Business
While no area agencies have gone
out of business due to the latest cut in
airline commissions, none are waiting
for the next cut to happen.
Shapiro sees a darker future. As a
member of the board of the Associa-
tion of Retail Travel Agents, she pre-
dicts smaller agencies will merge with
larger ones while others will shut their
doors forever.
Still, other agents remain opti-
mistic. Lana Gordon of Lana Gordon
Travel plans to withhold any addition-
al fees for airline tickets, in part
because she handles mostly European
and Israel travel and cruises already.
"I can and will absorb the loss. I
will bite the bullet," she said. "That is
part of business."
Ambassador and Mrs. David B. Hermelin
❑
Their Heads High
In the face of heavy
competition from South
Africa, Israeli ostrich
producers have earned a
worldwide reputation
for high-quality
products.
We say so long and not goodbye
Wishing you the best of luck in Norway.
We will miss you.
Ronald Riback
President
The Goldman.-Hermelin Education Foundation
NICKY BLACKBURN
Special to The Jewish News
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Steven Margolin
President
Hillel Day School
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s popular legend would
have it, the founding of
Israel's ostrich industry was
a cloak-and-dagger-style
operation which even the Mossad
would have been proud of.
In 1982, so the story goes, a
Dutch-Israeli made the trip to South
Africa, the largest ostrich producer in
the world, bought some eggs and
furtively smuggled them back into
Israel. In due time, the eggs hatched,
and lo, a new industry was born.
The real story, however, is a little
more dull. True, the industry was
founded when an Israeli brought back
eggs from South Africa, but there was
nothing illegal about the transaction.
Fabricated though the story is, like
all myths, it imparts an important mes-
sage: a potent mixture of Israeli chutz-
pah and initiative helped found what
has, within a very short time, turned
into a highly successful industry.
In less than 15 years, Israel has
become the world's second largest pro-
ducer of ostriches after South Africa
and a leading pioneer in the field.