"FABULOUS FIFTIES" TRAVEL GROUP

(40's, 50's, 60's, etc. . .)

PREMIERE GROUP DEPARTURE FOR SINGLE TRAVELERS

In conjunction with "PRINCESS CRUISES" on
selected 1993 dates

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• Round trip jet flights via scheduled airlines.
• Round trip airport transfers from your home to
YOUR HOSTS: THE FAMILY JACOBS
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OCEAN FRONT, 2469 COLLINS AVENUE
MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA 33140
• Round trip airport transfers in Miami to hotel and
All rooms waterfront or oceanview
baggage handling.
• Sugar and Salt Free Diet • Free Chaise Lounges • Soft • All tips included. No additional tipping.
Ice Cream or Yogurt Served Daily Poolside • Tea Room
• All taxes included.
Service Nice Daily • Weekly Cocktail Parties • Planned
Entertainment Daily and Every Night. Shows, Music • All rooms: 2 beds — private tub and shower, color
cable TV, waterview, ice water, walk-in closet, A/C,
and Dancing, Variety, Concerts, Champagne Hour.
direct dial telephone.
Oneg Shabbat, Bingo • Two Magnificent Sightseeing
Tours • Religious Services Daily in our own Synagogue. • Full breakfast and dinner daily.
Rabbinical Supervision. Resident Mashgiach.
Three meals, Saturday.
DEC. 22-JAN. 26, 1993
JAN. 26-FEB. 23, 1993
FEB. 23-MAR. 16, 1993

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28 NIGHTS

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pips may be combined at significantly reduced rates.
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Baedeker's Israel:
Malice, Ignorance?

ur friend Carol
bought a copy of
Baedeker on Israel the
other day, and we leafed
through it.
"The name of Baedeker has
long been identified in the
field of guidebooks with
reliable, comprehensive and
up-to-date information
prepared by expert writers
who work from detailed, first-
hand knowledge of the coun-
try concerned."
Thus reads the foreword of
Baedeker on Israel, now on
sale in bookshops everywhere.
Oh, yeah?
We went quickly through
the 286 pages of the expen-
sive guidebook, and this is
what we find. Judge for
yourself.
The history of Safed, from
the first century down to pre-
sent times, concludes with
the following: "In May 1948
a group of 120 Palmach ter-
rorists (sic!) attacked the Arab
positions and drove the Arabs
out of the town, which since
then has been purely Jewish."
In its news update for 1982
the guidebook reports: "After
Israeli troops marched to
West Beirut on Sept. 16-18,
many civilians are massacred
in the Palestinian camps of
Sabra and Chatila." The in-
ference is obvious.
One of Israel's great con-
tributions to world order is
reported thus: (in 1981)
"Israel's air force destroys an
Iraqi atomic reactor; the USA
votes in favor of condemna-
tion of Israel in the UN."
For its helpful list of hotels,
the book cites 26 hostelries in
West Jerusalem, and 40 in
east Jerusalem, at the same
time managing to move east
a few of the west side hotels,
like the Windmill and the
Sheraton.
The "Wailing Wall" gets
less than 25 lines. The
Moslem connection with the
area gets more than five
pages.
What is the appeal of the
country to visitors? "Tourists
and pilgrims come to enjoy
the many sights that the
country has to offer — the
monuments of the ancient
civilizations, its medieval
Crusader fortresses and above
all the Christian and Jewish
holy places. The resorts of the
Mediterranean and the Gulf
of Eilat provide a further in-
centive." In other words, the
country is a glorified museum

which, fortunately, also offers
pleasant resort facilities. Not
a word, not a breath of the
spirit and exhiliration of the
modern State of Israel.
The delicate malice in the
reporting is outdone only by
the mishmash of ignorance
and misinformation, of which
we select some of the more
flagrant. Who can have con-
fidence in the accuracy of a
guidebook which writes that
the Jewish Agency was
created in 1897 by Theodor
Herzl, and on another page,
in 1933. The last guess is
close. The Agency was created cf,
in 1929, 25 years after Mr.
Herzl's death.
In the guide the sea-washed
grottos at Rosh Hanikra are
miraculously moved up into
the mountains, since "a
funicular goes up to its caves."
Typographical errors are not
always typographical since
the misspellings are
sometimes repeated: "Yefe
Not" road in Haifa; the
Admediya and later the
Ahmadiva sect in Haifa, both
wrong. Nahriya becomes
Nahariyah and then
Nahariyya a few lines later;
kibbutz Ne'ol Mordekhay;
Mishkenot Shaanaim.
Bezalel will learn here that
it is an Academy for Art and
Drama. The city of Arad is on-
ly an archaeological site.
Degania hardly exists. Yad
Vashem gets only a few pass-
ing lines and is not listed in
the index.
Perhaps one can find humor
in the glossary of terms by the
Baedeker experts, thus:
• Gabbai is "the governing
body of the Synagogue."
• Tefila: "A prayer belt
made of dark leather, with a
box containing texts from the
Torah."
• Aliyah is "waves" of Jews
returning to Palestine.
• Ashkenazim are Jews
originating from central and
eastern Europe who came to
Palestine via the Balkans.
• Chatan Torah is the
"prayer leader in the
synagogue."
• Rabbis: "Jewish religious
teachers chosen by the con-
gregation (not ordained)."
The Hebrew University is
in west Jerusalem. Mount
Scopus? That's where the old
university was opened in
1925.
There are many good
guidebooks to Israel. This ob-
viously is not one of them. ❑