More than 800 delegates representing New England Jewish communities and leading organizations affiliated with the land program in Israel pledged to help support the newest Jewish National Fund project in Israel–the Adullam Development–at the annual “Land for Israel” conference of the New England Jewish National Fund held here yesterday.
New England will help raise funds to reclaim 100, 000 dunams of land in Israel and to establish 17 villages in this Jerusalem border area and to provide housing and employment for thousands of immigrants arriving daily in Israel. Mendel H. Fisher of New York, executive director of the Jewish National Fund, addressing the session, reported that U.S. Jewry contributed $225, 000, 000 for land purchase and land development since the JNF began.
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