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ball star. Herb Gorman, who had
been with the St. Louis Cards but
was back playing for San Diego in
the minors, passed out in the midst
of a game and died in a hospital
shortly afterwards. Gorman, an
outfielder, was only 27 years old. . .
Brandeis University got a huge
new gymnasium that holds 3,000
spectators for basketball contests.
Brandeis continued its policy of
playing football on Saturdays, and
further expanded its athletic pro
gram . . . Yeshiva University an
nounced an expanded athletic set
up for the coming year. Yeshiva
said the emphasis would be on the
athletic development of the play
ers. . . .
The Rego Park Jewish Center of
Queens, New York, was the victor
in the annual national basketball
tournament of the National Jewish
Welfare Board. The victory earned
the Rego Park players the honor
of participating in the Maccabiah
on the U. S. squad. . . .
Lou Spindell, one of the great
Jewish basketball players who was
outstanding 20 years ago, joined
those who fell victim to the Mc
Carthyite investigations of the
school system. Spindell was dis
missed from his teaching post in
New York. . . .
The wrestling rabbi from Israel
made a hit in the grappling arena.
Raphael, “Mr. Halpern, who was
graduated from a Jerusalem rab
binical school, met some of the top
wrestling attractions in the coun
try ... In the book world, two
volumes of interest to Jewish sports
fans were published: “The World’s
Greatest Boxing Stories," an antho
logy edited by Harold Ribalow; and
“Bullfighter from Brooklyn," an
autobiography by the famed Jew
ish bullfighter, Sidney Franklin •
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Year in Israel Immigration
By ALEPH SHERMAN
— TEL AVIV
The Israel public has been
awakened suddenly from its dreams
of reaching a population of 4,000,-
000 before the end of the decade,
by the news that for the first six
months of this year there were
more emigrants than immigrants.
The Immigration Council, a public
body representing the Jewish Agen
cy, Zionist organizations, and gov
ernment departments, met in July
to consider the problem, but failed
to reach any clear-cut conclusions
which they could press on the Jew
ish Agency and the Government.
This year’s figures, in fact, seem to
set the seal once and for all on the
ending of the period of mass immi
gration, and emphasizes the need
for a new stocktaking.
Immigration had already begun
to fall off sharply last year, when
it totalled some 23,000, just twice
as much as the estimated 11 or 12
thousand emigrants. For the first
six months of 1953 immigration is
down to 5,300, while emigration is
estimated at 6,700.
If one looks at quality instead of
quantity the situation is far more
serious . . . Three-quarters of those
leaving immigrated after the found
ing of the state, but a quarter are
veterans. Whereas most immigrants
have been brought here at expense,
and large numbers of them come
from backward countries, and in
clude women, children, aged, sick,
and illiterate; those leaving are
mostly people in the “productive”
age groups, professional people or
others who are confident that they
can get into the countries of their
destination, often Canada or the
United States. Most possess skills
the country can ill afford to lose,
whereas most new immigrants are
unskilled.
The Immigration Council, and
public opinion generally, show a
greater measure of agreement over
the causes of the present loss of
manpower than over its cure. First
come material difficulties, especially
housing, since there is no housing
available for rent, unless the new
comer can pay key-money of
several thousand Israel pounds, or
unless he can buy a flat outright.
Living standards in Israel are low,
and the professional worker or
high government official finds that
he earns little, if anything, more
than his doorman or chauffeur (who
is, of course, a government, not pri
vate, employee). Though the food
situation has improved a good deal,
and clothing is plentiful for those
who have money, problems of ser
vants, schooling, and replacement
of furniture, to mention only a few,
are more difficult here than in any
European or American country.
Problems of employment also
loom large, and there is the usual
difficulty of the newcomer in any
country; though Israel welcomes all
Jews, the institution of seniority is
also very strong, and it is not so
easy for the newcomer to adjust to
his changed status.
The mass immigration from back
ward countries, which has brought
in large numbers of children, old
people, sick, mental cases, and so
cial cases, consists mainly of petty
tradesmen who show no marked
inclination to go into agricultrure,
and who swell the ranks of the un
skilled workers for whom work has
to be made at a time when there
is already heavy unemployment. All
this takes money and increases the
taxation which weighs on the
middle classes and professional
people. In this way mass immigra
tion is a contributory cause to emi
gration.
Beside shortages here, there are
controls, and many sections of the
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