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THE DETROIT JMISH NEWS

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Friday, Javagri 1, 1E71-9

These are the promises
you made to the people of Israel.

You promised a child you would build
You promised to teach a skilled immi-
more secondary schools in Israel so that grant to read and write Hebrew so he can
he wouldn't have to travel mine-infested make productive use of his professional
roads to attend classes in a neighboring and technical knowledge. And there are
settlement.
thousands of highly qualified immigrants
You promised hot lunches to an under- who will be able to help themselves but
nourished school child whose parents' in- must first learn their new language.
come is insufficient to provide him with a
You promised someone who is un-
healthy, adequate diet. You also promised skilled and illiterate the training he needs
to provide nursery facilities for younger to adjust to his new country and lead a use-
children whose mothers must work to sup- ful life. And your promise means hope to
plement their family incomes.
thousands awaiting the training they need
You promised to help provide an el- to enter the mainstream of Israeli life.
derly Israeli with the special welfare serv-
You promised to feed a hungry child
ices that would give him a new lease on life. in another land who never can be sure of
And more than 40,000 older citizens rely his next meal, because he lives in a country
on you for special old-age grants, homes, where all Jews are victimized. And there
and special medical care.
are more than 36,000 Jews throughout
You promised to help a family of pen- Europe and North Africa whose plight
niless Jews who have just escaped the per- will become even more desperate unless
secution of Eastern Europe and come to you keep your promise to pr6Vide them
Israel with all they possess wrapped up in with monthly food distributions through
a few pitiful parcels. And there are thou- UJA-supported programs.
sands more arriving each month who will
You promised to rescue more than
be forced to leave everything they have
50,000
Jews from the poverty and perse-
behind them so they can come to Israel to
cution of Eastern Europe, North Africa
live a new life.
and the Middle East and to lead them to
You promised to build a home in a new lives in Israel and other havens of se-
development town for a Jewish family curity. And your promise has given hope
which was never able to call any place home to hundreds of thousands of tormented,
until you helped bring them home to Israel. oppressed Jews throughout the world.
And of the more than 1,300,000 immi-
These are the promises you made to
grants you have helped the United Jewish
the
struggling
people of ,Israel and to op-
Appeal bring to Israel, there are more
than 200,000 who are still in desperate pressed Jews throughout the world. Their
future depends on you. And the future is
need of adequate housing.
now.
You promised to nurse a sick new-
Meet your UJA pledge now, and keep
comer back to health by providing the care
and treatment he was denied before he the vital promises you made. Reinforce it
came to Israel. And the task is made diffi- with still another pledge and renew the
cult because of the acute shortage of hospi- hopes of all those whose future depends
on you.
tal beds and trained doctors and nurses.

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