• 14 •C> 47 • t:7 ♦ • 0 a 0 Announcing .. The Bruce Weiss New Year's Jewelry Sale! Some Small Articles Can Make Big News CARL ALPERT Special to The Jewish News I t's the little items at the bottom of the page, or buried away where few people read them, that often make the real news from Israel. In recent months, for example: They Don't Thy Around — Tilton Toys, an Israeli com- pany, signed a contract to sell toys to one of the largest toy companies in the world, in Hong Kong. Toy exports from Israel totalled about $15 million last year, up from $12 million in 1986. They Grow Up to Throw Stones — Infant mortality among Arabs on the West Bank dropped from 84 to 27 per thousand over the past 20 years, according to Prof. Trude Cohen of the Beilinson Hospital's Center for Genetic Diseases. Kosher A Strictly Christmas — The Elite Chocolate factory products are certified as strictly kosher by the Orthodox rabbinical court, Badatz. Last December their production included 440 tons of Chanukah chocolate coins and 230 tons of chocolate Santa Claus figures. Business is Business — The market in central Israel is be- ing flooded with attractive, colorful kippot, knitted skull caps, which are the hallmark of the younger religious generation. Demand is said to exceed the supply, even though the knitters, the women of the Arab village of Dir Nizam, are working around the clock. Kibbutz Headache — In 1987 about 2,000 adult members of the United Kib- butz Movement, more than half of them under 30, quit their kibbutzim. That number exceeded the number of new members who joined the kibbutzim by 509. Unexpected By-Product — As a result of the frequent curfews imposed on Arab villages in the occupied areas, the birth rate there has been rising. As on observer ex- plained it: If a husband and wife are locked up indoors for 24, 48 or 96 hours, they're not going to spend all their time reading books. Proposed solu- tion: impose a curfew on Jewish towns and villages as well. What Do They Talk About? — Israel is twelfth on a list of countries which receive telephone calls from the U.S. Heading the list are Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, Ger- many, Spain, Japan and France. However, Israel leads in calls per capita. Is This Normalization? — Israeli tourist traffic to Egypt continues to run in the thousands, whereas Egyptian tourists are few and far bet- ween. On the other hand, Egyptian exports to Israel are far more than their imports. Egypt sells Israel oil, copper crafts, office furniture, pic- tures, hand-woven wall carpets and other small items. Israel sends Egypt fer- tilized poultry eggs, baby chicks, irrigation equipment and feed for live stock. Who Says There is No Aliyah From New York? — Statistics from the Israel Con- sulate in New York reveal that in 1985 there were 76 live olim from that area, and an additional 387 bodies of deceased New York Jews sent to Israel for burial. In 1986 the New York olim (the live ones), numbered 63. Bodies for burial were 378. Comment unnecessary. Israel's Medical Problem — No, it's not the doctors who are to blame — look at the pa- tients. Under Israel's system of semi-socialized medicine, the average Israeli sees his doctor 8.4 times a year. That's 50 percent more often that the average Swiss, 75 percent more than the average American, 133 percent more than Canadians, and 320 per- cent more than the average Swede. Black Humor — A new ver- sion of predictions for Israel's future is making the rounds. What's the difference bet- ween an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist in Israel studies Arabic. A pessimist studies Persian. And Then They Grow Up — A survey of pupils in the fourth grade in Israel schools revealed that 87 percent of the youngsters like arithmetic. Arab Mothers Complain — A member of the Knesset reported that when he visited some Arab villages not long ago, the mothers complained that the Jews had undermin- ed their ability to discipline their children. He was perplexed, and they explain- ed: "When our child would refuse to eat, or to go to bed on time, we used to warn them that the Jews would come and kidnap them. Now when we say that to them, they just laugh in our face!" • Promise Yourself To Save Up To 40 010 D • You pledge to loose weight . . .you vow to quit smoking . . . but when was the last time you kept your promise . . . and kept 40% in your pocket? 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