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L’Hitraot, Mosl Moshe Dayan’s resignation this week stirred speculation as to who his successor might be and what future plans Dayan might have. See stories at right and on page two. The Southern Israelite The Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry Our 55th Yesr VOL. LV Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, October 26, 1979 No. 43 X' I- :c x What a week! Dayan resigns; court rules against Eton Moreh settlers f-rom press dispatches JERUSALEM—After over coming five no-confidence motions in the Knesset Tuesday, Prime Minister Menachem Begin faced the selection Qf a successor to Moshe Dayan, who resigned Sunday as Israel’s foreign minister. Speculation centered on 70- year-old Yosef Burg, presently interior minister and head of the National Religious Party, and Deputy Prime Minister, Yigal Yadin, 62. Begin faced additional difficulties after Monday’s Supreme Court ruling that gives the government 30 days to move 100 settlers from the Elon Moreh settlement on the West Bank. Reports indicated that Begin is considering moving the settlement to another West Bank site which would not involve private Arab land, but the radical Gush Emunim settlers indicated they would not move. One of Israel’s staunchest advocates of the controversial settlements. Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon was reportedly threatening to resign if the government obeys the Supreme Court order. Dayan’s resignation apparently surprised his fellow ministers, though Begin had known of Dayan's plans several weeks ago. Dayan declared that he could not continue to serve because of his disagreement with the cabinet majority over the conduct of the autonomy negotiations with Egypt and other basic policy matters and because he and his office have been relegated to a secondary role in foreign affairs. Begin expressed deep regret over Dayan's decision and praised his contributions to the peace process over the past two years. He said Dayan's resignation was an important ‘‘national and international event" but stressed that the government will continue to fulfill all of its obligations. Reaction to Dayan's bombshell announcement was swift. Labor Party spokesmen declared it spelled the beginning of the end of Begin's Likud coalition government and its “bankrupt" policies. But opponents of Dayan's moderate policies in Herut and the National Religious Party welcomed his departure. In Cairo. Egypt’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Butros Ghali. a participant in the autonomy negotiations, said Dayan's resignation was proof that the Israeli government’s settlement policies on the West Bank were an obstacle to peace and that this was recognized even within Israel. Growing pains / Kl D util Woliom a n Israel’s kibbutz movement takes practical realistic steps to meet needs of the elderly by Ruth Seligman As a young country whose social orientation is geared to youth and the future, Israel may have been slower than some other societies to recognize and meet the needs of the aged in its midst. If this is true of Israeli society as a whole, it was even more pronounced in the early days of the kibbutz, whose founders were all youngsters. Their values hardly related to a time when a substantial number of them would be old, with all that this involves. They were building 1 not only a new society but also an essentially young society. “We ran away from the problem," said one veteran settler. “We thought we had done enough by allowing women at 45 and men at 50 to work a shorter day, progressively decreasing their hours each five years. We were proud of that, whereas other societies were preventing their members from continuing to work, we were striving to enable our people to continue working—by offering part-time employment for as long as the individual so desired." These work regulations have been in effect since the end of the Second World War and do represent a position worthy of emulation. Yet, they do not answer all questions. “What happens to you in terms of your own self-pride when you can’t work, when you feel that you are not pulling your weight?" asked another settler. “Or. even on a more prosaic level, what happens when you are unable to walk and take your meals in the communal dining room? As ‘vatikim’ (veterans), we are privileged to have the best housing, but it is often far from the dining and social halls. Who will bring our meals to us? What about those of us who are ill and need daily attention? Distances are sometimes so great that in many settlements, it is almost impossible for the nurse to get to all of us." Many practical problems connected with growing old exist even in the relatively caring and protective environment of the kibbutz. “The situation was not eased," said one kibbutznick, “by our refusal to see that a large percentage of us were growing old at the same time. Ntye’d been a homogeneous group of idealistic- youngsters when we founded our settlement. And suddenly—almost overnight it seemed—we were all past our prime.” Although slow to wake up to the problem, it is to the credit of the kibbutz movement that, once awakened, it vigorously set about taking practical and realistic steps to meet the needs of the old. As befitting a society built on and around the ethos of work, one of the first systematic studies of aging in the kibbutz was occupational in nature. This was a booklet published in 1968 by S. Schacher surveying the occupations and activities of aged kibbutz members. Results of this occupational research showed that women members, aged 40 to 50, were being switched from teaching and child-care to services and that men. 50 to 60. were being transferred from agriculture to light industry. Yet. the research also showed that many of the new occupations were not tailored for the aged and job dissatisfaction, especially among the females, was all too evident. Other studies followed, stimulating the kibbutzim to See Growing Pains, page 21 The golden years?