Presenting a Jewish Agency budget for 1973 of $785 million to the United Jewish Appeal annual conference opening here Friday, Leon Dulzin, Jewish Agency Treasurer, will tell the assembled community fund-raising leadership that there are now 18,000 new olim living for six months in the 36 absorption centers throughout Israel.
Praising the UJA and local welfare funds for raising more funds for the Jewish Agency in 1972 than ever before, Dulzin’s report will indicate that “next year we must be prepared to absorb 50,000 new Russian olim, as against 30,000 this year. Our 1973 budget calls for a total aliya of 80,000, as against this year’s 50,000. We will open up seven or eight new absorption centers next year where the new olim will live for six months prior to being settled in permanent housing.”
Dulzin told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today that it costs approximately $35,000 to settle every Russian family that comes to Israel.” This, he said, “is one of the most sacred tasks to which world Jewry has ever committed itself. We must never even permit the possibility, ten or twenty years hence, that it can be said that any Russian Jew wanting to go to Israel was denied that privilege because of lack of funds.”
Dulzin, who came to this country primarily to address the UJA convention, will be here until Dec. 15 to devote himself almost entirely to making campaign speeches throughout the country.
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