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Fees may reduce earnings if minimum is not maintained. 1 , 1999 Sterling Bank & Trust FSB. 1999 22 Detroit Jewish News FDIC Sharing Ideals New Israel Fund eyes _friend in Prime Minister-Elect Barak. Israel is secure in its existence. So now it's fighting for its soul, said Goldblum, chief news editor for Israeli national radio from 1972 to 1989. rime Minister-Elect Ehud "Our goal is an Israel pluralistic Barak looks to be a good guy and tolerant enough to allow all sectors in the New Israel Fund's to live together under one roof and efforts to protect Israel's frag- accept the rules of the ile democracy, said an inter- game, which is, of course, national board member of democracy," she said. the nonpartisan agency on a June Rogul, U.S. out- Detroit stopover last week. reach director of the "He will be the prime 7. New Israel Fund, put it minister for everybody," this way: said Israela Goldblum, one "We're working of 50 international board toward a society that members of the New Israel pulls together the dis- Fund, which is dedicated to parate groups and nar- "the prophetic vision of jus- Israela Goldblum rows the extremes — the tice, equality and peace. ultra-Orthodox and the "Like us," the Jerusalem resi- secular, the Ashkenazi and the dent said in an interview at the Jewish Sephardic, the immigrants and the News, "Barak feels Israeli society is native Israelis." painfully polarized. We'd like to Rogul, who accompanied believe he will create a climate for the Goldblum to Detroit, stressed that the change we want to bring about." 20-year-old agency takes its cues from A cooperative venture among Israeli voters, not the prime minister Israelis, North Americans and or the Knesset, so it doesn't really mat- Europeans, the Washington-based ter who's in power. New Israel Fund is affiliated with Democracy is a never-ending pur- Israel's Association for Civil Rights. suit. More than one-million immi- Both believe in a government ruled grants have arrived since the 1970s and by laws of state, not of Torah. now represent 20 percent of Israel's Results of the May national elections, 5.5-million residents, Goldblum said. which saw candidates fielded by 15 "Many have come from countries political parties, "clearly indicate Israeli with no tradition of democracy," she society suffers from fragmentation and is said, "so they didn't understand what in need of a new director of a democrat- it was to have organized rights or to ic co-existence," Goldblum said. be integrated into society." She sees the Nev.' Israel Fund and The New Israel Fund's message is the groups that it supports as having complex, Goldblum acknowledged. more influence in their pursuit of "It's much easier to come to Israel democratic ideals under Barak. He and be movec113y its great achieve- seems to be open to women's rights, ments than to see the down sides. It's to Israeli Arab citizens getting full cit- hard for Jews to face the shattered izenship rights and to being aware of myth of the perfect Israel — of a social and economic gaps," she said. homogenous, united society." Fl Fifty-one years after its founding, ROBERT A. SKLAR Editor IED Detroiters Contribute Detroit has 150 active donors who gave $70,000 of the $18 million raised internationally last year by the New Israel Fund. There are 21,000 donors worldwide. The Fund supports activities and organizations in Israel that protect civil and human rights, promote Jewish-Arab equality and coexistence, foster tolerance and religious pluralism, advance the status of women, bridge social and economic gaps, aid citizen environmental efforts and boost government accountability. N