The Mizrachi Women’s Organization of America adopted last night a budget of $1,335,000 to meet child-care, social service and vocational education needs in Israel during the next 12 months and to continue its educational and cultural activities in the United States during the coming year. The budget was approved at the organization’s national convention here attended by some 1,000 delegates.
The convention also approved a $350,000 project involving a five-stage effort through the Jewish National Fund to redeem Mount Hazon in Israel’s Galilee to be completed within a three-year period.
The project will include the building of two miles of road to the top of the mountain, which rises to an elevation of 2,000 feet; the planting of a forest of 75,000 trees; the erection of a watchtower at the top of the mountain; the redemption of 125 acres of land and the eventual construction of a recreation park when the area has been developed for settlement by religious settlers.
A special allocation of $25,000 was voted by the delegates to expand the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library in Jerusalem established shortly after the late President’s Assassination.
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