The European conference of the Jewish National Fund here pledged today to raise $1,000,000 in addition to its regular JNF contributions for “Operation Galilee,” the new development program for the central Galilee in Israel, which will cost the JNF an aggregate $11,000,000.
The pledge was made at the conclusion of the two day conference. Of the total of the extra $1,000,000, Great Britain and Ireland will furnish $500,000; France, $100,000; $50,000 each by the JNF in West Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Belgium; and the remainder by JNF sections in other European countries.
The delegates to the conference were guests last night at a dinner tendered for them at Antwerp by P.N. Ferstenberg, president of the JNF in Belgium. Earlier, they were officially received at the Antwerp Town Hall by the Mayor.
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