The Phoenix Jewish news., 1959-05-22
VISIT TO MiDEAST
IsrueIiS Terrific
But Very Bossy
By BERTHA E. GOLDMAN
Phoenix Jewish News

HERZiIA. Israel-The incest part of Israel is it's
people-the land truly beautiful, there are some
remarkable things to be both old and very new
but by far the best of all things are the wonderful
wonderful people.
interested and helpful and anxious to please that
Israelis and how much they want you to like their
country. Even now when beset with tourists from ali
over the world in lOcust-ike descent, are asked
on family excursions with the most casual OF acquan-
ances, and we deeply touched to be included In
THE MOST ANNOYING thing about Israel is the
bossy attitude of its people-everyone, but EVERY
ONE, has better way to do it, whatever it Is You
know the Truman-W Weizmann story and 1t is all too
too true ('You are the president, Mr. Truman, over
$50 900 900 Americans but |, sir, am the president
100000 presdents") And without doubt @ e tne
live in Tel Avivthey rush to to stop light on the
next torturous street It is maddening to drive there
and hope they will do something about 1t soon
With all things then considered, return to my
thesis of good people in good land, and 1t is tnat
which dominates what at times is a much divided,
party ridden country. There are too many pohtlcal
parties as result of the above cited indlvlduallsm
make no attempt to anayze the politics OF lsrael De
cause they are much too complex: buI u1 zee, @ one
ey not the least of them there is deep sense OF
sponsibility the part of the government towards
EXPLICIT IN the Law of Return is that every, Jew
shall have the right to return to Israel and shall not
be without food shelter or medical care Inere Is an
unusually right consistency between declared ldeo-
logy and actual PRACTISE
I have visited several institutions and schools and
w attitude
most of them Morrie's "gan" here in Herzia has a
teacher with one helper for than 40 kndergart
eners working their heads off to give the KOS mar
velous schooling We attended the 25th anniversary
celebration of the Wezmann Institute, where speak
er after speaker made the point that all mankind
benefits from the work of this scientific foundation.
MY HUSBAND and were thrilled to see the many
people from around the world who were part ana par
eel of the founding of the institute such as Israel ana
Rebecca Sieff and Sir Simon Marks, who endowed
the ORIGINAL school; Mrs Vera Wezmann, and DIR.
Anna Weizmann, and Sir Robert Robinson, Nobel
Prize winner from England who was one OF wetz
mann's earliest associates at Manchester University
It was thrilling to Prime Minister David Ben
Gurion and his wife, Paula arrive and leave by hell
copter and to many other important poitcai 1lg
ures as well as the nice Wezmann folks such as David
Wahl chief of the Wix Library and nephew
of our own Daddy Wahl in Phoenix ..e -,
THE PASSOVER weekend us in Halta with
DR. and Mrs. Lorenz Alderman and their children
There we had days of excursions that really gave
both families treat we went an1 70 Elm Jgv +be 19a
was sheer magic so beautiful is it this spring Lake
Kinnereth in the full moon has inspired poets Tor
centuries so shall ttry to tell you more OF IT,
Even the soldiers posted every few hundred meters
on the far side of the lake you round 1t to get TO
Elm Gev were part of the romance. With the border
just few hundred meters away, we felt amply pro-
tected by their presence.
The next day we also drove to the Lebanese border
atop the hills, and looked down on lovely lsrael ana
its 15O-me Mediterranean shore Acre, the Arab
market place, the old caravanseral, and sea walls
were enchanting to the four children and to us TOO
And while the men fshed (without catch) at kfar
Masryk, we prepared picnic and enjoyed the sun
shine visit to Mishmar Ha Emek and Hazorea, both
kbbutz settlements in the GALL were rewarding al
though we missed Bonnie Greatman, who is living at
the latter.
OUR TRIP ENDED with a halliday stop at Meggido,
where Shea and combed the excavations and tried
to visualize $500 years of civilization at the cross
roads of the ancient world We continued on to Herr
liza via the 'ttle Triangle road dotted with pictur-
esque Arab villages both mountainsides as you
pass not more than kilometers from the Jordan
ian border approaching the main north-south high
way between Haifa and Tel Aviv
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land with its wonderful people, to what they
have accomplished and share their pride in that &C
complishment.