The Council of Jewish Organizations, the landsmans-chaften division of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York, voted here today, at the conclusion of a convention marking the UJA’s 25th anniversary, to “double this year’s contributions to the UJA” and make those contributions “commensurate with the needs.” The parley was the first ever held by the Council in Israel.
Previously, the convention announced plans for the establishment of 200 projects in Israel in the next five years. These projects, similar to 200 others already inaugurated by the Council, will comprise centers for new immigrants, such as synagogues, libraries, homes for the aged and mother-child clinics. They will be named after European communities destroyed during the Nazi holocaust, serving as memorials to those communities.
The resolution calling for doubling the total contributions declared that the centers will be highly important for integration of new immigrants in Israel and for rehabilitation of newcomers. Among the speakers at the conference were the president of the Council, Ossip Wolinsky; S.Z. Shragai, head of the Jewish Agency’s immigration department; and Yosef Almogi, Minister of Housing and Development in Israel.
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