Israel In Crisis (sound)

today the people of Israel are faced with a supreme emergency in eight years of great achievement they have taken in nearly eight hundred thousand refugees from lands of danger and despair built more than 400 new settlements reclaimed and neglected land made it yield again built industry and commerce built schools and freedom but all this has been accomplished in the face of unremitting Arab hostility seven Arab states numbering 40 million have tried to crush one million five hundred thousand Jews by economic blockade Iraq cut the oil pipeline to haipa shown here Egypt closed the Suez to Israel shipping by economic boycott all of Israel's land borders have been closed off from normal trade and commerce by guerrilla warfare in five years 884 Israelis have been killed and wounded by Arab Marauders and Arab action in Tel Aviv and Hyper people try to forget that they were only 14 miles from the Jordan Border in Jerusalem they couldn't forget Jerusalem is on the border so in the settlements they learned to protect themselves that's the way it was until October 1955 when communist arms flowing into Egypt changed Israel's position overnight overnight Cairo moved to but five minutes away from Tel Aviv by Soviet Mig bomber overnight Egypt gained the power to back up loud words and threats with communist submarines and heavy tanks overnight Israel's very ability to survive not just to defend her borders stood challenged but in the face of this supreme crisis Israel still continued to receive thousands of new immigrants monthly why here's a good reason this is a Miller a Jewish ghetto in North Africa not much future here even when times are quiet they're not quiet now day by day Morocco and Tunisia become more Arab Jews have suffered violence and economic discrimination now they fear possible future entrapment eighty thousand Jews in Morocco twenty thousand Indonesia are registered already to go to Israel more are waiting for the chance to register this is a big step on the road to Israel and the future it's an immigrant staging Camp outside Marseille the camp ground Arenas holds five thousand Jews from North Africa at a time as places are ready for them in Israel the immigrants are called forward your help through the United Jewish appeal makes possible their food care and resettlement Israel hopes to take in 45 000 this year depending on what you do the prospective settlers learn about Israel engage in useful work the great day comes the ship is ready to take two or three hundred to hyper and now on route to Israel the Sabbath is observed at sea three generations at worship on Route Jewish agency officials help each family decide where to settle first look at Israel and a new life once newcomers went to Immigrant Hut towns like this the marble sixty thousand still live in these Shanty Villages the Jewish agency hopes to move twelve thousand this year if there are funds children growing up here suffered most but today's newcomers go directly from ship to new settlement this is lahish a great area being developed Southwest of Jerusalem in the ancient past this was the land of the Philistines where David fought Goliath its future to grow cotton and Cattle since May 55 nearly 20 settlements for 5 000 have been established in Lockheed along with roads schools water electricity and work this makes the Lockheed development possible it is the yarkcon Negev pipeline finished in the summer of 1955 to bring water from the north to dry lockish you helped to build it this also makes Lockheed possible it's a nahal settlement an army agricultural Corps settlement three nahal settlements stand between Lockheed and the Jordan border the Sabra youngsters here are picked because they can both farm and fight the settlers learn to defend themselves they have to when Night comes near the border you put down your anti-grenade shutters a Marauder might toss one in your window you go on building and raising your children even though it may mean teaching them to use bomb shelters above all you don't run away here you have a chance to live and work in Freedom Israel needs the immigrants they need Israel immigrants build the land each new settlement helps build the country more important Israel is made up of immigrants or the children of immigrants yesterday's settlers mean to keep the doors open for those who want to come today but in 1956 while the people of Israel meet their emergency we must meet the North African immigration emergency plus the normal uja supported programs of the United Israel appeal joint distribution committee New York Association for new Americans through your support of the 1956 United Jewish appeal for 105 million 283 thousand dollars plus your additional support for the uja special fund for 25 million dollars plus [Music] foreign