Government and the People of Israel on the Celebration of the Thirtieth

Tﬁ^n A J O U R N A L F O R O L I M F R O M SOUTHERN TELFED AFRICA VOL IV NO. 3. — MAY 1978

The South African Zionist Federation extend bdst wishes to the President, the Government and the People of Israel on the celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the State's independence and pray that peace with our neighbours will be attained In our time.

Project, merits emulation by official and semi-of ficial bodies concerned with the welfare of the populace. THIRTY YEARS When the office was opened in 1948 the num ber of settlers from Southern Africa living in the new-born state did not exceed more than a few hundred. Concomitant with Israel's development Like Israel, which is celebrating three decades during these thirty years, there has been a substan tia! increase in aliyah from Southern Africa which of independent statehood, this year also marks the reached record levels last year — a practical man 30th anniversary of the South African Zionist Fed ifestation of S. African Jewry's Zionist aspirations. eration Office in Israel The progress of the office in many respects The multifarious activiities of the office have reflects the country's development. The office has (cont. pg. 14) had its ups and downs and has overcome many setbacks, mainly financial, in its checkered career. Regrettably. South Africa's Zionist leadership, often deservedly praised for its initiative and pio Ex South Africans neering spirit In so many spheres, did not always (Raymond) and Barry display the necessary vision to afford the office the invite you requisite financial facilities to ensure its operation to enjoy top quality fast foods at optimum level. This myopia persists and con tinues to bedevil the operation of the office and Pure Beef Burgers, Steaks & Shishlik inhibits the expansion of services. char broiled, Rumpsteak as good as any in, The Federation was the first territorial Zionist South Africa, Fish 'n Chips, toast treats. Waffles, soft servs. organization to open an office in Israel against opposition from the official Zionist establishment Open 7 days a week till 10.30 p.m. and has since been emulated by many other organ (Friday till 3 p.m.) isations which have followed suit. With commendable vigour and foresight, the Federation has pioneered in many spheres : its iniitiative led to the introduction of the Overseas Leadership Course, better known as the Madrichei Hutz La'aretz ; to the innovation of the first hostel for immigrants built in Tel Aviv ; to the innovation of the first family hostel or merkaz klitah, as it is now known; to the launching of the first housing scheme for immigrants in the early fifties in Tel Aviv and Haifa, not to mention the much more am- biitions ventures culminating in the establishment of the city of Ashkelon — a community project launched by S. African Jewry soon after the es tablishment of the state. It is gratifying that the Zionist Federation in Israei is still motivated by creative and pioneering impulses and imaginative planning in so many di rections. Its newest scheme, the Rental Housing LT D . T O U R S & T R AV E L

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HOMEWARD BOUND ^ However, with the outbreak of the Arab Riots in 1936 and the Arabs" closure of Jaffa port to DESTINATION ISRAEL the Jews, the need for a Jewish harbour became imperative and. with the authorities still maintaining March 1978 — late afternoon at Tel Aviv har their negative attitude, the Jews of the Yishuv bour. A sharp, cold wind whips up the spume. decided to go it alone. Thus. Jews who for cen Waves dash against the breakwater wall rpraying turies had been divorced from the sea built and the few fisherman casting their lines. The sea is operated this port and again became a maritime empty except for some small fishing smacks tied community quickly learning the art of maritime to the wharf. The port and surrounding area look trades. In his foreword to a special publication drab and neglected, for time has not been gfantle — issued to mark the 10th Anniversary of the opening but then, the port was born in an ungentle time. .)f the Tel Aviv port. Herzl Zuckerman writes : "....unaided, inexperienced, the community after The old Levant Fairground next door, once bub being denied the use of Jaffa port, declared its bling with activity, is a labyrinth of criss-crossiiici determination no longer to be dependent on the paths leading to garages and small workshops. favours of other nations but to build and operate The old Maccabi Stadium, once thronging with its own port..." sports competitors and brass bands and bunting is crumbling and deserted, big holes gaping in In the meantime work on the port progressed i t s w a l l s . apace and even before unloading facilities were This large area is earmarked for development complete the first ship arrived- The date. May as part of a master plan for the whole sea front 19. 1936. By 1938. the port had become sufficiently from Nahariya to Ashkelon. Until then. Tel Aviv developed to build strong lighters in its own boat port will lie almost unused, its rows of warehouses yard. The outbreak of World War II brought the brooding in silence, remembering the days when port's activities to a halt for 5 years. However, the first Jewish port in the Mediterranean pointed in 1940. after Italy entered the war. the British the way to an independent Jewish State. Admiralty asked tlie company to build mineswee pers. Part of the wood used in the construction of these ships came from the eucalyptus trees planted by the Bilu'im. In 1934. Herzl Zuckerman. a young Capetonian and leader of the Zionist Youth Organization there, gave up his legal practice, came on aliyah (there In 1945 the port reopened and normal ac were about 200 8. Africans living in Eretz Israel tivities continued. In 1948. the situation of the at the time) and joined the staff of the Anglo- stateless Jews from Europe was desperate and Palestine Bank (now Bank Leumi Leisrael). These the setting up of a Jewish State was coming to were restless times, a prelude to the start of the a head. Already before May ships were bringing Arab riots in 1936 which continued until the out arms to the Palestinian Jews and the first olim b r e a k o f W o r l d W a r I I i n 1 9 3 9 . sailed home on a ship proudly flying the Jewish Flag, in May 1948. with the Declaration of the "One day," recalls Herzl. "Mr. Hoofien. the State of Israel and the outbreak of the War of then manager of the bank, told me that a port was independence, almost twelve years to the day that to be constructed in Tel Aviv and asked me to the first shovelful of sand was dug to start the be the secretary of the public company to be Jewish port, it was bombed by the enemy. formed, the Marine Trust Ltd.. which would han dle all the affairs of the port. This company be Throughout the following years. Tel Aviv harbour came the largest Jewish company in Eretz Israel c o n t i n u e d i t s t a s k o f s e r v i c i n g m a n y s h i p s f r o m formed after the establishment of the Jewish many lands. With the passage of time it became Colonial Trust by Theodore Herzl. For the next c l e a r t h a t e x p a n s i o n o f i t s f a c i l i t i i e s w a s e s s e n ten years my lot was cast with the Tel Aviv port tial but with the opening of the new and modern of which I was also the acting manager," c l e a r t h a t e x p a n s i o n o f i t s f a c i l i t i e s w a s e s s e n - T h e b u i l d i n g o f t h i s h a r b o u r w a s s e e n a s a port of Ashdod in 1965 the activities of the Tel Aviv harbour virtually ceased. The whole area break-through — one of the first — towards in now awaits the day when it will come alive again dependence of the Yishuv. It was not mere whim to play a different role. that precipitated this action. For some years, the Yisiuiv was well aware that the growing town of • • • Tel Aviv should, of necessity, have its own outlet In 1966, Herzl Zuckerman was awartlecl the O.B E to the Mediterranean Sea. The mandatory author in recognition of iiis services towards Anglo-Israel com ities operated the ports of Jaffa and Haifa and mercial and general relationships as secretary for many showed no interest in any other ports. years of the Anglo-Israel Chamber of Commerce

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by Lionel Pyetan I lafided in Haifa in 1938 with a young wife, two The place of honour on the table was given to small sons aged 5 and 2V2. and a capitalist immi the "Kol-boinik", which is neither a cult object nor grant certificate that testified to my being in pos an ornament, but was then a receptacle made of session of £ 1.000. and branded me in the eyes of tin. which served as a siop bowl into which you most people in the country as a likely millionaire, tossed anytWng on your plate you didn't like — and and coming from South Africa, which was not then a walk round the dining room soon revealed that a source or immigration, as probably also mad. 1 the dislikes of the chaverim were as numerous and also had carried a large pack of ideals and programs varied as themselves. I am convinced that the for restructuring the social pyramid of the Jewish "Kol-boinik" was invented by the kibbutz cooks to people, and bringing social light to the nations. prove that their fellow members rejected their Our destination was obviously the kibbutz, but our fine offerings out of spite. first stop was to be Tel Aviv. For the casual one-meal visitor to the kibbutz, We hired a taxi to get there, but the pace he the "Kol-boinik" could prove a trap, and I have made from the moment he left the Haifa docks seen an unwary guest replenishing his plate from made this a highly unlikely event. In reply to our the slops we had just discarded, and claiming that protests, he told us that the road was dangerous, k i b b u t z f o o d w a s d e l i c i o u s ! and one had to drive very fast to avoid being shot. Work was the easiest thing to get used to. (the'1936/1939 Arab disturbances were then at their height), He didn't accept my argument that you Firstly physical and unskilled work fitted directly were just as dead when killed in an acciden. and into the philosophy of correcting the social pyramid. Work with your hands was clean, honest and possibly much more badly Injured if you survived. socially right, and an aching back and scuffed hands We made Tel Aviv without incident or accident. were a small price to pay. My first job was car That evening, while putting our small boys to bed rying boxes filled with oranges from the pickers at the Yarkon Hotel — a swank hotel of those days to the collection point. I don't believe that the and still in business, if less swank — we heard the number of boxes I carried per day was ever re rattle of automatic firing, and were told laconically corded. but I seriously depleted our export quota by our waiter that "it was just down the road on by the number of oranges I ate, reaching 40 on the Tel Aviv — Jaffa border". We had come home one day. to our ancient homeland I The great problem was language. Coming from The kibbutz of 1938 was not the plush and pro Durban. I had a fair command of English, a poor sperous institution that it is today, and our first matric pass in Afrikaans, ditto in Latin, and a few impressions were disappointing. Unquestionably the words of what used then to be called "kitchen kibbutz was the ideal, the most socially advanced kaffir". I also knew the Hebrew letters and could community anywhere — but on the face of it a pronounce words written with vowels. The Ulpan lot of employed people in capitalist Durban had had not yet been invented, and the kibbutz was it a lot better. But wait! — the comparison should not geared to teach individuals. only be made with the black workers, the real working class, and making this comparison restored However, in response to my request for help our faith. The kibbutz did indeed prove what we in learning the language, a young man named workers could achieve together. Zaiman apparently volunteered to perform the- Zionist task of helping to absorb the two new The community of the kibbutz is most expressed " o l i m " f r o m A f r i c a . and lived in the common dining room. Here you meet and eat three times daily in company with Zaiman was a teacher in the kibbutz school. the many hundreds of your fellow kibbutzniks. In addition to Hebrew, he spoke Yiddish and Polish, He was cultured, high-minded and keen to help. The dining room of Givat Brenner, with its Unfortunately, at that time I could not have con tables for eight and two long benches to a table, firmed any of these qualities as we had no com provided our middle class conceptions of behavior munication whatsoever. I learned no Hebrew, but with a cultural shock. Some 600 to 1000 people from irritation and frustration my ulcer was very ate at every meal. They came from a variety of much aggravated. backgrounds and possessed an equal variety of dif ferent habits and customs. Everybody came to I tried another method and became an inveter meals when it suited them within the time span ate attender of meetings. I am convinced that the alloted for the meal, Vou grabbed the first vacant iron in my character, the steel in my backbone, place available, and joined a table at which some are the result of sitting through meeting- after persons might be finishing their meal, others only meeting, for endless hours, without understanding half-way through, and the table probably still lit a single word or even knowing what subject had tered with the used plates of those who had already b e e n d i s c u s s e d . finished and left. The common politenesses to which we were used were conspicuous by their (cont, pg. 14) absence. THE BEGINNING"

Extract from "DAYS OF FIRE' by Samuel ("Moekie") Katz

I came to Jerusalem for the first time on a win understandina the Dolitical elements — British. ter morning in January 1936. The weather was raw Arab and Jewish — in a palpably charged atmos and melancholy. The sky was overcast, with a steady phere, I found myself acclimatizing rapidly to the drizzle, the pavements were muddy. 1 soon dis uneasy way of life in Jerusalem, to the endless covered how well this day fit the mood of the political discussion, to the constant whisper of times. rumours and to the general ambience of unreality which was engendered by the conflict of interest — British Mandatory rule. Arab emergent national A cloud of fear seemed to hang over the city. Its Jewish inhabitants, and many of its Arabs, were ism, and Jewish dreams of a nation home. restless and apprehensive. For weeks all the Arab My first three months in Palestine indeed proved newspapers had been publishing articles vilifying to be the last nervous period of peace there. There the Jews with more than customary passion. Arab followed successive phases of bloodshed, war, and politicians were publicly advocating a campaign political upheaval that were to last for nearly thir of violence, the coming clash being the dominant teen years... theme in the Arab cafes and market places through • • • out Palestine. Commercial and professional rela tions between the communities were coming to a Haskel was enraged by the news of the Arab standstill, and Arab businessmen were warned to violence. What was happening followed the pattern disassociate themselves speedily from dealing with of earlier events during the eighteen years of Jews. At the Vienna Cafe. Jerusalem's journalists, British rule. There was a tradition of elaborate lawyers, officials, socialites, and spies for various British inaction except in preventing Jewish retalia interests foregathered at the day's end to exchange tion to Arab attack. Haskel was impatient to return news and gossip, and Arab newspapermen, like to Jerusalem, where he was to meet the Chief some whispering Greek chorus, muttered gloomy Secretary of the Mandatory government. Hathorn prognostications to their Jewish colleages. Hall. We telephoned British Police District Head quarters in Jaffa, where the streets were all but 1 had come from Johannesburg to open in Jeru deserted, its shops shuttered. Major Foley, the salem the office of Michael Haskel, the appointed South African honorary consul, whom I was to police commandant, assured us that all was quiet, serve as secretary. The work I was able to do dur so we drove to Tel Aviv. ing those first weeks was not difficult or taxing, There. Haskel telephoned one of the leaders and most of my time and thought was taken up in of Haganah-B — the nonconformist splinter of the semi-ciahdestine Haganah (the "official" self-de fence organization of the Palestine Jewish com munity) — and explained his desire to reach Jeru salem. Soon a car, driven by Aryeh Ben Ellezer. a member of the organization, sped us away. woiieh When Haskel called on the Chief Secretary the I Hi mrOHi n /I cms I ii>*< next day, he roundly denounced the British Govern (II rl lUMII.HAI IIIN K I'lH ment. declaring that he would make it his business A PERSON TO PERSON SERVICE "to publish throughout the world" the fact that Sometinne or another you have ihousht about Britain was not only betraying her obligation to lettling in ISRAEL. facilitate the establishment of the Jewish national You have wvondared if your future nrtight not be here, with your own people. home, but was inciting the Arabs to murder, while TOUR VA'ALEH exists specially for you: To help preventing Jews from hitting back. you investigate settlement possibllites. To help Hathorn Hall, the Chiief Secretary, maintained you decide. that the government had the situation In hand, and Whether your question is to do with Housing, declared that the trouble would be over in a couple Immigration. Investment Business, Employment, of days. At this Haskel exploded again. Education or anything else about ISRAEL, come in and inquire at TOUR VA'ALEH "Your people do not even know what is going We, a group of experts on all aspects of immigra on!" he protested. "Your police chief in Jaffa tion, are not a faceltss, anonymous organization. We work on the spot, with friendliness and dis yesterday refused me an escort to Jerusalem, say cretion. ing everything was already under control. Yet the It Is always a pleasure for us to meet people in Arabs were still attacking Jewish cars on the road." terested In ISRAEL. Come and say hello. We Hall smiled. "But you reached Jerusalem safely." speak your language. Area Offices: "Of course I did," said Haskel. "I was given an armed escort by the Haganah." TEL AVIV: 12 Rahov Kaplan. Tal: 03/258311 * The report I wrote on Haskei's angry conver HAIFA: 124 Sdarot Hanaasi. Tal. sation with Hathorn Hall could hardly have caused 04/83353 even a raised eyebrow in the External Affairs De JERUSALEM: Binyanat Ha'ooma. TaP. partment in Pretoria. The South African Govern ment knew that Michael Haskel had long been a 02/531278. forthright critic of the British regime in Palestine (cont. pg. 13

7 AIR BRIDGE TO ISRAEL

by Boris Senior

The ending of World W.nr Two left me with the their crews to Palestine Choice of aircraft, per ciejjr renlizotion that our problems were only be sonnel, ways to get them five thousand miles ginning, and I prepared to move to Israel. The across the continent of Africa, all was left entirely, situation went from bad to worse. Suddenly came vaguely, to me. the declaration of partition in November 1947. , I presented myself at the Zionist Federation causing a wave of exhilaration and hope, tempered offices in Johannesburg, armed with "a letter from with a presentinient of the bitter struggle that lay the "General Council of Jewish Aviation In Pales ahead. tine." requesting that all assistance be given. I arrived in Tel-Aviv in December 1947. and I was received with open arms. Here was a within three days was flying In the Sherut Avir community of Jews, eager to help in any way of the Haqanah. precursor of today's Israeli Air possible, frustrated by their forced inaction, re Force. For me. fresh from the cockpits of Spitfires stricted to collecting money and attending to. what and advanced American Fighter planes, it was a-^ became, at that fateful time, the rather prosaic task most pathetic set-up. consisting of seven local of preparing halutzim for their movement to pilots, .some of them with limited experience in Palestine. the R.A.F.. one Russian ex-Stormvik Fighter pilot, and myself, lone delegate of Western Jewry. A Everything moved rapidly into high gear, money handful of rickety little two seater club aircraft, was made available, and the thousands of files some of English manufacture, and one old Polish were combed for seasoned aircrew. Yoel Palgi of high wing flying crate, incongrously fitted out with the Haganah. on a visit to South Africa, became a plush pseudo-Victorian interior. All of them held a pillar of strength and activity. An extreme urgency together by worn out bolts and tired fabric. But guided ail our actions. I was under the mistaken for all their faults, most definitely flyable. impression that on May 15th. American Jewry would despatch,- if not a complete air force, at Our missions, patrolling the water pipe line to least a worthy number of combat planes and crews. the three far-flung kibbutzim of Beit Eshel. Gevulot Our task was to bring quickly, during the interven and Revivim. dropping of ammunition, messages ing months, enough aircraft and crews to keep the and occasionally, for good measure, morning pa air force going. pers. to settlements cut off from contact with the centre of the country. Reconnaissance sorties and We began a feverish search for suitable aero flights to Lod airport to bring back cans of aviation planes which could both make the long hazardous fuel for our craft, when the road between Tel-Aviv flight and also be able to answer the immediate and Lod were under fire from Arab irregulars. One needs of the fledgling air force. In KimbeiTey we visit In particular remains in my memory. After discovered forty World War II Kitthawk fighter landing i taxied my aircraft and parked on the aircraft in good condition, being sold for scrap at tarmac next to a shiny, new Egyptian Misr airliner. three and a half pounds a piece ! Hurried enquiries As I walked to the control tower. I saw the two made it clear that there was no chance of smug Egyptian pilots, resplendent in their black uniforms gling the aircraft ont of the country either by sea. and fur-lined flying boots, looking down their noses, or demounted and stowed in transport aircraft. Had albeit with some curiosity, at my little yellow bi we succeeded to get these aircraft to Israel, the plane and at my scruffy appearance. Little did I map of our area at the cessation of hostilities in realize that in a matter of months we wonld wipe 1949 would most certainly have been much ditterent. the skies clean of all enemy aircraft. Regretfully, we settled for the purchase of four Night missions with no blind flying equipment, teen civilian craft. The task of getting them to a small torch to light up occasionally the instru Israel seemed insuperable. Devious methods were ment panel in order to glimpse the airspeed in einployed. Some were registered in our names dicator. altimeter or fuel gauge, and on dark nights as personal aeroplanes. I was elected to fly the to try and keep the aircaft on some sort of even first one out. Due to a chain of unhappy circum keel. No radio, contact in the air. nothing. stances. I crahed on a jungle strip near the Zam besi River at Clilrundu. After a bout of malaria as One long flight down the Arava. a few feet a result of the night spent in the bush near the above the ground all the way. checking a hare- landing strip, a seond identical craft was pur brainnd scheme to bring arms and supplies from chased. By now the Special Branch of the South the Far East. Circling over what is now Eilat. con- African police was hot on my trail and I was a •sisting then of two primitive buildings staffed by marked man At the end of April Cecil Wulfson of an Arab police detacfiment whose members rushed Rustenberg agreed to fly the aircraft out of South out to wave at us Africa to Khartoum, where I arrived by.airliner and took over from him. A hot bum|)y flight of four In February 1948 t was sent to South Africa on hours in the little single engined craft to Wadi a mission to recruit Air Force personnel, to buy Haifa and then on along the Nile to Luxor in Egypt wiialever aircraft I could find, and to get them and 6 (cont pg 14) AN EXCERCISE IN NOSTALGIA SPECIALLY This motif is taken up by Prof. L.I. Rabinowitz — who himself has made an impressive contribution RECOMMENDED FOR THIRTIETH to Israel in several areas, among them as a non ANNIVERSARY BROWSING AND READING conformist Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem.

"No Jewish community of comparative size has made such a massive and solid contribution to SOUTH AFRICAN JEWRY (Third Edition) : edited by Israel, both during the pre-State period — in the Leon Feldberg ; published by South African Jewry framework of "the State on the way", which was the historic function of the World Zionist Organi And Who's Who. P.O. Box 4886. Johannesburg. sation in its heyday before the establishment of This is a book worth having, if you have settled the State, was accomplished, as has been made by in Israel from South Africa, if only for the epylogue i South African Jews — and in the period since its Leon Feldberg, an editor who always knows an establishment", is how Louis Rabinowitz begins opportunity when he sees one. seized the chance his aslonishingly wide-ranging -review in so con- about a year ago to enhance the established value -strictecl a space, and he goes on to claim, quite of his unique and comprehensive guide, directory justifiably, that "it is a glorious story which has and who's who of the South African Jewish com not yet been told, and which demands that it be munity by including a section "South African Jews told, even if not completely' - In Israel". This section is made up of three parts, an ex Prof. Rabinowitz offers a few explanations for tended article by Rabbi Prof. L.l. Rabinowitz. a roll the remarkable achievement, among them the fact of honour comprising Jews from South Africa that South African Jewry is the most honiogeneous who fell in Israel's defence from 1948 to 1975 and a Jewish community in the Diaspora -- and liiat who's who of former South Africans living in Israel. aspect itself is worthy of serious and honest study The entire section, numbering about fifty pages of as an inter-disciplinary exercise, in these days of the massive 530 pp. volume, is liberally illustrated, "The World of Our Fathers" (Howe) and "Roots' and is introduced by a message from the South (Haley). Other factors, according to'Prof Rabinowitz are the overwhelmingly Lithuanian-Latvian origin African Ambassador to Israel. Dr. Charles Fincham. • of the community in South Africa, the influence of congratulating the editor on including the specia. section, and noting that "in every walk of life and riijah, the Gaon of Vilna : the "organic Zionism" in every field ot endeavour. Jews of South Africa to which Chaim Weizmann referred when he visited have made an impressive contribution to the pros South Africa and found there "a fertile soil,..for a natural growth rather than a synthetic compound" perity of Israel". — how pleasing it is to find Prof Rabinowitz. tliat ardent disciple of Jabotinsky quoting Woizmann for the aptest description of the South African Jewish milieu from witich its sons and daugliters came to develop, live for and in and die for. in Israel I Of course the article does not purport to tell the whole story of nearly three generations of South African Jewish settlement in the Jewish RilTAU homeland. How could it ? Nevertheless. i\ provides an insight into the idealism, perseverence. ver satility and adaptibility of the Jews from South Africa who have made their homeland, many of them making their mark here in widely differing fields, one as a nêmber of Ben Gurion's Govern m e n t ( J a c k G e r i ) . a n o t h e r a s a m e m b e r o f t h e Knesset ("Moekie" Katz. sometime Information Advisor to Premier Begin); another as Chairman of the Jewish Agency (Louis Pincus) ; two very SOUTH AFRICAN STYLE senior diplomats (Michael Comay and Arthur Sl//)l(ll| HmC'IH .1(1 lilf.lk'. Lourie),and veteran diplomat Mordecai Kidron as I ' l i i c R e fl well as younger members of the diplomatic corps, liiu'V fLiiht'iiiicil S|id(i* Emanuel Shimoni, and Sydney Sinai : judges, ma yors, rabbis, writers,' professors, scholars, doctors, ('.tuiicp I dinli l'liiip> dentists — and the men and women whose gnt and Atarim Square determination have won for South African Jewry the niost enviable reputation in the towns and Herzlia Pituach Some, disappointingly few. are listed in the twenty Savyon page who's who which closes the section, but one hardly cavil at the editor for this scanty reflection FOpcn Mly IwthTilwwr' (cent, pg 14) 9 Classified Rates: Personal IL. 12 per line; Business — rat« according to size - Minimum amount IL. 100. w DAVID PINKAS ex-Johannesburg ELECTRICIAN AND APPLIANCE MECHANIC ocean company ltd. All household and industrial installations and • I n t e r n a t i o n a l Tr a n s p o r t repairs undertaken in greater Hadera region, IMMEDIATE SERVICE Phone 063-26971 • Packing of Household Goods • C o n t a i n e r S e r v i c e s Looking for a ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD ? e Customs House Broker Like a RENTAL FLAT ? The SAZF Office has a very nice selection • Destination Services in Israel of RENTAL FLATS to offer you in Tel Aviv. Jerusalem and other areas. BEN-GURION AIRPORT & Please Phone Cynthia, Tel Aviv 290131 HAIFA, ASHDOD. EILAT PORTS Sybil, Jerusalem 34822

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(cont. from pg. 1) The long solo flight over the Egyptian- desert took six hours, silent except for the healthy drone one primary objective — to encourage and facil of a new engine, my only company a packet of itate the absorption of S. African olim in all walks biscuits and a huge thermos of hot tea. Suddenly of life in Israel. It is gratifying to see that more the outline of the Red Sea appeared through the and more of our S. African olim are actively par scattered morning cloud, and then the Sinai desert, ticipating in helping with the absorption of new and within what seemed to be minutes, the tin immigrants more recently arrived. roofs of Kibbutz Gevulot and the tiny landing strip at Nir Am in the Northern Negev. After landing The next decade will be a crucial one for Israel I opened the cockpit door to the cold, stony glan and the Jewish People and it is our fervant prayer ces of our troops, guns at the ready. How could that the peace which has been so elusive since I have foreseen that the sudden appearance of a the establishment of the state will become a sleek red and silver aircraft, never before seen in reality. Israel, arriving from the direction of Egypt, would The South African Zionist Federation in Israel be considered anything other than an enemy ? Soon views the future with pride in its achievements and I was recognized by one of my fellow pilots, and confidence in the belief that the next decade will the grim faces were wreathed in smiles of wel witness bigger aliyah and more efficient and ef come. I had a moment of sudden quietness when fective absorption of the thousands of new olim I was told that only a last minute order by the expected to follow in the wake of those already commander at Nir Am stopped them from shooting settled happily in Israel. me down on the approach to the landing. Icont. from pg. 9) In the meantime the rest of the aircraft began to leave South Africa, one group of four in con of the fact that almost ten thousand Israelis have voy, one via West Africa and others along the the closest South African connection I What is on route I had taken. The larger 20 seat Dakotas were record here, with its wealth of photographs so incorporated into a non-scheduled airline which lavishly reproduced, is worthy of praise. What Isn't, we called Westair. later Universal Airlines. A twice is material for recording somewhere else, perhaps. weekly flight to Tel-Aviv was organized. These aircraft made the three-day flight to Tel Aviv, off As for the major part of the book, the articles loaded the passengers and in great secrecy were by wellknown writers like Gustav Saron, Prof. M.F. immediately loaded with urgent supplies which were Kaplan, Prof. A. Dubb, Lionel Modes, Eric Rosenthal flown to settlements on the verge of collapse. and the editor himself, as well as the generous two Some of these aircraft carried out night bombing hundred and fifty pages of who's who, the remark missions to Gaza, Mijdal and once to Damascus, able thing is that one man. Leon Feldberg, set him bearing all the time the South African registra self to assemble the material and to produce it tion on their wings. The twice weekly flight be in this handsome form. No one else has ever done tween. Johannesburg and Tel-Aviv was eventually anything like it, and I have my doubts that anyone will do it again. This is Africans, of a kind. incorporated into El Al's schedule and became the forerunner of today's Boeing service to ; , H . M . B . Johannesburg. (cont. from pg. 6) Finally my wife decided that having others look Of the fourteen aircraft purchased, two crashed after her kids, mend my socks and cook our meals, on the flight to Israel, and one was impounded In was not suitably adjusting the social pyramid, and. Cairo. The rest arrived safely and they and their also for other reasons, we left the kibbutz. valiant crews helped in no small measure to tip the scales of victory in our favour. Until fighter ond Our ideals however were undlmmed. We were bomber aircraft began to arrive from the U.S. and still determined on a life of labour, and where is from Czechoslavakia, these few civilian aircraft, labour cleaner, more honest and earthier than on supplied by the small Jewish community of South the land. Africa, were fitted with outlandish-looking con So we settled on Kfar Shmaryahu as farmers traptions which enabled us to throw bombs out of — not the affluent suburb of today, but a new the windows and doors of the aircraft. 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