•

Lebanon Clash
Injures Nine

Tel Aviv (JTA) — One ex-
,' plosive-laden terrorist was
blown to smithereens and
nine Israeli soldiers were
wounded in a clash near the
ruins of the Crusader-era
Beaufort Castle in the
southern Lebanon security
zone.
One of the soldiers suffered
medium wounds; the others
were slightly hurt.
The clash occurred when
an Israel Defense Force
paratroop brigade en-
countered four armed mem-
bers of the Islamic funda-
- mentalist group Hezbollah
as the brigade was sweeping
the hilltop area.
The Israeli troops opened
fire on the four, and their
commander hit one of them.
The injured man hit the
ground but continued to fire
on the Israelis from that
position.
A second shot hit the
man's knapsack, which con-
tained explosives that the
terrorists had apparently in-
tended to plant on the road.
He was blown to bits by the
ensuing explosion.
The blast also wounded the
_ IDF men, who were only
about 3 feet away.
The Israeli commander,
Capt. Zohar of Jerusalem,
--- gave his account of the inci-
\ dent. The 23-year-old patrol
1 commander said his men
had noticed a gang of four
armed men creeping
through the underbrush and
opened fire on them.
"I hit one of the terrorists
with two shots at a range of
several meters," he said.
Capt. Zohar himself was
wounded in the eye and his
face burned. But his men
had warm praise for the
manner in which their unit
commander "continued
calmly to give orders and
help direct reinforcements to
the spot. He refused to let
the medic treat him until all
his men had been seen to."
Capt. Zohar had high
praise for the unit medic,
Corp. Itai Friedman of Car-
miel, who, despite being
wounded in the eye and arm,
ran back and forth treating
his wounded comrades.
As usual, Hezbollah
claimed a great victory in its
reports on the operation. The
group said one of its mem-
o bers had been sent on a
suicide mission, blowing
himself up near an IDF pat-
rol and wounding 18 Israeli
soldiers in the process.
There was no word on
what happened to the re-
maining three Hezbollah
men.

THE
SYNAGOGUE
CAMPUS
OF LIVING
JUDAISM
•

LARRY and LOIS NICHAMIN

L

arry Nichamin was born in the city of Detroit and
attended Brady Elementary School, Hutchins School
and Central High School, followed by the Detroit Institute of
Technology.
A heart attack suffered by his father Alex forced him to cut
short his higher education and go into the family business —
Progressive Linen Service. Larry continued in the business until
the war years. In 1942 he joined the Air Force where he taught
map-reading and aerial photo interpretation. He met Lois
Finkelstein in 1944 while on leave in Detroit for the Jewish
holidays. They married in June of 1945. After his discharge in
December, Larry continued in the linen business, raising it to
new levels of success.
"From my father alav hashalom I learned devotion to work,
to family, to the Jewish community and, above all, to Israel,"
recalls Mr. Nichamin. His father was an extremely active
member in the Labor Zionist movement; he raised and donated
large amounts of funds for various causes connected with
Israel.
So extensive were his father's charitable commitments, that
when Larry took over the business after his father's demise, he
found himself in charge of charitable allocations of over $1,000
a month, all of them dedicated to Israeli causes — and this in
the early 1950s, when a thousand dollars was a huge amount.
Declares Nichamin: When my grandfather came to the
United States, to Detroit, he founded the Nusach H'Ari shul,
because that particular kind of shul reflected his Lubavitch
heritage. My father continued that tradition; he too was a
Lubavitcher. Those are my roots. But roots alone are not
enough. We need thriving, young, relevant Judaism, and this is
what the Chabad people of today are doing. I am convinced
that the perpetuity of our people's heritage for my children and
grandchildren lies with Lubavitch."

JOIN

for the

ANNUAL LUBAVITC11
FOUNDATION DINNER

Benefiting the

Synagogue Campus
of Living Judaism

Sunday, September 20, 1992

Elul 22, 5752

The Grand Manor at Fairlane

Guest Speaker

Elie Wiesel

Nobel Laureate, Author and
Human Rights Activist

IN MEMORIAM

a

Dinner Chairman

Florine Mark

President, Weight Watchers Group

"This dedication
and love for our
people and
humanity in
general that the
Lubavitchers
exemplify made
me want to learn
more, so I went
to New York to a
farbrengen. That
was an expe-
Bentzion Rosen
rience the likes of
which I'd never had in my life. Tears came to
my eyes with the singing and the joy of the
occasion. I knew then that no matter what
happens there is always someone who cares
for me, and that is Lubavitch."

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