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Vol. 38. No. 18
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, I960
D«vot«d to Amwle«n and J.wlib Id.alt
Israel To Celebrate 12th Anniversary Of Rebirth On May 2
BY ALFRED H. PAWL
(Copyright, 1960, JTA, Inc.)
Israel celebrates the 12th an¬ niversary of the rebirth of the State on May 2 tills year. When New Israel was established on May 14, IBiS, the total popula¬ tion of the Uttle land was 660,- 000. Now there are 2,088,680 per¬ sons livlnlf in larael—including 229,844 non-Jews, The area to¬ day ISi of course, the same as in 1948—a mere 7,992.8 square miles.
Juxtapose tWs narrow land against the area occupied by the neighljorlng Arab states, total¬ ing' 1,675,234 square miles. Bal- lance Israel's presciit popuid- tion of over 2,000,000 against the surrounding Arab population aggregating   almost  50,000,000.
ONE WONDERS how Israel lias not only survived but in¬ deed flourished. Both facts, hoTvevej", are true. It has, not only lived on. It has gained in every phase of economic prog¬ ress; social advance, poiiticai and  diplomatic  development
Concerning ourselves here only with the social and eco¬ nomic growth of Israel—leaving politics and diplomacy in other hands*—one sees these bald facts:
The population, as shown by the above figures, has more than tripled.
INDUSTRXAl. production has grown to suoh heights that com¬ parisons with 1948 are literally impossible.   Industrially,   it   is
not at all the same country. E\)r   instance:
In 1948, industrial product in the Jewish yisbuv was negligi¬ ble. By 1958, in Israel's first 10 years. Industrial production had rdsem to a value of $962,000,000. The production of eleotriclty liad risen, between 1949 and 1959, from 316,000 Itiiowatt hours t)o 1,500,000 Itwh. Exports rose eight times—from a value of $29,680,000 to a value of $239,- 000,000. Imports almost doubled —from a value of $253,120,000 to $500,000,000, Shipping grew by 20 times—.from 14,000 gross tons in 1948 to 278,000 gross tons in 1959.
In agriculture, it is the same story. Israel haa a total of 2,426,450 acres of culUvabie lands. Of this total, 1,100,000 acres are now under cultivation. Thafs double the area under cultivation tn 1948. Agricultural production has more than trip¬ led, from a value of $24,700,000 in 1948 to a value of $90,500,000 10 years later. There has been a 0ve-lold Increase in the area of lands under cultivation, and a five-fold Increase in forest acreage.
TO JUDGE the effect of all this vast economic growth on the population of Israel, one must consider certain basic fac¬ tors. Israel's infant mortality rate—not only among the Jew¬ ish population but among the Arabs in Israel as well—is the lowest in the Middle East; the Infant mortality rate in the Jewish population is among the
lowest In the entire world.
Israel's medical set-up—^in the number of hospitals and clinics, number of doctors per 1000 populablon, etc.—is one of the brightest in the entire world, comparing favorably with many of the most advanced countries in the Western world, including even tlie United States.
Israel lntr6duced compulsory education for ali children at the very rebirth of the State. Ele¬ mentary school attendance in Israel rose, In the State's Urst 11 years, from 108,000 to 500,000. Do the Arabs share progress in this field? They do.
EliEMENTARY school at¬ tendance of Arab clliidren in Israel totalled only 6780 in 1948;
that figure rose by 1949 to 40,100. The number of school teachers In Israel Increased In the first 11 years from 5964 to 21.700—a rise of four times.
In the field of tilgher educa¬ tion, Israel is outstanding, rec¬ ognized by the world as a cen¬ ter of higher learning and scien¬ tific advanoe. The Hebrew Uni¬ versity, Technlon. Bar-Han Uni¬ versity, the Undversity of Tel Aviv and the Weizmann Insti¬ tute of Science do not talte sec¬ ond place to any similar insti¬ tutions in the entire world.
During the past year, Israel estaiblisihed a new National Coundi for Scientific Research and Development, with the fa¬ mous Prof. Israel Dostrovsky as clialrman of this 21-man body.
THE WEIZMANN Institute itself is a shining example of growth in Israel. That Institute celebrated ^.s 10th anmlrersary only last N^ember. Ita staff now consists, of 600 worlcers, in¬ cluding 200 world-famous scien¬ tists and 100 laljoratory techni¬ cians.
Americans who icnow Abba Elian weU-—from his long serv¬ ice here as Israel Am.bassador and chairman of Israel's dele¬ gation to the United Nation*— laiow that he is now president of Wedzmanm Institute. This year, In August, one of the world's most important scien¬ tific congresses will l>e held at Rehovoth, under the auspices of the Weizmann Institute.
One could go on listing facts, figures and statistics for many pages to Indicate growth in Is¬ rael. The data given here are illustrative, but far from Com¬ prehensive. However, the pic¬ ture is clear, at least in outline.
AIX POUmOS aside, all diplomacy notwithstanding, Is¬ rael is there, is growing, Is de- developing. It needs much more . money; it needs far greajter se¬ curity; it deserves the continu¬ ing, Indeed the increasbisr back¬ ing, of all its many friends throughout the world, rton-Jew- Ish as well as Jewish. But as to its viability and, above all, Hs worthwhileness—of these there is no doulrt.
Happy Birthday!
American Foreign Relations 'Embarrassed' By Blockade
Women's League To Hold Confab Here
Final plans have been completed for the Oliio-Kentucliy Branch Conference of the National Women's League, to be heid May 1 through May 3, at the Deshler-Hilton Hotel, with the Tifereth Israel Sisterhood as hostess.
Mrs.  Albert  Blank,   local   conference   chairman,   and   her   co- chairmen   Mesdames   Richard   Lieberman,   WiUiam   Barash   and Cliarles Talis, announced that following Sunday's Keynote Address by  Rabbi  Natlian  Zelizer,  Mon¬ day's sessions wiU l>e opened at 9:30 ajn. In the Hail of Mirrors, with    D'Var    Torah    by    Rabbi Lester Segal of OMo State Uni¬ versity's Hillel Foundation, on the topic, "Reflection of Ourselves as Parents."  This  will  be  followed at 10 a.m. by a Plenary Session.
FROM U AJtt. TO noon, there will be two concurrent worlt- shops. The Publicity Worltshop wiil be conducted by Mrs. James Briers, former assistant to the manager ot WBNS-TV, and pres¬ ently script writer and com¬ mentator for WBNS radio. She Is a member of the State Board of the League of Women Voters, and Is active in the State Legis¬ lature.
At the same time, there will be a Sunday School Relations Workshop, directed by Mrs. Mar¬ tin Shenker, activities director of the Temple Tifereth Israel
At 12:30 pjn. there will be a luncheon in the Hall of Mirrors, and all Sisterhood members are invited to attend. Tickets are $3.80. For reservations please call Mrs. Arthur Westerman, BB. 1- 5876.
AT 1:80 Pja, salute to the presidents, old and n*w, wdll be presented by Mra Nathan Zelizer.
At 2 pjn.. Dr. Marvin Foot, as¬ sistant professor of philosophy, Ohio State University, will apeak on "Keys to Knowledge as Ameri¬ can Women—What is Our Re¬ sponsibility as American Jewish Women."
At 2:46 pjn. the launching of tbe coordinated educational ac¬ tivities committee is planned.
At 8:30 pjn., keys to branch service will be preaented by Mrs. Victor    Weis,    a    vice-president.
Mrs. IjouIs Sussman
highlighting each branch chair¬ manship. Mrs. Joseph Miller, branch Tprah Fund chairman wiii apeak on Torah Fund. Mrs. Louis Susaman, past president of the National Women's League, will speak on the Mathilda Schecter Resldencei  HaU   project
A CANTATA, "Hands of Dedi¬ cation,''' directed and produced by Mrs. N. Nateman and Mrs. H. H. Weinljerg, wiU be presented by the following members of the Tifereth Israel Sisterhood; Mes¬ dames Sanford Betker, Sam Eis- ensteint Fred Fischer, MUton Glas, Marvin Gutter, Kurt Hoff¬ man, Nonnan Katz, Herman Kress, J. Sheldon Levy, Richard Liel>erman, Sanford Lipson and Leonard  Wasserstrom.
The evening will culminate with a branch party at 10 p.m. in
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(Copyright, 1960, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The United States State Departmemt moved against the first counter-blockade against Arab shipping with a statement that picketing of the Egyptian ship, the Cleopatra, by New York seaman was "embarrassing" the conduct of American foreign  relations.
The State Department comment was one of a series of actions and reactions involving United Nations Secretary (Seneral Dag Hammarskjold, the Seafarers In- temjational Union, the Federal District Court of New York, the Arab Trade Undons and the Scan¬ dinavian union movement
THE CLEOPATRA, a passen¬ ger-cargo vessel remained im- mobilized at an East River berth in New York wldle the Seafarers Union and the International Long¬ shoremen's Union awaited federal court action on a bid by the Khedivlai Mail Line of Alexan¬ dria, owners of the Cleopatra, for an injunction to halt the picket¬ ing. VS. District Court Judge EkJiward Weinfeld denied the mo- tdon and the case was moved to the court of Judge Thomas E. Murphy,   who   reserved   decision.
Attorneys for the two unions toid Judge Murphy that more than 100 American sliips were cur¬ rently blacicllsted by the UAR "and thousands of Jol»s are in¬ volved for American seamen."
Hammarskjold became involved in the dispute when reports de¬ veloped in Israel that he had in¬ tervened with the Scandinavian Transport Workers Federation in the lifttng of the Swedish mari¬ time workers of thedr two-week boycott of UAR shipping.
HAMMARSKJOLD angrily de¬ nied the report at a press confer¬ ence, asserting that the "very idea" of sucih intervention by liim was "stupid." However, the Reu¬ ters News Agency reported from Stocltiholm that the Scandinavian Transport Workers Federation had discussed with the Secretary General "the question of Scan¬ dinavian ships that have been in¬ terfered with in the Suez Canal on the way to or from Israel."
The Israel Foreign Ministry de¬ clined comment on the reported Intervention, Indicating it was awaiting an authoritative report from the Israel Embassy in Stook- Iiolm on the ending of the Swedish antl-UAR boycott.
The Israel press, however, waa virtually unanimous in stating the Intervention to be a fact A typi¬ cal comment was that of Davar, the official organ of the Hlsta^ drut which said the reported In¬ tervention might liave l>een some¬ what justified if Hammarskjold "lias some other plan against the Egiyptlan boycott of Israel ships and goods," a possibUIty about whloh the news^per waa highly skeptical.
nv AN IMMEDIATE response
to the picketing of the Qeopatra, Syrian port workers picketed three _American freighters and two oil tankers In the port of Latakia and in the oil port of Banias. Syrian authorities said American vessels would not be handled in UAR ports until the picketing of the Cleopatra was ended. The Arab trade unions met to plan a general boycott In ail Arab ports of United States sliipplng to counter the blockade against the Cleopatra.
The State Departmeait comment was preceded by an expression by the UAR of "offioiai concern" to the State Department over the blockade of the Cleopatra. UAR Ambassador Mostafa Kamel de¬ livered the protest personally to G. Lewis Jones, Assistant Secre-' tary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. The UAR envoy called the   picketing   of   the   Cleopatra
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A Veteran Champion
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion of Israel woe accompanied on his reocoit visit to the United States by his wife, Fanbt. A veteran champion of Pioneer Women programs in Israel, 9 m. Ben-Ourion, left^ conferred while in this oonntry with Oara Leff, national president, on the need to strengthen Pioneer Woni m tor th0 tasks tJi&t lie ffhwii^.
HILLEL ACTIVITY .
TEP's Win 1960 Stunt Night
BY LABBT SOPPEL
The B'nai B'rlth HUlel Foundation's annual Stimt NIglit took place at Mershon Auditorium on April 20 with Tau Epsllon Phi fraternity winning first place with its skit, "Free Me Lord."
Alpha Bpaiion Pi fraternity took second place with its skit, "The Unjailables." Sigma Delta Tau sorority and Sigma Alpha Mu fra¬ ternity tied for tliird place.
Tms YEAR'S ediUon of Stunt Night was the most enjoyable in a long time. The crowd waa
one of the largest ever. Proceeds from the evening go to the United Jewdsh Student Fund which is turned over ' to the Columbus United Jewish Pund and CJoun- cdl. Over 800 persons from the campus and Columbus communi¬ ties attended.
The entire evening utiUzed the time and talent of over 2000 Jew¬ ish students on the campus. Com¬ petition among the participants is very keen and the "old coUege spirit" so often quoted was defdnltely prevetont during prep¬ arations, which for many of the groups began as much as one year in advance.
HUlel Stunt Night la nearly as old as HUlel Itself a>t Ohio State. Since Mersl^on Auddtorium was built Stunt Night bas been held there attracting many more tlian was possible in the HiUel audi¬
torium.
THE SKITS are prepared and performed by memliers of the sororities and fraternities. (3en- erally they use music from Broad¬ way allows and write new words to It to fflt Into a general theme.
Occasionally, as was the case with Delta Phd Epsilon sorority's skdt, "Model in the Middle of a Muddle," the words and the music were original. And that takes a lot of talent and work.
But to win a trophy, a group must show more than just origin¬ al words and musdc. Organization, execution, scenery, poise, move¬ ment — aU tills and more la con¬ sidered by <fhe Judges before they make their decialona.
THB JUDGIES this year wpre meonibers of the University music, speech and dance departments.
Six of the nine Jewish fraieml- ties and sororities om the campus participated this year. In addition to those already mentioned. Al¬ pha EpsUon Pill sorority preaent¬ ed a sldt entitled, "The Day the First Graders Met In the Low Spot"
The winning sldt "Free Me Lord" was concerned with free¬ dom of the Negro from slavery. It contained an Interesting con¬ trast of Harry Belafonite type numljers with a few dia cha steps thrown In. It was weU executed. the scenery was magnitytng .bi^' perhaps most of all, tb^ skjt bad a message. It wad not Just ^Iit entertainment which Is ustiaiUy. associated with Hillel Stunt Nights. •
THE SKIT may have been de¬ serving but since it was the sanie '! aa that used by the TElP's in (^ spring of 1967. when It alfio Won flrat place, I could see no reaaon for It to take first place again, r^ even though the performera *ere ¦ different  ' .::,.;:,.!:;;,;;,i,'
Alpha EpaUon Pi's ski(^:,;*Xte ! UnjaUables,'" was based Wi •JCfUy^ ¦ Mid- DoUs." •ni© 'BbagingJi^^l^^rw'^ gmphy and llg^tlmgf mate t^* i^;•
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