ISADORE
GLICKSMAN
LEONARD
EDELMAN
Announces the unveil-
ing of a monument in his
memory at 11 a.m., Sun-
day, August 2 at Hebrew
Memorial Park Cemetery.
Rabbi Gordon will of-
ficiate. Relatives and
friends are asked to
attend.
Announces the unveiling of a
monument in his memory on
Sunday, July 26, 1987 at 11
a.m. at Machpelah Cemetery.
Rabbi A. Irving Schnipper
will officiate. Relatives and
friends are asked to attend.
OOTHE FAMIL Y
SUGGESTS -THAT
MEMORIAL
CONTRIBL ITIONS
BE MADE
TO -THE
AMERICAN
CANCER
The Family of the Late
TILLIE
GERMANSKY
Announces the unveil-
ing of a monument in her
memory on Sunday,
August 2 at 10 a.m. at
Cloverhill Cemetery. Rab-
bi Irwin Groner will of-
ficiate. Relatives and
friends are invited to
attend.
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The Family of the Late
ANNA GODFREY
Acknowledges with grateful appreciation the
many kind expressions of sympathy extended by
relatives and friends during the family's recent
bereavement.
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7
Israel Cranks Up U.S. Machine
For 40th Anniversary Celebration
JAMES DAVID BESSER
Special to The Jewish News
T
he Israeli embassy in
Washington recently
announced ambitious
plans for the celebration of
the 40th anniversary of the
founding of the State of
Israel.
The embassy, according to
spokesmen, will coordinate
the year-long celebration,
which will begin in
September, 1987. The goal is
to bring the message of
Israeli achievement into
every nook and cranny of
America through traveling
exhibits, performing arts
festivals, symposia, pro-
grams in the public schools,
and prime-time television
specials.
"The emphasis will be on
getting as many Americans
as possible involved in these
activities," said Asher
Naim, Information Minister
for the embassy. "And not
only Jews; we are very in-
terested in getting our
message across to every
religious and ethnic group
in American society."
That message, Naim said,
has several components.
First is the idea of the uni-
que bonds between the
Jewish people and the land
of Israel. "Only when people
return to Israel do they
redeem the land," Naim
said, "and the Jewish people
can be redeemed only
through the redemption of
the land. This is something
we hope to make much more
clear to the people of the
United States."
The second theme of the
celebration will be the
achievements of the first 40
years of the reborn nation.
Primary among those
achievements, Naim said, is
the fusing of more than 125
distinct communities with
98 languages into a single
people; a people unified in
their commitment to the
idea of Israel, if not always
in their views on how that
commitment should be ex-
pressed.
Another focus will be the
continuing friendship bet-
ween the United States and
Israel, a relationship that
has proven strong enough to
weather everything from
the oil crisis of 1973 to the
Pollard affair. This friend-
ship, Naim stresses, is at the
root of Israel's modern
development. At the same
time, it is an important part
of American culture. "We
need to point out the ways
the concept of Israel is in-
grained in the American
consciousness:' he said.
Finally, the festivities will
offer a special message for
the American Jewish com-
munity: don't take Israel for
granted. "Israel needs
nourishment," Nairn said.
"If you lose Israel, you will
lose something vital to your
lives. Personally, I believe
that if we lose it, the Jews
will be finished."
The mechanisms for the
anniversary celebration are
already being developed.
Every Jewish federation and
organization in America is
being asked to established
40th anniversary commit-
tees. Many non-Jewish
groups are being encourag-
ed to do the same. The em-
bassy, Naim said, will serve
primarily as a resource
center, offering "menus"
with a range of possible ac-
tivities for local groups.
"Getting into the schools
is particularly important to
us,' Naim said. "We are go-
ing to the school systems
themselves and to the
teachers unions; we very
much want to see Israel dis-
cussed in social science
classes." Teachers' kits will
be distributed, and many
schools will be visited by
traveling exhibits depicting
Israeli society. There will
also be essay contests in all
50 states, with winners from
each state receiving a free
trip to Israel.
There will be a heavy em-
phasis on increasing
tourism in Israel during the
year-long celebration. Accor-
ding to Naim, many Jewish
federations are currently
organizing anniversary
trips; the embassy, he says,
is encouraging these groups
to organize similar tours for
their non-Jewish neighbors.
Also being planned are a
number of "encounters" in
larger cities, including a
presentation on Israeli
theater in San Francisco, an
Israeli dance symposium in
Chicago and a session on
music in New York. There
will also be more modest
productions by traveling
groups of performers in
smaller cities and towns
across the country.
"We are going to the
school systems themselves
and to the teachers unions;
we very much want to see
Israel discussed in social
science classes." Teachers'
kits will be distributed, and
many schools will be visited
by traveling exhibits depic-
ting Israeli society. There
will also be essay contests in
all 50 states, with winners
from each state receiving a
free trip to Israel.
There will be a heavy em-
phasis on increasing
tourism in Israel during the
year-long celebration. Accor-
ding to Naim, many Jewish
federations are currently
organizing anniversary
trips; the embassy, he says,
is encouraging these groups
to organize similar tours for
their non-Jewish neighbors.
Also being planned are a
number of "encounters" in
larger cities.
Finally, the embassy is
working on a two-hour net-
work television program to
be aired on April 23, 1988,
a glittery gathering of some
of the most important talent
in Israel and the United
States.
Naim emphasized that
local groups are being en-
couraged to develop their
own programs, a fact which
is expected to result in con-
siderable variety.
Naim points out that the
40th anniversary has
special significance for
Israel. In Jewish tradition,
forty years represents a full
generation. "And we are
confronting-a new genera-
tion," he says, "the people
who never experienced a
world without Israel. So for
this new generation, we
want to stress the fact that
Israel is not just another
country, but it has a central
place in Jewish survival:'
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°1'1 'ml NEWS 1'1'
Poor Scores
For Israelis
Jerusalem — Israeli high
school students in their 12th
(final) year who are not study-
ing science have been shown
to have the lowest level of
achievement in scientific
knowledge of students in the
comparable grade level in
nine advanced countries, a
survey taken at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
shows.
The achievement of Israeli
12th graders who were taking
science subjects during that
year were shown, however, to
be average to good,