The sum of $250,000 for the United Jewish Appeal was pledged here today by 500 women attending a luncheon at the Hotel Pierre, addressed by Golda Myerson, Israel’s Minister of Labor.
Mrs. Myerson urged fulfillment of the United Jewish Appeal’s national goal of $15,500,000 for 1952. One of Israel’s most heart-breaking problems is “that we don’t get enough dollars in time,” she stated. Israel needs hard currency–principally dollars–to obtain on the world market food and other supplies to sustain its people through their present difficulties and to carry on industrial and agricultural expansion.
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