Jewry Mobilized to Aid Israel
With Special Fund, Bond Sales

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for campaign expenses and support of local Jewish service
agency operations will be financed by the United Jewish Chari-
ties, the Detroit foundation responsible for endowment fund
and property management of the Jewish Welfare Federation.

Paul Zuckerman, a member of the executive committee of
the national United Jewish Appeal, former chairman of the Allied
Jewish Campaign, is heading the emergency fund campaign or-
ganization.
Leadership among Jewish business and civic leaders is being
mobilized with the assistance of Alfred L. Deutch, who was chair-
man of the 1967 Allied Jewish Campaign, and is meeting daily
at the Welfare Federation offices.
Contributors to the Allied Jewish Campaign, which ended
May 10, are being asked to pay their pledges immediately instead
of waiting until the end of the year, Safran said.
Contributors are being asked to make a contribution at least
equal to their annual Allied Jewish Campaign gift. Safran re-
vealed that some early emergency fund gifts have been three to
five times the size of the donors annual campaign gift. -
Jewish organizatins throughout the country have suspended
fund-raising activities and are asking their memberships to make
contributions to the Israel Emergency Fund instead. These in-
clude : Histadrut, Zionist Council, Hadassah, Women's ORT,
Pioneer Women, Jewish National Fund and Mizrachi.
An initial mobilization meeting for the Israel Emergency
Fund was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Zuckerman Thursday
night and the guest was to have been Aryeh Pincus, chairman of
the Jewish Agency, who arrived here from Israel last week.
Sunday evening, another rally will be held here, to be at-
tended by Allied Jewish Campaign contributors of $1,000 and
more, and it is expected that Israel's Finance Minister Pinhas
Sapir will be guest at that gathering.
Nahum Shamir, economic minister of Israel to the United
States, made this statement to the Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds:
"The Prime Minister of Israel has announced that the Israel
Emergency Fund of UJA has full primacy to provide in free dol-
lars the assistance that Israel so urgently requires to meet vital
human needs.
"The Prime Minister has called upon all Israel social and ed-
ucational institutions to urge their American friends and sup-
porters to stop forthwith all special fund-raising efforts for their
institutions, and to give complete and unlimited support to the
Israel Emergency Fund of the UJA.
"The Minister of Finance has reiterated this primacy above
all forms of aid.
In addition to the largest possible gifts people can contribute
to the Israel Emergency Fund of UJA, Israel is calling upon its
friends to invest in State of Israel Bonds, and has asked the
Israel Bond Organization to intensify its efforts."

Louis Levitan, manager of the Detroit Israel Bond office,
stated that the need for vast sales of Israel Bonds is most

urgent. He said that as of the early part of this week interest
has been keen, purchases have multiplied and he said that it
is not beyond reason to expect that the $2,000,000 goal in Bond
sales will be attained as a mark of confidence by Detroit Jews
in Israel's ability to survive all attacks and to keep the combined
enemy forces from Israel's borders.
All payments to the Allied Jewish Campaign and addi-
tional pledges should be made at the office of the Federation,
163 Madison, or by calling Wo. 5-3939.
Israel Bond purchases can be made at the Bond office,
8522 W. McNichols, DI. 1-5707.

Announcement of the inauguration of the Israel Emergency
Fund by the United Jewish Appeal was made by Edward Gins-
berg of Cleveland, associate UJA general chairman, in the ab-
sence of Max M. Fisher, national chairman, who was to return
here from Israel early this week.
A national Big Gifts Meeting of the UJA will be held in New
York Monday at Americana Hotel, and a number of big givers
from Detroit are planning to participate and join in mobilizing
vast sums to meet the emergency.
At the dinner meeting of the Zionist Organization of Detroit
Monday, held for the inauguration of new officers, $35,000
worth of Bonds were purchased.

As an expression of their faith in Israel, Robert St. John,
world famous commentator, and his wife, Ruth, who now reside
in Woldrf, Md., sent a check for $100 for an Israel Bond.
At the mass rally held on the parking lot of the Jewish
Center on Sunday, approximately 200 purchasers bought
$50,000 worth of Israel Bonds — the payments mostly in cash.
Stations for the sale of Israel Bonds are being set up
throughout the city, at all synagogues, and immediate action
is urged to make the emergency effort a great success.

Reservations still are being taken for the Israel Bond dinner
6:30 p.m. Monday at Cobo Hall. It is planned to transform it into
a mass demonstration in Israel's defense.
"Nearly one-and-a-half million Jews found refuge in Israel
in the past two decades," Ginsberg noted. "The UJA helped
finance this largest refugee exodus in history, and the UJA took
a major role in financing the vast programs of resettlement, re-
habilitation, housing, medical aid and social welfare services
that the immigrants desperately required."
"After the first few years of the establishment of statehood,"
Ginsberg stated, "Israel's people themselves have carried two-
thirds of the multi-million-dollar burden of the immigrant assis-
tance and absorption programs, with the Jews of the rest of the
free world contributing the other third. It is obvious that Israel's
people cannot continue with this unbalanced financial situation."
"Nearly 500,000 immigrants — the unabsorbed, the aged,
the ill, the handicapped, the orphaned — are still dependant in
varying degrees on the humanitarian welfare, educational, medi-
cal and rehabilitation services provided by UJA-supported
agencies in Israel," Ginsberg said. "The current crisis has dislo-
cated the entire social service structure and bitter human suffering
will mount unless UJA acts quickly."

'Report From Front' Due at Bond
Dinner in Cobo Hall Monday Night

Mizrachi Assists in Providing
CARE Food Packages for Needy

An important means of aid to needy in Israel is being
provided by Mizrachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi.
Zvi Tomkiewicz, executive director of the religious
Zionist movement, announced that Mizrachi again has been
A "Report From the Front" will be given by by Philip Slomovitz, who covered the authorized to send CARE food packages to designated fami-
initial happenings in Israel prior to the outbreak of the war, at the annual Israel Bond
lies in Israel.
dinner, at Cobo Hall, Monday night.
Providing it is a public service, Mizrachi will send CARE
Phillip Stollman, chairman of the dinner committee, announced that many hundreds packages to Israel in amounts of $10 and $16, all containing
already have made reservations for the dinner and that some places can still be reserved vital foodstuffs.
Orders for CARE packages may be made at the Mizrachi
by calling the Israel Bond office, DI 1-5707.
"We hope at the dinner to hail Israel's victorious campaign to rid itself of the new office, 18033 Wyoming, DI. 1-0708.
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Hitlers and of the enemies who have threatened to destroy the Jews in the Jewish State,"
Stollman said.
To accept additional dinner reservations, the Israel Bond office will be open
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
The Israel Achievement Award will be presented to Slomovitz at the dinner by Am-
Scores of our readers have brought to The Jewish News copies of
bassador Arieh Eshel, deputy director-general of the Israel Foreign Ministry, who arrived letters they have received from relatives and friends from all portions
in the U. S. from Israel last week.
of Israel reassuring them of their calmness and confidence.
Among the most encouraging communications was one . from
Dr. Israel M. Goldman, rabbi of Congregation Chizuk Amuna of Baltimore, one of the
oldest Conservative synagogues in America, will pronounce the invocation at the dinner. Devora Oren of Hadera to Emil and Shoshana Wolok, detailing how
members of the family are assisting in the defense efforts and
Rabbi Goldman, who is a brother-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Slomovitz, is a former president all
how the children are being protected.
of the Rabbinical Assembly and a former chairman of the Adult Education Commission,
Similar communications from many Israeli communities reassure
United Synagogue of America.
Detroiters and have helped ease the tension here.
government,
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Guests at the dinner will be a cross section of leadership
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48—Friday, June 9, 1967
education, journalism, business, labor and religion.

Scores of Heartening Messages
From Israel Relieve Detroiters