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JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIN
New Year Issue, Tuesday, September 28, 1954
's President Inspects ORT School
. New Year Greetings To Our Many Jewish Paprons and Friends .
HUNTER-HENDERSON PiUNTC^^^
YOUR SATIN-GIO STORE 555 iSranyille Sr.       • JPA. 0135
Machine shop students at the ORT Vocational Centre in Jerusalem looked iip not long ago to see, examining their work end asking questions dbout ilv Israel's President Ben Zvi. After leaving.the workshops he declared: "Blessed be the initiators -and organizers of fhis work and may they tee'the fruits of their labors/' With the coming of the New Year, ORT schools in 16 cities and towns of Israel will open to the largest enrollment in their historyi For its trade education,programs in Isrqel,'North Africa, Iran and Western Europe, ORT receives funds'from the Joint Distribution Committee, a member of the UJA. .    V ^.
NEW YEAR GREETINGS TO OUR JEWISH FRIENDS
Visco Poultry jacking Ltd.
355 Keefer
MA. 4732
ORT
And Industries In
TEL AVIV—"Tools for Israel's Hands" might well be the motto over the entrance to the ORT Tool Supply Corporation offices here.
Over 4,000 machines and other mechanical equipment, have been made available to Israeli artisans by this unique organization. 160 agricultural settlements, many of them in the remote regions of the Negev.and. along the troubled borders where self-sufficiency is often, crucial to; survival, have been supplied by PUT with workshop equipment.
It is estimated that 12,000 persons, a considerable proportion of them recent immigrants, have been" rendered productive and independent through the activities of ORT Tool Supply. Many a Jewish mechanic who arrives in Israel with empty hands is referred to ORT Tool Supply by government and community agencies. Here he obtains the means to re-establish himself economically. A number of, these former
For Fdrnis
Israel
maabarath dwellers have expanded their shops to the point of employing other newcomers. ^ Now  rounding  out  its fifth year, the Cprporation functions as a s|)ecial ORT service, distinct from the extensive network of vocational training centres maintained by ORT in Israel, although one of its jobs is to equip ORT school graduates with the means to practice their acquired trades. As an example, in the back streets of Tel Aviv, ORT has set up a rug weaving school for Persian and   Kurdish   immigrants, for whom rug making is an indi-^ genous handicraft.  Students are supplied with looms on which they learn to weave Israeli patterns into carpets. In this way anew industry is being develop^-ed and an ancient art is coming to flourish in the ^oung state. * .   * *
NEW FARM. SETTLEMENTS
sometimes   receive /their first piece of essential machine equip-(Continued on page 43)
NEW YEAR GREETINGS
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736 Granville St.
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NEW YEAR GREETINGS
GESTETNER
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660 SEYMOUR ST.
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TO OUR MANY JEWISH FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS WE EXTEND SINCERE WISHES FOR A HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEA:R
Canned Sockeye, Pink Cohoe, Keta, Tuna
Canned Crab Meat, Herring and S-Minuto Salmon and Riee-Cr0quettes.
Nelson Bros. Fisheries Ltd.
VANCOUVER, B.C.