Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. ROBERT AND PAULA MARQUART Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. MRS. JOYCE MUTNICK MARGATE, FLORIDA I wish my family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. ELSIE C. JAFFE We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. ANNE AND JOE WEINMAN We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. ARTHUR AND IRENE KEPES N. MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family. ALEX AND HONORA LIPSON Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. SANFORD AND ADRIENNE CUSS MARVIN, JEFFREY AND HOWARD May the coming year be filled with health and happiness for all our family and friends. BETTE AND MARV HEIDENRICH AND FAMILY May the coming year be filled with health and happiness for all our family and friends. BEVERLEY AND JACK SINGER AND FAMILY Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. EDYTHE AND FRED SWARTZ DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA May the coming year be filled with health and happiness for all our family and friends. NORM AND NAYDA SCHWARTZ IRV AND FREYA ISAACS May the coming year be filled with health and happiness for all our family and friends. EDITH FISHER TARNOWSKI TAMARAC, FLORIDA A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family. MR. AND MRS. BENDET LEWKOWICZ To All Our Relatives and Friends, Our wish for a year filled with happiness, health and prosperity. May the coming year be filled with health and happiness and prosperity for all our family and friends. GARRY AND VIOLA (EBY) KAPPY To All Our Relatives and Friends, Our wish for a year filled with happiness, health and prosperity. RITA, JERRY AND GAYLE NEFF Staff Ready, Capital Needed CARL ALPERT SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Israel is having difficulty ab- sorbing in a relatively short time the vast wealth of scientific and engineering know-how which has come to our shores from the for- mer Soviet Union. Yet a great deal of it is indeed filtering through, influencing industrial and high-tech developments and being absorbed in our universi- ties. Much depends, too, on the per- sonality and initiative of the Rus- sians themselves. Some accept their new fate and sweep streets. Some compromise and take jobs in other occupations. And some insist on thinking big - bigger even than Israel. One such group here in the greater Haifa area has mobilized a team which has set its sights on billion dollar prospects in the wide world. If talent, imagina- tion, ambition and initiative count for anything, this group, which calls itself the Israel In- ventive Center for Advanced Composite Materials (ISCOM) may yet make itself widely heard. The moving spirit is Dr. Yaa- cov Epstein, author of six books, almost 100 scientific articles and holder of over 50 patents regis- tered in Russia, and United States, Japan, Israel and various European countries. His asso- ciates have an almost equally im- pressive background. Their field of specialization: development of technologies for producing advanced composite materials and structures, and their application in air craft, transport, military and industri- al buildings, etc. Much of this en- ters new fields of technology. Let us not forget that, despite all the belittling of Soviet science, it is they who launched the first Sputnik and showed the world the way to space exploration - a field in which they were over- taken only because of the vaster resources of the West. A typical project of ISCOM: development of an innovative sys- tem for drilling and pumping of oil from the floor of the sea, with- out the need for the sea platforms now in use, which are both ex- pensive and dangerous. The sys- tem can be assembled in shipyards, conveyed in conven- tional ships to the site of the prospective underwater oil fields, and installed in a few hours, without the help of divers of sub- marine robots. The trend today is toward oil exploration in the deep seas, but it has been held back by the costs. Experts project that in the next 10 years the market for equip- ment and services in this area will run from 40 to 50 billion dol-