Representatives from seven European countries, plus observers from Britain, concluded here today the second European Conference of Bonds for Israel, by pledging to sell $7, 500, 000 worth of bonds in the European lands in 1966. Moshe Galli, European director for the Bonds organization, assured the conference that the goal could be reached. He reported that, in France alone, $1, 000, 000 worth of Israel Bonds had been sold in 1965.
Baron Edmond de Rothschild, president of the European Conference, and Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, of New York, executive vice-president of Bonds for Israel, participated in the discussions, as well as Joseph Burg, Israel’s Minister for Welfare. The delegates represented sections of the Bonds organization in France, Belgium, West Germany, Holland, Austria, Switzerland and Italy.
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