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THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
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Regardless of the Zionist body to which you belong,
You Can Vote for ZOA—Slate #3, a Platform for All Zionists:
As a ZIONIST, you will be asked, in May 1987, to VOTE for
delegates.to the 31st World Zionist Congress to be held in
Jerusalem in December, 1987.
When you receive the ballot, you can vote with confidence
ZOA SLATE #3
for
Because -
"It is vital that ZOA's image remains instructive and
inspirational at the World Zionist Congress."
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
"If it had not been for the Zionist Organization of
America, there never would have been a State of
Israel."
MAX FISHER
"Since its inception in 1897, the Zionist Organization
of America has upheld the highest traditions of
Zionism and an unquatfied commitment to the Jewish
State espoused by such illustrious leaders as Louis
D. Brandeis, Stephen S. Wise, Abba Hillel Silver and
many others. The Zionist Organization of America
continues to be a major partner and voice in the
rebuilding of the State of Israel."'
DAVID B. HERMEUN
VOTE ZOA
SLATE #3
Zionist Organization of America
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Friday, May 22, 1987
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
television train children never to tamper
with unknown packets. When people sit
down at an outdoor cafe for a relaxing cup
of capuccino, they never know if the bag
on the ground a few feet away is litter or
a half-kilo of black powder waiting to
detonate. Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews in
the religious district of Mea Shearim play
off the fear, calling in phony bomb reports
to heighten the tension.
This is Jerusalem. Everything is politi-
cal. In Jerusalem, this is how enemies
speak to each other: With bombs.
For the Bomb Squad, the politics must
be argued by someone else. They deal with
today. Indeed, barely two hours after the
Jerusalem-Haifa bus explosion, another
report comes over the radio. On a bus on
Jerusalem's main street, Jaffa Road, a shoe
box has been found under a seat.
By the time Shimon arrives, the entire
street has been condoned off. The solitary
bus sits in the empty street, crowds lined
up along its perimeter.
Wearing his protective ensemble,
Shimon enters the bus and determines
what's inside the shoe box. Like a buzzsaw,
the news flashes through the crowd. "Wires
and batteries!"
The police push back the perimeter.
Several side streets are also cordoned off.
The parcel must now be moved outside the
bus to be neutralized.
As the shoe box comes into sight outside
the bus, a woman in a balcony above slams
her shutters. It is now very quiet. Shimon
prepares the parcel for neutralizing. He
races back and forth between his equip-
ment and the shoe box. Now he's ready.
"Is the street clear?" a sapper colleague
yells. "Get them all back."
The police push everyone back even
further.
Silence.
Suddenly, a blast booms through the
street. But it's not the blast of a bomb. It's
the blast of Shimon's equipment. The shoe
box is successfully neutralized. It's a
fake — wires and batteries put together to
resemble a bomb.
Specialists gather all the fragments in-
to plastic bags for immediate laboratory
analysis. Young men with notebooks ap-
pear from nowhere and start taking down
all the details. Just as quickly, they disap-
pear. Israeli intelligence never lingers.
Who did it? It wasn't the police super-
visors, insists a sapper. Supervisors
periodically plant suspicious parcels to test
the squad's reflexes. "If the commanders
did it, we'd know," explains one sapper at
the scene. "There is usually someone
videotaping us and they also inform us
afterwards. Nor was this from Mea
Shearim; they don't go this far. This was
a terrorist." He looks out at the crowd.
"The guy is watching us now," says the
sapper. "The object was to see how we
react, what our techniques are."
Quickly, the barriers come down, the
streets are opened, and little children come
with their mothers to politely wait for the
next bus. Five minutes before, this spot
had been the site of a bomb scare. Now it's
a bus stop again.
And in a corner, surrounded by a group
of his fellow sappers, stands Shimon, try-
ing to maintain his composure, the edges
of his hair dripping with perspiration, a
cigarette shaking between his lips. Squint-
ing back the emotion, Shimon holds up
Mechanics and sappers sift through a
Jerusalem bus. Thirteen passengers were in-
jured by a bomb.
three fingers, and mutters, "Three times I
came close to the box. They just wanted
it to look like a bomb."
As his buddies squeeze his shoulder in
comradeship, as the crowd begins to dis-
perse, as Jerusalem starts to forget this
moment, an old woman approaches
Shimon. She speaks almost inaudibly.
Finally she can be heard: "Kol hakovod,"
she says, "Kol hakovod."
This time Shimon takes notice. 'filming
to her, he replies almost in tears, "Todah"
— In Hebrew, this means "Thank you." D