THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 3, 1978 15
Boris Smolar's
`Between You
. . . and Me'
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.)
COMMUNAL KNOWLEDGE: Every Jew in this coun-
try knows of the United Jewish Appeal. But very few know
of the United Israel Appeal (UIA) and its functions. Many
will be surprised to learn that the United Israel Appeal is
actually one of the two "bosses" over the UJA, the other
being the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). Both are
corporate and policy-making bodies of the UJA which is
irected by a board composed of 22 members — 11 desig-
nated by the United Israel Appeal and 11 by the JDC.
, The United Jewish Appeal is the fund-raising arm of the
two agencies. Negotiations are now being conducted to
make the UJA a third partner of the board with the right to
designate its own members on an equal basis with the UIA
and JDC.
The United Jewish Appeal was formed some 40 years ago
by the Joint Distribution Committee and the United Pales-
tine Appeal. The two had been conducting separate and
competing fund-raising campaigns for years and decided to
merge their fund-raising-efforts into a joint machinery. The
UJA was then established, with the JDC being the major
partner in sharing the funds raised by UJA in the Ameri-
can Jewish community. After World War II, when the
Jewish Agency for Israel took over the emigration ac-
tivities from the JDC, the United Israel Appeal became the -
senior partner. The Jewish Agency is the operating agency
in Israel of the United Israel Appeal. It received almost $1.5
billion from the United Israel Appeal since 1973, including
$250 million for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1978.
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THE UIA FUNCTIONS: In addition to transmitting to
the Jewish Agency the funds it receives from the American
Jewish community through the United Jewish Appeal, the
United Israel Appeal is also the agency through which the
U.S. government provides grants for the resettlement of
Soviet Jews in Israel. .
The U.S. Congress, since 1973, has allocated $135 mill-
ion to the United Israel Appeal for this purpose. These
funds are included in the UIA allocations to the Jewish
Agency in Israel and are administered in accordance with
the terms of venous agreements between UIA and the
State Department. The Comptroller General of the United
States regularly conducts extensive examinations of how
the UIA administers the programs to assist in the resettle-
ment of the Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union in
Israel. .
The United Israel Appeal also participates in the U.S.
government's AID Excess Property Program. It ac-
quires much needed commodities at a cost of approxi-
mately 15 percent of the U.S. government's original acquis-
ition cost. It also receives from the U.S. government ocean
freight allocations to cover the co-St of shipping of these
commodities.
From time to time UIA augments its budgetary alloca-
tions to the Jewish Agency with loans of tens of millions of
dollars from American banks. A five-year $50 million loan
was secured last year a by UIA from a group of 41 banks in
New York, Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia and St. Souis with
the cooperation of the Jewish federations in these cities.
UIA CONTROL IN ISRAEL: The United Israel Appeal
characterizes itself as "a bridge between the American
Jewish communities and the people of Israel."
The UIA considers as its primary responsibility the
. budgeting of funds to the Jewish Agency for humanitarian,
cultural and philanthropic purposes in Israel. It allocates
its funds only for such programs which are consistent with
, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service guidelines, considera-
C tion being given to the charitable interests of the American
. - contributors. Agents of the Internal Revenue Service
examine the UIA records and usually accept the returns as
submitted.
The American Jewish community participates through
the_UIA in directing the policy and activities of the Jewish
Agency in Israel. The UIA designates 30 percent of the
membership of the board of governors of the Jewish
Agency. These come from a number of U.S. Jewish com-
munities whickparticipate in fund-raising for the United
Jewish Appeal.
The board of governors decides on the allocation of funds
for programs budgeted by the Jewish Agency. The Ameri-
can members enjoy veto rights. The chairman of the board
is Detroiter Max M. Fisher, who exercises a powerful influ-
ence on the board's decisions. _
As an American body, the United Israel Appeal leader-
ship consists of 200 trustees evenly divided between desig-
nees of Zionist groups in this country and the Jewish feder-
ations. The trustees elect 20 members of the 30-membe•
board of directors, with the remaining 10 appointed by the
American Section of the World Zionist Organization.
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major departm ent st ore,
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14K two-tone gold ring
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14K yellow gold ring set with
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14K yellow gold ring
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14K yellow gold-prl ring Reg. 50.00
14K yellow gold ring set with 2 opals
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10K white gold ring set with a blue linde
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14K yellow gold earrings set with opals
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14K white gold earrings set with
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Gold filled link chain 27 inches Reg. 35.00
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