The first million dollars in cash toward the 1965 goal of $5,000,000 of the Israel Histadrut Campaign was raised today at the mid-winter conference of the National Committee for Labor Israel at the Hotel Commodore. Delegates from all parts of the United States, representing 600 organizations and communities, brought contributions which will aid in the development of a nation-wide network of medical, educational, vocational training and welfare services to new immigrants, youth and the working population of Israel.
The conference adopted resolutions critical of the treatment of Russian Jews by the Soviet regime, and calling upon the West German government to “rectify its position in three critical areas.” The latter resolution referred to the cancellation of arms shipments to Israel, the extension of the statute of limitations on Nazi war criminals, and the recall of German scientists from Egypt.
Dr. Albert Sabin, developer of the oral polio vaccine, in an address at the conference lauded the Histadrut efforts in Israel. “I foresee a time when what the small nucleus of educated Jews are doing in Israel, the affluent countries, the economically and educationally advanced countries will have to do for their poverty-stricken brothers elsewhere in the world,” he said. Mrs. Yona Golan, a special representative of Histadrut, reported on the activities of the organization–Israel’s labor federation.
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