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Jewish hospitals as an "in-
vestment" that could not be
justified without sufficient "re-
turn," in the form of measura-
ble benefits to Jews. And that
there were such practical bene-
fits could be heard, too: "When
you do it better," says Fore-
man, referring to difficult med-
ical procedures that a large
teaching hospital perfects on a
diverse patient load, "you
learn to do it better for your
own people."
But as Foreman recreates
those meetings from the 1970s
at which the future course of
Jewish hospitals may have
been set for years to come, he
makes you believe that there
was something else at work,
too: tzedakah. "This is our in-
stitution," Foreman has the
group resolving. "It's for the
community, the whole com-
munity. And it ought to be the
best." That was why Jewish
hospitals were worth support
by Jews. And that decision,
says Foreman today, "makes
me proud."

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Certainly, he agrees, Jewish
hospitals grew out of another
era. "And no one would wit-
tingly create an institution
today that was for another era.
But, he says, "it's not a ques-
tion of whether we should build
Jewish hospitals now. It's
whether we should maintain
the ones we've got." Jews are
accepted today, and comforta-
bly situated, their attention
not so monopolized by matters
of bare survival. "The view is
very different when you get out
of the foxhole and begin to
walk upright," he says. And
that new perspective frees
Jews to see further, more
broadly, more humanely.
"The first purpose of a
Jewish hospital is not to be
Jewish," declares Foreman.
"It's to care for the sick."

aifa — Observance of
the 100th birthday of
David Ben-Gurion has
drawn from dusty archives and
from faithful memories a good
many hitherto unknown or
forgotten stories to add to the
rich archive of Ben-Gurionana.
We learn also of episodes in the
early history of the state,
which have not always been
recorded in full. Such, for
example, ensued from a meet-
ing of the Haifa chapter of
Hadassah, addressed not long
ago by Paul Shulman. A bit of
additional research on our own
part helped to fill in the story.
Late in 1941, soon after the
attack on Pearl Harbor, David
Ben-Gurion visited the Con-
necticut home of a distin-
guished Zionist family, the
Shulmans. Their young son,
Paul, was on home leave from
his studies at Annapolis, and
made an impressive appear-
ance in his navy cadet's uni-
form. The visitor from Pales-
tine told the lad that when the
Jewish state came into exist-
ence, it would have need for
personnel with his training.
Paul spoke up. He expressed
the wish that the new state
would have a fine navy, but as
for him, he was not a candi-
date. He had signed up in the
U.S. navy, and that was to be
his career.
The years went by, and the
Annapolis graduate saw serv-
ice against the Japanese
aboard a warship in the
Pacific. Upon his release he be-_

came involved in furnishing
help to the underground ac-
tivity for the Jewish homeland.
It required a great deal of op-
timism to think of a Jewish
navy in those days, but this
was the field that Shulman
knew best. He was instrumen-
tal in purchasing ships for
transport of "illegal" immig-
rants to Palestine, but he also
sized up the vessels with an eye
to their possible transforma-
tion later for naval use.
The state was established,
and the navy was created, a
few motorboats and some of the
immigrant runners. Someone
was needed to organize the op-
eration. Nobody from the kib-
butzim and nobody from the
cafes of Tel Aviv had had any
officer experience at sea, or had
been through naval combat,
and so Paul Shulman was
named first commander-in-
chief (or admiral, if you wish)
of the fledgling Israel navy.
This was the first time in the
naval history of the United
States that an officer rose in
rank from lieutenant to admi-
ral in only three years.
The early days of the world's
newest navel "fleet" were
marked by a considerable
amount of reliance on re-
sourcefulness, imagination
and improvisation, and the re-
sults were at times precedent-
shattering.
During a period in 1948,
when the Arab and Israel
armed forces were bound by
the terms of a U.N.-imposed
truce, three ships of the Egyp-
tian navy attempted to block-
ade the coast, Shulman re-
called. The Israel commander