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This is the choice that Israel
faces unless we, here in America,
do something about it.

It costs $500,000 for one :jet plane; Israel
needs many jets for its defense. It costs $500,000
to transport and settle 500 North African Jews
in Israel. As many as 45,000 must be moved to
Israel this year.

If, we, through the 1956 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, fail to provide Detroit's share of the
$25,000,000 UJA Emergency Fund for the rescue
of North African Jews—if we leave it all to Israel
to pay—Israel will be forced to make that choice.

Israel is in grave danger. Arab hostility re-
inforced with Soviet bloc tanks, jets and guns,
is threatening its very security and safety; en-
dangering the hundreds of thousands of refugees
from persecution who found a home and new life
there. Israel must arm itself—must buy defensive
weapons with its own funds — to meet the on-
slaught of Arab armies, wherever and whenever it
starts. Arms cost vast sums of mone y . Because of
the necessity of raising funds for defense, Israel
cannot pay the cost of absorption of North African
Jews. Last year Israel spent $35,000,000 of its
own funds for the settlement of newcomers. It
cannot- afford to spend it now.

The rescue, absorption and rehabilitation of
immigrants must, therefore, be our complete
responsibility. If the UJA were to fall short and
ask the people of Israel to pay the costs of immi-
gration, as they have in the past, we would be
guilty of moral collapse. We would be forcing
Israel to decide whether, it should rescue Moroc-
can Jews or buy arms for defense. We would be
asking Israel to make the choice:

One jet plane or 500 Jews.

How lowly we would ,be, in all our power-
and wealth, if we forced Israel to make that
choice.

Contributors are being asked to give to the
$25,000,000 UJA Emergency Fund for Israel
through increases over and above their 1955 gifts
to the Allied Jewish Campaign.

The Detroit Jewish community has accepted
a quota of $1,230,000 as its share of the
$25,000,000 Special Fund MINIMUM goal.

Every dollar of this $1,230,000 must come
from increases over the 1955 contributions of
$4,150,000. The 1955 amount will be again re-
quired in 1956 as a rock bottom minimum base for

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