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Sherwood Now Offers Free Delivery and Set-up in South Florida! ♦ Fine designer furniture ♦ Interior design service ♦ Floor coverings ♦ Window treatments ♦ Accessories ASK oz CARL ALPERT SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS he real Israel is to be found on the back pages, in the small print, in the prosaic stories that make up daily life in Israel. Annual Percentage Yield on minimum deposit of S2.500. M3 Real Israel Not In Headlines FOR °ETA I LS 6644 Orchard Lake Road di Maple in West Bloornliekl Mon-Thor-Fri 10-9 • Tue-Wed-Sat1 -0-6 • Sun 12-5 810 835-1600 When Arafat's daughter, Zahwa, was born in Paris, the proud grandmother reported that the child looked like her father. Re- porters and photographers has- tened to get a picture of the new-born with a three-day growth of stubble. When fatherhood tri- umphed. Three months after the birth of their child, Ariel Co- hen and his wife decided that she would return to her work as a lawyer; and he would -take a year off to rear the child. When he got a call to serve in the reserves for a month, the army refused to ac- cept his request that the service be deferred on the grounds that he was needed at home. Cohen threatened to show up at the army base with the babe in his arms. The army backed down. The Palestinians want "their" money. Mohammed Nashashibi, Arafat's minister of finance, on the delay of contribu- tions: "The donor countries will never succeed in imposing their socio-economic preferences on the Palestinians. Let them not give us a headache about superviso- ry demands. Our system is al- ready open and transparent. Now our people in Gaza must see the money, the implementation of the projects and not just meetings in Paris and Washington. Why are the donor countries waiting? Where is the money?" The richest baby in Israel. The Meir Maternity Hospital in Kfar Saba presents each newborn baby with a gift, comprised of nursery essentials and, as a spe- cial bonus, a Mifal Hapayis tick- et for the national lottery. A local family, welcoming the arrival of its second child, discovered that their ticket had won a million shekels. In Israel the world turns backwards. A keen-eyed ob- server has noted that on Israel's television daily news broadcast, the signature theme is of a twirling globe of the earth which turns to the west (to the left) rather than to the east (to the right) as in reality. The observer questions if this indicates a slant to the news? Theft on a grand scale. De- spite the annual production of the Technion and the immigration from Russia, there is still a short- age of some 2,000 top-level en- gineers in Israel. The result is that high-tech companies bold- ly and consistently steal engi- neers from their competitors by offering higher salaries. In 1994, Israel's high-tech exports amounted to 2.2. billion dollars. Good ideas worth money. Last year, Israel's military es- tablishment received 5,722 sug- gestions for improving efficiency, economy and safety. Of these, 30,254 were implemented and bonuses totaling more than half a million shekels were paid to alert observers. Memorable quotations. Shi- mon Peres, addressing the Knes- set after signing the Oslo agreement and before a series of bus explosions, festively declared to the nation, "One hundred years of terrorism have come to an end." c/\ They want to make it legaL The present Knesset has before it a bill which would give legal standing to a woman's right to maintain her maiden name after marriage, if she so wishes. Arabs demand their rights. An ad seeking employees to work in the Israel census had indicat- ed that candidates must have served in the Israeli army. Arab spokesmen complained this con- stituted discrimination against them since they are not drafted. Legal authorities justified their complaints, and the restrictive clause was removed. Why the Arabs now want peace. Dr. Hasham el Djani, a Syrian political commentator, has lectured his compatriots who call for war against Israel: "We must fight against Israel with the weapon of peace. We can over- come it better by peace than by war. Peace will bring to an end its arrogance and its patronizing attitude and transform it from an aggressive militaristic nation to one compelled to co-exist with its surroundings. After one or two generations of peace its army will become weak and its arsenal of weapons will turn rusty ... " Come to Israel and live longer. Life expectancy for men in Israel during 1989-92 was sec- ond only to Japan among 22 in- dustrial nations of the world with the age of 74.5. Israeli women's rating was 78.2 years, but that was in the 19th place among 22 nations. The most powerful woman in Israel. This is the appellation given to Galia Maor whose posi- tion as general manager of Bank Leumi gives her enormous fi- nancial clout. 0 K