ROIT CELEBRAT

COIGITEATE

Your Stacht's
success A)

•

ca) act VD The
ewt.s12 kews
I Cap & Gown
Special
Sectioni

SIZES/PRICES

ISSUE DATE: Mug 15, 1998

AD DEADLINE: Mau 6,1998

2 Columns x 2": $45.00
2 Columns x 3": $65.00
2 Colanns x $85.00
2 Columns x 5". $100.00

The Tassels Were
Worth the Hassles

Rebecca Simi Morgan

Law School Grad 1997 • University of Detroit Mercy

Congratulations!!

With Pride, Joy & Love,
Goldie, Hedi, Michael & Bob

PLEASE WRITE COPY LEGIBLY. ENCLOSE BLACK & WHITE PHOTO IF YOU'D LIKE
(If you would like your photo back, please include a self-addressed stamped envelope)

Exp. Date

WE CANNOT PRINT YOUR AD WITHOUT THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION,
WHICH WILL BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL.

'be evits1) News • 27676 Fru In Road • SoaihRelet, 48034

5/1
1998

10

For farther information call Karin or Barbara at (248) 354-5959.

get
back. I was told
not to go, but I
did anyway."
Segal got a
flight on El-Al,
courtesy of a
friend. When he
arrived at New
York's Kennedy
Airport, he was
stunned by the
sight he saw:
thousands of sol-
diers trying to get
back.
Segal's 8 p.m.
Uri Segal (left) with actor Chaim Topol (center) in 1973.
flight left two
hours late, and he
Gurion's greatness," he said.
was
the
last
one
allowed
on.
In the army, Bar-Levav was an offi-
"The
army
thought
they
needed
cer in charge of mines and demolition.
doctors and tank drivers," he said.
Although a Haganah member in his
"They didn't think they'd need para-
pre-military days, Bar-Levav would do
troopers."
things differently if he had to do it
Segal hadn't even told his parents
over again.
he
was coming, and when he called
"I sat with Menachem Begin on a
from
his base, they weren't surprised.
flight to Israel once, and I apologized
"I
told
my mother I was in Tel
to him for making his life harder,"
Aviv,
and
she said, 'I knew it."'
Bar-Levav said of the former Irgun
Segal's army unit was elated upon
leader.
his arrival in the Golan Heights.
While both groups were illegal in
"They looked at me like I was a
their existence, the
messiah," he said. "I
Irgun was the militant
had
only missed one
wing, while the
battle,
but there were
Haganah leaned to the
some
casualties.
I
political side.
was very needed and
Since then, Bar-
welcomed."
Levav ended up in
Born in Haifa in
Detroit, although he
1942, Segal was only
"didn't mean to," and
5 years old when the
began by teaching
War
of Independence
Hebrew school to pay
started.
for college. He gradu-
"People who were
ated with an under-
in
the
army then
graduate degree in eco-
were
pioneers,"
he
nomics, his masters
said. "I grew up in
degree in political sci-
that era. I can't see
ence and his medical
that
happening again.
degree from Wayne
Dr.
Reuven
Bar-Levay.
"Because
of that, I
State.
was
anxious
to
do
He is now a psychi-
service
because
atrist and author.
everyone was so patriotic."
"I knew that I wanted to do some-
Segal had finished his time in the
thing useful," he said. "Psychiatry tries
service,
and was a civilian in 1967
to save and fix lives, while re-doing
when the Six-Day War began. He
and reshaping a patient's character.' ,
lived in Kafar Aza, on the Gaza Strip,
and
had been preparing for war for
URI SEGAL
the
few
weeks prior.
The year was 1973. Uri Segal was
"We
were
the first place that was
in school at Lawrence Technical
attacked,"
he
said. "We heard that
Institute (now Lawrence Technological
Radio
Cairo
was
reporting that we
University) in Southfield when he
were
all
dead.
heard that his homeland was being
"It was very exciting when we heard
attacked by its Arab neighbors.
that
Jerusalem and the Wailing Wall
"For me, the war started here," said
were
in Israel's hands." ❑
the Israeli engineer. "It was a real

struggle to