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you ask, about a
father helping his son plant a seedling tree?
HAT IS SO REMARKABLE,
This is what is remarkable: it is happening in
Israel — today. on Israel's third anniversary of
Statehood. And the odds were — overwhelmingly
— that it could never happen at all.
The odds were that the father would die
in Europe as six million other Jews died
under Hitler. Yet he got through to the
new, shining land. The odds were that the
Now you see the roots going down. Not just the
roots of the seedling ...human roots, too. The tree,
the boy and Israel will all grow together. And
along with them will grow and flourish the world's
most precious way of life — democracy.
flourish. But the father, and tens of thou-
sands like him, brought more to the task
newcomers, too, can sink firm roots in Israel's soil.
than hoes and harrows ...
Give now, while there is time.
United
Cash—Your Birthday Gift to Israel
Let Israel's Third Birthday be the occasion
for a birthday gift — a birthday gift that you
can give today. You ran give it by paying
your pledge the pledge you made to our
community campaign on behalf of thel'nited
Jewish Appeal. Pay your pledge today — and
thereby give the UJA the cash it must have
for great events like the one shown here.
Today, more than ever before, cash means
life. Cash today for Li A means that Jews
Who are now in lands of darkness will cele-
brate Israel's fourth birthday —in Israel.
—
In just three years you have helped transplant
500,000 homeless refugees to Israel, have given
them the chance to begin a new and hopeful life.
But the work is only half done. Your help—through
the United Jewish Appeal is needed still to bring
200,000 more this year, to reclaim land, plant
forests, build settlements and homes so that these
desert soil of Israel could not be made to
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We salute the State of Israel on the Third Anniversary of its Independence