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CLARA COOK

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BEVERLY AND MARTIN ZELDES

ANDREA AND RICHARD GORDON

A Very Happy and
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to All Our
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NANCY, KEN, AARON AND DAVID LIPSON

A Very Happy and
Healthy New Year
to All Our
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LAS VEGAS, NV

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LARRY AND SHARON GREENBERG

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NATHAN AND SONIA NOTHMAN

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BOCA RATON, FL

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JOAN AND JERRY PENFIL

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frastructure. At Moshav Kades}, --/
Barnea, for example, hothouseS-\
used for experimental farming
techniques by the moshav fam-
ilies surround the ponds.
Plans are also under way to
establish a hothouse park. Ac-
tion Negev includes several
acres of olive plantations, which
are thriving with saline solution.
The final prong of the project
includes tourism development-/
and industry and is banking on~
the Negev cities of Dimona and
Beersheba, two major centers
with employment opportunities
for new residents in the area.
A Negev spa is being planned
near Golda Park, a green oasis
in the midst of the rocky desert,
using the restorative salt
water. ❑

SAM AND MICKIE ORECHKIN

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JACKIE AND STEWART
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JASON AND ARIC

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with health and
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all our family
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JACK AND BELLE
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ABE AND SYLVIA PEARLMAN

Jews Choose
A Druze

It was Simchat Torah, and the
army unit was celebrating the
holiday in the presence of the
military chaplain. When it came-/
time for the hakafot (circling the
room with the Torah scrolls), the
chaplain urged the command-
ing officer to take the first scroll
and start the procession.
The latter hesitated and then
said, "But I'm not Jewish; I'm
a Druze." The chaplain paused
for only a moment and then
gave his hechsher for Col. Walid
Mansour to head the procession,
In his eventful career, Col.
Mansour has broken precedent
in many ways. He has left for
Bombay, where he will be Is-
rael's consul general, the high-
est rank attained for any Druze
in Israel's foreign service. But
the setting of precedents is com-
mon in the family, he told us at
his home in the village of Isfiyah
on Mount Cannel.
Walid Mansour is 48, born in
Isfiyah the very year the State
of Israel was proclaimed. On
that same day his father volun-
teered to join the Israel Defense
Forces and became a first lieu-
tenant, the first Druze officer in
Zahal. He retired in 1957 with
decorations for his services both
before and during the War of In-
dependence.
The Mansour family was a
great believer in education at a
time when such appreciation
was not yet common in Druze
circles. When Walid joined the
army in 1957, he was one of 120 _
Druze youth enrolled at the
same time; but he was one of
only two who were high school
graduates. He had attended
schools in Haifa where Druze
and Arabs studied alongside the
Jewish pupils. Obviously, all his
children have received a good
education. Twelve-year-old Amir
and 13-year-old Afifa will con-

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