Israel’s economic requirements for the immediate future will be studied and reviewed by 300 Jewish leaders from 59 communities in the United States and Canada who will attend the Israel Bond Prime Minister’s Conference in Israel and Paris Jan. 27 to Feb. 3. Sam Rothberg, president of the Israel Bond Organization, who mode the announcement, said he would urge the conference to set a goal of providing Israel with $525 million in 1980. This sum, he said, would exceed the record-breaking year of 1973, the year of the Yom Kippur War, when the Bond Organization produced $515 million for Israel’s economy.
While in Israel, the delegates will visit the new Negev development projects and meet with industrial and political leaders in the Negev to discuss programs now being put into effect. They will also participate in ceremonies dedicating the new plants and factories to be built in the Negev in order to absorb thousands of newcomers in the years ahead.
Meetings with European Bond leaders will be held during a three-day stopover in Paris, Jan. 28-30, prior to arrival in Israel. In Paris, the delegates will participate in a ceremony at the Memorial of the Martyrs and visit the Rothschild Synagogue for a service conducted by Grand Rabbi Jacob Kaplan. There will be ceremonies in honor of Alfred Dreyfus, the French-Jewish officer who had been falsely accused of treason in 1892 and finally exonerated.
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