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JANUARY 23,1992
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Mickey and Howard Schoenbaum, during their recent visit to
Israel, planted trees in the Modiim Forest. The "plant a tree
with your own hands" program was experienced by all of the 90
people who accompanied them on this tour. In addition, the
Schoenbaums dedicated the Howard and Mickey Schoenbaum
Family Grove, which is planted in the American Independence
Park located in the Judean Hills outside of Jerusalem.
HOLIDAY FEATURE
Tu B'Shevat celebrated Jan. 20
On Jan. 20, Tu B'Shevat, the '
New Year of the Tree, was
celebrated in Israel when
thousands of Israeli adults and
children participated in Jewish National Fund tree planting throughout the country.
"Each adult and the children of the Columbus religious
schools and Columbus Torah
Academy who planted trees
for Tu B'Shevat know that
they are planting something
living in Israel's earth, something that will help the nation
grow," states Joyce Bloch,
Jewish National Fund Columbus Council president.
Jewish National Fund is
celebrating its 90th Anniversary this year. In the beginning, JNF was established to
purchase land in pre-state Israel for Jewish settlement.
When the original boundaries
of Israel were drawn, they followed the tracts acquired by
Jewish National Fund during
the years prior to 1947.
From the beginning, however, Jewish National Fund
leaders understood that, as
David Ben-Gurion later said,
"ownership is but a precondition to the actual possession of
the land. The real redemption
is in its development and blossoming." In carrying out the
redemption, therefore, JNF
made the land blossom. Almost from its inception, JNF
was engaged in the activity by
which it became best known
and which suited the renewal
of the land. That activity is, of
course, afforestation.
Today, with the massive influx of Russian and Ethiopian
immigrants to Israel, Jewish
National Fund has undertaken
an enormous responsibility for
carrying out pressing develop
ment projects.-Such projects
are to develop 88,000 sites for
housing, prepare sites for industry and agriculture, build
roads from new settlements to
larger populated areas to create better employment opportunities and to develop new
water resources for a country
in its third year of drought.
With the influx of hundreds of
thousands of new citizens, the
drought can create an emergency situation without hew
sources.
"Those who have planted
trees with their own hands
during a visit to Israel feel the
bond created by the sinking of
roots in the soil of Eretz Yisra-
el. Jewish National Fund's es^
tablished role within the Jewish tradition reflects the great
impact the Jewish National
Fund's tree-planting program
makes on those who take part
in it," explains Bloch.
. To plant trees for all occasions, call JNF, 231-1397.
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Israelis remember
the Gulf War with nostalgia
By GO Sedan
JERUSALEM (JTA) - At
its first anniversary, Israelis
are looking back at the Persian Gulf War as if it were a
really good horror movie: full
of startling and terrifying
scenes, but in the end harmless and worth returning to
from time to time.
It is more with nostalgia
than with emotional trauma
that the public is recalling the
war, in which Israel was the
only non-belligerent target of
Iraqi missile attacks.
The war began on Jan. 17,
1991, when the United States
led a 28-nation coalition into
battle to oust the Iraqi invaders from Kuwait. Only hours
later, the first Iraqi scud missiles crashed into Tel Aviv and
Haifa.
A total of 39 missiles landed
on Israeli territory during the
six weeks of fighting. They did
considerable property damage but inflicted few casualties.
They were far less devastating in that respect than the
Nazi "buzz bombs" and V-2
rockets that hit London in
1944, which were technologically a half-century behind the
scuds. And the dreaded chemical warfare attack never materialized.
For those reasons, perhaps,
most Israelis can shrug off the
Gulf war. Some even recall it
wistfully as a time of national
togetherness. And for many
youngsters, it is a fondly remembered time of no school.
Israel Television devoted a
recent night to an hour-long
program memorializing the
war, but in a satirical vein.
The joke was a neurotic Israeli who refused to leave his gasproof sealed room for fear
that the scuds were still falling. The idea, of course, was
lifted from apocryphal tales of
Japanese soldier still hiding in
the jungles of the South Pacific, unaware that World War n
is over.
On another night, an hour
was devoted to the interesting
but largely irrelevant question
of whether women sacrificed
more than men during the
war. The program also asked
whether it was really necessary to close the schools and
shops, thereby imposing partial paralysis on the economy.
Psychologists could attribute the blase reaction of Israelis a year later to a relief syndrome. Events were not as
horrible as feared.
But at the time, no one could
foresee that. When the first
scuds landed, they brought
warfare to the front door of the
civilian population for the first
time since Israel fought for its
independence in 1948. People
feared their cities would be
bombed to ruins, their children poisoned by lethal gas.
In actuality, only one person
died as the result of a missile
hit.
The contrast was sharp be-
. tween the deep apprehension
of the wartime nights, when
the scuds fell, and the war's
anti-climactic aftermath,
which found Israel only slightly bruised. The relief was like
awakening from a nightmare
and realizing it was only a
see WAR pg. 3
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