A drive to raise $500,000 to expand and maintain Boys Town Jerusalem was announced today by Max Abrams, general chairman of the school’s 1956 campaign. At a meeting of the board of directors of the American Committee for Boys Town Jerusalem at the Hotel McAlpin, 35 community leaders reviewed campaign plans. Advance contributions totaling $48,000 were pledged by those present.
Boys Town Jerusalem, founded in 1949 by a group of American educators, provides technical training in productive trades combined with academic education and traditional Jewish studies for several hundred underprivileged teen-age boys selected for their intelligence and abilities mostly from families who are new immigrants to Israel.
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