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BEHIND UN SCENES—by David Horowitz
Israel’s Vital UNICEF Role
UNITED NATIONS, (AJP) —
A Report issued here this week
by the United Nations Children’s
Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
sheds a happy light on Israel’s
direct relation to this benefi
cent and humanitarian organi
zation, both as a beneficiary
and as an expert.
The UNICEF Report on the
Middle East reveals that Israel
has fulfilled the organization’s
program in the battle against
polio which struck at the ypung
State within a few years of its
national birth.
— In a series of recurrent epi
demics from 1950 to 1956 and
again in 1958, the Jewish State
was faced with 2400 polio cases,
mostly children, UNICEF step
ped into the picture immediate
ly, first with emergency meas
ures in 1953, supplying out
patient trucks, therapy and re
habilitation equipment. This
held the situation until the
young doughty nation could
establish her present center in
Zrifin—a two-ward hospital
with 80 beds. The Center now
turns out 350 braces a year in
its own brace-shop. It also of
fers a three-year course in the
training of those wonderful,
life-giving people known by the
name of “physiotherapists,’’ but
who are in reality administer
ing angels.
With this accumplisluncni, I.
rael has fulfilled her program
under the UNICEF contract, a
rare report-card indeed, un
equalled by any other Middle
Eastern State except Lebanon.
But Israel’s contribution goes
far beyond her homeground.
For many years, the Jewish
State’s noble Zena Harman has
been on UNICEF’s Program
ming Committee which plans
the UN’s Children’s program on
every continent in the world.
This year the UN recognized her
great services by designating
her Chairman of the UNICEF
Executive Board which approves
the recommendations of the
Programming group. It is a most
responsible position which she
holds with honor and dignity
and which has evoked respect
from all Nations, the Arabs in
cluded.
The biggest problem in the
Middle East is still malaria and
trachoma, and it is one of those
unexpected ironies that the
political blockade, which shuts
off Israel from her Arab neigh
bors, also keeps out these .dread
diseases which are no longer
major problems in Israel.
It is another irony that health
education, baby clinics and mal
nutrition happen to be problems
in all states in the region ex
cept in Israel, and that an Is
raeli executive sits at the head
of the UN table to give Israel’s
best knowledge in the planning
of the campaigns that will even
tually liberate the whole area
from its traditional record of
disease, squalor, dirt and ignor
ance.
Still another irony is that the
work has been slowed down in *
1959 “by the political difficul
ties in the countries of the fer
tile crescent,” by budgetary
problems much of which is due
to military commitments. Tur
key is armed to the teeth, but
is cited as falling down on her
UNICEF program because of
money-shortages.
UNICEF has made it clear on
a number of occasions that the
world’s military burden is ham
pering the work for humanity’s
children. The awful lesson to be
learned from the UN’s most
blessed service, UNICEF, is that
not only war is the enemy of
children. Peace-time armaments
are. In our own time every gun
made takes precious nourish
ment from the mouths of babes.
In the children of the Middle
East we have the most eloquent
and the most pathetic argument
Fag* TUrtow
for peace between Israel and the
Arab states.
UNICEF accomplishments in
Israel with Israeli ingenuity may
serve as a lesson to the rest of
the world. No wonder the
United Nations chose an Israel
noblewoman, wife of former
New York Consul General Ab
raham Harman, as the presiding
guide of its Children’s Fund Ex
ecutive Board.
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