I RANDOM SAMPLE I A Sabra Scout Returns To Israel NECHEMIA MEYERS Special to The Jewish News R Is Your Doctor a Sinai Doctor? Not all Sinai doctors are Jewish. But they've all got seychel, and they know how to treat you like a mensch. It's not easy to join the Sinai Medical Staff. Applicants have to complete an accredited residency program in a med- ical specialty. They're expected to be cer- tified by the national examining board in that specialty. Their credentials are scru- tinized by other physicians in their own and related fields before they are rec- ommended for appointment by the Board. of Trustees. More than 300 members of Sinai's Medical Staff are on the faculty of the medical schools at Wayne State Univer- sity or the University of Michigan or the dental school at the University of Detroit. We at Sinai get a lot of naches from our medical staff. If your doctor is not a member of the Sinai Hospital medical staff, ask yourself one question—and ask your doctor, too: WHY NOT? If you don't have a doctor, or are look- ing for a specialist, call our Physician Referral Service. We'll be happy to make a shidduch. 1-800-248-DOGS (1-800-248-3627) THIS IS SINAI Michigan's Only Jewish Hospital Advertising in The Jewish News Gets Results Place Your Ad Today. Call 354-6060 FIGHT THE BIG "F"... Fruit be Gift Baskets "Since 1940" ALL Occasions Nationwide Delivery JUST CALL FIJOITURE FADING SOLAR SALES, INC 537-7900 Authorized Dealer/Applicator Sun Control Products 22 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1988 ehovot — Anat Banin, a 20-year-old Sabra who spent most of her life in the United States, is hoping to convince many other children of yordim that they should follow her back to Israel. More specifically, she hopes they will join her at this coun- try's youngest kibbutz, Har Amasah, an isolated Negev settlement now populated by three score graduates of the Israeli Scouts. Anat was also a member of the Israel Scouts but, unlike the other people at Har Amasah, she belonged to their U.S. affiliate, the Sabra Scouts. That organization was set up several years ago by former Israeli Scouts who were studying in the States and wanted to help the children of yordim retain their links to Israel. Anat's troop was in the San Francisco Bay area, and had some 100 members. There are troops in several other urban areas, with the largest, logically enough, in the places where most ex-Israelis are located, namely Los Angeles and New York. In all, the Sabra Scouts have a total membership of some 1,500 boys and girls. Meetings of their troops are held in Hebrew and give Sabras "in exile" an oppor- tunity to keep up with Israeli songs, books, sports and fads. As is the case with the scouts in this country, members are recruited in the 4th grade and can continue in the move- ment through the end of high school. Afterwards, Ameri- can-Israeli Scouts either come back to this country, take up leadership positions or leave the movement. Most, to be sure, don't immediately board a plane bound for Tel Aviv, but some 100 graduates of the Sabra Scouts have already returned, most of them to join army units like their counter- parts here. Anat, one of those 100, has a typical story to tell. Her parents first went to America on a temporary basis. Her father wanted to earn his master's degree in Computer Science at the University of California. Then he decided to do doctoral work, after which — having gained some practical experience in a Silicon Valley firm — he would return home. Indeed, the family has been on the verge of coming back to Israel almost every summer, but their sojourns here, so far at least, have always been temporary. Nevertheless, Anat's par- ents were supportive when, on graduating from high school in Palo Alto, she decid- ed to do what they had only talked about doing. And in all likelihood, she will soon be joined by her brother, 18-year- old Yo ay. NEWS limm"mi Koor Employers Face Layoffs Aviv (JTA) — Rescuing the giant Histadrut-owned Koor industrial complex from bankruptcy will cost 6,000 to 7,000 jobs over the next two years, according to news reports here this week. The planned layoffs reportedly are a key element of the economic and financial recovery plan Koor submitted recently to the Finance Ministry and the Israeli banks that are its largest creditors. But Chaim Haberfeld, head of Histadrut's trade unions department, disputed the job loss figure. He said the number of layoffs in the first year of the recovery plan would be closer to 2,000. Koor, the largest single employer in Israel and one of the country's major exporters, estimates a loss of about $140 million in 1988. It forecasts a return to the black by 1990. 'Israel In Good Hands' New Orleans (JTA) — Israel can be confident it will be treated well by the new American administration and U.S. Congress elected two weeks ago, according to one of the most respected Jewish political lobbyists on Capitol Hill. "We expect the 101st Con- gress to be the most pro-Israel ever," Thomas Dine told thousands of delegates atten- ding the General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federa- tions here. Dine, who directs the American Israel Public Af- fairs Committee, spoke at a forum on the implications of the U.S. and Israeli elections for Middle East peace.