The Arizona post., 1950-09-15
57ZO- 4 Hectic Year In Israeli G1OWth

BY MOSES A. LEAVITT

one thing there were no sanatoria, or even build
ings available which might be turned into sana-
toria An alternate plan was adopted. All the
children requiring special T.B. care were brought
daily to a special school. Here, they began
daytime program intended to set them on the
way to recovery.
5000 Galleries Day
Student-patients received proper food-3OOO
calories daily instead of the 900 calories they
starved on in their poverty -Striken homes They
learned their lessons reclining in the open, in
deck chairs, and they enjoyed frequent maps and
rest periods They were treated daily, as re-
quired, not only for T.B. but for other ills with
which they afflicted Many of the children
whose cases have been arrested have since been
declared eligible for emigration to Israel
The Sick and Aged
And still another event which must have
seemed a miracle of deliverance to those it af-
fected-was the Inauguration of the new program
designed to for "hard core" Gagged, sick, phys
ically handicapped) immigrants to Israel.
JDC provided $7,5OO00OO to its initial SIT $780,
900 fund, and for the remainder $2,500,000 was
furnished by International Refugee Organization
and the rest by the Jewish Agency and Israel
JDC specialized personnel, too, has assisted in
getting the project underway in Israel, helping
to establish and equip several new institutions
Withdrawal From Europe
JDC was asked to withdraw from both Poland
and Czechoslovakia last winter-followups to it's
expulsion from Rumania in the previous spring
Now JDC is no longer in position to give the
help it once gave to the Jews in these countries
though it still pays the emigration costs of those
who permitted to depart.
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571O remarkable for its satisfying ac-
complishments than it's dsappointments In the
years Immediately after liberation JDC was by
circumstances limited to holding" operations as
it were. Jews in the DIP camps were kept alive
and aided to grow healthy-but they could not
be moved for there was place to move them
But the birth of the State of Israel and other
events changed all of that. Jews could not only
be kept alive, but hundreds of thousands
could be moved to lands where they could build
their lives anew.
Since last Rosh Hashonah alone, JDC has aided
some 10000 people to leave Europe and Moslem
lands for Israel, the United States and other
countries. Of these, 10000 were persons who
were brought to Israel JDC aid went to some
100000 persons in ALL on the continent and in
Arab countries. JDC was able too, to bring to
an end-because the need was ended-to its pro-
goslavia and Luxembourg
1t takes no prophet to anticipate that disturbed
world conditions may create whole, new vast
emergencies and difficulties for our people every
where. The bitter experience of JDC's thirty-six
years of history has been that, in unsettled times
Jews first to suffer and last to recover"
But the path of history does not necessarily fol-
low straight line. Indeed, a dramatic and COM
plete turn in the Jewish history of 1000 years
occurred only short two years ago, when Israel
was re-establShed Overnight, new promise of
dignity, of hope and future came into the lives of
millions of our fellow Jews abroad. The Jewish
future represented full reversal from the dark
tragic hopelesSness of the Hitler period when all
seemed at end
We must continue to believe, that our efforts can
help nightly in overcoming difficulties and trib-
ulations should they arise The record of the
recent past proves it, and the record of the future
must continue to prove it.