The challenges and opportunities offered to American Jews who wish to become active participants through personal immigration to Israel in “the exciting venture of the upbuilding of democratic Israel” were thoroughly discussed in an all-day annual assembly of Bnai Aliyah of the Zionist Organization of America held today. All aspects of the question of aliyah from Western countries, such as economic opportunities for middle class professional and technical workers and housing were reviewed by authorities in their respective fields.
Bnai Aliyah is a Fellowship of ZOA members who are personally planning to settle in Israel or whose relatives are planning to do so as well as those whose children, parents, brothers or sisters have already settled in Israel.
Speakers included Yehuda Goldenberg, representative of the Economic Department of the Jewish Agency of Jerusalem; Carl Allentuck, director of the Office for Professional Workers (PATWA) of the Jewish Agency in New York; Rabbi David Weingerten, director of the Aliyah Department of the Jewish Agency in New York; Jacob Snyder, national sales director of Rassco Israel Corporation; Hy Kalus, an American film producer who settled in Israel where he is now acclaimed as one of the leading stage directors in that country, and Jacob M. Dinnes, chairman of the National Aliyah Committee of the ZOA. Samuel Wigder, chairman of Bnai Aliyah, presided.
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