Page 6 - the Canadian Jewish News, Friday, November 14, l%y
THE NAHAL
(Tel Aviv).- It was the . first time that editors of the Israeli press had made a trip from Tulcarm to Jericho via the Jordan Valley up to Nahal Argaman. We passed Ramallah, Nablus and the Damia Bridge, the open border between Israel and Jordan, where thousands of Arabs from both sides meet with their families and through which huge transports of vegetables and fruit pass from Israel to Jordan.
We travel under a strong military guard in ftont and behind. We pass many Arab villages on the road to Bei-san. We can see the Jordan River. It is 9 a.m. We meet Arabs with donkeys. In the villages the shops are opening, some Arabs are already sitting in the cafes. The Arabs look at our cars and the military jeeps accompanying us on ail sides and surely think: they must he very important people.
We arrive at Nahal Argaman. This is a new Nahal settlement, a strategic military post, which is situated on a high mountain, from . which you can see clearly the Jordan River and the positions of the Arab Legion.
Nahal represents the military youth battalions which are instructed in military and agricultural matters. The name Argaman derives from two military heroes, Colonel AryeRegewand Captain Gad Manela, who found death here a year ago in a clash with Arab terrorists.
This strategic point is typical of the special character of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, a synthesis between a military camp and an agricultural settlement. Young men and women soldiers are schooled here as soldiers and agricultural experts. We see many boys and girls with rifles tilling the soil. The whole vicinity is empty of inhabitants. The Arabs have not cultivated tliis ground for generations. Only the Nahal youth has planted tomatoes, onions, potatoes and other vegetables. They found water resources. They are proud of turning wasteland into fertile ground. Before these grounds l)elonged to the Government of Jordan.
We were introduced to the Commander of the Nahal settlements in the Jordan Valley. He came as a child to Eretz Israel with his parents from Warsaw. He is a stout, sun-tanned man of 30. They call him Zvika (Zvi LevanoiO. His reddish moustache, uniform and military boots represent the characteristic type of Zahal officer. Among the thousands of boys aDd girls in the Nahal are also some from abroad, who come for the periof of 15 monthis to Israel in order to help build the country. There are boys and girls from all parties, starting with Communists from Moshe Sneh and ending with yeshiva scholars. We meet many members of the kibbutz settlements, from lay and religious settlements. All {OSS military training and do agricultural
work for a period of two years.
From Argaman we go to a second Nahal settlement — Kalia. On the way preparations are under way to establish a new Nahal post in the name of the military herb. Major Chanan Samson, who was killed in battle with terrorists. Nahal Kalia is situated in the part of the Dead Sea district where there were three Jewish settlements before the creation of the State of Israel: the potash works of Engineer Navomeiski, Kalia and Beir Arava (A house in the desert). Nearby was the famous tourist hotel Kalia. During the fighting in 1948, Zahal had to evacuate this area. The Jordanians destroyed all Jewish settlements and turned the place once again into a desert.
Only on May 20,1968, exactly 20 years after leaving this place, Nahal returned to re-establish a Jewish settlement in the northern part of the Dead Sea. Now a new road is being built from here to Ein Gedl When it is finished, it will be possible to go by car along the eastern border of Israel from the Golan Heights to Eilat.
In the desert on the shores of the Dead Sea, fruits and vegetables have been planted; apples, pears, melons, tomatoes, bananas, potatoes etc. Here geese are also raised.
The Nahal soldiers and pioneers live here under very hard conditions. It is extremely difficult to develop agriculture here in the lowest place on earth, where temperatures often reach 50 deg. centigrade. Water resources are scarce. Water experts are performing several experiments and tests in order to turn salty water into drinking water. This region is called the Dead Sea region, because hardly any living soul can live here owing to the salty water and the intense heat
With great obstinacy and zeal the military pioneers of Nahal have turned the desert into an oasis. They have redeemed the earth from salt and now you can even see basins in which fish are bred.
When we arrived at NahJd Kalia, the Jordanians shelled the area and the commander of the settlement immediately ordered us to seek refuge in the shelters. Young women soldiers led us to the shelters and told us not to be afraid. The Jordanians only wanted the newspaper editors to smell the odour of powder. After a short while the shelling ceased and we felt better.
We had lunch with the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, General Chaim Bar-Lev, who praised the great military achievements and important tasks of Nahal Up tUl then Nahal had established nine settlements in the Golan Heights around the city of Kuneitra. Another settlement was erected near the Hermon mountain, another on.the road from l^emach, Nahal Sinai south from El Arish (in the norhtern part
by Moshe Ron
of the Sinai Peninsula), Na-hal-Yam near Kanata, Nahal-Dikla near Rafiah (in the Gaza zone), Nahal-Zafor in the Negev Desert, KfarEt-zion, and Nahal Mehula (south of Beit Shean).
Altogether there are 40 Nahal units in. the country, half Gi them stable Jewish settlements. After a visit to the Nahal settlements we returned to Tel Aviv in a good mood and high spirits.
We had seen that we can rely pn our youngsters who settled on the borders of our country. We were sorry that we had the opportunity of visiting only two of these extraordinary settlements.
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NEWS REPORT
BEIRUT CALLING
The other day myelder son came urgently into the study and said, "The Egyptians have crossed the canal. They've landed troops and there's a lot of Israeli dead.''
"Who said so?"
"The BBC. Quick. It's stiU on."
I hurried through and caught the end of the report. It sounded bad. We turned in to the Israeli news and waited anxiously. There was nothing about the raid in the news, or in the next bulletin. In the one after, the announcer said the Army had been inyestiga- .
ting an Egyptian claim to have crossed the canal.
The location announced by the Egyptians was empty marsh-land. Fresh craters in it and a number of aircraft-type Russian rocket pods showed there had been a hit-and-run raid, probably by a single aircraft There was no sign of a troop landing or of any other damage. Visits were being organized for newsmen who wished to investigate.
I didn't hear if the BBC took advantage of the offer, or. if it reported the Israeli
AGE EXTENDED
UPPED TO 55
Tel Aviv.- The military caUup age of reservists has been extended to 55 years of age.
The added age groups should bolster Zahal's numerical strength by tens of thousands of soldiers and help spread the ljurden over larger segments of the population.
Active duty units now will include men up to the age of 49 (provided they are stiU in good healtlO while the remaining six-age groups will be shifted to civil defense duties ('Haga').
The decision, taken by the Cabinet, was passed on to the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Security Committee by Defense Minister Moshe Da-, yan and was confirmed after discussion,
WeU informed sources
said that civil defense men who have been released from military service would now be recalled to the colors. It was pointed but that the term used in discharging people from military service was "released" and not "discharged," and that the decision to extend the callup age, dictated as it was by the increased manpower requirements of both the army and civil defense units, was at discretion of the Defense Ministry,
The extension of the callup age will not affect the volunteer guagrd set up in Haifa last week. Mayor Moshe Flieman ei^Ialned that most of the volunteers - numbier-ing several thousand - were of higher age, and would not be liable to conscription in the Army reserves.
PLAN TO BUILD LIBERAL TEMPLE IN ISRAEL
New York (JCNS).- The National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, the women's organization of the Liberal Movement in the United States, has decided to build a synagogue in Israel as a gift to 800 elementary schoolchildren and teenagers at Ben ^emen Children's Village near Lydda,
Announcing the decision at the Federation's conyen-
by Lionel Davidson
denial. I*m sure it will have done the latter. But the story raises issues. Should such an alarming and unconfirmed report have been broadcast at all?
The standard JBC repjy, that it will report claims, if official, as well as denials, if official, is to say the least, disingenuous. Any newsman knows there are more Arab claims than Israeli ones, and that niost are extravagant if not totally untrue; also that a current story gets more air time than its later brief denial.
In other spheres as in the fable, the boy who too often cries wolf ends up by not being believed. It's very doubtful if the experienced newsmen of the BBC do believe the blood-curdling Arab stories. Why then do they give them currency?
The reason, almost certainly, is organizational. The Corporation has a very strong organization in the Arab lands, where the claims originate. It has no organization at all in Israel, where the denials come firom.
This strange state of affairs stems not from BBC policy but from the Foreign Office's. It is the Foreign Office which decides where External Service broadcasts should be directed. Last year it decided they should no longer be directed to Israel. It decided that Arabic broadcasts should continue at the top of the list.
Britain's French service (where it is pleading its case to enter the Common Market) gets 38 1/2 hours a week; the Russian service^ . 30 hours. The.Arabic service gets. 70 hotfts a wtfek;
With the largest allotnient of any foreign^ language Service and the llon;§ share of the budget the Aifibic service demands a large organization. 4
It has it. Headqujurters are in Beirut, where it has its own offices and studios. Many of the prc^ams transmitted from London are produced and recorded in these studios. The studios maintain close contacts with other Arab stations. Thus a very strong news service has been built up.
There is here a classic example of the tail wagging the dog. Because the Foreign Office directs the BBC to beam a lot of news to the Arabs, the news-center thus
area that can imperil the peace of Britain and the world? And if it is, are those who foot the bill for the service equally satisfied?
When Beirut rather than Britannia appears to be ruling the BBC waves, I'd get interested if I were a Westminster man.__
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time. The American maga- Fbr VOUr VeTV SDeclal zine Newsweek has the other
part, Mr. Elkins is a brU- vISIl, a Very SpCOai liant correspondent, one of the best the BBC has. But he Is a human, with two legs and one mouth.
Can the BBC be satisfied with having half a correspondent in the nerve center of what we are told is an
locally required beams back to the BBC the main Middle Eastern news. But the main Middle Eastern news is war news, and the only country capable of making any, significantly, is Israel.
Israel is thus the true news-center of,the Middle East. What representation has the world-renowned BBC in this news center?
It has the services of my friend Michael Elkins, part
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