In the four years since the establishment of the State of Israel, United Israel Appeal agencies, with the aid of American Jews, spent a total of $595,000,000 for a large-scale program of relief, rehabilitation and resettlement, Rudolf G. Sonneborn, U.I.A. national chairman, reported today to a board of directors meeting.
“The chief aims of our program,” he said, “have been to bring as many needy and persecuted Jews to Israel as quickly as possible and to create for them a productive context in which they could find jobs and security. Positive achievements during the past four years are, in a very great measure, the product of American Jews’support of the nationwide United Jewish Appeal campaign, of which the U.I.A. is the major beneficiary.”
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