A military-agricultural settlement established last year by a group of Orthodox Israeli youth at Mount Gilboa, along the Jezreel Valley border of Jordanian occupied Palestine, has been adopted by the Rabbinical Council of America, it was announced here today by Rabbi Zev Segal, a member of the American Orthodox rabbinical group.
The adoption agreement, signed between the Council and the Jewish National Fund, calls for a first-stage program under which the rabbinical group will, in the next three years, raise $300,000 for the construction of a synagogue and cultural and social center in the settlement. A 50-foot watchtower to guard some of the 3,000,000 trees planted by the JNF in the area will also be built as part of the project.
Yaacov Tzur, chairman of the JNF board, hailed the program of the Rabbinical Council as another in the chain of activities linking Orthodox Jewry in the United States with Israeli projects.
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