The Second Annual I Sam Young Memorial Racquetball Tournament managers were brought in, emp- ty apartments were turned into bed-and-breakfast sites, cottage industries in cosmetics, graphics and what not opened up. While many kibbutzim are now thriving with successful businesses in plastics and farm- ing technology, dozens of others are lost causes. Some can barely feed their members. Others can't pay their electricity bills. Their youth leave as soon as they fin- ish the army, their elderly get older, and their middle-aged members hang on, embittered be- cause they don't have the where- withal to leave and start over. Kibbutz Gezer, near Ben- Clarion Airport, doesn't have the problem of age. Reorganized in 1974, Gezer's 100-plus members are in their 30s and 40s, mainly emigrants from the United States and other Western countries. But with such high interest still ac- cruing on their old loans, the kib- butz remains about $15 million in debt. To help secure its economic fu- ture, Gezer wants to do some- thing that would have been considered highly unorthodox in the kibbutz movement a genera- tion ago. Members want to take a part of their farmland and build a gas station and apartments for "We can't fire people. They're our members." — Zvi Ben-David sale there. But the plan would be quashed if Gezer is forced to sim- ply hand over this land to the gov- ernment and banks, as the Finance Ministry's proposed bail- out would have it, said Norm Frankel, now completing his term as Gezer's economic manager. As in all other kibbutzim, there is a debate inside Gezer over whether to maintain its commu- nal economic life in the future, or to privatize little by little and eventually become a close-knit but capitalistic rural village. Yoel Weingarten, the incom- ing economic manager, stands somewhere in the middle. A business student at Tel Aviv Uni- versity, he believes the kibbutz's economic units — the dairy, glue factory, softball league, architec- ture office and others — must stand individually as profit-mak- ers or close. He still believes in communal ownership but added, "There has to be some sort of new formula." As for the older, failing kibbutz- im, he said that if they can't shape up, they should close and its members be absorbed into stronger kibbutzim. Whatever IDENTITY page 62 CC of Metropolitan Detroit We would like to thank the players and all of our sponsors for their support in making the First Annual Sam Young Memorial Racquetball Tournament a huge success. We're Doing Great Things! The Jewish Community Center proudly offers inclusive and specialized programming opportunities for children and adults with special needs in vision, hearing and physical access. Join us for the Second Annual Event! 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