More than 12,000 American Jews residing in 238 communities in all parts of the country have contributed towards the American quota of the fund to establish a colony in Palestine to be named for M. M. Ussishkin, veteran Zionist leader and international president of the Jewish National Fund, it was announced yesterday by Dr. Israel Goldstein, national president.
The Ussishkin colony is being established in accordance with a resolution of the last Zionist Congress to pay tribute to the Zionist leader on the occasion of his seventieth anniversary.
Two active Zionists who worked voluntarily for the Ussishkin colony fund have been awarded free round trips to Palestine, it was announced by the J. N. F. The two are M. S. Mark of Cincinnati and Sol Odess of Fall River, Mass.
A rally of the J. N. F. volunteers to launch a city-wide campaign to distribute among Jewish homes an additional 10,000 blue-white boxes for the fund will be held Sunday evening at the Hotel Pennsylvania, under the chairmanship of Samuel Markevich, former assistant district attorney of New York County and chairman of the Jewish National Fund Council of Greater New York.
The blue-white boxes constitute a principal source of income for the Jewish National Fund, At present more than 75,000 such boxes are in use in Jewish homes and offices throughout the United States.
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