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.