On The Horizon ISRAEL DIGEST ,Specially compiled by The jeruscdem Post —Si EQUALS 3.0530 NIS (shekels) - Close Price 6110/94 — New quarterly Jewish publication makes its debut. BIRD Funds 13 Projects STEVE STEIN STAFF WRITER BIRD, the Israel-United States Weston, HarperCollins Pub- Binational Industrial Research lishers, Brooktrout Technolo- and Development Foundation, gy, WR Grace & Co., Wicat approved $6.5 million as its 50 Systems, Bogen Communica- percent share of 13 new joint de- tions and Shany. velopment projects between U.S. The Israeli partners are and Israeli company teams. Tadiran, ECI Telecom, BATM, The American partners par- CTP Systems, Eco High Tech ticipating in the new projects Group, IAI-Ramta, Pixel, Shon- are: California Microwave/ ut, Carmel Biotechnology, Satellite Transmission Sys- Onyx Technologies, Sogo Elec- tems, Telematics, Larscom, tronics, Shany Computers and Harris Corp., Novell, Roy F. DSP Solutions. I is part Reader's Digest, part Good Housekeep- ing, and it's presented in a "bookazine" format. ,OLtit1441.; F THE, All with a Jewish and in- ternational flavor. That's Horizons: The Jewish Family Journal, a new quarterly publication printed in Israel by Targum Press and distributed in the United States through an of- fice in Southfield. Each issue of Horizons is expected to contain 144 pages and appeal to the en- tire family with a broad range of essays, fiction, fea- tures, humor, drama, dis- cussion of contemporary issues and memoirs. The premier edition has tips on child rearing and bar mitzvahs, recollections of a trek through Russia, the t4ww Thu,. memoirs of a shul president, fxcerpti itain plus departments on medicine, Torah and technology, and `Horizons': The cover of the first issue. natural health. There's also a humorous story told by an Orthodox Jew about able kosher snacks were acci- her cross-country train ride from dentally tossed out of a refriger- Los Angeles to Cleveland which ator by an Amtrak employee was met by disaster: Her perish- during a stop in Ogden, Utah. Stewart Weis' • ,. Ellen Kau Silvers . • Ruchorne Shaln Nitrtion 1,1•4man Inroh and Technology Applebaum Dixtur's Note by 1)t David Miriam Matron Spooks feeling Good Naturally . Ten Ways to. .Keep Your Cant on a Hot Summer s Day Bet Mint fOrthCOMing e F e st i va I l Fest v ties Another author tells about finding an anti-Semitic flier in a drugstore copy machine, then discovering its "owner" was an elderly Jewish man who copied such diatribes and sent them to local politi- cians "to show them we're not immune to this kind of thing here in New York." Other features describe 10 ways to keep cool in the summer; what to look for when purchasing a summer home; and the art of cake decorating. "We think it's entertain- ing reading, all from the Jewish angle," said Dave Dombey, who is coordinat- ing circulation in the Unit- ed States from his Southfield office along with his wife, Fayga. "It took us about a year to put out the magazine af- ter we first decided there was a need for a family publication with a Jewish point of view," said Mr. Dombey, a Southfield resident who is co- chairman of the board of direc- tors of American Friends of Israel Association of Baseball. HORIZON page 48 flew rIOVett W STEVE STEIN STAFF WRITER Here's the official program for the Detroit-Windsor Interna tional Freedom Festival: Detroit River at Hart Plaza and Dieppe Park, 6 p.m. Detroit leads the series 5-3. Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the Blue Care Network and Target Stores. The "Hands Across the JUNE 18 — "Carnevale in JUNE 23 —Les Portes Tour- Venice" opening-night gala pre- nantes, a Canadian film, will be sented by the Big Apple Circus shown free at the Detroit Insti- to benefit the Freedom Festival. tute of Arts auditorium, 7 p.m. Barbeque at 5:30 p.m. and cur- JUNE 25 U.S. and Cana- taM at 7 p.m. at Meadowbrook on the campus of Oak.land Uni- dian Coast Guard whaler boat versity in Rochester. Call 923- race, 11 a.m.; search and rescue demonstrations, noon; tug boat 7400. World" celebration will be held along Woodward between War- ren and Kirby, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 m. Call 577-5088. 11 29 —WDIV-TVs "Su- perjU STger Contest," featuring five of Detroit's top vocalists, 9 p.m. JUNE 29 Fireworks dis- play along the Detroit and Canadian banks of the Detroit River, 10 p.m. JULY 4 —• More than 300 new. United States citizens will take part in a swearing-in cer emony at liart Plaza, 10:30 a.m, JULY :4 -- Closing cere- monies at Dieppe Park, 8:30 p.m. — JUNE 19-28 — Eighteen performances of the Big Apple Circus at lVfeadovvbrook.,One ring under a seven-story big-top tent. Call 923-8259. JUNE 22 — Opening cere- monies at Dieppe Park in Wind- sor, 5 p.m. JUNE 23 -- "Tug Across the River' tug-of-war featuring 24- man teains on each side of the race, 1 p.m., on the Detroit Riv- er. JUNE 25 26 American and Canadian equestrian car riage teams will compete in pre- sentation, dressage, cones, marathon and obstacle games at Win-A-Gin and Walkabout Farms in Metamora, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 664-8666. JUNE 29 -- The 15th annu- al Children's Day sponsored by - — — Israel No. 7 In R&D Spending Israel's expenditure on civilian research and development (R&D) was NIS 3.6 billion in 1992, ranking the country sev- enth among the 24 industrial- ized Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported. Israel's R&D spending as a percentage of the Gross Do- mestic Product (GDP) matched that of England at 2.2 percent. Japan was No. 1 at 3.1 percent. R&D expenditures in Israel surpassed those of Holland, Finland, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Canada, Ice- land, Spain, Ireland and Greece. Has Market Bottomed Out? The Israel stock exchange is ex- nor of the Bank of Israel in the periencing a downturn, but it early 1980s. looks like it has reached its low- He said the economy contin- est point, Kivun chairman ues to grow despite a standstill Moshe Mandelbaum said at a in the construction industry news conference to introduce a and public companies have re- new closed flexible mutual ported a growth in business. fund. The fund, Nahshon, will "We may have been overly issue certificates limited to MS optimistic at the start of the 100 million. year, but in general the econ- "The chances that the mar- omy is in a good position," Mr. ket will rise are greater than Mandelbaum said. "There are those that it will fall," said Mr. many companies traded at at- Mandelbaum, who was gover- tractive prices." Factories Fear Independent Economy Some 30 percent of Israeli fac- tories in the North fear they will be adversely affected with- in three years of the establish- ment of an independent economy throughout the ter- ritories, according to a survey of 151 manufacturers released by the local branch of the Man- ufacturers Association. Five percent feared they would close at a cost of approx- imately 4,000 jobs. The survey also showed that 71 percent of the firms are making plans to sell goods to the autonomous ar- eas because Palestinian officials recently declared that they do not intend to encourage the de- velopment of joint ventures with Israeli companies. Immigrants Looking for Work Immigrant unemployment in Israel was nearly double the na- tional average at 14 percent dur- ing the first quarter of the year, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported. However, immigrants regis- tered a higher participation rate in the workforce than natives. While 55 percent of work-age immigrants participated in the workforce, only 53.4 percent of the general work-age population did so. A third of working im- migrants were employed in in- dustry, 20 percent in public and community services, 14 percent in trade, food and hotel services, 11 percent in personal services and 7 percent in construction.