More than 100 members of the United Jewish Appeal’s “Operation Israel” program received top level briefings yesterday from Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Mayor Toddy Kollek of Jerusalem. The briefings were closed but it was understood that they covered such subjects as the Soviet presence in the Middle East. Israel’s attitude toward President-elect Richard M. Nixon, prospects of the Gunnar V. Jarring peace mission and Israel’s spiraling humanitarian needs.
The UJA group was the first of more than 1,000 American-Jewish leaders who will visit Israel between now and the end of the year in connection with the Israel Emergency Fund drive for 1969. Group leaders are Edward Ginsberg, UJA general chairman, and Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, executive vice chairman. The Emergency Fund campaign was extended for its third year to relieve Israel of its financial burden of many social and humanitarian programs because of the strain on its resources for defense and security needs.
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