Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. MAYER-HELENA AND GAIL LEBOVIC ROSALYN AND HARVEY MEYER AND FAMILY GERTRUDE PAUL ROSS AND FAMILY We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. HENRY AND DEBRA GORNBEIN LAURIE AND JONATHAN FANNY SILVER ANNE AND SAM SUKENIC Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. MARCUS AND PAULA LAST We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. ANDREA AND RICHARD GORDON LAS VEGAS, NEVADA We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. BEN AND PEARL GUYER MARGATE, FLORIDA A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All My Friends and Family. HANNI KIFF A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family. MEL KEPES AND FAMILY Aaron 111115 rr V? ROSALIE AND BUDDY DISNER 11TIDT1 111115 711V? to all our friends and relatives. FREYA WEBERMAN RICHARD, PHILIP AND TALIA HELFRICK SOL AND CHANNIE ZEILER AND FAMILY May the coming year be filled with health and happiness for all our family and friends. May the coming year be filled with health and happiness for all our family and friends. IMRE AND MARTA FLEISCHER DR. KENNETH, LAURIE AND ANDREW GOLDMAN TOLA SCHWARZBERG May the coming year be filled with health and happiness and prosperity for all our family and friends. CARL ALPERT to all our friends and relatives. May the coming year be filled with health and happiness for all my family and friends. The Beauty Of Safed May the coming year be filled with health and happiness for all our family and friends. THE SHUSTERS RHONDA, JEFF, DANNY AND AMANDA To All Our Relatives and Friends, Our wish for a year filled with happiness, health and prosperity. THE KAYES HELEN, CHARLIE, LYSEE AND RAND! SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS There has always been some- thing of the mystical, the spiri- tual, the non-materialistic about that pearl of the Galilee, Safed, located high on its mountain perch. It is a city drenched in a history which embraces miracles, even in our times. One gets the impression that it is eternal, per- petual. Even the 1837 earth- quake which devastated large parts of the town, could not ut- terly destroy it, and some of the ruins which have remained half buried for more than 150 years, only added to the charm. Safed can never be judged by the material standards one ap- plies to other towns—yet today, despite the modern white hous- ing which covers the slopes, and an industrial area, the curious visitor might get the impression the this city, with the heart of a village, is only awaiting its next earthquake. The famous artists' colony is only a shadow of its former self. With one notable exception, good hotels have all but disappeared. Because of topography, traffic has always been difficult; today it has been made almost impossible be- cause of conversion of a large part of its only thoroughfare, which circles the city, into a pedestrian mall. For many people, there's noth- ing like the aroma of a good cup of hot coffee in the morning to get the day started; but for several thousand residents of Safed, who live within nostril reach of the cof- fee processing plant the daily smell of roasting coffee beans is an ecological and environmental disaster. The Vered Hagalil chocolate factory, at least, is lo- cated out of town in the industrial area. Many tourists may have cut Safed off their itinerary, but for the natives of the place—and anyone who has lived there for six months or more already con- siders himself a native—the city has an allure and a charm which make it a very special home. The Kabbalists of old have dis- appeared, but their memory is in the air. The modern population constitutes a fascinating con- glomerate of Chasidim, Russian immigrants, veteran Israelis, an English-speaking colony, and sur- vivors of the once flourishing artist's quarter, all of whom, de- spite differences between them, co-exist i harmony. After all, it is still Safed, one of the country's historical four holy cities. The two-hour visitor can never capture its spirit, but the four days we spent there recent- ly gave us an inkling of an at- mosphere (even coffee-flavored)