Samuel Rothberg, national campaign chairman, and Louis H. Boyar. chairman of the board of governors of the Israel Bond Organization, returned last night from Israel where they held emergency discussions with Prime Minister Levi Eshkol on the extraordinary economic burdens of the present crisis. In a statement calling for an immediate and unparalleled outpouring of economic support, the Israel Bond leaders reported that the State of Israel was looking to American Jewry “to bolster its beleaguered economy in a period of gravest challenge and danger.”
“The outbreak of hostilities has placed the future existence of Israel in jeopardy,” Mr. Rothberg and Mr. Boyar declared. “Through the Israel Bond Organization American Jewry has provided the sinews of economic growth and development during the past sixteen years. At this critical time we must redouble our efforts and our sales of Israel Bonds to preserve the country’s economic gains and to help its economic structure sustain the severe stresses and losses of the present situation.”
Messrs. Rothberg and Boyar added that in their conferences with the Israeli Prime Minister, they pledged themselves and the Israel Bond Organization to a full-scale effort on a maximum basis to enlist a record number of individuals in a special drive to maintain Israel’s economic strength during the current emergency.
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