Evening star., 1955-05-16

otuGtNa ottuNus0 o4is"S sSSS"s
tour Of the Jewish homeland. M.
Neyes, The Staf's Europeen CORE
spesdsnt, now is ia Vienna.
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to his home and have something
to eat.
It was q tiny house-two rooms
with yellow plaster walls and
tiled fioors-typical Of the "mo-
shavim. stakeholder settle
ments In which most new immi-
grants are settled. We were In
troduced to the farmers wife. a
slight, cheerful -looking girl in q
print skirt and blouse; his son,
round-eyed and silent in high
chair, and his six-week-old
daughter. asleep on a cot in the
bedroom.
The girl brought q plate OF
sliced carrots covered with orange
juice for her husbands lunch
and glasses of hot milk and pea
nuts IOE uS.
It seemed that our host was
a proud young man-proud Of
his family and his spotless home,
Of his bookself filed with Hebrew
volumes, of his new radio and the
rife behind the bedroom door.
He also seemed pleased to have
us there, drinking his milk and
asking him questions about his
life in this place. Later he told
our Israeli guide:
"They always told us that we
should go out of our way to help
strangers and tourists. And this
is the first chance we've had"
It was a simple and undra-
matte incident. But before it was
over and we had driven to the
village and back, taken pictures
of the family and said goodbye.
we felt a little differently about
the "Yemonite Problem" than we
had before.
We've Rug at Hecht's
Then there was Hanna Hagog.
the ex-North African cave
dweller who wove rugs in the
village Of Porat. Mrs. Hagog
struck us as one of the most
sophisticated women we had ever
met. Which was only natural
perhaps, since she had only re-
Gently returned from a visit to
Washington, where she wove a
rug in Hecht's department ctore
and presented It personally to
Mrs. eisenhower.
We found Mrs. Hagog happy to
talk about her experience. She
was quite used to reporters, who
had more than once "kept her up
until midnight" asking questions.
The stories they had written
about her and the picture they
had taken were pasted on the
wall Of her house. She told US
that the flight back across the
Atlantic had been "uneventful"
and that she now was working
on a new rug for Mrs. Eisenhower
"even more beautiful than the
first"
Mrs. Hagog admitted that she
liked Washington, admired the
lordly ways Of American women
and missed television. She would
be happy to go back there to live
if anybody invited her, providing,
Of course, that her family could
come too. Her family. we learned.
consisted of II people. including
children, grandchildren and a
number of other rug-weavers.
Near the shores of the Sea Of
Galilee, we came across DR..
Applebaum, a quizzical, graying
veterinarian who is running a
beef-cattle experiment for the
government. The project. backed
by American Point Four money.
is known locally as Operation
Cowboy" There have been. in
fact, a couple Of authentic Amer
ican cowboys attached to the sta
ton, whose role has been to in
struct Israelis in the art Of cow
punching.
Hats Ruled Out
DR.. Applebaum admitted it
hadn't worked out too well. For
one thing the Israelis preferred
to be called shepherds and had
no use at all for ten-gallon hats.
For another. they were used to
the Eastern system Of having
the cows follow them around in
stead of chasing after them on
horses.
"They were very nice fellows
and taught us how to lasso the
cows" DR.. Applebaum told us.
But who needs a lasso? In a
country this size, where should
they run to-"
! The way things were shaping