Israel Bond Onference Starts 100-Day Drive to Raise Its $53 000 000 Goal
NEW YORK (JTA) — A 100-
Pointing to an increased build-

day campaign to raise $53j00,000
by the end of the year for Israel's
expanded economic development
was inaugurated Suns'ay at the
closing session of the national
planning confereree of the Israel
Bond Organizatbn. The action was
taken by rrore than 500 Jewish
leaders from the United States
and ..:anada after three days of
:fleetings at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel on Israel's economic needs
and development program for
underpopulated areas.
Samuel Rothberg, national cam-
paign chairman, announced that
$53,000,000 was needed to meet
the Israel Bond quota of $100,000,-
000 for all of 1965. The fall cam-
paign will be inaugurated, he said,
in more than 600 synagogues
throughout the United States and
Canada, which will conduct a spec-
ial effort in behalf of Israel Bonds
during the Jewish High Holy Days.
Avraham Harman, ambassador
of Israel to the United States,
emphasized to the conference
delegates his country's belief
that the best way to defend
freedom is to continue to build
up those institutions which lead
toward a creative national life.
Announcement was made at the
session of the acceptance by Rabbi
Irving Miller, former president of
the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica and the American Jewish Con-
gress, of the post of national chair-
man of community relations for
the Israel Bond Organization. Rabbi
Miller succeeds Rabbi James G.
Heller, of Cincinnati, who had
served the Israel Bond drive in
that capacity for more than 10
years.
Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, vice
president of the Israel Bond
Organization, announced that a
total of 547,295,000 was raised
for the economic development
of Israel through the world-wide
sale of State of Israel Bonds
from Jan. 1 through Sept. 15
of this year. Of that total, he
reported, $39,470,250 was sold
in the United States, $2,601,050
in Canada, $2,591,550 in Latin
America and $2,632,150 in West-
ern Europe.
Other speakers at the session
addressed by Dr. Schwartz included
Louis H. Boyar, chairman of the
board of governors of the Israel
Bond Organization, who presided,
and Ambassador Ehud Avriel, de-
puty director-general of Israel's
foreign ministry. Boyar outlined
the economic strides made possible
with the aid of Israel Bonds. He
cited particularly Israel's outstand-
ing accomplishments in reclaim-
ing and settling many parts of the
Negev desert, and of opening up
new settlements in the Galilee.
At Saturday, night's dinner
session, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy,
New York Democrat, who was the
---nrincipal speaker, asserted that
the vitality of Israel and the
integrity of her borders are a
matter of vital concern to the
United States." He urged the
United States to (1) affirm its
commitment to peace and stabil-
ity in the Middle East, (2) con-
tinue to assure a reasonable
balance between Israel's arms
and the arms of those who
threaten her security and (3)
intensify disarmament efforts in
the Middle East.

period of increased threats of Arab called attention to the
1950, where 50 American Jewish
up of Arab arms, Sen. Kennedy attack.
fact that the weekend conference leaders formulated 'plans for the
warned of the dangers facing,
Abraham Feinberg, president of
Israel. He declared that the "dis- the Israel Bond Organization, marked the 15th anniversary of a first Israel Bond issue ever to be
meeting in Jerusalem in September, floated in the United States.
pute over the waters of the Jordan
is progressively deepening" and
emphasized that any steps taken
Mr. and Mrs.
by the Arab states to divert Israel's
"fair share" of this water would
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constitute an act of aggression
which "must not be allowed to take
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place."
Haim Zadok, in his first address
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Wish All Customers and Friends
in the United States since becom-
A Year of
to
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Their
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ing Israel's minister of commerce
Health
and Happiness
and industry earlier this y e a r,
Friends and Customers
emphasized that the State of Israel
A Year of
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faces a triple challenge of main-
taining full employment, narrowing
Health and Happiness
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the gap between imports and ex-
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ports, and populating its under-
MEATS
populated areas. He said that Israel
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could not achieve these aims with-
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out increased resources from the
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Israel Bond campaign. A strong
During the Past Year.
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economy, he added, was essential
not only for the country's national
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 24, 1965-3

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