The Israel bond drive in the United States is 33 percent ahead of last year at this time. Abraham Feinberg head of the Israel Bond Organization, today told Premier Ben Gurion. Mr. Feinberg who conferred with the Premier Finance Minister Levi Eshkol and Foreign Minister Golds Myerson predicted that bond sales for 1956 would hit $50,000,000.
(At an Israel bond dinner in New York last night it was reported that $5,250,000 worth of bonds had been sold thus far this year in the Greater New York area Addressing the dinner, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota urged the United States to help Israel meet the threat posed by Communist arms supports to the Arabs by providing the young state with “sufficient arms of equal effectiveness.)
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