The sum of 650,000 pounds ($1,820,000) was contributed last night at the dinner launching the 1956 Joint Palestine Appeal, it was announced here this morning. This is the largest sum contributed on a single night in British Jewish fund-raising history and is expected to set a pattern for the rest of the campaign.
Reporting this development, Sir Simon Marks, JPA chairman, said that last year Zionist fund-raising totalled 2,250,000 pounds, exceeding by 100,000 pounds the 1954 total. Since the State of Israel was established in 1948, he said, British Jewry has raised 18,000,000 pounds, which amounts to about eight percent of the total contributed by world Jewry.
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