8 — THE BULLETIN — Thursday, January 4,1990
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One of the 5,000 young men who came from overseas to volunteer in the emerging Israeli army, now a Vancouver businessman, tells his story to host Dorothy Grad in a special segment of L'Chaim, to be aired next week on Cable 4.
Harold Lenett answered the call when, in 1947, Israel found herself surrounded by hostile neighbors. Under the terms of the British mandate, she was forbidden a standing army, and the United States had imposed an arms embargo. „
David Ben^Gurionrlater to become Israelis first president, developed a wc^wide net-
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work to recruit volunteers. Most were Jewish, and Lenett was one of them.
Then a UBC student, Lenett joined fraternity brothers Yale J off e and Al Gel-mon, leaving from New York and arriving at Le Havre. Receiving basic training at a displaced persons camp outside Marseilles, he boarded for Tel Aviv under the name of Leon Zucker, supposed to be a Bergen-Belsen Survivor.
Lenett was placed in a United Nations internment camp in Tel Aviv. There, he volunteered to join an artillery group and was sent to fight at Kfar Giladi in the Galilee.
When he and his comrades ran out of ammunition, they
- made wooden bullet heads. "They didn't really work, and they made a horrible noise," Lenett, now 62, said in a 1973 Bulletin interview. Lenett was later enlisted in a jeep command, where he was a lieutenant in charge of a ten-jeep platoon.
L'Chaim will be seen in Vancouver, Richmond and Burnaby at 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 7; 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 9; 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 10; 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 12; and 4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 15 (the show will not be aired in Richmond on Jan. 7). —Fraser Valley and Victoria viewers can also see the show at 12 noon Sat., Jan. i3, as wellas 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 9.
PANAMA'S
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Drimmer said. They requested direct American assistance in their neighborhood, some 200 yards from the Vatican mission where Noriega took refuge.
One tank entered the neighborhood for two hours, saifi Drimmer. He was among several New York Jews who called local members of Congress and the U.S. state department, asking for help in the Jewish neighborhood. When it became apparent that adequate protection was not coming, the Jews formed their own defense group and took to the streets.
Under ihe leadership of a Jewtsh retailer of ladies* clothes, the Jews went out, armed with Uzis and handguns, and pitifully little ammuhitidn, and used cars and vans to cordon off thp^ three streets that provide access to the ariea.
They stopped cars and asked for proof of registration, Drimmer said, pulling out those who could not provide it. There were many car thefts by local brigands associated with Noriega.
But last week, the situation had improved, with the streets reported to be calmer. Jews were said to be no longer fearing for their homes.
Despite accounts^ of fear and stress, the story is not one of anti-Semitism, emphasized Rabbi Morton Rosenthal, director of Latin American affairs for the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B*rith. He said the Jews should be seen as Panamanians suffering from the effects of war and angry that the U.S. invasion plan did not include protection of civilians and streets to Complement the military strategy.
• Although there was said to be some level of cooperation between Noriega and business leaders, many of whom are Jews, it is believed that few Jews voted for him in last year's presidential election, won by Guillermo Endara but invalidated by Noriega. Virtually all Panamanian Jews support the U.S. invasion, according to sources there.
About 70 percent of the some 4,000 Jews of Panama are Sephardic, most of whom are of Syrian origin, their families coming mainly from the city of Aleppo. Other Jews are of Egyptian, Greek or Portuguese origin, and there are a substantial nuniber of Israelis there. One Israeli, Avi Cohen, was a leader in the vigilante brigade.
Drimmer credited one native Panamanian Jew, Victor Angel, with the defense of Punta de Patilla. Angel, owner of a chain of women's wear stores. La Casa Ama-rilla, found his business looted down to the tiles on the ceiling. In his stores, as well as those of others, looters carried away not only all the merchandise but the toilet facilities, j-ugs and lights.
Last week about 300 business leaders held a meeting at the local synagogue. She vet Achim, and estimated jhat their losses from looting amounted to $400 million, with some 5,000 Panamanians out of work. Their insurance situation is unclear, they report, and they say they need help. JTA
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The Jewish Quiz
QUESTIONS:
(1) What fast day is known as "The fast of the tenth"?
(2) ^ What does Asarflhbe-Tevet commemorate? (3) What day is observed as yahrzeii
mJoT Holocaust victims who perished on some unknown dates? _^
ANSWERS:
{lyAsarah be-Tevet, SL fast observed on the 10th day of Tevet(Jan. 7 in 1990).
(2) The beginning of Nebuchadnezzar's siege of Jerusalem.
(3) The fast day of Asarah be-Teyet.
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of the JCC will hold the following meetings: MoridayT Jan. 8, 1:30 p.m. birthdays and anniversaries meeting will feature Kathryn Behrisch, docent coordinator for the Vancouver Aquarium; on Tuesday Jan. 9 at 10:30 a.m. the topic will be "What is Our Greatest Pollution Problem?"; Wednesday, Jan. 10, noon luncheon speaker will be Dr. Nat Cannon, president Canadian Friends of AMAL.
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BETH HAMIDR ASH presents the first in the current ~**class^s4^or the masses" series on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m. at the Beth Hamidrash synagogue. The topic will be "Evolution — a Religious Response" presented" ~by Rabbi David Bassous.
OMNA — NA-AMAT will hold a meeting on Monday, Jan. 15 at the home of Marsha Garfmkel, 308-345 West 10 Ave., 874-5354, at 11:30 a.m.
special needs will meet Jan. 10 at 8 p.m. at the honte^of Arieh and Susan Chark, Ste. 313-1592 S.W. Marine Dr.
THE ROSH CHODESH group will hold their first meeting of the new term at the Jewish Community Centre Wednesday, Jan. 10,1990 at 8 p.m. Register at the front desk. The group is open to all women of the community.
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