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Legend has it thit, up until about
idea of taking 5,000 unemployed peo-
the late 1960s, Israel was so safe from
ple and putting them on the police
crime that people didn't even lock
force. Police Chief Yehuda Wilk
their doors when they went out. But
responded that while the police force
that was when the country was
needed new officers, not just
still in thrall to the values of
any Yossi, Motti or Gabi
Avigdor
nation-building and one-for-
would do.
Kahalani
all, all-for-one. It was also a
He also noted that the
increased
time when there wasn't much
Israeli police force, which
patrol shifts.
in Israel worth stealing.
numbers about 14,000, had
Then, after the Six-Day
added 1,000 new officers over
War, came the debut of properity.'And
the last year. But former police chief
television. And competition and sta-
Ya'acov Terner said the force was so
tus-seeking. The '80s saw the entry to
understaffed that it needed to double
Israel, mainly via Lebanon, of hard
in order to be effective.
drugs. By the '90s, the Zionist Puritan
Adi Eldar, mayor of the Galilee city
ethic had waned and the new philoso-
of Karmiel and head of the association
phy was every-man-for-himself
of Israeli municipalities, said the
Combine this with the steadily rising
police couldn't fight crime properly
unemployment of the last two years,
because they were constantly being
and the steadily growing income gap
called on to supplement the army in
between the rich and poor, and it's no
defending the populace against terror
surprise that crime in Israel is now
attacks, especially in Jerusalem.
rapidly growing.
So when it comes to crime, maybe
Nonetheless, Israel remains a much
Israel really is still special. ❑
safer place than America. There is no
such thing as an Israeli neighborhood,
at least a Jewish one, where people are
afraid to walk at night. (Tel Aviv will
This week, Israel Police released
remain the exception until the Serial
the crime figures for the first half
Rapist is captured or desists.) With 6
of 1998, and compared them to
million people, a murder rate of less
the first half of 1997. Here are
than 200 a year is beyond the dreams
some of the results:
of even New York City tough-on-
Overall crime went up 12.5
crime Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
percent. Within that figure, break-
But by western standards, "safer
ins went up 14.5 percent; rob-
than America" isn't saying much. The
beries up 13.5 percent; drug busts
telling poi-nt is that Israel is no longer
up 10 percent; juvenile arrests up
a trusting, virginal place. When it
15 percent; rapes up 8.9 percent.
comes to crime, even violent crime,
The only relatively encourag-
Israel isn't special anymore.
ing statistic in the table was for
Without much of a clue on how to
murders, which had only gone
change the social causes of crime,
up 1.1 percent. The body count
Israeli officials turned to law-and-
for the first six months of 1998
order solutions: mainly beefing up the
stood at 91.
police department. Knesset Member
Micha Goldman came up with the
Rising Stats
❑
In Crosswinds Plaza
Corner of Orchard Lake Road
And Lone Pine Road
8/21
248.539.1181
1998
44 Detroit Jewish News