The Boston community invested $1,527,000 in Israel bonds in 1959–to top the minimum goal of $1,500,000–it was announced by Lawrence G. Laskey, general chairman, at the sixth annual Chanukah festival in the Boston Garden.
The statement was greeted by a thunderous ovation from the more than 9,000 persons who attended the festival purchasers of Israel bonds. They heard Mr. Lakey’s announcement that Boston Jews have invested $13,680,200 in Israel bonds since the inception of the bond effort in 1951; and that the total investment to date by Jews in the free countries of the world is $416,272,300.
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