One of the greatest concentrations of Jewish community leadership ever to take place in Canada will take place here on Sunday, April 3, at a conference on fundraising: which is being convened by the National Fundraising Council under the co-chairmanship of Samuel Bronfman, Canadian Jewish Congress president and Lawrence Freiman, Zionist Organization of Canada president, it was announced today.
The conference will seek pledges of increased financial commitments for 1960 from every campaign in Canada. The conference is one of the first major results of the recent Canada-Israel Mission. It implements one of the three key resolutions adopted by members of the Mission to step up fundraising efforts on behalf of the United Israel Appeal and the United Jewish Relief Agencies in view of the proven need for funds to re-settle 10,000 immigrant families still living in the primitive ma’aboroth, to consolidate existing agricultural settlements and to establish new settlements in the Negev and elsewhere.
A preliminary to the conference will be a meeting in connection with the formulation of a proposed investment in Israel enterprises. The initial sum of investment capital sought is $5,000,000. The establishing of the investment corporation was approved in principle by the Canada-Israel Mission.
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