MORRIS J. BRANDWINE IRVING W. IILUSSEL

Chairman, JNF Conference

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N. H. GOLDSTICK

MENDEL FISHER

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YAAKO V MORRIS

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Israel Consul
Yaakov Morris;
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Discussion

•of JNF's
20-Year Plan

November 5 JNF Conference
to Introduce Major Objectives
of New "Twenty-Year Plan"

The Jewish COmunity of De-
troit and Jews throughout the
State of Michigan will gather
here next Sunday, Nov. 5, both
to review the historic role that
the - Jewish National Fund has
played in the upbuilding of the
State of Israel and to hear excit-
ing news on the development of
a 20-Year, Plan for- the conquest
of the desert — a plan that will
aid materially in the continued
growth of Israel, now in its Bar
Mitzvah Year and reaching
steadily toward economic- stabil-
ity and maturity.
Highlight of the all-day pro-
gram will be the featured ad-
dress of Yaakov Morris, Consul
of the State - of Israel in New
York, who will speak at the
afternoon Plenary Session. Other
speakers will be Nathaniel
Goldstick, Corporation Cons of
the City of Detroit, r
re-.
turned from Israel,
de-
liver the keynote ad ress at the
morning session, and Mendel

Fisher, who will speak at the awards for JNF work prepara-
luncheon' session.
tory t Goldstick's address.
Chairman of the Conference
attending the s
will be Morris J. B dw .
more than
President of t
organizations
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troit, while I
will discu
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oundation; JNF at
dent, is servi -as nference
, Landsmanshaften;
Co-Chairman nd
11 preside
igious Groups.
at the opening session.
panel, Youth a
to include
The day-long progra
the
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rium of young in
the Labor Zio
Institute, Comm
1916'1 Schaefer,
1 open with a 1:1
memorial
e to two local,'
ollowing the luncheo
departed
leaders, Mr. Dan
all delegates
tte
iel M.
urchin and Mr. Morr
there will b
tatio to
Lac er.
Mendel F .
ill r
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ear after 27
ere will be the tradit• al at the e
years of
service to the
resident's message by
r.
hose years during
Brandwine, and a report
the
past year's activity by
ercy which h rved in his present
Kaplan, JNF's local ex
tive poSt of ational Executive Di-
'director. There will be gr ings rectOr.
by Mrs. Edward Wishn ky,
The Plenary Session
p.m.
President, JNF Ladies Auxi ry, will open. with re
by Mr.
and presentations of sp
Brandwine, a
ere will be

Mendel Fisher:
Alias 'Mr. JNF'

What Is the

"Mr. JNF" will make- his last
official visit to Detroit as Execu-
tive Director of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund when he comes here
to address the annual all-day
Conference on Sunday, Novem-
ber 5.
"Mr. JNF," of course, is Men-
del Fisher, the brilliant and
fiery head of the Jewish Nation-
al Fund, who is retiring from
his position of leadership at the
end of the year, after 27 years
with the movement.
A Zionist since the early days
of his youth, Fisher, a former
journalist, is National Secretary
of the United Palestine Appdal
and served as a former co-direc-
tor of the UPA. During his in-
cumbency as Executive Director
of JNF, over $150,000,000 has
been mobilized for the redemp-
tion of land in Israel.

What is JNF's 20 year plan? the major effort.
It was proposed earlier this
year in Washington, D.C., at the
What has been Detroit's
Jewish National Fund National
share in the development of
Convention by former. Israel
the State of Israel?
•
Ambassador Jacob Tsur, now
Since
its
birth
thirteen
World Chairman of the Board of
years ago, Detroit and Mi-
Directors of the Karen Kaye-
chigan Jewry has ..
meth, in Jerusalem, and is now
• planted 500,000 trees.
being ratified throughout the
country at such gatherings at the
• Provided eight nachlas •
Detroit area all-day conference
bearing the names of either
on November 5.
individuals or organizations.
• Established twelve for-
Basically, the - plan envisages
the reclamation of two and a
ests in the names of individu-
half million dunams of, waste
als or organizations.
land from Safed in the North to
• Planted some ten miles
Eilat at the very tip of Israel's
of trees to strengthen Israel's
most southerly border.
borders.
It is estimated that the 20-
• Created numerous groves
year project will provide some-
and gardens in honor and in
thing like 14,000,000 workdays
memory of countless individ-
for native Israelis as well as new
uals and organizations.
immigrants who are engaged in

greetings
the

sentatives Of acquisition of land from foreign
Community Council land-holders.
Zionist Council of De-
Since the re-birth of Israel,
troit.
some 27,000,000 trees have been
Workshop reports of the .mor 7 planted, and they have served
ning panel meetings will be pre- many purposes, Brandwine said.
sented briefly by the recorders They have made the land fertile;
selected b crrOU
aided in the defense of Israel's
o
os e
borders from enemy attack;
ficially with the address
Mr.
ped in the draining of
Morris.
ps and the recultivation of
le land; - provided a source
Prepdratory to the Annual
Conference,
come for many thousands of
Brandwine
point
elis who plant and maintain
the Jewish
m; and have altered the bar-
w in its 61st
y
was
en desert into areas of scenic
ed to acce
red
beauty.
eive gifts, legacies
q s and property
he
The Jewish National Fund, he
purposes of recla•
and concluded, is now the sole land
developing the
of Israel agency in Israel, having been
as the nation
operty of the vested with that authority in
Jewish p
1960. This means that the land
Am
n Jewry, Brandwine remains the property of the
, has supported JNF with State of Israel and can never be
ne $220,000,000 in funds since sold. Thus are we able to-realize,
its inception. Only since the in ' our generation, the Biblical
creation of, Israel in 1948, how- vision of "every man under his
ever, have these funds been vine and fig tree . . ."
used for more than the legal

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wenty-Year Plan?

Cost _of the project is esti-
mated at $250,000,000. When it
is completed, it will radically
change the face of Israel, pro-
viding homes and shares of land
'for 100,000 new families, nuns_
bering some 500,000 people.

The JNF, for 60 years the
popular fund of the Jewish peo-
ple, served to unify Jewish
ranks throughout the world in
behalf of land redemption in
Israel.

Thanks to the JNF, hundreds
of little villages have been estab-
lished, first in the Jewish Na-
tional Home in Palestine and
then in the present-day State of
Israel.
Now the JNF remains the
bulwark of activities for the set-
tlement of tens of thousands of
expatriates from many lands.

Yaakov Morris:
Writes New Book

The Honorable Yaakov Morris,
who will be -principal speaker at
the all-day JNF Conference in
the Labor Zionist Institute, is
the author of a new book, just
published this month by C4-: P.
Putnam's 'Sons under the title
of "Masters of the Desert: 6,000
Years in the Negev."
Born in Belfast, Northern Ire-
land, Mr. Morris settled in Pales-
tine in 1947 after participating
in the Illegal" immigration traf-
fic conducted by the Haganah.
He was active in the Jewish
underground during the British
Mandate, and saw action with
the Israel Defense Army. during
the War of Independence.
He joined the Ministry of For-
eign Affairs in 1955 after serv-
ing first with the youth and
Hechalutz Department of the
Jewish Agency.

7 . - THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, O ctober 27, 1961

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