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Dear Friends, I actually wanted to say that we are now at the end of the "Long hot Summer" but looks like everything is late this year. Actually 1994 will be remembered as a year of dramatic developments. Hard to believe that only a year has passed since Oslo!!! Travel this year has also boomed, with many thousands who never dreamed of being overseas finding themselves on the Turkish Riviera at prices cheaper than Eilat. This trend shows no sign of letting up, but if you can, my serious advice is not to go during peak periods (e.g. chagim). It is just not pleasant. Europe too has become closer with very cheap flights attracting travel lers. Not to mention Thailand and China etc. El-Al is now opening a new route to Hong Kong and, with the possibil ity of El-Al planes now overflying Jordan and Saudi Arabia and reaching Bombay in 3 hours and Bangkok in 6, the world is really shrinking. Now seems to be the time to fulfill those dreams!!! After spending the summer mostly at home, I am taking my family for a tour of the New South Africa in September - after a three year break be lieve it or not. I will be happy to tell you about it next time. My Staff and I wish all readers of Telfed a very Happy and Peaceful New Year and well over the Fast. We thank you most sincerely for your excellent support over the past year and look forward to assisting you with all your travel plans in 94/95.

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Terry Kessel Managing Director Dialogue with the future

any South Africans have, over the years, who have served us so well over the past four chosen not only to make their lives in years. M .Israel, buttojoin the uniquccommunal Otherwise, it's been a long, hot strength-sapping lifestyle and ideology of kibbutz, and help build summer. Still, the magazine stops for nothing it. Now, as kibbutzim all over the country make and we have been hard at work bringing you this soul-searching changes to their institutions, for special New Year edition. Enjoy. It has been a mer South Africans are inevitably at the heart of big year of changes for this publication and we the debate that surrounds them and in many have been very heartened by the ovenvhelm- instances are playing a pivotal role in the transi ingly positive feedback. tion. Our next step is publishing material written by Ou r cover story this month gives a voice to some you, the reader. For those who need a little of these people as they wrestle with absorbing prodding, we have launched a humour writing policy questions, and probes the attitudes of kib- competition. See details on page 29 and please butzniks both for and against the changes. enter! On the home front, Tclfcd's newly appointed On behalf of the chairman and the Telfed Maga Executive Chairman, Mike Fredman, takes of zine Editorial Committee, may I wish you all fice this month. Telfed Magazine wishes Mike shana tova and best wishes for the coming year. mazaltov and all the best for the coming months and years. Also farewell and thank you to outgo A d a m G o r d o n ing chairman, Nick Alhadcff and his executive Editor

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Wc have received more publicity in the short most welcome - we are the first South African time since our aliyah a year ago - following the family to come to their kibbutz. Thank you for a picture of my wife and I in the "Election special" very informative and interesting magazine where article - than all the years wc lived in CapcTown. we can read about what's happening to all the We have experienced a wonderful feeling of ex-South Africans now resident in this country. homecoming and belonging. People we hardly B r i a n G a d d i e knew phoned us with great excitement. It iust goes to prove that South Africans are interested in all South African olim. The support system I have just been reading the July edition of one experiences from South African olim is quite Telfed Magazine and found the comments made phenomenal and this makes aliyah so much eas by your readers with regard to our April elections ier and worthwhile. It's great to be home most interesting. I was in Israel in June and spoke Abe and Betyl Mar§qlis to quite a number of ex-South Africans who Kfar Saba found it their moral duty to vote. Thanks for a wonderful and informative magazine. Wc arrived in Israel at the end of April and moved Jtdian Gecdter to Kibbutz Ein Gcv. The kibbutz has made us Lyndfairst, Jo/uinnesbiirg

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Charney opens the channels Mcnora Charncy, spiritual healer, meditation in G c r s h o n w a s a m e m structor and co-ordinator of the Meditation ber of Israel's delega Group for Peace and Harmony for Creative Liv tion to the United ing (MPH) will be hosting an international New N a t i o n s a n d l a t e r Age conference in Tel Aviv in October. Speakers served in the Israeli from around the world will lecture and lead work Consulate in the US. shops on the many varied topics of parapsychol In 1991 he became ogy and esoteric living the first Israeli Diplo It will be the fifth mat in Residence at such conference for the Fletcher School the MPH group, of Law and Diplo w h i c h h a s m e t macy at Tufts Uni weekly for the past versity. Mr Gan will Qan 20 years to medi also serve as the non t a t e a n d w o r k t o resident ambassador to a number of neighbouring wards world peace states in southern Africa. and harmony. "Since the first con ference in 1988," Kristal heads Israeli says Menora, "each Forum has been a joyous Meiwra Clu-niey and thought pro- Tony Kristal has been elected chairman of the voking event, a Israeli Forum. He is the Forum's first Anglo chance to meet and work the Light, with won Saxon chairman and until recently headed its derful friends new and old. Another step along Re'ut "adoption of immigrant families by vet the golden pathway towards inner peace and eran Israeli fami world peace." lies" programme. Menora, who made aliya from South Africa in Tony was a founder 1961, has been practicing and teaching esoteric member of the Fo living since the late 1960's. "I'm a channel," she rum, an apolitical, says. "I practise healing by giving energy through non-profit organi my hand. I read tarot cards and am also now sation committed working a lot with crystals." to advancing and The Esoteric "Link up" Conference will take nurturing ties be place in Tel Aviv from October 26. For further tween Jews in Is information phone 03-6355038. rael and the Diaspora and to the Ambassador raring to go social absorption of To u y K r i s t a l n e w i m m i g r a n t s i n South African born Gcrshon Can has been ap Israel. pointed Israeli ambassador to Zimbabwe. The appointment starts in autumn. Gershon was born Correction in Cape Town and came on aliya with his parents In the last issue of Telfed magazine the in 1960. He was raised in Nahariya and graduated heading "Dedication to Alon Segal" should from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a have read: "Dedication to Alon Lurie". degree in international relations. He joined the Telfed Magazine apologises for the error. Israeli foreign service in 1973, In the early 1980s

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sk any former South African resident of always available to its members and new olim. Netanya what is so special about the Telfed's Netanya regional com mittcc is the most A place. Often the response is: "(t's like active and busiest of all the Telfed regional com Sea Point". mittees. Their untiring service work progresses without fail every day, in a range of projects ~ a n d a c t i v i t i e s .

The growing South African Visiting Netanya, we met some of the core committee members: Orkie and Louis Che community in the beautiful sed, Issy Lotz, Edie Rosengarten and Dot town of Netanya, is a Isacowitz, who co-ordinate the activities of many, many more selfless souls. Far from tight-knit, warm community being satisfied with routine community with a support network that is work, they set up and administer large, am bitious and unique projects, and have been always available to its dramatically effective in helping Russian members and new olim, write dim adjust over the past few years. HILARY KAPLAN and Among the committees' current ongoing projects arc: DEBBIE ZABOW □ A coffee club for elderly Russian olim. The club has about 40 olim members who It is not hard to see why. With its beautiful pay a nominal fee to receive Hebrew lessons, beaches, restaurants, promenades, shopping lectures in Russian and access to Russian news malls and cosmopolitan ambiance, it is a town papers, music and a physical exercise class twice that has it all. The community is predominantly a week. Tea and biscuits arc provided each day. made up of senior citizens who enjoy its many "Participants may come as often as they want facets and opportunities. during the week," says Dot, "which for many is The growing South African community of Ne almost every day." tanya is a tight-knit, warm community of about □ "Maon Ncchem", a residential cerebral palsy 300 families which has a support network that is home in Netanya. Friends of Maon Nechem was

5 formed in 1981 by South Africans on the commit conjunction with Netanya municipality. The tee, who continue to raise money forvital neces committee employs a supervisor, a qualified sities the government docs not subsidise. But the teacher, a physical education teacher, a music assistance is not only financial. A band of dedi teacher and a guard. Volunteers go daily to en cated and caring workers regularly visit the resi sure smooth running of the camp and to provide dents and help the staff with their daily activities. and prepare refreshments. This year about 50 "For the residents happiness is something to do, kids attended the camp. The committee also someone to talk to ... someone who cares and raises money to allow children from other parts lessens their anxieties. We try to achieve this all of the country, for example Ethiopians in the for them," says Marge Penn, co-chair of the Maon Negev, to attend summer camps. Nechem sub-committee. □ Also in conjunction with the Netanya munici □ The "This Land Is Mine" fund set up to help pality, volunteers have formed a Job Club to help olim in financial need, particularly single moth Russian olim prepare for job interviews. Other ers and their children; olim aged 50 and over who volunteers help Russian Bagrut students prepare cannot find employment but are too young to for their oral exams. Still other charitable activi receive social security; the sick whocannot afford ties include running a toy library for children and medication; and children whose parents cannot a "meals on wheels" service for the infirm. afford to pay for books and tuition. Telfed Netanya is also renown for organising □ A shop which sells second hand clothes, fur tours around the country for its community, the niture and household goods very cheaply to the highlight being the annual "Chesed tour" to needy. Members say that, since it was opened in Eilat. 1991, the shop has distributed tens of thousands We came out of our meeting feeling inspired by of clothing at "a symbolic price". this very special community of people who arc so □ An annual summer camp for olim children, in amazingly generous with their time and energy.

Meeting tlie ambassador... from Irft: ambassador Gersbon Gflii, wtfh Case members Nick Alhadeff, Eric Brod and Marvyn HatclmeL AJC inaugurated Gazo The African Jewish Congress, an affiliate of the A meeting of the honorary life officers and ex- World Jewish Congress, was inaugurated on May chairmen of Cazo, residing in Israel, and the 29 in Harare. Its aim is to co-ordinate cultural and ambassador designate to Zimbabwe Mr Gershon religious exchanges, and to promote Israeli inter Can was held at the Telfed offices recently. ests amongst the widely dispersed Jewish com Mr Can gave a personal overview of his recent munities in countries south of the Sahara. One visit to Zimbabwe and neighbouring African hundred and fifty delegates and observers at states. He is looking forward to his assignment tended the gathering, representing Botswana, and to developing ties between Israel and Zim Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, babwe. Zambia and Zimbabwe.

6 Scholarship update year. The conference, hosting representatives The final day for applicacions for the Julius Ro from 15 countries, was launched with a party at binson Memorial Fund scholarship and Clara the park in Ra'anana West. Schwarz Post Graduate scholarship has been ex tended to September 30. These scholarships arc K f a r S a b a a n d H o d open to former Zimbabweans and their children. Hasharon Ra'anana A co-ordinating committee of the Anglo Saxon A guided tour of Ra'anana for new immigrants, organisations was recently set up by Jonathan held in June, was organised by the Aliya Depart Pearlman, the Jewish Agency representative for ment of the Ra'anana municipality and Jewish absorption in Kfar Saba. Telfed, AAGI, BOS and Esra will organise joint activities for the Anglo Agency co-ordinator Janine Gclley. The tour in cluded a visit to the Metro West School and culminated at Yad Lc- banim, where participants saw a movie on the history of Ra'anana. The tour was hosted by Mayor Zeev Bielski.

Property fair A property fair was recently held at the absorption centre where estate agents and property developers - mainly from the Hasharon area-pre sented various housing projects and options to the public. The event was so successful that the participants feel that such fairs should be held Seen at the Kfar Saba party. From l^t Helene Shriki, regularly. See property on page 26. Sharon Bernstein, Hilary Kaplan and Elana Slutzkin.

Meetings Saxon community of Kfar Saba. A function is Aspects of coming to terms with life in Israel and planned for October. the "culture shock" phenomenon were ad dressed by Naomi Raz at a recent meeting for Welcoming Party new immigrants held at the absorption centre. A welcoming party was held recently for all new Arik Sorotzkin, an investment advisor, gave an South Africans (not only olim) that have moved informative talk to newcomers on the local stock to Kfar Saba. Hilary Kaplan addressed the gath market. ering of over 50 people, telling them about the committee's activities and projects. She con Party cluded that: "evenings such as this arc special in A party for all new immigrants in the Hasharon that they indicate that our community is growing." region was held recently. The gathering was ad dressed by Telfed executive head, Sidney Shapiro; Telfed vice chairman, Mike Fredman; Jerusalem Jonathan Davis of the Aliya Department of the Jewish Agency; Rabbi Yehuda Levy of the Min Tclfed's office in Jerusalem has moved and istry of Absorption; and Zeev Bielski, Mayor of is now at 13 Ben Maimon Street. The new Ra'anana. telephone numbers arc 02-618135 and 634822. OlTicc hours arc Sam to 4pm on Sun Conference days, Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays; Beit Issie Shapiro held an international confer Sam to 6pm on Wednesdays and Sam to 11 am ence on developmental disabilities recently, as on Fridays. Contact Beulah Goodman. part of the celebration ofits 13th "bar mitzvah" C o v e r S t o r y The great big kibbutz crunch

-^hc small children that come running through the dining room door at lunch . time on Kibbutz Nir Eliyahu, jostling each other in the line for juice, sitting in huddles with their brown trays, giggling and laughing and pushing their food around their plates, couldn't be more like your average kibbutz kids any where. Turns out, every second child comes from neigh bouring Kfar Saba. The parents pay, the school takes them gratefully. Kibbutz lifestyle clicks another notch closer to the rest of Israel ... just one of the many subtle shifts that mark the kib butz of the 1990's. Since the financial collapse of the movement in 1987, kibbutzim have taken a hard look at their ing, furniture and TV sets and distributing them institutions and have voted to explore the limits free, arc now calculating what they spend per of socialist ideology - and sometimes transgress member on these items and giving members (still them - in the bid to keep members, regain prof according to seniority) their share in cash. Accord itability and still retain the best of kibbutz life. ing to the Kibbutz Research Institute at the Uni versity of Haifa, this "extended money budget" is now in use in 66 percent of kibbutzim. Driven by the financial pressure Former South African Benny Segal, and drawn by Israel's increasing who made aliya with Garin Hod to Kibbutz Yisrael in 1973, says: "Com affluence, Kibbutzim are rapidly pared with the allowances we used to get, it's another world altogether. Of heading down the path of change, course we used to be able to go and becoming less centralised, more take as many work clothes as we outward- oriented and flirting with liked. Now we budget ourselves and buy what we want at the shops. capitalist ethics. ADAM GORDON "It makes a difference. People felt they didn't have control over their spoke to South Africans caught in own destiny, that others were mak- the transition. ing all their decisions for them. Now each member can decide: 'I would rather not have a TV and go to No blueprint seems to exist for the changes. Greece'. There is certainly a conspicuous absence of a "So people are happier, families arc happier and "movement line" to guide the way. Kibbutzniks they are more willing to give of themselves. are just tinkering with their own lives and search There was a time when seven or eight families ing for ways to adjust to the changes in Israel, were leaving every year. Last year only one fam particularly its increasing affluence. ily left. If people feel they have more control over The most common change over the last six years their own destinies, more will stay." has been a "privatisation" of household budgets. Says Segal: "I come from Smithfield, a small Kibbutzim that were buying items such as cloth village in the Free State. I am used to the small

8 town, community mentality and kibbutz was a which used to be a complete taboo in the old good solution for mc, even the way it's always days. There is more of a liberal attitude to travel been. But I'm in favour of what's happening and, abroad. generally, I think there has been positive reaction "Things are changing because the background is a c r o s s t h e b o a r d . changing. Today it is much more difficult to "I don't think ideology has gone out the window, survive by working the soil. And now we are it's just adapted to the changes in the world. competing with Gaza and Jordan to put fresh Everyone still gives according to what he can and produce on the market. The reality is that we receives according to his needs. Yisrael still has a have to look for other things and other ways to do dining room, while others have closed theirs. We things. We have to make adjustments, and chat still feel a dining room is very important in kib will have some effect on our social way of living," butz life. says Les. "But we can't remain in a cocoon. We are cur As Yisrael in the 1960's was home to many South rently in the middle of negotiations with one of the oil companies to open a petrol station and a shopping centre on kib butz grounds. They have the capital, we have the land and manpower. And there are other things, big projects, that we arc i n v e s t i g a t i n g , " s a y s Segal. " K i b b u t z e v o l v e d a n d became what it was be cause of the people living there. The changes will depend on the people and how much they arc prepared to change." Ott kibbutz Nir Eliyalm. From Irft, Ilan Kovalsky, Estelle Geva L e s T a i n o w , f r o m and Raft Bortz. Shiuchot, a religious kib butz almost entirely dependent on agriculture, Africans, Kibbutz Nir Eliyahu, near Kfar Saba, came in the 1970's to be a major centre of South says: "Generally the religious kibbutzim tend to be more conservative. At Shiuchot we arc, para African kibbutz aliya. Ilan Kovalsky who arrived doxically, maintaining the original socialist kib with Garin Lahav in the mid 70's, maintains we butz character more than the secular kibbutzim!" arc currently witnessing "the end of ideology" on Les made aliya in 1957 through Bnci Akiva and kibbutz. is today married, with 5 sons and 17 grandchil Says Ilan: "The kibbutz has to be 'a good place dren. Among the 140 Shiuchot members, 15 are to live'. The ideology now hampers the making former South Africans. of it into a good place to live - therefore the "The religion really helps keep the community ideology is adapting. together," says Les. "Of "I myself have changed ficially there are no big ideologically. Socialist d r a s t i c c h a n g e s o n People felt they dtdn V have principles were suitable Shiuchot, but below the f o r I s r a e l i n t h e 5 0 ' s a n d surface there are a variety control over their own destiny^ 60's. Israel is changing and of pressures and some in that others were making all we've got to change with dividualism is creeping it. in. Some people have a their decisions for them." "Kibbutz is more private private bank account. today, more family-unit

9 oriented. People don't look after each other the 'reclaiming the land'. Is this forced by economic way they used to." circumstances? Nir Eliyahu happens to be very close to Kfar "Yes and No" says Ilan. "We're adapting because Saba/Ra'anana - "which has advantages and dis of economic pressures on kibbutz. But the rich advantages," says Estellc Geva, also originally a kibbutzim are chang member of Garin Lahav. 'in the old days wc used ing as well. Financial to all go to activities and cultural events together difficulties are a cata or bring it onto the kibbutz. There was that lyst for changes that 'community spirit'. Now people get into their would probably be in own car and go to a movie in town. the pipeline anyway." "Television has had a very marked influence in T h e k i b b u t z m o v e closing the gap between kibbutz and the rest of m e n t a s a w h o l e w e n t society. And twenty percent of members work off through a financial the kibbutz. Basically, the bubble has burst. Kib c r i s i s f r o m 1 9 8 7 t o butz is opening up and kibbutzniks are more 1989. The years just integrated into Israeli society," she says. Les Oshty before that had been At the same time, the outside world is coming to very successful as the Nir Eliyahu. Half of the children in the kibbutz's k i b b u t z i m m o v e d kindergarten come from the Kfar Saba area. In from agriculture into industry. There was "a kind fact about 25 percent of the adult population of of euphoria," says Les Oshry of Kibbutz Tzora, a Nir Eliyahu arc not members, They live there, kibbutz that is home to about 100 former South they eat, get their washing done etc, just like Africans. members. But they pay for the service. "It's on "The future held tremendous hope. Kibbutzim were building new factories, buying technology. The government made money easily available *'77/^ qimtion we are wrestling and wc all took tremendous loans. Also, to avoid with is: 'How to live as a the ideological problem of hiring labour from off the kibbutz, many installed very expensive kibbutz in an affluent society?' equipment. Tzora, for example, installed five computerised tube-bending and welding robots People want very different in tooling up a very high-tech furniture factory," says Oshry. In the end the kibbutz movement was just mas sively ovcrborrowed. Herman Musikanth, a re its way to being an open society," says Ilan. nowned financial analyst who joined kibbutz "That bothers a lot of people, particularly the Ma'agan Niichael in 1978 explains: "The govern older people. And they have a point. They say; ment stopped granting unlinked (to inflation) 'Wc have given the best years of our lives to the loans. The banks replaced them with normal kibbutz. We can't become independent now'. linked loans. The kibbutzim ... did not compre So, if wc do change the system wc arc in we have hend the effect of rampant inflation and high to make special provisions for the older genera bank interest rates and... a healthy vibrant house tion," says Ilan. collapsed like a pack of cards. The billions of Nir Eliyahu has recently signed an agreement shekels lost are mind-boggling." with a developer to turn part of its land into an By 1988 it was clear that the kibbutzim couldn't industrial area - the law now allows agricultural pay back even the interest on the loans and, in land to be rezoned for housing terms of agreements reached in or industry. "The reality is: the foil owi ng year, the debt was we're not getting much from Israel's oopulation distribution frozen. How it will be paid off is the land as it stands now," says Cities 90.4% still being negotiated. Estelle. 3.8% Says Oshry: "the real effect is The idea of parting with the Villages that, over the past few years, land takes kibbutz very far Moshavs 3.3% kibbutzim have had to live di away from the ideology it was Kibbutzim 2.5% rectly on what they earn. We founded on - an ideology of can't borrow. Each kibbutz has

to become its own financial entity, each working "We also had to redefine the work ethic. In the opposite its own bank manager." past, as long as a member was doing a day's work he was doing his bit. But we now had to ask: As the secretary ofTzora between 1985 and 1990, 'What is the 'parnasa', what had actually been Oshry played a major part in implementing ad earned? And we had to make radical changes - justments to the financial crisis: "Structural where superfluous work was being done, we axed changes had to come. the jobs. When it comes to survival, "We have also changed the you change. It's not as ^'Our biggest concern, most way we run the factory: it is though we really had a people's concern, is that the now a separate entity that choice. We had to cut NTS reports to the kibbutz - its 1 million off our expenses children come back to the shareholders - once ayear. It overnight," he says. kibbutz after the army or used to have to wait for the "Tzora had built up a okay from the kibbutz gen reputation as being a very university." eral meeting before making strong kibbutz on a social decisions ... you certainly level. So one can understand that people would can't run a business like that." want to put up a wall around that to protect what Oshry, who is now Tzora's projects manager, is they have and prevent changes from 'destroying taking the kibbutz into a number of new ventures kibbutz'. Change only came on Tzora because of and partnerships with private contractors. The the crisis. kibbutz is about to start developing a quarry, in a "But Kibbutz has always been a changing entity, 50-50 partnership with a private contractor who from day one. So it just has to carry on changing is putting up all the money. It is also looking at in order to survive. Change is a natural part of our creating a winery and a golf course on the same lives," says Oshry. lines. Up to the end of the 1980's kibbutzim all had These days a quarter of Tzora's 400 members their own private schools, like the one at Tzora. work off the kibbutz. That's now accepted. But It took 22 people from the kibbutz - teachcre and it has spawned the next issue - about 25 of them caretakers - to run the school, for which the have cars belonging to their business and some kibbutz was receiving just four teachers' salaries members are getting very upset that others have from the government. this special privilege. "That means we and other kibbutzim like us "But it's just a symptom of the transition," says were saving the government millions. Every kid Oshry. "Wejust can't avoid it Soon everyone will has a right to free education from the govern have a car." ment, and there we were paying for it ourselves!" He recalls that for a long time there were no "Now we have a regional school, still on the phones on kibbutz. "There were maybe two or kibbutz, but run by three public the Department of phones for five or Education. It serves six hundred peo 6 5 0 k i d s f r o m a l l o v e r ple. Can you the region and it is , imagine the suf staffed only in part by fering? ... It's un teachers by Tzora. believable. Why? " M a n y m e m b e r s : For what? It was were dead against it of the way of think course. They wanted ing: phones were to preserve a 'kibbutz considered a lux education'. But there «MMi Hioi v ury. Every nor was just no financial mal citizen is way. One way or an entitled to a other, every kibbutz phone and today will become part of a Tfie wedding fuill at kibbutz Tzora. Hosting every kibutznik regional school soon, receptions in the hall is one of the kibbtitz*s new h a s o n e . T h e n you'll see," says Oshry. financial enterprises. w h e n T V c a m e

11 they said: 'That's it, it's the end of kib Changes in Work, Management, and Organization butz!' Take com Percentage of Kibbutzim ImplementlnQ Change puters: on Tzora 90 percent of mem Change 1990 1992 bers now have a PC. 77 " S o i t i s w i t h c a r e . Encouraging outside work with appropriate income 65 To d a y i n I s r a e l Hiring outside workers 20 46 most people can Making members responsible for choice of work 19 40 buy a car. A private Using secret ballot in voting 7 33 car for every kib butz member is just Transferring functions of general assembly to representative body 8 24 a question of time. But, you can't Forming partnership in economic activity 30 imagine, the un- with other kibbutzim 27 happiness now. Forming partnership in economic activity The debate! Peo with private capital 12 21 ple are saying pri Abolishing rotation of successful managers 8 16 v a t e c a r s a r c t h e end of kibbutz. "The real 'end' of kibbutz," says Oshry, "is un argue that kibbutz must operate as a business like equal salaries - people getting different reward any other, and those who argue for a total separa for different levels of work (a controversial solu tion of the economic and social side in order to tion being tried at kibbutz Ein Zivan, in the raise our standard of living. Kibbutz is a big fam Golan). This is the red line we are not yet ready ily, and we have to budget in the same way as a or willing to cross." family, and now is the time to clamp down. There Nevertheless many kibbutzim are already at a has been an element of abuse of the system by less productive members," says Segal. point where they arc paying members for over time - a kind of half-way station to differentiated "But there are those of us who believe kibbutz salaries. And judging by the numbers of kibbutz should be a total way of life. That it is society with members now getting professional qualifications a certain mission, something over and above buy and specialisations, it seems inevitable that kib ing, selling and existing." butzim will drift towards a solution where a worker's level of skill is rewarded. Errol Sapir, another 'conservative' on Tzora says: "I was much happier with the old system. But the Another Tzora member, Benzy Segal, voices a changes had to come because people wanted more conservative line on the kibbutz: "I'm in them. Nevertheless it is important that the favour of change," he says. "For example the changes take place democratically. We need the 'ascfa' weekly general meeting, is a thing of the will of a majority to past, replaced by various elected committees. make the changes, We've shifted from participatory to elective de rather than a few out in front. What the major mocracy. "But there is a line that we shouldn't cross, and ity thinks and decides that is the basic mutual responsibility of the com i s w h a t t h e k i b b u t z munity that gives each person a feeling of social should be." security. You can try to privatise health, food, Sapir made aliya with education, whatever - but kibbutzim that do will Garin Etgar in 1965. be in trouble socially. After years of working "We can't just make changes without an overall a s a m o t o r m e c h a n i c plan. If the changes begin to determine kibbutz and in the fields, he recently went to university, ideology, that's like the tail wagging the dog. We studied history, and now teaches in Tzora's re must decide carefully what our ideology is and gional school, He says: "We have to realise what make changes to fit it. we are trying to protect. The people who live "There is a lot of debate between those who here are the most important. The lifestyle is

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k. that the children come back to the kib butz after the army or university - it is even more important to us than attract ing new members. We have to sec there is something for them to come back to."

Another prosperous kibbutz, Ma'agan Michael has effectively made the same changes as other kibbutzim: everything except medicine, education, basic food and house maintenance has to be paid for out of the member's extended al lowance. Overseas trips previously al- Mervyn and Leah Poliak tenth their duldreti 1 lowed once every 3-5 years, are kibbutz Kfar Aza permitted when wanted, at the mem ber's own expense. (Trips to Greece, something special. The communicy looks after its Turkey, and Cyprus are common.) All meetings members and the members look after the com concerning members' votes are debated and munity - we all lock after each other. If we do transmitted by video through the TV network, anything to break up the fabric of this society, it with voting by ballot taking place the next day. is a problem for me. And that fabric will be broken if, for example, not everyone gets what The best of both worlds they need - in the areas of health, education, Tessa Chelouchc, perhaps the perfect example housing and food. Or if members start getting different wages. Then we will be in a very sorry of the "next generation" kibbutz resident, is situation indeed. happy to admit she "has it all". "The question we arc wrestling with is: 'How to She, her husband live as a kibbutz in an affluent society.' People a n d t h c i r t h r e c s o n s want very different things and people want more live on, but arc not than they have. Kibbutz must find a way to give m e m b e r s o f k i b people what they want and need without break b u t z G i v a t M a i m ing up the fabric of society," says Sapir. Mcuchad, just "The problem Is really the practise - not the south of Hadcra. ideology. People agree on the ideology! We just T h e y r e n t t h e i r have to find a way to achieve a situation where house and pay for we keep people happy, cater to diversity, and still all facilities. Tessa, maintain the community framework. So far, we who made aliya are succeeding!" from Johannesburg Tessa Cheloiiche in 1977, is the kib Is kibbutz transition working any differently on b u t z d o c t o r, o n a the richer kibbutzim? Mctvyn Polliak of Kfar private salary paid by kupat cholim. She says: "We have no intention of being mem Aza, which he describes as "one of the few stable bers and arc not expected to be. But we have economically viable kibbutzim", says; "Kibbut zim that arc not so economically viable have often the best of kibbutz life, the facilities, the peo had to j ump into changes. ple ... the kids particularly have a great time. Aside from some extension of the personal The extra murals are endless and top quality. budget, Kfar Aza hasn't really changed. But "But then we have the freedom of our own car and money, so we can go where we want. I've change is coming. Israel is becoming a wealthier country. People want to better their lives. We got the best of both worlds!" have a committee pondering these matters but Among the 1100 people on Givat Chaim we are going very carefully. Once a change is Mcuchad, the philosophy and Idealism about kibbutz life is falling apart, says Tessa. "Kib- made, that's it. It is very difficult to go back," says butzniks are just not satisfied with less than Mervyn, who made aliya in 1977. "Our biggest concern, most people's concern, is other Israelis arc getting."

13 But larger changes are looming as the kibbutz of outside partners was too horrific to contemplate. prepares to take its main factory to flotation on "But going into industry, and succeeding, calls t h e s t o c k m a r k e t . for capital. This phenomenon will not change Herman Musikanth, a financial controller for a because of kibbutz philosophy. With the evolu large chain store in South Africa, who went to tion and need, the stock exchange's function of Ma'agan Michael with his family in 1978, says providing capital came to be understood." Ma'agan Michael has been through "the traumas Says Musikanth: "The swing to a free market of understanding the ... stock exchange." economy, and resulting wealth to the successful, "Ten years ago I suggested to the kibbutz move poses the challenge and begs the question: ment that bank finance as a source of capital in whether this is the swing of the pendulum which excessive sums was inappropriate and it should will be harnessed by socialistic ideals to the bene consider ways and means of using the stock mar fit of this society, or whether it will destroy it. ket. I was looked upon as a heretic and called 'the Only the people, their needs and time will deter biggest capitalist in the movement'. The thought m i n e t h i s . " ■

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vcrychinggoes after the bcginning."This H statement of chazal contains hidden -e^/dcpth. The moment of conception of anything which comes into existence must con tain all the elements of the future of that thing. Just as all the genes of a human being are laid down at conception and thereafter all the physi cal features which manifest in the child as it develops are results of those genes, so too all phenomena in the world are a reflection of the elements contained, infinitely compressed, in reveals itself. If one can form the genes of the their beginnings. year correctly, the fetus will develop correctly The moment of transition from non-existence is and the child and adult will be wholesome. the most potent, containing all. Thereafter, as Mistakes in this phase will be very hard to correct the child develops, a critical phase follows, but later. Efforts made in the first ten days may not as critical as the first instant, and so on, each prevent major "surgery" being necessary later. phase a revelation of the coding of the previous. Each moment of Rosh Hashana should be util The closer to the beginning, the more critical. ised with exquisite care, only positive personality traits should be exercised. Many have the custom not to sleep during Just as all the genes of a human the day of Rosh Hashana, at least not until midday - they want to lay down being are laid down at conception, the genes of the year in conscious so too all phenomena in the world ness and spiritual effort, not obliv ion. are a reflection of the elements What should be the major focus of the day? Can one really correct all contained, infinitely compressed, ones' personality faults in one day, in their beginnings, writes or even ten? The answer lies in a description of chazals' of the human RABBI AKIVA TATZ. —— being. There is a description of a righteous person as a tree planted in Small effects at the genetic level will be much good soil whose branches overhang more far-reaching than effects at the adult level. bad soil. The meaning is that the root is good, the Therefore, the moment which demands greatest person is essentially good, but no-one is perfect care, greatest intensity, greatest purity, is the and the branches overhanging bad ground repre very first. sent the person's shortcomings. However, some Time is also a creation. The Jewish year is an pruning will reveal roots entirely good. The organic entity. Its conception takes place on pruning may take the form of suffering in this Rosh Hashana, its embryonic development in world - in the next world, the dimension of truth, the ten days between Rosh Hashana and Yom the person will be revealed as wholly positive. Kippur. For this reason we arc so extremely care A negative individual is described as a tree ful about trying to live correctly on Rosh Hashana planted in bad soil where branches overhang and the subsequent days. The way one begins good ground. The root and essence are bad, but the year will determine how the rest of the year even the worst individual has positive actions as

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L. qualities. However some pruning will reveal the good and positive actions when the opportunity essence as bad. The pruning may take the form arises, when inspiration occurs, but unfortu of great happiness and reward in this world, leav nately, available for selfishness and negativity ing a clarified existence of negativity in the next. when tempted. This idea helps one to understand a difficult Most people have never made a conscious policy section in the Rambam. The Rambam states that decision about what they arc here for. Where is on Rosh Hashana the your tree planted? Its de righteous are sealed for fault position straddles the life immediately, the evil ''The way one begins the year line. What is required at the are scaled for the oppo will deterinine how the rest moment of conception of site immediately, and consciousness, at the mo those who arc intermedi of the year reveals itself," ment of conception of time, ate, neither righteous nor is a decision about who I am evil, hang in the balance in essence, not about which until Yom Kippur. The Rambam says that these technical actions need work - that will come later. are people whose mitzvos exactly equal their Rosh Hashana is a time for moving the core, avcros. (Not necessarily in number, quality making sure the tree is moved entirely into posi counts.) tive territory, the pruning is the second stage. The strange part of this discussion is that the Consciously choosing,a positivsc direction, set Rambam goes on to say that most people are in ting a spiritual goal and beginning movement in this third category, that is, exactly balanced be its direction is what Rosh Hashana must teach. tween good and bad. Is it really possible that "Everything goes after the beginning." most people arc exactly balanced in terms of their positive and negative actions? The expla Rabbi Akiva Tatz of Telshe Stone gives weekly shi- nation, however, is that what is meant here is not urim at the Uchu Neranono Shul in Ra'anana on an exact technical balancing of actions, what is Monday at 8.30pm. He also teaches atOrSameach meant is that most people arc trees planted mid in Jerusalem. way between good and bad soil - available for

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Les Block in the cockpit. SA pilot's burial place found after 46 years

A stone over the grave was When an IDF researcher recently unveiled in a moving cere mony on July 22, in the pres traced the body of SouthAfrican soldier ence of State President Ezer Les Bloch to an unknown soldier's Wcizman who also flew in the 101 Squadron in the 1948 grave, it marked the end of many years war. of speculation for his family and A large crowd, including the present chief of Squadron friends. ADAM GORDON reports. 101 and senior repre sentatives of the Air Force, other representatives of the "^he IDF's missing soldiers unit recently Israeli Defence Force, the head of the Veterans discovered the location of the grave of Association and the head of Mahal veterans asso . South African pilot Les (Lionel) Bloch, a ciation attended the unveiling. Bloch's air force Mahal volunteer in the War of Independence, comrades, Dr Syd Cohen, Smokic Simon and who was presumed shot down over Syria and Boris Senior were also present. Family flew in listed as missing in action for 46 years. from abroad and Bloch's brother Willie came Bloch's body was located in a military cemetery from South Africa to attend the event. Said Wil in Nahalat Yitzhak, mainly thanks to the pains lie: "I always prayed that 1 would live to say taking work of Verach Paron, a researcher and Kaddish over Les' grave." Other family members historian for the Commemoration of the Fallen expressed relief that the years of unhappy specu office in the Ministry of Defence, which special lation have been brought to a satisfactory end, ises in looking for fallen and missing soldiers The State President made a stirring tribute to the from all the wars. South African "machalnik" pilots, who, owing to

23 Paron is 100 percent certain that Bloch lies in the grave. According to Bloch's cousin, Mavis Wolff, w h o t o d a y l i v e s i n R a m a t Hasharon, the pilot may have used a false name because it was illegal for members of the SA Air Force to be serving a foreign

power. "The name Chaim Faizal is asso ciated with our grandfather Chaim Sack, and who always called cousin Cecil, 'Fischcl'. We think that this may have given Les the idea of the false names to give the family a clue that he was in captivity." What happened that fateful day on July 10 is still very much a matter of conjecture. Maurice Syd Cohen pays tribute. Alongside him is preside\it Ezer Mann, who now lives in the UK, Weizman and Les's brother, Willie. was the pilot of the plane that their combat experience in World War 2, made a went out with Bloch. The two were confronted contribution to the fledgling Israeli air force way by two enemy planes. Says Maurice: "I gave beyond their numbers. instructions that: 'I will take this one, you take The body was traced when the army began to the other'. Vou start close together but you are review the history of various battles during the flying at about 300mph and you concentrate on 1948 war, to issue an updated memorial volume what you're doing. I shot the one Harvard and of the war's casualties. A discrepancy was found saw him go down. Then I looked to see where between the number of fallen from the Battle of my number 2 was. We were over (what was then) Beit Afa known to be buried in Nahalat Yitzhak the Syrian border and I couldn't sec him. Before and the number of gravestones in that section of long I realised that because of fuel limitations he the cemetery. couldn't still be up." Dr Syd Cohen, who now Paron's research in the archives of the Tel Aviv lives in Ramat Hasharon, says that the following Hevra Kadisha re vealed that one of t h e b o d i e s b u r i e d in the Beit Afa sec tion had in fact been returned froni Syria in Octo b e r 1 9 4 9 . T h e grave had been marked "unknown s o l d i e r " b e c a u s e o f lack of positive identification and confusion caused by the fact that the S y r i a n s h a d r e turned the body u n d e r t h e n a m e ■ I J i i - r v . I ' - ' " ' ■ C h a z i m F a i z a l . Jit Nevertheless Les's cousin. Mavis Wolff and her family.

24 day he searched over chose to spend it in Lake Tiberius and the Palestine. Hula swamp in the hope "Coming from a Zion of finding the wreckage ist family, this first of Bloch's plane. In fact it visit made a tremen w a s d i s c o v e r e d m u c h dous impression on later that the wreck was h i m , " s a y s M a v i s . found in Syria and both " W h e n t h e W a r o f I n the plane and pilot had dependence broke been taken to Damascus. out and Israel desper It is possible that a me ately needed pilots, chanical twist of fate he felt he had to go. I caused Bloch to go down. can still clearly re Says Mann: "He was fly member us talking it ing one of the Czech- over on the verandah. built Messerschmidt In the end I said; 'Are 109's where the gun was we going to ask some synchronised to fire be o n e e l s e ' s s o n t o d o tween the gaps in the the job for us?' So per propeller blades. Some haps I am responsible in some way for his t i m e s t h e C z e c h w o r k Comrades of the 101 Squadron: Dr Syd death." manship was not as Cohen, Smokie Simon and Boris Setiior. accurate as the German M a v i s c o n fi d e s o n e fi designers meant it to be. "Planes often came nal chilling detail: "I was just finishing putting back with chips out of the propeller, and Bloch this (press) report together - last month - when could have shot his own propeller off." On the suddenly a plate, a heavy Egyptian copper plate other hand he may simply have run out of fuel fell crashing to the floor. It was a plate that Les a n d b e e n f o r c e d t o c r a s h - l a n d . had sent me during World War 2 that I have had Bloch was bom in 1921 in Potchefstroom and all these years. I thoughc "Les, if your spirit is studied Chemical Engineering at Wits Univer hovering over us, know that 'to live in the hearts sity. He became a SAAF fighter pilot during the of those who loved you is not to die.'" war and saw active service in Egypt and Italy. In I/im contributed to this report July 1944 Bloch was granted a week's leave and

My Friendship with Les Bloch with us and then call in to collect them on his return. Until the day in July 1948 when he My friendship with Les Bloch spanned just did not come back. Ami kept his things for a nine years, but in that time I got to know him long time in the vain hope that perhaps he as a good friend and a fine person. We gradu would return. Eventually she handed them ated together in 1943, both in uniform, and over to Les' cousin, June Medalie, who took then lost contact with each other until 1948 them back to South Africa. Jack and June in Mahal. Bat Ami and I were billeted in a Medalie, to this day our best friends, often room at the Central Hotel, conveniently situ calked about Les and wondered about his ated opposite Air Force HQ, chat became a fate. Now that the body has been identified meeting place and unofficial clearing house and the tombstone unveiled, the chapter is for many South African Mahal. Les was one finally closed. of them. Whenever he went off on a mission, he would deposit his bag and picturesque hat Reuben Jojfe, Sazyon

25 Travel In Israel

Valley below with Nazareth and Mt. Tabor in the distant horizon, Our trail takes us into the Jezreel Valley where wc lunch in the shade, surrounded by fertile fields and the hilltops of famous biblical landmarks. After lunch we ride on towards the slopes of the Gilboa, then a fairly steep ascent up the mountain. From its peak we peer down on the Beit Shean Valley and the battlefields of Gideon against the Midian. It is now late after noon and time to descend for our warm kibbutz welcome and overnight stay at Kfar Rupin.

Day two; Kfar Rupin - Crocodile Fann - Jericho - Alniog T i c k e t t o r i d e We make our way down the Jordan Valley along side this most famous river. The river drops over "^wo week-long Ravenswood "biblical" 700m from Banias at the foothills of Mount Her- bike rides, starting on October 15 and mon (whose peak is covered in snow) to the . October 24, offer biking enthusiasts the tropical heat of the Dead Sea. Wc have a lunch chance to tour the country in a unique way. The break to watch the crocodiles being fed, and first journey starts at Mt Carmcl in the north, continue through Jericho to Almog. Here we take goes on to Mt Gilboa, through the Jordan valley a well earned dip in the swimming pool, followed to the Dead Sea and Massada and eventually by a barbecue at the poolside. A visit to the local climbs the Jerusalem hills from the west. The Dead Sea Scrolls Museum has been arranged. Ac second tour is from Jerusalem to Eilat via Becr- Kibbutz Almog, some of the accommodation will shcva, Avdat, Timna and the Pillars of King Solo b e u n d e r c a n v a s . mon. For details phone Stanley Sebba 09-572357. Day tliree: Almog - Ein Gedi - Massada Here is some of what you can expect on the first - Kfar Hanokdim tour Yet again an early rise. Our route takes us along the shore of the Dead Sea, the lowest Here's a holiday with a rift valley in the world. We ride past the entrance to Qumran, site of the difference... see and experience the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and make our way to Ein Gedi for lunch. country on two wheels. Two It is here in the hills above the springs week-long biblical bike rides are that David found shelter from King Saul. After lunch and a possible dip in waiting to put you on the path to a the sea, on to Massada. A fully guided once-in-a-lifetime Israel touring tour of this famous fortress has been experience. organised. Our overnight stop is un- usual-aBedouincamp.whcrewewill experience a glimpse of ancient Bed Day one: Beit Oren - Jezreel Valley - ouin hospitality, sleeping in traditional tents. Gilboa - Kfar Rupin. Wc start "off road" through the Carmcl pine Day four Kfar Hanokdim - Lavhav - forest on the mountain ridge eastward. At first wc Lachish - Galon arc confronted with panoramic views of the Bay This morning wc first make our way up to Arad of Haifa stretching westward past Akko as far as then along the main road to Lahav. From here Lebanon. This scenery is replaced by the Jezreel wc ride on a country road northbound, below the

26 slopes of the hills of Hebron, to Goliath, through Nahal Lachish. We continue past Tel Shorek, generally associated Gat to our night stop in Kibbut with the area where Samson z i m G a t a n d G a l o n . grew up. Then on up some 6 0 0 m o v e r 2 5 k i l o m e t e r s Day five: Galon - Jenisa- through the Jerusalem For lein ests, past the Hadassah Hos This is the last day. The target pital towards the city. is Jerusalem before Shabbat, Difficult, but a glorious won- consequently a very early start. derful sight as Jerusalem Our route takes us past the val slowly comes into focus. ley of Eila where David fought

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29 Arts

Opening the soul's window

"t's a cliche, but "I felt at home and at ease here in Jerusalem. The i c h a s C O b e smallncss of it then, the hills, its particular .said: Words beauty. The ancient part connected with the don't do justice, or ancient part of me." even come close to In 1978 Shirley and Yoram moved to New York d e s c r i b i n g t h e with their two sons. There she was exposed to power and passion what she calls "the professionalism of the art of Shirley Faktor's world" and began exploring the field of art ther drawings. apy. When they returned to Israel in 1980 Shirley She docs portrai worked as an art therapist in a mental institution. ture with a capital She also began teaching at the Bezalel Academy, P, massive scruti which she does to this day. nizing charcoal At her last exhibition, at the Jerusalem Mu seum close-ups of faces during the Jerusalem Festival, the works shown on 1,5m by 1,1m had a lot to do with the difficult passage that canvases that get South Africa is going through, says Shirley. you eyeball-to- "I maintain a considerable connection with South eycball with the From darkness into subject. She light... Shirley Faktor strips away all the layers of society that people present, and pulls out their soul, forcing an intimacy that is not for the faint hearted. Close-up, the works are a mass of rough char coal strokes - black and white, with just a hint of colour - yet, from a distance, they resolve themselves into delicate representation of the human form. Says Shirley: "I wander over these facial land scapes. For me there is something eternal about the process. Touching, getting to know. Touching the paper with a pastel is touching myself, an awakening. "Red, black and white - I feel close to these (colours) and I experience their energy and power through a pastel stick. It is hitting, thrusting, smearing, crying and at other times caressing, soothing and calming. "As in photography where even the smallest amount of light is a necessary precondition to create an image, so it is with me and my work - a slow coming from darkness into the light." Africa emotionally. There is so much of value Shirley studied art at the Michcalis School of Art in Cape Town. In 1966 at the age of 27 she arrived over there. The whole experience of SA freeing in Jerusalem, and within a year met and married itself has been amazing. I feel like a part of my soul has been freed." Israel artist Yoram Rozoff. Adam Gordon

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Taking Stock of '94

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33 Mutual funds: never a free lunch

ivcn the recent sharp fall in the Israeli and do nothing with it at all and hope that you stock market, I have become interested withdraw it in a hurry to put it into another fund G in investing in shares in Israel. They so that they can earn some money ... that is their seem to be at bargain basement prices and have aim, is it not? much less potential downside than they had If I were to invest in a fund forfiveyears, I should eight to twelve months ago. be about their worst customer because, if what I was being told is true, I stand to score off any work that they Potential investors in Israeli mutual do for me, but they stand to make nothing at all! I was be funds do not get enough information ginning to believe that maybe over the counter at the bank. there is such a thing as a "free lunch" after all. Ask for the prospectus and not just As luck would have it, the in the marketing material, says vestments manager of the branch happened to pass the TREVOR BENNETT-COHEN desk. He invited me into his office and asked mc for my As I advise others in the field of investments in credentials to be asking such questions. The addition to investing on my own behalf, I de gentleman did not have the exact details that I cided to check out the mutual funds (kranot wanted as they don't keep the full prospecti of nc'cmanut) as a means of investing here. I hap the mutual funds at the branches. They are able pened to be in a branch of my bank and I started enough to take one's money but the actual asking questions. I guess I upset the person that prospecti of the funds are not available! As a I was asking as I was not satisfied with merely special favour they would order them for me. (In having a leaflet thrust into my hand showing the the USA for example, it is illegal for a mutual list of the bank's mutual funds, their individual fund to accept your investment without supply performances and how their money was distrib ing you with their prospectus). uted amongst the various instru ment types. Without an incentive fee based on the It was almost offensive to her that I should ask for the exact fee growth of the fund as a whole, s t r u c t u r e o f t h e f u n d s . O t h e r than the bid/ask spread to which fund managers have no incentive one is subject when purchasing to see that the customer's shares in the mutual funds, as well as the fee for purchasing capital appreciates. shares of a fund of another bank, the custodian fees and the exit fees, I wanted to I also requested the track record of the trading see what I consider to be the real fee structure. advisors themselves, so that if a top advisor I wanted to know what really makes the funds moves out of the fund in which I am invested, I tick! can move with him/her to a new fund. Such T asked what their annual fixed fee and/or in- thinking is just not part of the local investor's iccntive fee was? "Zero" I was told. It was at mindset apparently. The name of the fund is this point that I started to realise that something about as close as the potential investor here gets was definitely very wrong indeed! I tried again, to forming a relationship with his fund. Now, at only a little less bluntly and asked; "If they cam last, I am beginning to understand why people on my entry and exit and there are no fees in-bc- here get caught with their pants down and are twcen, what incentive do they have to work for crying over losses on the stock market. me?" Logically, if the above fees are all that the Then came the coup de grace ... the gentleman funds take, then they should accept one's money showed me that every single fund without fail

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35 has lost a large percentage this year, during the long before the very bot course of the bear market. He was proud that the tom of a bear market as mutual funds had not been part of the major you at least have your sell-off causing the crash. It makes good invest own interests in mind. n 9 - ^ ment sense to switch to cash if the market is Also that way you will . jr. falling or at least hedge the position of the fund know what you are in liiilWiili by buying "put" options on the relevant index to vesting in, and why. •ff ^ >4^ H offset any losses on the underlying stocks. But Peter Lynch once said: not one of the funds had done this! "never invest in any r By now it was clear that there must be something thing you can't draw J [ very wrong with the structure of the funds and with a crayon"and he has BSS that I needed to investigate further. It simply a good point. If you have M can't be possible that nor one of the fund man no idea which companies the mutual funds are agers could see what was happening and decide invested in or what those companies do, then to sell or hedge for their investors. They surely why be disappointed if the results arc lousy, as weren't all sleeping through their finance you have no-one else to blame but yourself. For classes! So something must be preventing them all we know, the mutual funds may be investing from selling or hedging, that is, the structure of in companies in which their parent bank has an the fund and the laws relating to its operation, interest, regardless of its investment potential. Secondly, I would advise each and every person qpheJi it is gentleman not necessarily at the bank true informed that the memutual that considering investment anywhere to check very funds need to be 100 percent invested all the carefully the instrument in which they invest, particularly if it be of the mutual fund type. Check the fee structure of the fund, to see if the It simply can t be that not fund has the same interests as its clients, or if it one of the fund managers is getting fat from things other than and inde pendent of client performance, such as Fixed fees could see what was or kickbacks from brokers for trading in volume - which leads to churning of accounts. If you are happening and decide to sell not 100 percent convinced that the fund has your or hedge for their investors. interest as its primary interest, in addition to a solid track record, then you are better off invest ing for yourself, no matter how little experience time; in fact some state that only 10 percent of or knowledge you my have. the funds need to be invested and the other 90 percent are at the discretion of the trading advi Trevor BenneH-Cohen, an MBA graduate from the sor. So it had to be something else. Ben Gurion University of the Negev, is currently in He said that the mutual funds do very well in bull the process of making aliya from South Africa t^e markets and very poorly in bear markets because has been working as the trading advisor and man "the trading advisors know how to buy but not ager of a private internaHonal investment fund how to sell . I didn't say so at the time, but on this point I m sure that the gentleman is mis taken. The advisors probably do know how to sell but have no incenthe to sell. It seems that the Business client's performance is not their prime interest. Briefs Without an incentive fee based on the growth of the fund as a whole - determined by net new highs in the net asset value of the fund - the Lynn targets managers and advisors of the mutual funds have the tour market zero interest in seeing to it that the customer's {i.e. yours and mine) capital appreciates. Hence, Lynn Lipshitz has I would advise everyone rather to invest directly started her own tourism in Israeli stocks than Israeli mutual funds as, and convention organis- even should you pick a bad stock, you will sell it mg company, Target Lynn Lipsfutx Tours, after 11 years in the Israel tourism scene. It is her Merle makes magic first solo venture in what she de scribes as "this wonderful time of Multi-talented Merle Maselle opportunity in Israel". Since the brought her many-sided arts and company's inauguration in No crafts business to Israel when she vember last year, Lynn has been made aliya in November of last busy with five conventions. She year. handles the administration of She's a decorator, and at the mo every last detail: "I sit down with ment mostly a painter, taking a col the client We decide the date, ourful design palette to houses in location, budget, and from there the Tel Aviv and Herzlia Pituach I do everything that needs to be areas, aiming at the upperend of the done before and during the con market. "I had to get involved with ference, including the travel ar- what I saw was lacking in the coun rangemcnts of guests and try," she says. "Basically, Israel is speakers. "What most people afraid of colour!" don't realise is that the convention company - i.e. Merle's other activities includes designing and me! - is the one who takes the financial risk for sewing wedding dresses, designing logos and the convention. I lay out the money and take the sign writing. She also makes a range o^ hand profits if it's a big success, or losses If no one painted boxes, flower pots, backgammon sets comes." 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~~^rom his earliest days Harry Hurwitz was an many". He became a legendary figure but, nev ardent disciple of Menachem Begin. His ertheless found himself in conflict with the Ha- Ji considerable prowess as one of the heads ganah and the Palmach - a dispute which was of the Revisionist Move transferred from the arena ment in South Africa and of action to his Parliamen editor of its weekly paper, tary debating chamber the "Jewish Herald" BEGIN: when independence was flowed directly from his achieved in 1948. passionate devotion to, and A P o r t r a i t In his new capacity Begin admiration of, the world showed his ardent passion leader. There can be few for the democratic sys- people more endowed with tem, reconciling himself the qualities needed to tolcadingthe Knessetop- compile his exceedingly position for nearly 30 admirable life portrait of years, but always espous- one of the outstanding per ing what he believed to sonalities in contemporary be the true voice of Jew- Jewry. ish nationalism. The po- This adulation, of course, litical process of the h a s i t s d r a w b a c k s . T h e developing State is ably author is too close to his portrayed - leading to Be- subject whom he contem gin's ultimate reward in plates through rose-tinted winning a majority in the spectacles (he is physically 1977 Knesset elections. present at many of the dra Harry Hurwitz Throughout this period matic events described) to he showed his remarkable be able to stand back and loveforthejewish people make an objective assessment of his portrait. The and his fellow-man, his brilliant oratory, his all- book gives a gripping account of Begin's earlier embracing knowledge of world history and cur career. At the age of 16, having found in Jabotin- rent events, and his amazing memory. sky the "faith, vision and action" that he had been seeking, he joined the Betar movement and Politicalthree events decades and arc Israel's reviewed wars in infull Begin's - as well last as soon became its leader in Poland and Czechoslo his ideological battles on the international front. vakia. On the outbreak of World War II he man His speeches are quoted at some length. The aged to evade the German occupiers, only to find political survey ends with an analysis of the con himself a prisoner of the Soviets. These experi troversial circumstances of the "Peace for Gali ences inspired him to strengthen the fight to lee" operation, which started in 1982. Public create a Jewish State. After reaching Eretz Israel opinion in Israel inclined to the belief that Be he joined the Irgun and at the age of 29, became gin's military chiefs had exceeded the constraints its leader. He trained his followers to become the laid down by the government, but the author implacable foe of the British Mandatory Author ity and, for "nearly 1600 days and nights" con goes out of his way to quote Begin as saying that ducted a non-stop war of "the few against the he was kept fully in the picture of each and every move towards Beirut before it started.

38 On the other hand, quoted extracts from the S.A. ZioiNliST pEdERATioiN findings of the Hakan Commission (appointed to enquire into the Shatillaand Sabra tragedy) state (IsraeI) that the Prime Minister had little knowledge of ReNTaI ApARTMEMS foR the Phalangists' operation and showed "indiffer EX'-Souih AfRicAN pAiviiliES ence" towards it - whereas they attach full re sponsibility to the Defence Minister and other Bachelor and 2-bedroDm high-ranking officers, and called for their re apartments available moval. There is some inconsistency here in the Tel Aviv Area. All-in-all, a book replete with lively and sus tained interest and, as such, to be warmly recom F o r d e t a i l s a n d mended. registration, phone Sam Levin JENNY GALANSKY (03) 290131

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40 pub nights, quiz evenings etc. The first event Jewish Agency to Telfed's Klitah and Employ held on 4th August ■ featuring the "Jerusalem ment Departments. Improvacatzia" group - was a roaring success, with over 150 people attending. Volunteers arc □ Farewell to Norman Spiro, who has retired as being sought to help organise events. If you are the Project Manager of ISRENTCO, after ten a newoleh living in the Greater Tel Aviv area and years. All his friends atTelfed wish him a happy, aged between 20 and 40, and you would like to get fulfilling retirement. involved and meet other olim from English- speaking backgrounds, please contact Sharon at □ Good luck in your "new home" to Beulah 03-290131 orAdcIc at 03-5626470. Goodman. The Jerusalem office has moved, and will now be housed at 13 Ben Maimon Street.

Staff snippets □ Mazal Tov to Jonathan Osrin, of our Telfed □ Congratulations to Dalit Kessel, who married Magazine Committee, on his engagement to Yossi Avrahamov at Kibbutz Ramat Rachel on Gita Kaplan. The couple are both from Cape July 18. Dalit is a social worker on loan from the Town.

The Sohn Yach fund, one of the many trust funds that Telfed manages, sponsors an annual swimming award for disabled Israeli soldiers. Tins year the award was won by Sldomi Abadi. Standing with him, from left, are: Mr Lutlenberg, chairtnan oftlw association for wounded IDF soldiers; Leslie Marcus, chairman of Beit Ilalovhetn in Cape Toxvn; and Moslte Bennan, manager of the Zahal Disabled Veterans Fund. The late Solly Yach, of Cape Town, zvas a cltampion sKnmmer in his day. The outgoing Telfed Executive ... seated from left: Sam Levin, Hertzel Katz, Sidney Slmpiro, Nick Alhadfff, Yitzchak Dunsky, Morris Borstik and Louis Chesed. Standing, from Ifft: Martin Lewak, Joe Dttshansky (obscured), Joe Grossman, Annette Milliner, Antliony Maisels. Lucille Bloch, Marvyn Hatclmel, Zeev Sclavartz and David Kaplan. Absent: Solly Sacks, Leon CImmey, Mike Eredman, Harry WJuteson, Hetity Shakenowsky, Nicky Capelouto, Howard Glazer, Barry Zinn and Joel Katz!Walter Robinson (representing Beit Protea). Tfw Telfed head office staff at year s end. Seated, from Ifft: Asher Kassel, S/uiron Bernstein, Sidney Sfiapiro, Martin Lewak and Liana Koton. Standing, from left: Victor Samia, Lena Nttlman, Narda Korakin, Helayne Slwdletzky, Dalit Kessel, Renee Griller, Jenny Galatisky and Carole Pitluk. Absent: Simla Rubinow and Susan Sharon.

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Structuring the new face of SA

four familiar to us alt Not only has power changed hands in since we studied those South Africa, but the entire system of old school atlases. Ac tually the Orange Free government and administration is different State retains its name, and sometimes baffling to former South shape and area. Other provinces under famil Africans. JOSHUA JAGOBSON explains the iar names arc: North- changes. em Transvaal; Eastern Transvaal; KwaZulu/ Natal; Eastern Cape; 'hen South Africans voted in their mil Western Cape and the Northern Cape. The ter lions in April, they chose a new govern ritories North West (encompassing much of what W;ment, adopted a new constitution and Was Bophuthatswana) and PWV are new provin installed a government elected by all South Afri cial creations. The provinces have more power cans. With this immense and historic change and status than they used to. The head of the came a radically changed structure of govern province (who has the title "premier") is elected ment and administration. Effectively, the coun and hence is ultimately responsible to his elec try is run in an entirely different way. torate - and not to the central government as the old provincial administrators were. The provin Parliament cial legislatures, with between 30 and 86 legisla On the national level tors, elected by propor there are two houses N<«THERN TRANSVAAL tional representation, of parliament. The Piutcrsburg • will each have a Cabi National Assembly is a net or Executive Com 400-mcmbcr parlia Mmabatho *'^VVV V"*' mittee of ten. Every ment, with 200 MPs Johannesburg/ I*' EASTERN-^ party is entitled to an elected by propor ; N O R T H T R A N S V A A L " v - W E S T \ r - E x e c u t i v e m e m b e r f o r tional representation every ten percent of from party lists coun votes it wins. (As the . . try-wide, Israeli-style, voting turned out this and 200 by nine new NORTHERN CAPE .w Durban time, every Executive provinces on a provin but one will be made cial proportional rep EASTERN CAPE up of people from resentation basis. more than one party.) Nelson Mandela was WESTERN CAPE—j So power is shared be e l e c t e d a s P r e s i d e n t tween the parties and by the National As Cape Town hence the races at the sembly. The other provincial as well as h o u s e i s t h e S e n a t e . t h e n a t i o n a l l e v e l . I n The new Senate has ten members from each the election the three big regions were each province, regardless of size - which varies from different parties: The ANC won the just over 400,000 (the Northern Cape) to a popu PWV, the Nationalists won the Western Cape lation of nearly 5 million (the PWV). The Senate and Inkatha, Natal. This should make for a has special powers over legislation affecting spe healthy diversity of approaches and competition cific regions or provinces. in tacking regional problems. The new provinces Nine new provinces Nine provinces replace the have powers that the previous ones did not have have in areas like housing, health services, wel The Bill of Rights and Constitutional fare, licensing casinos, police and the environ Court ment. They don't have the power to tax incomes, The Bill of Rights is a new feature of South or to collect VAT or duties on fuel - all of which Africa's political landscape. It lays down a highly are reserved for the central government. The detailed list of citizen's rights which takes prece regions can raise money by taxing casinos and dence over all laws at all levels of government. In lotteries. They arc also entitled to an "equitable addition to the usual freedoms of assembly, share" of central government revenues. This, of movement, religion and free speech, the Bill course, gives the centre considerable sway over guards the right to life, human dignity, privacy, a the provinces. safe environment and freedom from forced la bour. Children have the right to a name and Municipality nationality, to parental care, and basic health and At the third level of government, the municipal social services. All this is to be adjudicated by the level, local authorities have the traditional mu Constitutional Court, based in Johannesburg. It nicipal functions with the addition of roles in has a president and 10 other members, some of education and housing. They can levy property whom need not be judges or lawyers. But the taxes (rates) and are entitled to funds from the court has to be "independent and competent and provincial government. Forty percent of the representative". It must be remembered that the councillors will be elected by city-wide propor constitution is not final. After two years the com tional representation and sixty percent by wards. bined Houses of Parliament will draft a final Higher legislatures are prohibited from en constitution for South Africa. But, whatever hap croaching on the powers and functions of local pens, the country has firmly turned its back on government. the old winner-take-all politics, in favour of power-sharing and partnership.

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IP Draw foreign currency TELFED FLATMATE Two major Israeli banks are installing multi-currency SERVICE caspomats in the departure lounge at Ben Gurion air If you have a flat and need port. According to bank officials credit card holders will be able to draw from their account, in specified someone to share It, or you are looking for a flat to foreign currencies, before they leave the country. share, Telfed runs a flatmate service at no charge-to help young m Telfed book for sale people find a home In the Gush-Dan or Sharon "Seventy Years of South African areas. Phone Liana Aliyah" is available at the Federation offices in Tel Aviv. Only NIS 30, 03-290131. hard cover. Makes an ideal gift.

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54 Keren Telfed Column

crcn Telfed, a fundraising Dear Sir, drive by the community Thank you for the most genervus offer of help extended hy the K- for the community, contin Fed - the loan and the help with the children's education, ues to raise money. These funds summer camps and chu^m. As much as fortius physical help, are disbursed to the less fortunate I would like to express my appreciation for the friendly and members of our community who supportive attitude of everyone with whom I have had contact appeal to us for help. Thanks to all at the Fed, partiailarly Sharon and Susan, and the way you those who have given so gener have enabled me t o request and receive help in a way which also ously. Amongst many letters we left some self-respect intact. get from appreciative recipients, Please pass on my thanks, appreciation and very best wishes to o n e m o t h e r w r i t e s : all involved.

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55 Sport

Auto Cross

Sheryl beats the clock When the Cyprus dust had settled and screaming engines been throttled back to a murmur, former South African Shcryl Abcr emerged from her souped-up Fiat 127 with a place of honour for Israel in the international OFA Rallysprint autocross ntotor racing challenge held in Nicosia. It was the first time Israel had competed, and the were very impressed and very pleased and very first time a woman had walked away with the nice to me," she said. honours: this time a second place in the 1300cc In Auto Cross the participants race not against each other, but against the clock. They are timed event. over a set distance, for example a 2km dirt track (as opposed to Rally Cross, which is dirt track racing where the cars race against other). Racers get one practice run and two timed attempts, the faster of which counts. Israelis compete in Cyprus becuse of the lack of equivalent local facilities here. "The team would have done even better if we had been able to practice," said Sheryl. "When I started my event in Nicosia it was my first time in a racer for over three years." The cars arc tuned by Shcryfs husband Brian, a racing me chanic. For racing, various modi fications are made: the body remains but everything else is changed. Safety features are added, the body is strengthened and the car has two and a half times more power than its com mercial equivalent. Back in South Africa Brian was in Sfieryl Aber is awarded fier tropf^ by George Prokopiou, charge of the Anglo American OFA president Costakis Nicolaou looks on. motor racing team. The Abcrs came to Israel in 1974. Tenyears Shcryl was the only woman in the competition later Brian was one of the founders of the Israeli and raced against men on equal terms, She was Motoring Club, which held its first race in Beer- one of seven Israeli entries. "In Cyprus it was the sheva. first time a woman had done a race like this. They Says Sheryl: "Then they gave us some land in

56 Ashkclon and \vc built a track. The club had five "We agreed," said Sheryl. "Then, in practice, or six races a year and was very successful. But Achmed's engine started misfiring. Brian helped we got no support in the way of TV coverage and him fix the problem - he was running on the that made it very difficult to find sponsorship. In wrong spark plugs. In the end Achmed came the end rally cross racing third in the 1600 class, he petered out by about took us all out for lunch, 1990. Now we can't even Israeli drivers are and we have all become practice here." the best of friends". With the peace process eagerly waiting for the When they arc not busy moving forward, Israeli day when they can with racing, the Abers run competitors are all eagerly a motor car workshop in waiting for the day when cotnpete in international Petach Tikva. Multi-tal we can participate in the races in Jordan ented Sheryl, a mother of various international four, used to also race events in Jordan and and Lebanon, speed boats and was once Lebanon. Racing in Cy a snooker champion in prus has helped Israelis Israel. cross the political divide. A Jordanian named At the next meeting in Cyprus, Sheryl and her Achmed approached the Abers in Nicosia and son Guy (23) will compete against each other, introduced himself. He said he "didn't concern using the same car. In the meantime they are himself with politics. We are all sportsmen, we very urgently looking for sponsors to help them should all be friends". on their way.

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57 Tennis Israel and India take court Sport between Israel and India has come a long way since the dark days of 1989, when India refused to take the court with Israel in a Davis Cup match. In July the International Lawn Tennis Club (IC) India team - including two ex-Davis Cup players - visited Israel, playing matches in Haifa, Jerusalem and Ramat Hasharon. This was the first time an IC team had visited Israel. Everyone for tennis ... from Irft: Harold Former South Africans, Jacky Saul, Jankelowitz; ex Davis Cup player SImm Minotra, Harold Jankelowitz and Ronnie Sender Froman and the Indian ambassador Mr Singh. played in the tournament in which Is rael won all three matches. At a dinner in J uly at the Indian ambassador's home The International Lawn Tennis Club (IC) of Great in Kfar Shmaryahu, Indian ambassador Britain was founded after World War One by Wallis His Excellency Mr Singh said how im Myers. He believed it was better for countries to portant the tour had been for the devel- settle their differences on the tennis court rather opment of ties between the two than on the battlefield. France joined the fellowship, nations. forming their own club in 1929. The USA joined in Dr Ian Froman and Harold Jankelowitz 1931. Today the IC movement has become a world were made honorary members of the wide tennis organisation, which Israel joined in 1984. Indian IC with the traditional presenta Israel's IC consists of 45 members which includes tion of club ties. India has invited Israel Shlomo Glickstcin and Shachar Perkis. Former to tour in January next year. Says South Africans who are members arc: Ian Froman Harold: " An amazing bond of friend (Honorary Chairman); Harold Jankelowitz (Chair ship has been established between the man); Archie Davidson (Secretary); Jacky Saul, Ron two clubs, which proves how vital a role nie Sender and Janine Strauss. sport plays in helpingto foster business and friendship between nations."

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to midnight. "I've done this walk 14 times now. Speed-walking We walk from 4pm to midnight and at night, and as you go around the lake you get to sec all the lights from across the water. It's really great," he Art of the stiff knee says. Races such as these are non competitive, endur When thousands of athletes sec out to walk 400 ance events. The Israel Amateur Athletics Fed km in eight days last month, in Neijncigcn, Hol eration also recently held a 20km speed walking land, South African Aubrey Levin was among championship, where Aubrey came third in his them. Still breathless and a little sore, he is back age group. If you want to participate in fast walk to his training aiid getting ready for more. ing, telephone 07-39196. Aubrey lives and trains in Omer, nearBeershcva, with a small committed group of fellow walkers. He made aliya in 1972 and runs a retail business. The sport, he says, is still embryonic in Israel. Bowls Most people don't know what it is although the trend to "power walking" has helped popularise the walking alternative. Says Aubrey: "Speed Israel to play tests in S A walking is the art of doing a marathon without running. The basic rule is: at no time can the Trials are under way to pick the Israeli bowls participant have both feet off the ground. Effec teams, five men and five women, that will take tively the walkers have to straighten their knee on the Springboks in two tests at the Beacons- fully with every stride and there are judges at field Club in Johannesburg in October. The various points on the race route to enforce this." teams, under manager Kalley Saacks arrive in An endurance walk similar to those held in Hol South Africa on October 12. Watch this space for land, is held at the Kinncrct every year, from 4pm the results.

Telfed wishes the South African community a Shanah Tovah

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