Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Abba S. Eban was hailed here today by Joseph E. Meyerhoff, general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, for having given a “magnificent impetus” to this year’s UJA campaign for $105, 000, 000. Mr. Eban, who returned last night to Israel, said prior to his departure that he was most impressed on his visit to the United States and Canada by the rise of young leadership in the Jewish communities on the North American continent.
Mr. Eban left here after a month’s stay, during which he visited 12 of the major Jewish communities in this country and Canada, He said he saw in the rise of the young leadership developed by the UJA the most significant change since his last intimate contacts with broad sections of American Jewry five years ago. What impressed him additionally, he said, was the fact that so many of the new young Jewish community leaders, many of whom were too young to have any meaningful contacts with Israel when the State was reborn in 1948, show “an undiminished responsibility for Israel’s future.”
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