Eshkol Asks UJA Leaders to Raise $70 Million for Immigrants NEW YORK, (JTA) — Israel Finance Minister Levi Eshkol, arriving here Monday, lost no time and addressed more than 100 top leaders of the United Jewish Appeal gathered from all parts of the country urging, them to step up an extraor- dinary collection drive to raise $70,000,000 in cash funds against campaign pledges, and to take other measures to increase the UJA campaign income. • The special meeting of the top UJA leaders, representing, the drive's officers and mem- bers of its policy-making Na- tional Campaign Cabinet, was called by , Joseph Meyerhoff, UJA general chairman, and was held at the Savoy Hilton Hotel. LEVI ESHKOL Eshkol reported at the meet- ing that immigration to Israel thus far in 1962 has been so heavy that the country may end the year with the greatest num- ber of immigrants it has receiv- ed in a decade. Straining to keep up with the heavy flow of immigra- tion, Israel is attempting to build 2,000 new housing units monthly, Eshkol disclosed. "But the pressure has been so great," he added, "we have been forced to put newcomers into housing which in many cases lacks water, light, sani- tary arrangements, even in- ternal walls, so. long as we can give them a roof over their heads. We are not doing this because we want to, but because lack of funds and time make it impossible for us to meet the problems of this massive immigration in as orderly a fashion as we would prefer." The largest number of Israel's immigrant housing units are go ing up in the country's 20-odd new-type development towns Eshkol reported. Where once most immigrants were sent di- rectly from ship to agricultural farm villages, today's newcom- ers go to new towns which are, or are planned to be, centers of industrial activity. "We are determined to con- tinue to produce a minimum of 2,000 decent housing units a month for our newcomers," Eshkol said. "Never, we hope, will we have to resort again to housing our immigrants in tent cities and tin huts as we did in the peak yearS when the pace of immigration was greater than our means." The people of Israel, he re- vealed, are meeting two-thirds the costs of immigration ab- sorption in the form of extra taxes and compulsory loans. "But even with these, they cannot meet the problem alone. They must depend on world Jewry, primarily Amer- ican Jewry, to provide the funds." The UJA leaders were also briefed about another area of extreme Jewish needby Edward M. M. Warburg, UJA honorary chairman, and chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee. The JDC leader reported that the entry into France of more than 150,000 Jewish refugees from North African countries in the last 18 months has put tremendous burdens upon his organization and French Jewish welfare bodies. Warburg praised the French government for the extensive assistance it is giving to the new refugees, who include 80,- 000 from Algeria. He said, how- ever, even for those who do receive French welfare aid such as the Algerian Jews, there are extensive needs of a Jewish re- ligious and communal nature which must be met from Jewish sources. Meanwhile, thousands of ref- ugees from Tunisia and other North African areas must look largely to JDC and French Jew- ish welfare bodies for basic help. To meet the situation in France, the JDC has - allocated $3,250,000 for refugee aid there in 1962. Warburg also revealed that the JDC has had to establish an office in Algiers for the purpose of directing and pro- viding welfare aid and social services which were formerly dispensed through local Jew- ish welfare agencies. In addi- tion to France, the JDC pro- vides welfare and other assist- ance to needy Jews in 25 countries, and conducts a spe- cialized medical and rehabili- tation program through a net- work of institutions on behalf of sick, aged and handicapped immigrants in Israel. The UJA leaders voted to step up a collection campaign to raise a minimum of $70,000,- 000 in 1962 for transmittal to its major beneficiaries — the Jewish Agency for Israel which is responsible for the reception and resettlement of Jewish im- migrants in Israel and the Joint Distribution Committee. More than half of this sum had been raised to date, it was reported by Israel D. Fink of Minneapolis, UJA National Cash Collection chairman. He urged the UJA leaders to "bend every effort to raise . $34,000,000 dur- ing the four months remaining to this year." Plans to observe the United Jewish Appeal 25th Anniversary year in 1963 were alsO 'announc- ed by Meyerhoff, UJA general chairman. The UJA's anniver- sary committee which will be headed by former Governor Herbert H. Lehman as honor- ary general chairman, will fos- ter commemorative observances of UJA's silver jubilee and American Jewry's humanitarian achievements in an era marked by both great Jewish tragedy and rebirth, Meyerhoff said. Meyerhoff, who will serve as chairman of the 25th Anni- versary Executive Committee, said that, during the last quar- ter of a century, the UJA raised nearly $1,400,000,000, rendered survival aid to 3,- 000,000 Jews, and transferred and resettled 1,500,000 Jews including 1,200,000 who set- tled in 'Israel. Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, UJA executive vice-chairman, informed the conference that the first scheduled event in the observance of the 25th anniver- sary year would be a Study Mis- sion to Europe and Israel from Oct. 15 to Nov. 2. The mission participants will be UJA's top leaders, including its officers, members of its campaign cabi- net and chairmen of major local community campaigns. The an- niversary observances will be launched formally at the UJA annual conference to be held Dec. 7-9 in New York City, ac. cording to Rabbi Friedman. Moshe Sharettt, former Prime • Plans to observe the UJA's Minister, as well as in many 25th anniversary are also being European communities which formulated by an Israel commit- were revived with the aid of tee under the leadership of UJA funds. Report Czech Jews See Danger to Identity PARIS, (JTA) —Moshe Kol, director of the Jewish Agency's Youth Aliya program in Jeru- salem, said here that leaders of the Czechoslovakian Jewish community were becoming in- creasingly concerned over the changes of safeguarding Jewish identity for that country's small Jewish population. . 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