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Tanks And Friends
For Two Volunteers
BY SHERI PICKOVER
Special to The Jewish News
I think everybody likes to feel
as if they're doing something
important and worthwhile, We
went to Israel hoping we could
be helpful and contribute."
These are the sentiments of
Syma Kroll and Sharon Mus-
covitz Newman, who this
•
winter, went to Israel and
served as volunteers in the Is-
raeli Army.
The Ann Arbor women served
as civilian volunteers from Dec.
17 - Jan. 9. According to New-
man, the program "sounded like
something I wanted to do for Is-
rael and myself."
Volunteers For Israel began
in 1982, shortly after the start
of the war with Lebanon. Kroll
said the program usually runs
for four weeks and was origi-
nally developed because Israel
needed people to harvest the
crops. Eventually the program
grew and evolved. Today, it
helps the Israeli Army save
$450,000 a year.
Kroll and Newman were the
first civilians to be assigned to
their army base. Their work
cleaning tank parts, "enabled
them (the Israeli Army) to use
parts over and over again so
they could salvage more parts,"
Kroll said.
Both Kroll and Newman had
been 'to Israel before. "I wanted
Syma Kroll
have to do it day after day and
month after month."
The women discovered that
the majority of workers at the
base were civilians, along with
people serving in the reserves
and those serving their first
tour of active duty.
Summing up her experience,
Kroll emphasized the response
of the people. "They seemed so
genuinely touched that we cared
enough about them and weren't
isolated." she said. "We laughed
for three weeks. We had so
many wonderful, bizarre funny
things happen."
Those experiences included
language mistakes and the fact
that every time they heard the
radio and asked what was going
'on, a translator always said
"nothing."
Kroll felt that one of the rea-
sons she needed to go to Israel
"was a sense of being there and
trying to transmit to the Israelis
that they'ie not alone. I did be-
come aware of how unaware Is-
raelis are that we care very de-
eply here.'"'It was the one time I
really felt part of the country."
Newman said.
Both the physical and emo-
tional impact of the trip left a
lasting impresson on the
women. Newman described their
Sharon Newman
living quarters as a barrack,
with four cots to a room. On the
to go, not as a tourist, but in a
day they arrived, the army pre-
norman situation," Kroll said. "I
wanted to do something for Is- sented them with roses, but the
weather presented them with
rael."
The women applied to Volun- torrential rain.
The four women in each room
teers for Israel, headquartered
shared one, key, with no dupli-
in New York. They sent letters
of recommendation and were cates. They used a community
called to New York for an inter- bathroom and traded the uni-
view. After they were approved, forms they found on their beds
they flew to New York where until they found ones that fit.
they were given their plane tic- Otherwise, they had to .go to a
kets to Israel. Part of the cost supply room and try on new uni-
for their planefare was sub- forms behind cardboard" boxes.
sidized by the Israeli govern-' Both women found the experi-
ence very amusing.
nient.
"We had no idea where we
The first night, the volunteers
were going when we arrived," were introduced to the officers
Newman said. An IDF represen- at the base. Throughout their
tative met them at the airport stay, they ,w'ere provided with
and directed them to their base. bus tours; 'lea-urea on military
According to Kroll, "We bring in procedures and home hospitality
a. burst of energy and do short- during Shabbat. Both Newman
term, unskilled labor far more and Kroll have relatives in Is-
efficiently than the people who rael, and they were also visited
.