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RIMARY among the emergency needs in the 1952 Allied Jewish
University and Weizmann Institute—to the cultural activities sup-
Campaign are for the services to our Jewish people overseas and
ported by the American Fund for Israel Institutions, to the immigrant-
in Israel. In 1952 the major task of the United Jewish Appeal, in-
aid work of HIAS (Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society,
cluding the United Israel Appeal, Joint Distribution Committee and
to the fact-finding research of the Institute on Overseas Studies .. .
United Service for New Americans, is to TURN THE HOMECOMING
and, THROUGH THE ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN, WE AID THE
INTO A HOME MAKING .. .
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL, THE SOURCE OF FREE DOLLARS FOR
ISRAEL
.
... Thousands of new housing units have gone up in Israel
—but 250,000 immigrants still live in tents, huts and
unsatisfactory shelters.
. . . Nearly 300 new settlements have been established
since Israel became a state—but 100 new settlements
need to be built in 1952 alone.
. . . Agricultural production has been increased eighty-
five percent—but tens of thousands of acres remain to
be reclaimed for food production.
L
IFE in Israel is austere. Her free and deliberate decision to keep
her - doors open to all the homeless among the Jews has meant great
sacrifices. Israel's people have had to share their food, housing,
medicine and clothing with 700,000 newcomers, all brought to the
new State since May 1948—and this has resulted in austerity for
all, in shortages of the necessities of life.
.. . Jobs have been created for thousands—but Israel
To turn the homecoming of the homeless into a
is far from realizing in full on the productive potential
Home Making, we shall build up and strengthen the
of her new manpower.
new state's economy—especially its agricultural econ-
omy.
Through the United Jewish Appeal, and our Allied Jewish
Campaign, we have brought 700,000 to Israel. in 1952, even as
These vast needs can be met if every one of us gives
we continue with other vital work which the United Jewish Appeal
on.a scale that matches the American Jewish banner
has long made possible, we also must do this:
record of 1948.
We, in Detroit, must duplicate our generosity of 1948, when
Bring 120,000 Jews to Israel from lands of distress and danger.
we gave to win Israel's fight for her life. Today, Israel is again fight-
Supply the necessities of life, even their daily bread, to at least
250,000 Jews in Europe, North Africa and the Near East.
ing for her life, a less dramatic battle than war, but an economic
struggle that requires day-to-day heroism from the Jews of Israel
Assist some 10,000 of our people — still waiting in Europe's
DP camps — to leave for this country and other democracies of the
Western Hemisphere.
and true understanding and great generosity from the Jews of
America.
Our dollars—Israel's chief source of free dollars—represent
Through our Allied Jewish Campaign of Detroit, we send our
help to the educational programs of UIT—Haifa Technion, Hebrew
WINNING THE FIGHT WILL TAKE DOLLARS; WINNING WILL TAKE
victory for the new State as it fights its way toward economic
freedom.
p644 DOLLARS FOR THE 1952 ALnED JEWISH CAMPAIGN.
1952 ALLIED JEW IS
Fred M. Butzel Memorial Building • 163 Mad;
JEW3E13 • NEWS
Friday, March 14, 1951