Samuel Bronfman today announced that the Canada-wide goal for the Israel Emergency Campaign has been set at $20,000,000. “Money is desperately needed,” Mr. Bronfman stated, “to help maintain health and welfare services which have been weakened by the dislocation of the economic life of the Israeli people.” Mr. Bronfman called on Canadian Jewry to help solve part of the present economic tensions in Israel by giving to their utmost to the welfare agencies by self-imposed taxation and sacrificial giving.
In Toronto, the Coordinating Committee for Israel’s Survival was established at a meeting of Jewish community leaders representing Canadian Jewish Congress, Federated Zionist Organization of Canada and the United Jewish Welfare Fund. The Committee will lead and coordinate a “total community effort” to give moral and material assistance to the people of Israel and help raise funds for their health and welfare needs “at a time of desperate urgency.” Ray D. Wolfe was elected chairman, with Meyer W. Gasner and Julius Hayman as vice-chairmen. The Committee endorsed the current major drive for funds being conducted by the United Jewish Welfare Fund.
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