Dr. Harris J. Levine, president of the Jewish National Fund of America, was today elected for the fifth consecutive term at the annual meeting at the Biltmore Hotel here. With him was elected a board of directors consisting of prominent Zionist leaders. It was supplemented by 12 members-at-large representing a cross-section of Jewish community life in America.
Referring to the massacre in the Negev which cost the lives of 11 Jews traveling from the port city of Elath, on the furthermost tip of Israel’s Southern Desert, to Beersheba, Dr. Levine said that “the most recent Arab outrage against Israel will not stop us from carrying out our land-development program in the Negev, which we began before the establishment of the State of Israel and which we are resolved to continue until the vast area is dotted with Jewish settlements.”
Mendel N. Fisher, executive director, in rendering the financial report, announced that the sum of $200, 000, 000 has been raised in the United States by the Fund since its inception 53 years ago. Much of the money, he said, was contributed in dollar bills, quarters and even dimes and nickels through popular collections and through the blue-white JNF box which has been distributed in half a million homes throughout the United States.
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