1—THS JEWISH NEWS—May 11, ,1951

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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
desert soil of Israel could not be made to
flourish. But the father, and tens of thou-
. sands like him, brought more to the task
than hoes andllarrows

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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.

Cash—Your Birthday Gift to Israel

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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 hothes so that these
newcomers, too, can sink firm roots in Israel's soil.

Give now, while there is time.

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Let Israel's Third Birthday be the occasion
for a birthday gift— a birthday gift that you
chit give today. You can give it by paying
your pledge — the pledge you made to our
community campaign on behalf of the United
Jewish Appeal. Pay your pledge today — and
thereby give the UJA the cash it must have
for great events like the one shown here.
may, more than ever before, cash means
life. Cash today for UJA means that Jews
who are now in lands of darkness will 'cele-
brate Israel's fourth birthday—in Israel. .

Fill in here name and address of local
campaign and local quota, if desired.

In Detroit the United Jewish Appeal
is supported by the

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ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN

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on behalf of Joint Distribution,Committee • United Palestine Appeal • United Service for New Americans

We salute the State of Israel on the Third _Anniversary of its independence

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