The Israel Education Fund of the United Jewish Appeal has raised a total of $12, 300, 000 in its 17-month campaign, IEF officials reported today.
Joseph Meyerhoff, chairman, and Charles J. Bensley, president, told a meeting of the IEF advisory board that 26 high schools, four libraries and a youth center were currently under construction or in active planning as a result of the Fund’s drive. The average donation, from 51 individual contributors, has been close to $250, 000, according to executive director Ralph I. Goldman.
Guest speaker Prof. Jehoshua Prawer, dean of the faculty of humanities at the Hebrew University, indicated that IEF schools in progress would play a decisive role in bridging the cultural gap between eastern and western elements in Israel’s population, in rolling back a serious high school dropout rate and, ultimately, in providing universal high school education.
Advisory Board members Theodore R. Racoosin and Lawrence Schacht joined United Jewish Appeal executive vice-chairman Herbert A. Friedman in declaring that the education fund campaign has had a stimulating effect on the regular annual UJA drive. Mr. Racoosin was 1965 education fund chairman of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York and was succeeded this year by Mr. Schacht.
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