Twenty-four school children from 11 American communities left here Saturday on a Chanukah airlift to Israel to distribute toys to children there. The project, an annual one, is sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women as part of its ship-a-box program which also operates in France, India, Iran, Tunisia and Yugoslavia.
Mrs. Melvin Stitch, chairman of the NCJW’s national overseas committee, said that the “child-to-child airlift” will increase the bonds between the children of Israel and America. The American youngsters will personally deliver toys to two kindergartens in Israel, and will turn over the rest to the Ministry of Education for distribution.
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