A capacity audience of 18,000 persons tonight attended the second performance of this year’s Chanukah Festival for Israel Bonds, at Madison Square Garden. The festivals, the first of which was conducted earlier this month, with a third performance scheduled for January 2, mark the culmination of the 1966 drive in Greater New York to raise $20,000,000 in Israel Bond funds.
After greetings by Abraham Feinberg, president of the Israel Bond Organization, and Max Abrams, campaign chairman for New York, performances were given by a group of artists including Ralph Bellamy, Burgess Meredith, Eartha Kitt, Shelley Winters, Theodore Bikel, Jan Peerce, Bess Myerson, Regina Resnik, Judith Raskin, Itzhak Perlman, Shmuel Ashkenasi and the Sophie Maslow Dance Company.
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