An appeal to American Jewry to help Israel cope with its rising tide of immigration was issued today by Samuel H.Daroff, president of the American Jewish League for Israel at a board meeting here.
Mr. Daroff, who was a member of the United Jewish Appeal study mission which recently toured Europe and which took part in the UJA jubilee celebration in Israel, reported on the mission’s experiences. He stressed visits paid to former great Jewish centers in Poland where only “pitiful” remnants now remain. In Israel, he said the mission was gratified to see the implementation of projects which the help of the UJA in this country had helped bring to fruition.
Mrs. Rose L. Halprin, chairman of the American section of the Jewish Agency, and co-chairman of the World Confederation of General Zionists, of which the League is an affiliate, reported on recent meetings of the Agency in Jerusalem and on problems facing Israel.
Izhar Harari, member of Israel’s Parliament and of the Israeli delegation to the United Nations, spoke at the luncheon session. He drew a parallel between the menace to the western hemisphere created by the Soviet bombers in Cuba and the threat to the peace in the Middle East from missiles in Egypt. Samuel Rothstein discussed the problems of strengthening the Zionist movement in the United States.
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