An all-time record-setting total of $251,476,600 in Israel Bonds was sold in 1971, it was reported today by Sam Rothberg, general chairman of the worldwide Israel Bond Organization. This represented a 20 percent increase over the amount sold in the previous year and 16 percent more than was realized in 1967, the year of the Six-Day War when the response to the Israel Bond campaign broke all existing records.
Rothberg stated that of the over-all Bond receipts for last year, $209,161,350 or 83 percent came from sales in the United States; $15,236,050 was sold in Canada and the balance in other countries. The impressive 1971 result brought to a grand total of $1,89 billion the proceeds from the sale of Israel Bonds since the establishment of the Bond Organization twenty-one years ago, he said.
The record total for 1971 is very significant because it testifies to the high degree of solidarity which is being maintained between the Jewish people and Israel.” Rothberg said. “It also demonstrates their determination to respond on an increasing scale to Israel’s needs at a time when its economy is burdened with maximum defense expenditures, the greater pressures of rising immigration and the urgent demands of the disadvantaged sector of the population.”
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