New Tasks Ahead for Israel: Bond Investments Are Vitally Important By JOSEPH J. SCHWARTZ (Copyright 1967, JTA Inc.) The State of Israel that was horn little more than nineteen years ago had a rebirth in the third Arab - Israeli war Hof last June. It will take many months for the Jewish people and for the world at large to digest the full significance and consequences of the stunning victory that followed only six days of fighting. W h a t- ever the terri- torial changes,. whatever the out- come of peace talks, the most' , important single element that unites all Jews inside and out- - side Israel is the paramount c o n - cern that Israel shall not have to fight a fourth war to gain the right to live in peace and free- dom. In the new Dr. Schwartz year, Israel will face many new opportunities for development and many new problems. At the same time, serious attention will have to be given to some of the major problems which troubled the coun- try prior to the outbreak of hos- tilities and which remain un- solved. Obviously, the combination of old and new problems repre- sents a situation in which Ameri- can Jewry will be expected to adopt standards of financial parti- cipation more closely related to the new levels of response that followed the recent war than to those whir .' were established in previous years. What American Jewry did in the days of crisis and the days of glorious victory is already part of Jewish history. Yet there is a tendency to overemphasize the dol- lar figures and to underempha- ' size the great upsurge of spirit and the intense sense of identifica- ' tion with the people of Israel which stirred all sectors and all facets of the Jewish population of the United States. An Israel strengthened by a successful defense on the field , of battle can now count on the increased strength of its friends and supporters in America- .and in other parts of the world. The answer to the crisis and the war came instantly and in heroic New Year Best Wishes Becker Bros. Printing Co. Office and Factory Forms Commercial and Office Stationery Established 1915 7709 TWELFTH 4 Blocks N. of Grand Blvd. 895-0800 - DAYENI measure. Now that the war is over and the problems of almost, equal import but much less drama oc- cupy the center of attention, the Israel Bond Organization and the United Jewish Appeal will have to engage in intensive effort to keep the financial assistance flowing at an undiminished rate. The high pitch of emotional involvement of the war periad can hardly be maintained by the post-war needs of economic recovery and recon- struction. Therefore, it is incum- bent upon us to make known in very emphatic terms the major tasks that are indispensable to bringing the Israel economy back to normal and to enable it to resume its forward march to greater development. The disruption of normal life, the dislocation of the economy resulted in heavy financial losses and serious setbacks for the country. The task of economic reconstruction is a vital part-of winning the peace. Both Prime Minister Eshkol and Finance Minister Sapir have em- phasized that it will take at least two years for the country's economy to recover from the tre- mendous drain of the war. I am not in a position to quote any figures, but the crisis and the war that followed cost Israel many hundreds of millions of dollars. And it will cost no less to re- build the homes and villages damaged by war and to put the economy of the country back on its feet. Ttiat is why the program of the Israel Bond Organization is so important today — more import- ant than ever before. The block- ade of the Gulf of Aqaba has been broken. The approach to Eilat is free and open. But Israel will need large-scale investments to produce the goods that will pass through the Strait of Tiran to its markets in Africa and Asia. The victory of arms has made the Negev safe again for development. But Israel will need Israel Bond money and the participation of private investors to establish new industrial enterprises in the Negev that will advance its economic re- covery. The Old City of Jerusalem is once more a part of the State of Israel. But it will take a great deal of money to rebuild it. Only a few months ago we cele- brated days of glory for a fighting Israel. But in this New Year there are greater days of glory ahead for an Israel at peace. American Jewry can do much to give the people of Israel the tools with which to beat their swords into plowshares. 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The State is basically founded by the will- to-a-State of the people, even by the will of a single person who is CD powerful enough. Territory is only the concrete basis; the state, even when it has territory, is always something abstract. 10226 DEXTER "In Basle therefore I created this abstraction which, as such, is a a TO 8-3453 invisible to the great majority. Actually with infinitely small means, 0 I gradually incite the feeling for a State and impart the feeling that ‘irtiois00000p000000000000tr: the National Assembly exists. a A & J MARKET Weizmann's View of First Zionist Congress New Year Greetings ALLIED thing messianic in it, particularly (From an Address at the World CYCLE CO. so as it appeared at a moment Zionist Organization's Jubilee when the horizon looked black for Celebration at Basle, Aug. 31, 11844 Grand River Russian-Polish Jewry. At times 1947). WE 3-4050 Any one who has any idea of like these there is always a re- the history of the Zionist move- crudescence of messianic hope. ment knows that a form of Zion — ism existed even before Herzl. Certain developments took place in Palestine in the seventies and New Year Greetings the early eighties of the last cen- tury, which have left their mark to this very day. But in 1896 a small booklet entitled "The Jew- ish State" was written by a man whose name was, at least in the Plumbing and Mechanical Contractors region where I lived, unknown. Dr. Herzl's name was quite likely 7361 Fenkel. DI 1-5262 familiar in Western Europe, but in the ghettos and among the Jews of Eastern Europe it was un- known. "Der Judenstaat" was The Jewish community of Lux- only a utopia, reminiscent of the emburg, which dates back to the works of other authors. 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