Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, has launched a movement to celebrate Mothers’ Day on May 11 by planting trees in Palestine in the names of mothers.
Miss Eudice Elkind, chairman of the Jewish National Fund Council of senior Hadassah, and Miss Naomi Flax, chairman of the council for junior Hadassah, have issued a joint appeal to the 50,000 members throughout the country, urging the purchase of trees for planting in Palestine as appropriate gifts on Mothers’ Day. Miss Elkind said that 400 orders have already come to the national Hadassah headquarters here for trees to be planted in the new Hadassah Grove in Palestine, which is located in Kiryath-Anavim, near Jerusalem. The grove will be near the Einstein Forest, which was established a few years ago in honor of Prof. Albert Einstein. For the sum of $1.50 the Jewish National Fund in Palestine plants a tree in a grove, wood or forest, tends it, and if it is damaged, plants another in its place. The Jewish National Fund Council of Hadassah sends an illustrated tree certificate to every purchaser of a tree.
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