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were forced to fly at odd hours and
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Rudy Newman as a volunteer pilot for
Israel.
Mr. Newman remembers
many trips that started at 2 a.m.
"One crew would fly in and then
we would head out, back and forth
like that all the time."
They went via Puerto Rico, via
Corsica to refuel, communicat-
ing all the while with a Jewish
Agency office in Paris. Once, the
men hadn't been able to get flight
information from the office before
it closed Friday night for Shabbat.
So Rudy and his crew stayed put.
Everyone thought they had been
shot down.
On May 16, 1948, the Israeli
air force was officially established.
Mr. Newman stayed on as a pilot
with Mahal. One of his best pals
was his crew chief, a fellow named
Ben Fingeroot. It didn't take the
two long to figure out they were
both from Detroit.
"We became really good
friends," Mr. Newman says of the
late Mr. Fingeroot. "He was a veg-
etarian. I loved meat. I gave him
all my eggs and he gave me all his
meat."
Another former Detroit to '
whom Mr. Newman was espe-
cially close was Stan Andrews.
Originally from New York, Mr.
Andrews was born Stan
Ankiewicz and grew up on
Woodingham in Detroit. "He was
my roommate, a handsome, in-
telligent guy." He was killed after
he surrendered to Arab guerril-
las, but Mr. Newman doesn't like c7:
to go into details.
"They butchered him," is all he
says.
Today, there is a marker for
Mr. Andrews in a military ceme-
tery in Israel, one of the few for
those whose bodies were never
found.
When Mr. Newman returned
to Detroit he tried to find Mr.
Andrews' family. "But I couldn't,"
he says. Perhaps they had moved.
Another Mahal volunteer with
whom he was close was Chalmer
Goodlin, the former chief test pi-
lot for Bell Aircraft who turned
down the assignment to test the
Bell X-1. So a guy named Chuck
Yaeger took over the project, and
broke the speed of sound.
Mr. Newman also came to
know men like Ezer Weizman L \
and Moti Hud, who later became
head of Israel's air force during
the Six-Day War. Israel's first air
force consisted of about 200 men.
And with pilots from countries
throughout the world and of such
various backgrounds, "there were
economic, social, language prob-
lems — you name it we had it,"
Mr. Newman says. "But it was
like Ben-Gurion said: What we
needed was numbers. It was
300,000 Jews (in all of Israel)
against millions of Arabs."
In 1949 Mr. Newman and his
wife settled on Balfour Street in
Tel Aviv. He remembers "when
the first light went up on Allenby
and Jaffa roads." He remembers
a patch of sand called Eilat.
"There were no buildings there
— in fact our plane landed on
sand," he says. "I flew in some kib-
butzniks who were going to plant
trees. Off on a hill there was one
house, Ben-Gurion's summer
home. "Today, Eilat is a city of
100,000 and filled with hotels. But
I remember when you could stand
in one place and look_at Jordan,
the Gulf of Aqaba, the mountains
of Egypt, and with a pair ofbinoc-
ulars you could even see Saudi
Arabia."
But he also remembers the
years of struggle, when a loaf of
bread was as good as it got. When
his son was born, Rudy Newman
decided he wanted an easier life
for his children, so he and his wife,
Ann, came back to Detroit.
Today, Mr. Newman serves as
a consultant in mortgage bank-
ing and is the father of three boys
and 15 grandchildren. He still
makes it a point to get back to
Israel about every two years.
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