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THE (ODIHIIN ISRAELITE
Preventing Future Wadi Salibs
By ABRAHAM PENN
The North African rioters who
tore through the slum streets of
the Wadi Salib section of Haifa
last summer, provoked a na
tional discussion in Israel on the
complex and often painful pro
cess of forming, a nation of
widely diverse human elements
from many lands and differing
cultures.
There was universal agree
ment on one point: the schools
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and especially the trade schools,
which prepare youth for work,
can be a force of major import
ance in facilitating adjustment
of newcomers to Israel society.
The auestion is. of course, not
limited to those who have come
from North Africa, but extends
to the multitude of immigrants
from 70 countries, each of which
has its special set of adaption
problems.
A recent survey of trade
school students sheds light on
the role these institutions are
already playing as human inte
grators. The study covers some
3,200 youngsters, ages 13-18, at
tending the full-time day voca
tional schools of ORT, located in
22 localities throughout Israel.
The facts that emerge comprise
a kind of statistical profile of
Israel’s adolescent population.
The basic division, in a total
of 3,248 youths covered in the
the survey, is between native
born sabras and so-called “new
immigrants,” referring to those
who arrived after establishment
of the state in May. 1948. The
figures show the two groups to
be almost equally represented:
1,555 sabras and 1,582 post-inde
pendence arrivals, or about 48
percent each. The balance is com
posed of pre-1948 immigrants.
Since these are community
schools, the breakdown is not
the same for each. It varies, as
would be expected with local
population makeup. Thus, in the
Tel Aviv and Nathanya ORT
schools—Tel Aviv with its long-
settled. predominantly Ashkena
zic population, which has just
celebrated its 50th anniversary,
and the Nathanya school, which
attracts boys from agricultural
settlements in the Sharon Plain
that date back several decades—
WASHINGTON—Ultra-sophis
ticates from New Yorker maga
zine cartoons rub shoulders with
dog-eared citizens of L’il Abner’s
Dogpatch at the B’nai B’rith
Building here.
They’re part of a cartoon and
comic strip display in the Klut-
znic Exhibit Hall honoring four
outstanding American Jewish
cartoonists. A1 Capp, Rube Gold
berg. Saul Steinberg and the
late Milt Gross.
Rube Goldberg, a name synony
mous with wacky inventions, is
represented bv the originals of
many of his intricate schemes.
Equally well known as an edi
torial cartoonist, Goldberg won
a Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for his
the proportion of sabras runs to
two-thirds.
At schools, designed to serve
predominantly immigrant com
munities such as Affule, Ashke-
lon. Lydda, Kyriat Shmoneh, the
picture is reversed and two-
thirds fire new arrivals.
A country of origin break
down shows 40 percent of immi
grant students coming from
Asia and another 25 percent
from North Africa. The propor
tion of youth from underdevelop
ed areas attending all the dif
ferent trade schools of ORT is
thus some 65 percent of all stu
dents who arrived after forma
tion of the state. But they com
prise only 31 percent of the en
tire student group surveyed.
If family origin rather than
immigration of the student is
taken as the criterian, the ori
ental proportion rises to 40 per
cent.
Since Oriental children, com
pose almost 60 percent of youth
in the age bracket fox secondary
schools, it is clear that these
schools have a long wav to go
to bring an adequate segment of
such youth within ther educa
tional range.
As to size of family, which is
relevant to the extent of social
services required in the schools,
the study reports that 56 per
cent of the youngsters were
from homes of five or more;
one in every five came from
homes of seven or more.
The survey also casts light on
another hurdle to integration-
language. To the question: what
language is spoken in the home,
the replies indicated that He
brew was the family tongue
among only 44 percent.
There is no doubt, from these
figures, of the central import
ance of trade schools in the
process of Israelization. No less
political cartooning, 'some of
which are also displayed.
Capp, chairman of the Car
toonists Committee of President
Eisenhower’s - People-To-People
program, has included some 1 of
his “crusading” works, among
them a L’il Abner pamplet lam
basting religious and racial pre
judice, a “L’il Polio Bug” car
toon for the March of Dimes,
safety cartoons, and World War
II Savings Bond certificates dec
orated with “Schmoos.”
Stenberg’s satirical sketches
of Fifth Avenue socialities with
their chauffeur-driven limou
sines. riding sticks and French
poodles have become the motif
of the New Yorker.
Gross became world-famous
for his comic strips. “Banana
Oil.” “Nize Baby,” “Gross Ex
aggerations” and “That’s My
Pop!” A more serious side of
Gross as an artist is shown in
a display of his white and black
sketches of country scenes.
Jewish Textbooks
Free of Bias,
Scholars Report
NEW YORK. (JTA) —Jewish
religious textbooks deserve “the
highest mark” for being free of
material prejudicial to any race,
religion or color, it was announ
ced here by scholars who have
completed "a three-year study of
such texts.
The study was headed by Dr.
Bernard D. Weinryb, professor of
Jewish history at the Yeshiva
University’s Bernard Revel Grad
uate School, who is also on the
faculty of the Dropsie College for
Hebrew and Cognate Learning.
Philadelphia. He was aided by
Meir Ben-Horin as consultant,
and bv Daniel Garnick as re
searcher.
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The study also investigated
the social origin of the students,
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