. Forty
kilometers in length, nine
kilometers in width and half- a-
kilometer in depth, Machtesh
Ramon has been carved out by
nature through the ages and its
roots go back five to seven mil-
lion years.
The Park Ramon Visitors'
Center, which has been named
in honor cf the late General
Yekutiel Adam, is an attempt to
harness the natural beauty of
this vast crater and serve it to
the public in usuable portions.
Exhibits and photographs de-
picting Machtesh Ramon and its
development are displayed in
the Center as well as explana-
tions of its history, vegetation
and geology. Fascinating ar-
tifacts from the Canaanite, Na-
batean and Byzantine periods
can be found as well as pictures
showing animals indigenous to
the region, such as ibex, gazel-
les, wolves, foxes and leopards.
The opening of the Visitors'
Center is just the first stage in
the development of the park by
the Nature Reserves Authority,
which is slated to become a focal
point for scientists and tourists
alike. A research and study cen-
ter will provide the resources
and facilities for scientific study
of the area while tourist
facilities will include a much
needed hostel, equivalent to a
three-star hotel, and cafeteria-
restaurant. A library is also to
be established which will con-
dense all the scientific material
connected with Ramon and the
Negev plateau and will be open
to the visitors.
Plans are underway for im-
proving trails within the crater,
which in the future will include
vehicle and walking tours.
Being desert creatures most of
the natural inhabitants of
Machtesh Ramon avoid the hot,
daylight hours, and only appear
during the cooler, nightime
period. For this reason a special
bird and animal watching center
is planned which will make use
of infra-red lighting. In this way
nature lovers will be able to see
without being seen.
Mitzpe Ramon Mayor Shmuel
Cohen is confident that de-
velopments at the park are a
sign of improved economic times
ahead for his community. Al-
ready, in the short time since
the Visitors' Center opened in
mid-January, an average of 200
people per day have come. This
is an astounding figure, says
Ranger Cohen, considering the
geographical isolation of Mitzpe
Ramon.
The soon to be built hostel is
expected to provide work for 30
people. This along with the
planned opening of a metal fac-
tory expected to employ 100
people within a year, will re-
move unemployment as the
major problem facing the town,
says Mayor Cohen. At present,
of Mitzpe Ramon's 4,200 resi-
dents some 300 are unemployed.
World Zionist Press Service
Hoenlein Warns
The Orthodox
New York—Malcolm Hoenlein
told the National Council of
Young Israel last week that the
American Orthodox community
"cannot isolate ourselves from
the rest of the American Jewish
community and hope to thrive."
Hoenlein, who is executive di-
rector of the New York Jewish
Community Relations Council,
quoted current statistics citing
the rapid demographic decline
predicted for the Jewish corn-
munity in the next several de-
cades, despite the high rate of
Orthodox growth. Noting that
"we are one to our enemies —
they didn't check Leon Klinghof-
fer for a yarmulka or tzitzis be-
fore they killed him for being a
Jew," Hoenlein urged the entire
Orthodox community to join
with the non-Orthodox "to form
a consensus on fundamental is-
sues of Jewish survival."
The JCRC leader urged "a
broader agenda for the Orthodox
community to include such is-
sues as services to the elderly
and community stabilization, as
well as mobilizing support for
American aid to Israel and
recognition of Jerusalem as its
capital." He explained that
enemies take maximum advan-
tage of divisions within the
Jewish people. Hoenlein em-
phasized the importance of in-
creased Orthodox involvement
in political and community af-
fairs. He noted the large per-
centage of Jews under 35 who
are not even registered to vote,
and the increased opportunities
for Orthodox Jews to assume
leadership roles in secular
Jewish communal organizations.
Hate Marks
Uruguay Strike
New York — The Jewish
community of Paysandu,
Uruguay has expressed concern
over the emergence of anti-
Semitism during a strike at the
city's Jewish-owned leather fac-
tory, the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith (ADL)
reported last week.
According to the ADL, posters
mounted on the entrance gates
and wall of the factory carried
such slogans as "Hitler was
right: Too bad he is not here."
The Central Jewish Commit-
tee of Uruguay has asked the
nation's unions to denounce the
injection of anti-Semitic prop-
aganda into a dispute between
labor and management.