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Page 16 Griffin Daily News Monday, May 3,1976 Lawlessness part of Israel’s fabric By Macabee Dean TEL AVIV - (NEA) - Israelis woke up recently to discover they were in the midst of a wave of violence and crime — in the best (or rather the worst) American tradition, complete with threats, extortion, “protec tion money”, rape, murder — and even a corrupt police of ficer or two. According to official police figures for 1974, one out of every 21 Israelis (or 162,000 persons out of a population of 3,400,000) was the victim of a “serious” crime. This is ap proximately the same rate as in the United States, accor ding to FBI figures. There has always been crime in Israel, despite stories of the “good old days” 30 to 40 years ago, when per sons left their doors unlocked. (As one wit said, “they were left unlocked since there was nothing to steal then ”) But the crime has always been of a “passive type,” such as doctoring income tax returns, dealing on the black market, stealing cars and breaking into and robbing apartments. The victim, often the state itself, would lose financially - but physical harm was a rarity. But all this has changed. The days of peaceful crime in Israel have passed. Police Minister Shlomo Hillel recently told the Knesset (Parliament) that crimes of violence had in creased 37 per cent in 1975 over 1974 — and were still ris ing. Attempts at murder had increased by 100 per cent; <r ? cF ‘ v . ** £. fd^u^-fS^^ —g . 3 <> : I ELECT I I Jimmy Carter I I GEORGIA'S FIRST I I PRESIDENT I ■■ v yl I I I Georgia's First Presidential Primary I I MAY 4, 1976 I I Meet Jimmy Carter’s I I Delegates and Alternates I I 6th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT I I DELEGATES alternates I I Post 1 ■ JAMES A. MANKIN Post 1 ■ FRANCES TEEL I (PLEDGED TO JMMV CARTER) (PLEIXIED TO JIMMY CARTER) Post 2 - CONNIE PLUNKETT Post 2 - DOROTHY (PLEDGED TO JIMMY CARTER) If IDIf P ATDlf*lf Post 3 - RAYMOND HEAD (PLEDGED TO JIMMY CARTER) B (PLEDGED TO JIMMY CARTER) M murder threats had increased by 35 per cent. The overall crim’e rate increased by 13 per cent in 1975, and by a total of 32 per cent since the Yom Kippur War of October, 1973. The sharp upsurge in crime was expected, for every war brings in its wake a crime wave. As Inspector-General of Police Shaul Rosolio wrote more than a year ago: “The Yom Kippur War in fluence was felt throughout 1974 Its results were widespread social, economic and political unrest, the dis solution of moral values and an increase in criminal activi ty . . .” But the roots of the present outburst of violence go back many years before the Yom Kippur war, according to both criminologists and sociologists here. A primary cause is the fact that Israel is, and was, a land of immigra tion, with a mingling of per sons from diverse backgrounds, cultures and outlooks And this causes fric tion. Superimposed on this was an enormous, unwieldy and in efficient bureaucracy. And the best way to fight this bureaucracy, as thousands of newcomers learned all to soon, was “to pound on the table.” If this did not help, “to pound on the head of the of ficial sitting behind the table.” Punishment for such acts was generally mild —for the public usually sympathized with the attacker, not with the official. Such violence becomes away of life. Social workers were soon beaten up, not for inefficiency but for not granting higher monthly social welfare payments. Teachers were at tacked not for being bad teachers, but for giving bad marks. Doctors were thrash ed for not giving the medicines that the patient — yes, the patient — demanded. The narrow line faded between those demanding their legitimate rights from the bureaucratic system, to those actually preying on the system, and on the public, in some criminal form. "Get rich” schemes by il legal means proliferated. And the easiest of all schemes was the “protection” racket. This was the state of affairs when the Yom Kippur War broke out — and thousands of Israeli soldiers fell; others came home in a bitter mood. The entire population went into a state of shock, casting a bitter eye at the country’s leaders, whom, they felt, had betrayed them. Yitzhak Rabin replaced Golda Meir as prime minister. Even a charismatic figure like Moshe Dayan fell in public favor. A series of financial scan dals rocked the country. The Israel-British Bank collapsed — since its director-general of the Israel Corporation was found guilty of fraud, bribery and corruption. Even worse, corruption was found in the Israel Defense Forces, a body which had been held until now in the highest esteem Faith in the country's police and judicial system wavered, and more persons with grievances took the law into their own hands. A doctor in Nahariya refus ed to give the treatment a patient demanded; he was murdered. An official in Ashdod refused to give a man who failed his driving test a driving license; he was shot to death. An irate fan at a soccer game in Rehovot stabbed a player to death. A kangaroo court in Jerusalem sentenced a member of the underworld to death — and carried out the sentence. And an American couple, new immigrants who had settled in a small village near Jerusalem, pulled up stakes and went back to the States since a pair of hoodlums were terrorizing them and the rest of the village. These cases, admittedly, were isolated and extreme. But in Israel today the un derworld flourishes as never before. 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