The four-day annual national convention of the Mizrachi Women’s Organization of America concluded here today following the adoption of resolutions affirming the primacy of the United Jewish Appeal in fund-raising and pledging continued support to the Israel Bond campaign. Mrs. Moses Dyckman was re-elected national president.
A budget of $1,270,000 for the organization’s program for the year was approved at another session. The money will be used to maintain and expand the organization’s child-care, social service and vocational projects in Israel and for its educational and cultural activities in the United States.
The delegates also approved a Mizrachi Women’s Forest in the Freedom Forest in Israel after hearing Mendel Fisher, executive director of the Jewish National Fund of America, declare that in the Negev alone, 10,000,000 dunams must be reclaimed if Israel is to absorb 1,000,000 immigrants in the next decade. The convention was addressed by Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman of the American Zionist Council; Rabbi Mordechai Kirshblum, Jewish Agency executive member; Mrs. Avraham Harman, wife of Israel’s ambassador to the United States, and Mrs. Judith Beilin of Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
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