that will be built, although he esti-
mates the startup cost at $500,000.
Local businessmen hoping to build a
tennis center in Gaza City have taken
small steps to making that a reality.
Seymour Brode, owner of the
Franklin Racquet Club in Southfield,
was contacted by Farmington Hills
resident Arnold Michlin, co-chair of
the locally based American Arab and
Jewish Friends, to try to organize a
local group to pursue funding. Jeff
Kahn, who works for the Israel Auto-
motive Corporation, businessman
Ned Fawaz and attorney Fred Muni
attended the meeting.
According to Brode, the president
of Israel Tennis Centers who was ini-
tially contacted by members of Pales-
tine Tennis Association, land in Gaza
City already has been secured. Kahn's
understanding is that Michlin is lead-
ing the fund-raising effort, but also
believes getting corporate sponsorship
for the center is possible.
Brode is yet to determine final con-
struction figures and size of the facility
A British diplomat who saved as many
as 10,000 Jews from the Holocaust
deserves official recognition from Israel
as one of the Righteous Among
Nations, a senior British Jewish leader
says.
Lord Janner, head of the
London-based Holocaust
Educational Trust, said Frank
Foley should be honored by
Jerusalem's Yad Vashem
Holocaust memorial.
Based on evidence that is
only now emerging, Foley,
who died in 1958, could
enter the history books as
one of the great heroic fig-
An Israeli army officer spares a minute to teach a
ures of the Holocaust.
Palestinian bohow to shoot marbles in the West
As director of the British
passport office in Berlin dur- Bank town of Hebron. The stores behind them were
closed by a curfew imposed in response to
ing the 1930s, Foley freely
opening fire on Jewish settlers there.
gunmen
handed out visas to Jews in
Germany and sheltered sever-
Anthony, senior vice president of com-
al in his home, Janner said in an open
munity health for the St. John Health
letter to Yad Vashem officials. Far
System; Debbie Dingell, president of
from being the paper-pusher he
the General Motors Foundation; Nancy
appeared, Foley was actually Berlin
Margolis, executive director of the Jew-
station chief for British intelligence
ish Community Center and Jewish
until the outbreak of World War II.
Federation of Washtenaw County., and
British journalist Michael Smith,
Barbara Palmer, vice president for cor-
the author of a book about Foley, said
porate human resources for Henry Ford
the facts about the man were only
Health System.
beginning to emerge as some restraints
The
ADL will also give a Lifetime
on intelligence agents have lifted.
Achievement award to Josephine
"He was not allowed to talk to peo-
Weiner who has been active in a range
ple when he came back to Britain,"
of civic and philanthropic causes for
said Smith. "His life in Berlin had to
more than 65 years.
remain secret."
P hoto by t he Assoc iat ed Pres s/Ru th Fremso n
Tennis in Gaza;
another righteous man;
women of achievement
Four women who have helped to pro-
mote understanding for diverse racial,
religious and ethnic groups in the
Detroit area are to be honored by the
Michigan Anti-Defamation League
with its Woman of Achievement
award at a dinner April 19.
Those being honored are Vernice Davis
26 Detroit Jewish News
From the pages of The Jewish News
for this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50
years ago.
1989
Israel Aircraft Industries and the
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in
the United States have joined forces c--`
to produce the Arrow, an Israeli-
designed anti-missile missile.
An Israeli security company built
what it claims is a model of the
booby-trapped suitcase that
destroyed Pan American Flight 103.
1979
A delegation of leaders of the ZOA
presented a petition to President
Carter urging him to move the U.S.
embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
and to recognize Jerusalem as the
capital of the State of Israel.
Eight prisoners, including a con-
victed murderer and an Arab terror-
ist, escaped from Ramla prison and
commandeered a taxi on the Tel
Aviv-Jerusalem highway.
1969
David Packard, new deputy secre-
tary of defense designate in the
Nixon adminstration, told a Cali-
fornia paper that he considered the
Arab-Israel problem the most dan-
gerous one facing America. He also
denounced the Isreali raid on the
Beirut airport.
Marking
100 Years
Of Detroit
Jewry
1959
In the 1950s, a delegation
from the Detroit Service Group,
a division of the Allied Jewish
Campaign, flew to Israel to
learn more about the needs
of the country and its people.
1949
Photo courtesy of Leonard N. Simons
Jewish Community Archives/Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit.
1/15
1999
Remember
When • • •
The health club and physical educa-
tion wing of the Jewish Community
Center new main building on Cur-
tis and Meyers is planning its open-
ing for next month.
Israel extended formal recogni-
tion to the new regime in Cuba and
Golda Meir, in a cable to the Cuban
foreign ministry, said that Israel
wanted continued friendship and
mutual understanding with Cuba.
c--/
David Shapiro, co-captain of the
George Washington University bas-
ketball team, is the hero of the
attempted fix of a Madison Square
Gardens basketball game. He
reported to the police that he had
been offered $1,000 to throw a
game with Manhattan College.