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Friday, Oct. 24, 1969
CARL ALPERT
Cotton, Chickens,
Flowers, Coffee
HAIFA—Israel grows oranges.
What else? The list is long and
impressive, but four items com
manded our attention last week.
Cotton. Fifteen years ago the
“experts” said cotton could not
be grown economically in Israel.
First attempts had failed. But
Sam Hamburger of the U.S.A.
insisted that he could do in Is
rael what he had succeeded in
doing on his California ranch.
He was right.
Today almost 80,000 acres of
Israel land are under cotton cul
tivation. The local crop meets
the entire demand of the local
textile industry, with enough left
over for profitable export. There
are few labor problems because
the entire process is mechanized,
aerial spraying through mech
anical picking. As a result, the
yield per acre sets a world rec
ord, more than double the U. S.
and Egyptian figures.
The result is felt in the local
textile industry which provides
employment for 24,000 workers.
Textiles are now Israel’s second
largest industrial export, ex
ceeding $50,000,000 last year. And
who remembers that cotton is a
vital ingredient of gunpowder?
Chickens. The first hens were
brought to Palestine by the Jews
returning from exile in Bab
ylonia to rebuild the second tem-
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pi?. The poultry industry has
had its ups and downs since
then, but today it is second only
to citrus as Israel’s major agri
cultural produce. During periods
of surplus Israel exports large
quantities of eggs, and has also
built up an overseas market for
day-old chicks, shipped by air.
The major markets are at home,
however, and the consumption
of fowl here rivals the best rec
ords of fund-raising dinners
overseas. Surely this must be a
record of some kind: Israelis
consume a billion eggs a year,
about 400 eggs per person, and
80,000 tons of chicken meat.
Flowers. Last year we export
ed 8 million roses. This year we
marketed 20 million. And the
prospects are for 34 million roses
to be sold overseas next year.
In second place this year were
anemones, followed by gladioli,
carnations and irises. Skilfully
packed, and shipped quickly by
air, Israel’s blooms command
By BEN GALLOB
Many Jewish teenagers who
might be in need of expert
counseling on their problems
“wouldn’t come to us” out of mis
trust for the Jewish Establish
ment, “so we went to them,” the
Allied Jewish Community Ser
vices of Montreal has disclosed.
In a recent “out-reach” effort,
staff members of the Montreal
YM-YWHA sought the youngs
ters out “in the shopping centers,
the comer hang-outs, the ham
burger joints and, when neces
sary, the bars.”
Emanuel Weiner, assistant ex
ecutive directof the AJCS, said
the younger generation was
troubled by ‘‘the pressures
around us,” including “Quebec
separatism, the Middle East,
Vietnam, the manufacture of
napalm, university confrontations
and so on.” He said that the
teenagers also were concerned
with matters closer to home such
as identification with the com
munity, use of drugs, sex and
career choices.
“We knew these young people
would talk about their problems
if they were given the chance,
the right people to talk to, a
place to meet and if we could
get to them,” he added. “But
they wouldn’t come to us so we
went to them. We approached
them on their own territory and
when we gained their confidence,
they started to come to us.”
He reported that when the
teenagers did discuss their prob
lems with the Y workers, the lat-
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A total of 40 million flowers
went overseas this year, com
pared to only 18.5 milion the
year before. And the 1970 target
is 70 million!
Who would have dared predict
these figures twenty years ago
—or ten—or even three?
Coffee. Israel spends $3,000,000
a year importing coffee beans
which are processed here. Raise
our own coffee? Can’t be done,
the experts said. The coffee tree
needs a tropical, rainy climate.
It can not survive Israel’s oc
casional frosts, nor Israel’s frequ
ent hot, dry Hamseens. But the
stubborn lovers of the caffein
drink persisted. It is known that
there are numerous coffee trees
already growing in Israel as
backyard hobbies. They are all
flourishing. And why not? If
bananas can adapt so successful
ly to Israel, why not coffee?
Widespread, carefully controll
ed test planting is now taking
place. If they meet with the
same success as cotton, all that
is required is 9,000 acres to meet
local demand. Beyond that—ex
port.
Cotton, chickens, flowers, cof
fee. Who needs the moon, any
how?
ter realized that specialists often
were needed to handle requests
for information and help. A
meeting of appropriate AJCS
agencies was convened to help
make available at the Y, where
the youngsters were beginning to
gather, such experts as psychi
atrists, job counselors, group
workers and medical personnel.
The agencies agreed to provide
staff members for specified day
and evening periods. Mr. Weiner
said the professionals are now
available as needed or can be
reached for an appointment al
most immediately. He explained
that the gatherings at the Y do
not have any formal structure.
Space, facilities and staff are
made available. Whatever the
youngsters decide to do is done,
he said.
The experience of the project
to date indicates that if a teen
ager is comfortable with such
adults and if he knows he can
speak freely without being ridi
culed or “squealed on,” he will
“open up,” and give both himself
and the professional a chance to
get at the root of his problems,
Mr. Weiner reported. He said
also that “we try to gain an un
derstanding of the person and
not judge him on the basis of
right versus wrong. We look for
the motivation that causes him
to behave in a certain way and
we study his background to try
to find out what circumstances
led to his behavior.” He added
that the young people can and
have learned to trust the work
ers and that they then tell
“what’s bugging them,’ but, he
declared, “the community must
provide the services. If we can
do this and the right staff is
available at the right time, we
will have taken a giant step for
ward.”
(Copyright, 1969—JTA)
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Reparations
Projection
In Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) —
Plans for a campaign by the
Black Economic Development
Conference to present demands
for reparations to the Philadel
phia Jewish community, keyed
to the theme that “the concept
of reparations as repentence is
part of a moral heritage, part of
the Judeo- Christian tradition,”
have been announced here by an
official of the black group.
Muhammed Kenyatba, 26, vice-
president and Pennsylvania di
rector of the black group, said
SCLC Deplores
Persecutions
In Arab States
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) —
The regional director of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference issued a statement
here on behalf of the organiza
tion deploring persecution of the
Jews in the Arab states and con
demning it as “morally despic
able.” Rev. Leonard Smalls de
clared that “the mass executions
which are in reality lynchings of
Christians, Moslems, and Jews
by the Iraqi Government, bear
direct and dreadful witness to
that Government’s dismal policy
of mistreatment and persecution
of religious and ethnic minori
ties.”
The Negro leader also con
demned the continued detention
in Syria of two Israelis, seized
from the hijacked Trans World
Airlines plane on Aug. 29. He
said that “these despicable acts
totally contradict Christian and
Moslem moral principles.” Rev.
Smalls also protested the “sad
plight of the several thousand
Jews in Syria, Iraq and Egypt.”
He said his organization called on
the United States Government,
the United Nations and men of
goodwill everywhere to prevail
on the Arab regimes “to end,
once and for all, the persecution
of their Jewish and other minori
ties.”
the demands will be presented
this month and next, according
to the Exponent, local Jewish
weekly. He told a heavily-at
tended meeting at the Central
YMCA Luncheon Forum that his
organization would address the
congregation of the Main Line
Reform Temple by invitation but
added that synagogues in Phil
adelphia appeared to be basically
hostile to the reparations de
mands. He also told the lunch
eon that “the debt to the black
people is like the Nazi debt to
the State of Israel.” He also told
the luncheon that the demands
for reparations were being aimed
at religious institutions because
“the white churches and syna
gogues are white multi-billion
dollar capitalist-racist industries”
and because “churches are the
biggest landlords . .
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