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IN A CELEBRATION
Crime On
Israel's Mind
Wednesday,
October 7, at
7:30 p.m. at
the beautiful
Detroit
Orchestra Hall
LARRY DERFNER
Israel Correspondent
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n Sunday, the "Tel Aviv
Serial Rapist," who has the
city's women looking over
their shoulders in fear, evi-
dently tried to commit his 10th rape
in the last six months, but police say
he let his pleading victim go and ran
off.
On the same day, Police Minister
Avigdor Kahalani advised Israelis to do
two patrol shifts a month with the
volunteer Civil Guard in their towns .
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and cities.
"Every Israeli citizen has to under-
stand that if he doesn't help protect
himself, the police will be ineffective,"
Kahalani said. Referring to the tens of
thousands of annual car thefts com-
mitted by Palestinians in Israeli cities,
the minister said, "Until a border is
built between us and the Palestinians,
we're going to have to guard our hous-
es ourselves, like we did when we cre-
ated the State of Israel and the period
when we were living in tents."
Saying "safer
than America"
isn't saying much.
Three weeks ago, Kahalani thought
he had solved the country's worst
murder problem, by inducing one of
two warring Israeli Arab clans in the
Ramle neighborhood of Juarish to
move out. But two weeks ago a mem-
ber of a third clan in the neighbor-
hood, the Abu Labans, was murdered.
And one week ago a 16-year-old girl
belonging to yet a fourth clan in the
neighborhood, the Mugrabis, was shot
to death while sleeping in her room.
Police discounted that the girl's
murder came in revenge for the Abu
Laban killing, and surmised that it
was one more "honor killing" of an
Israeli Arab female. This is still anoth-
er ingredient in Israel's crime cocktail:
Israeli Arab women being murdered
by a male relative, usually a brother,
seeking to expunge the "stain" she left
on the family's honor by violating the
strict Arab code of female sexual
morality.
100 Years of
Zionist Vision
and Fulfillment
honoring
Sam & Minnie Berman
Who will receive the Awe
Louis D. Brandas Award
A modest, folksy man, Sam Berman was born in Poland, survived the
Holocaust and after the war, set his sights on Palestine, the country of his
dreams. Intercepted mid-way by the British Navy, he and his brother,
Alter, spent eight months in Cyprus only to be released when the British
departed Palestine. But his personal Odyssey didn't end there. Settling in
a kibbutz and finding employment in agriculture, he enlisted in the Haganah and fought in Israel's War of
Independence in 1948 and the subsequent Sinai Campaign in 1956. Alter, Sam's brother, died in combat in
1948. In 1957, Sam came to the United States, where he worked successively as an electrician, a partner in a
landscaping company and, finally, as a partner in Mastercraft Leather of Auburn Hills.
Minnie Berman, a native of Newark, New Jersey, graduated from Central High School, enrolled in Wayne
State University, studied art at Cass Tech, OCC and the Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Association. She was also a
charter-member and partner in the former Artists Gallery of Farmington Hills.
The Bermans' passionate commitment to Israel and Jewish education found expression in their support for
Israel Bonds, Magen David Adom (where they endowed six ambulances), Yeshiva Beth. Yehuda, Machon
L'Torah and ORT.
starring
LORNA LUFT
ROBERT KLEIN
A talented Broadway stage, film
and TV star. A comedian of note
earning a Grammy Award for
best comedy album of the year.
Starred in the "Sisters
Rosenzweig" and winner of the
famed theatrical award, Obie.
.
Music by Mack Pitt and His Orchestra
* * * *
Dr. Jerome S.
Kaufman
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President,
Metro Detroit ZOA
Dr. Lester Zeff
Chair;
Ba l four Committee
Johanna Gordon
Ann Newman
Honorary
Associate Chair
Chair,
Ezekiel Leikin
Sam & Minnie Berman Executive Vice President
Tribute Committee
Leonard Herman
Civic and community leader
and a top business executive,
she is a leading member and
supporter of a score, of pro-
Israel, religious and humani-
tarian organizations.
First appeared on Broadway with
her mother, Judy Garland. Starred
in Broadway's "Guys and Dolls,"
"Girl Crazy," "Mame," "Grease"
and special appearances at the
Hollywood Bowl and London
Palladium. tuft is a musical star
and actress in her own right.
Hon. Ira G. Kaufman
Dr. Sidney Z. Leib
George P. Mann
Milton Marwil
Carmi Slomovitz
Honorary Co-Chairs
Anne Brand
Margaret Kaufman
Pauline Klein
Billie Kramer
Yvette Mandell
Dr. Anne Mann
Helaine Wolf
Chairs, Women's
Committee
Menacher Glaser
Ruben H. Isaacs
Executive Committee
Anne Gonte Silver
Chair, Journal
Committee
Beverly Baker
Harold Berry
Hon. Avern Cohn
Julian Cohen
Carol Rae Cooper
Bruce Goldstein
Gerson Cooper
Leo Goldstein
Max Fisher
Bethea Green
Sam Green
Irwin Green
James Hack
Irving Laker
Sabina Heller
Sheldon L. Miller
Dr. Lillian Hurwitz
Anne Gonte Silver
Alta Kazdan
Dr. I. Walter Silver
Dr. Louis Kazdan
Sidney Silverman
Harry Krim
Freda Steinhardt
Marion H. Leib-
Dr. Milton J.
Malcolm Leventen
Steinhardt
Nathan Lipson
Rabbi M. Robert Syme Seymour Rabotnick
Honorary Chairs
Elliot Ring
Diane Savin
Marty Abrin
Abraham Shapiro
Mitcheal Bloom
Shapiro
Sidney Brand Etta Mary
Solway
Albert J. Burke
Bonnie Stone
Dr. Diana Warshay
Dr. Leon Warshay
Balfour Concert
Committee
Barbara Rabotnick
Executive Secretary
Marsha Kowal
Administrative Aide
BALFOUR CELEBRATION COMMITTEE
Zionist Organization of America
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Southfield, Michigan 48075
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1998
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