JNF Launches Giant Development Platt to Assure Defense of Borders

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our own people to the import-
A goal of $100,000,000 to be
an additional $5,500,000 to be ante of aid to the underdevel- achieved
over a 10-year period
contributed by the J e wish oped, of conservation and pro- through bequests in wills and
Agency.
tection of the land, and of a assignments of insurance was
Plans for the new development better understanding of the re- set by the Foundation for the
program, as a result of which la tionships between political Jewish National Fund.
thousands of families are expect- freedom and the land in the
Announcement of the goal was
ed to be settled in northern I possession of the people."
made
at the closing session of
Galilee in the coming decade. j Speakers at the conference in- the annual
JNF assembly. Of the
were announced at .the annual
conference by Jacob Tsur, world eluded Albert Schiff, JNF presi- $100,000,000 goal, a potential
chairman of the board of direc- dent; Mendel N. Fisher, Dr. $22,000,000 has already been ac-
tors of the Keren Kayemeth Max Nussbaum, president of the cumulated, according to Dr.
LeIsrael (JNF) at the session on Zionist Organization of America; Harris J. Levine, chairman of
Judge Henry Ellenbogen of the Foundation, and Albert
Saturday night.
Dr. Israel Wiener, president Pittsburgh, Congressman Abra- Schiff, president of the JNF.
The session also heard that
of the Detroit JNF Council, ham Muller, who was honored
who headed the Detroit dele- at the opening conference din- the American Freedom Forest.
gation to the conference, was ner; Dr. Harris J. L e v i n e, comprising 2,000,000 trees, has
one of the speakers at the Franklin Roosevelt, Undersec- been completed on the slopes of
Friday afternoon session. Dr. retary of Commerce; Congress- Beitar, near Jerusalem.
Wiener gave assurances that man Emanuel Celler, Stanley British, Jews Decide
Detroit will fullfill its obliga- Steingut, Eliezer Argov of Jeru- To Raise $2,800,000 For
tions to the fund and will salem, Dr. Joseph P. Sternstein
strive to raise its apportioned JNF national director; Israel JNF Galilee Project
LONDON (JTA)—The Jewish
share in the extra goal decided I Consul Katriel Katz, Dr. Henry
upon for the new project.
R. Gold, Rabbi Immanuel Jako- National Fund of Great Britain
The resolution adopted for the bovitz, Ambassador Michael raised more than 800,000 pounds
launching of the new project Comay, Gen. Aharon Doron, Am- sterling ($2,240,000) in 1963, an
stated that the aim of the new bassador Avraham Harman and increase of about $280,000 over
effort will be to restore "the a number of others, including the preceding year, Rosser
Central Galilee to its former I spokesmen for national Jewish Chinn, president of JNF here,
announced at the organization'S
fruitfulness and as a mighty bas- organizations.
nth annual conference.
tion of Israel's security."
The conference also adopted
"a declaration of solidarity with
Strictly
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In a message to the confer-
ence, Israel's Prime Minister
Levi Eshkol declared that the
newly proposed JNF Galilee
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the creation of new areas of
absorption for the growing
population and the future
widening of our land reserve."
President Zalman Shazar of
Israel, in his message to the
delegates, called the new project
"of crucial importance" to Is-
rael.
In a message to the confer-
ence, President Kennedy stated
that the JNF American Freedom
Forest "cements the bond be-
tween Israel and the United
States in an important reclama-
tion effort."
In one of the major addresses
at the conference, Senator Hu-
bert Humphrey of Minnesota de-
clared:
"We owe a particular debt to
the Jewish National Fund. It
was the JNF which long ago
saw the importance of land re-
form; yes, the importance of
land and the people. If the coun-
tries of Latin America had prac-
ticed what the JNF has advo-
cated for these many years, our
Latin American neighbors would
be well on the road to a stable
and prosperous society.
"We owe much to the JNF
for what it has done in educating

of 1,000,000 pounds ($2,800,000)
toward the vast Central Galilee
The conference adopted a development project to be built
resolution calling for the raising in Israel.

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