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whether the woman was preg-
nant and even if she was a virgin!
It Takes a Special Taste. An
all-English ad in an otherwise all
Hebrew paper informs the read-
er that a Tel Aviv restaurant of-
fers "Live Nova Scotia lobster and
the finest Sea Scallops, Mussels,
Shrimp, Calamari and Scampi
this side of the Atlantic."
When Quality Counts.
When the Technion in Haifa
sought to help its graduates find
employment, it conducted a Job
Fair, and representatives of 80
high-tech firms, including some
of the largest in Israel, showed
up to compete for the latest crop
of Technion's engineers.
Class of 434. The universities'
student strike ended with all stu-
dents being given a "pass" with-
out examination, for the more
than two month period during
which their professors were on
strike. A wit suggests that the
dental students got their pass on
condition that they do their in-
tern work in a third world coun-
try, but not here at home.
The Famous Are Not Al-
ways the Best. The Day of the
Obscure 1994 was celebrated in
Israel with excursions from all
over the country to visit Ludwig
Zamenhof Street in Tel Aviv,
named in honor of the Polish Jew
who devised Esperanto, the in-
ternational language. Activists
in the movement are fed up with
all the celebrations in memory of
famous people. "In fact, what's
most interesting is usually thor-
oughly obscure," said one.
What's In a Name? The
Sephardi leader, Aryeh Deri, of-
ten maintains that if his name
were Finkelstein, for example, he
would not be picked on so much.
Now the Ashkenazi industrialist,
Avrham Shapiro, claims that if
his name had been Buzaglo, the
press would not be so hard on
him. A suggestion: Call Shapiro,
Deri; call Deri, Shapiro, and both
should be happy.
Bad Timing. The Hebron
massacre occurred just a short
time before an Israeli publisher
was to issue a new children's book
about a hunter who was so kind
and gentle that in his entire ca-
reer as a hunter he had never
killed any animal. Even when he
once came across a wounded
hare, he took it home, bandaged
it, fed it, and returned it to the
wild. The hunter's name: Gold-
stein! Who would now buy a book
for children about Goldstein the
Hunter? At the last moment the
character's name was changed to
G-oldblurn.
Now a Family Hero. The
Greenpeter family of Ramat
Hasharon were angry at their
clever cat, Yo-Yo, which had
learned to leap up and turn the
door handle from within to open
the door and let it out. All kinds
of punishment were of no avail,
and they had to keep the door

locked. Until one bright day
when Mrs. Greenpeter stepped
out for a moment, and the door
slammed and automatically
locked behind her. Yo-Yo had re-
mained within, and after much
shouted blandishments, almost
shamefacedly, the cat deigned to
open the door for its mistress.
Now It's Legislatively Offi-
cial,. More than 60 members of
the Knesset, a full majority,
signed a manifesto which de-
clared that the Lubavitcher
Rebbe is the Messiah, and called
upon him to come back and re-
deem the nation. Red-faced, may
later admitted they had not read
in full the text of the document
they had signed.
In Proper Order. Israel's
largest city, within municipal
boundaries, is Jerusalem, with a
population of 568,000. Then
comes Tel Aviv, with 358,000 and
Haifa with 247,000. Next is Beer-
sheba with 141,000.
Bladder Diplomacy. Syrian
President Hafez Assad insists
that meetings with him proceed
without a break until some kind
of agreement is reached. His
1977 meeting with Jimmy Carter
in Geneva lasted seven hours.
The 1990 meeting with George
Bush was only three hours. The
latest meeting with President
Clinton went on for more than
five hours. Ronald Reagan, who
has bladder problems, refused to
meet with Mr. Assad.

A Family
Of Yemenites

CARL ALPERT

SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

What happens to families that
come to Israel in mass migration
movements, like those of the
Yemenites and more recently the
Ethiopians? They are herded
aboard planes, bussed to homes,
and in the course of time are
expected to become integrated
into the social fabric and the econ-
omy of Israel. We seldom think
of them in terms of individual
families or personalities, each
with its own problems or achieve-
ments. Yet behind each is a
human story.
We look at one such case.
Zacharia Makaiten was only13
when he came here with his
family from Yemen with the Mag-
ic Carpet Operation of the 1949.
Life was not easy for the family
in its new surroundings, as it is
not easy for Ethiopians today. Lit-
tle Zacharia was given an educa-
tion, became a carpenter, married
16-year-old Simcha, and the two
decided to make their own con-
tribution to the State of Israel.
They did, and the 16 Makaiten
children, raised in their home in
Rosh Haayin, near Petach Tikva,
serve as evidence.
All members of the family are