American Jewish youths from farm communities left today from Idlewild via El Al Airlines for a two month’s study of Israel agricultural settlements. Each has been sent by a farm organization in this country.
Raymond Leon of Colchester, Connecticut, has been sent by the Central Connecticut Cooperative Farmers Association. Vera Goodman, who has just graduated from high school, has been sent by the South Jersey Jewish Poultry Farmers Association, which represents four hundred farmers in the area of Vineland, New Jersey. Michael Lehman, of Pine Beach. New Jersey, the son of a poultry farmer, has been sent by the Toms River Community of Jewish Farmers.
The Jewish Agency hailed the tour as the “initiation of an important interchange between American farm communities and their counterparts in Israel.” The Americans will stay in Israeli middle class settlements like Beth Yitzchak that approximate the American communities from which they come and be quartered with farm families that have sons and daughters of the same age as the U.S. visitors.
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