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THE CANADIAN JEWISH REVIEW
SEPTEMBER
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ISRAEL AFTER THE POLL
BY SAMUEL ROLBANT, OF TIL-AVIV, ISRAEL, IN THE NEW STATESMAN AND NATION, OF LONDON, ENGLAND
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Brothers under the skin?
The BLACK and GRAY SQUIRRELS are more closely related than you'd imagine.
Contrary to most beliefs they are hot different species, but rather color phases of the same animal. Both colors may occur in the same family.
This series of unusual natural facts is presented by Carting's in order to promote a keener interest in our wildlife and its protection. Once you're acquainted with nature, you'll want to keep it unspoiled.
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Mr. and Mrs, A. Rotman, Major Street, had as their guests Mr. and Mrs! B. Simon and son, Alan, of Detroit, Mich.; and Mrs. H. Simon, of Berkley, California.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Goldman, Crawford Street, gave a family dinner and evening in honour of Miss Gertrude Jackson, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Jackson, and her fiance, Morris Levine.
Miss Helen Green, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Green, Huron Street, whose marriage to Daniel Snitman, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Snitman, Major Street, takes place on September 16, was entertained at a personal shower by Misses Mynne Light, 'Wells Avenue, and Gertrude Flicht, Shaw Street, at the latter's home. There were
twenty-five guests. The honouree wore a blue silk print dress. Varicoloured snapdragons, roses, and carnations, and pink lighted tapers decorated the table.
Those present at the marriage of Miss Selma Pearl Caller, daughter of Benjamin Caller, of Hamilton, to Lome Sacrob, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Sacrob, of Hamilton, were: Mrs. Samuel Caller, D'Arcy Street, the bride's grandmother; Mr. and Mrs. A. Sprach-man, Heathdale Road; Mr. and Mrs/Max Emsig, Dufferin Street; Mr. and Mrs. J. Caller, Baldwin Street; Mr. and Mrs. H. Caller, Bathurst Street; Mr. and Mrs. F. Rittersporn, Markham Street; Mr. and Mrs. John R. Devor, Briar Hill Avenue; Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Usprech, Highbourne Avenue; Mr. and Mrs. I. Kandel, Baldwin Street; Miss Mina Caller, Baldwin Street; Miss Toby Rittersporn, Markham Street; Mrs. H. Hundert, Dewson Avenue; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Emsig, Dewbourne Avenue; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lester, Rusholme Road; Mr. and Mrs. H. Mudrick, Leeds Avenue; Mr. and Mrs. M. Schwartz and son, Malcolm, Shaw Street; , Robert Kutner, Shaw Street; Mr. and Mrs. B. Marcus, Manning Avenue: Mr, and Mrs. J. Lewis and daughters, Mitzi and Phyllis, Shaw Street; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Weisfield, Millwood Road; Mr. and Mrs. L. Spiegel, Dewson Avenue; Mr. and Mrs. S. Shrott, Montrose Avenue; Mr. and Mrs. A. Phillips, Montrose Avenue; Mr. and Mrs. M. Sulman, Killarney Road; Mr. and Mrs. J. -Lipson, Ardmore Road; Mr. and Mrs. P. Lewis, Richview Avenue; Mr. and Mrs. W. Wolfish, G!en Road; Mr. and Mrs. M. Roth, Brunswick Avenue; Mrs. R. Fogle, Bellevue Avenue; Jack
The state of Israel, too small to enjoy the benefits of constituency elections, and yet unversed in the intricacies of most Continental systems, has had a second dip at proportional representation, after the first Knesset had served only half its term. Some thirty lists were submitted, including Party of Peace, anti-Communist Front, Guardians of Israel, and so forth. The Central Electioin Committee, however, unimpressed by the spiritual pretensions of all the applicants, invalidated some of them. Altogether some 1,600 persons, representing 17 parties, some of whom have only been in the country since the beginning of the year, and were unable to sigh their names in the language of the country, have been contesting the 120 seats.
For a country with a population of just over one million and a quarter, and a electorate of 860.-000, of whom 75,000 arc Arabs, this seems a remarkably diversified assault upon popular approval, and is no doubt a sign of great upheaval. The standard issues of political ideologies are here aggravated by racial, communal and religious issues jealously claiming solution and attention. Israel politics possess the self-consciousness and anxiety of a mother who has given birth to the first boy born in the family for several generations.
The election campaign was crude ar.d bitter. Goods were withheld by various trade associations to prove that people lived in a "regime of economic chains." One of the largest shoemaking: factories in> Israel had cornered 50,000 pairs of sorely-needed shoe?, and was taken over by the Government 24 hours before polling started. The Icemakers' Association
Mirsky, Euclid Avenue; Mort. Cohen, Northcliffe Boulevard; David Liebman, Beatrice Street; Laurie Fine, Euclid Avenue; Mr. and Mrs. H. Skopitz, Sultan Street; Mri. L. Epstein, Warwick Avenue; Mr. and Mrs. B. Balakofsky, Concord Avenue; Mr. and Mrs. L. Marcus, Markham Street, all of, Toronto; Mrs. Lena Cooperman, of Bronx, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. A. Ra-bow, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. M. Emsig, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Mr. and Mrs. B. Cooperman, and Miss Roberta Cooperman, of New York; Mr. and Mrs. A. Roff, of St. Catharines; Mr. and Mrs. M. Brown, Arthur Brown, Milton Brown,-and Joseph Brown, all of Wingham.
suddenly discontinued the supply of ice on the pretext that machines had broken down, but set them in motion again under the Government's threat to take drastic measures.
The sudden appearance in shops of rationed goods,, unseen and ur.ihonoured since June, was also attributed to election strategy Promises, threats, rumours, accusations of bribery, treachery, immorality, which would have normally sent their author to various terms of repentance, were exchanged freely and naturally. "The only thing that was not tried in these elections," declared one leading Israeli, "is the earthquake." Even so, hundreds of Arab villagers are said to have spent the night in open' fields of Galilee for fear of reprisals, if they did show up in force to reassert their faith in Israel democracy by voting for the Druze People's Party.
The most important facts* which emerge from the voting are the rise of the Right-wing General Zionist Party, which has now become the second largest party with 18 per cent, the disintegration of the ex-terrorist Freedom Party, now reduced to 6 per cent, and the inevitability of another coalition led by the Israel Labour Party, 'Mapai. Superficially it seems strange that there is a self-conscious conservative movement in a country with neither heavy industry nor big business; with neither traditional aristocracy nor landed gentry; where a rich Jew is simply a'poor Jew with money.
The 1949 elections, indeed, confirmed this absence of a higher economic strata, by giving the General Zionists 7 per cent of the; country's vote. Since then, however, two things have happened. The demagogy of the Freedom movement and other splinter Right-wing parties have convinced many of their supporters that these parties have nothing to sell that is not �Jr��4y, somewhat more lavishly displayed in the shop windows of the General Zionists. The second factor is the deep sociological changes, which have taken place in Israel with the arrival of new immigrants, who nearly doubled the population of the country.
The recent wave of immigration has brought ir.to the cities of Israel little of the idealism which went
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to mould Jewish Palestine into a progressive labour commonwealth, and many of the things which the Jewish National Home was meant to abolish.
It brought to the country thousands of black marketeers from post-war Germany, smugglers from Damascus, horse-flesh dealers and horse thieves from Tur-key, professional Rumanians, toughs from Morocco, billiard boys from Casablanca, currency dealers from (Shanghai, British 'subjects who could not solve their differences with H.M. Inspector of Taxes, embezzlers from all countries to which they cannot be extradited, estate property dealers, contact-men, peddlers, gamblers, speculators and bona fide shopkeepers, and thousands of others who simply embody the age-long Jewish tradition of living by avoiding productive labour. Organised government is their eternal foe; Geskeft� one-man-business without premises�is their ideal. They represent a hard core of ungovernables, for whom "America" is not only a model society, but also, if possible, the final goal.
General Zionism, with its insistence on the free enterprise and other stock-in-trade slogans of conservative wisdom, is not only a promise but an apologia for a way of life. Labour Israel not only threatens their very existence as free agents but aims at reducing them to mere labourers or, alternatively, driving them into a communal settlement to end their days, like everybody else there, money-less and .property-less. Led by a coterie of ward politicians, ambitious Mayors and chairman of various employers' associations, the General Zionist party is the party of the Jewish Ghetto par excellence, seeking to perpetuate ; changed
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unquestioned pre-eminence of its_ leaden, to atMrhr ity is commonly attributed to Government's inability to eliminate the black market, which is tearing big holes in the pockets of the workers and salaried persons; to its failure to curb vast profits leading to a subsequent flight of currency abroad and depreciation of the Lira. Inflation has always been the ruin of democratic government, and Israel inflation- is showing no sign of abating.
There is no doubt that if the State fails to direct to essential labour its fast growing parasitic element, Mapai will soon be faced with the alternative which faced European Social-Democracy. The notion that private and socialised industry can exist side by side is vr.lid only if private enterprise is productive and offers additional fields of employment. The state of Israel, burdened with a large and highly trained army, and faced with the task of absorbing and rehabilitating a hundred thousand camp inmates, cannot afford its "Hatton Gardens," -which make some streets of Tel-Aiv unpassable. Mapam has n6t lost as much as was commonly expected. The (Continued on Page Eleven)
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