More than $200,000 for the economic development of Israel was provided by New York women who purchased Israel Bonds to attend a concert in Town Hall today honoring ten national presidents of Hadassah. The concert, sponsored by the New York Women’s Division of the Israel Bond drive, was attended by more than 1,300 persons and marked the group’s formal opening of a four-month campaign in the New York metropolitan area to raise $1,000,000 in Israel bond investment funds.
The event was in honor of nine former national presidents of Hadassah and Dr. Miriam Freund, the organization’s current president. The former presidents are Mrs. Irma Lindheim, Mrs. Robert Szold, Mrs. Edward Jacobs, Mrs. Samuel W. Halprin, Mrs, Moses P. Epstein, Mrs. David De Sola Pool, Mrs. Samuel J. Rosensohn, Mrs. Herman Shulman, and the late Henrietta Szold.
Dr. Freund received on behalf of Hadassah an award from the Israel Bond Organization citing Hadassah’s national leaders as “rare women, with the gift for leadership, whose inspirational qualities have helped to make Israel a great nation,” The presentation was made by Abraham Feinberg, president of the Israel Bond Organization. Dr. Freund, who told the audience that Israel’s security and integrity as a democratic influence in the Middle East depended on her economic strength, said that “Israel bonds constitute one of the major sources of revenue in Israel’s development budget.”
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