Brigadier General Chaim Laskov, commanding general of Israel’s Southern Defense Force, and a leading figure in Israel’s security operations in the Sinai Peninsula, arrives in the United States today to tour this country in behalf of the United Jewish Appeal’s $100, 000, 000 Emergency Rescue Fund and regular 1957 UJA campaign.
General Laskov is Israel’s first top-echelon military commander to visit this country since the end of his country’s defense measures against Egypt last fall. He is here on a purely humanitarian mission to arouse American Jewish support for the Jewish refugees from Egypt, Hungary, Eastern Europe and North Africa still waiting in crowded European refugee centers for transportation and resettlement in Israel, the United States and other free countries or already settled in free countries.
As commander of the Southern Defense Force, General Laskov is charged with the security of an area which includes the Negev, where most of the new influx of Jewish refugees is being resettled. It is because of his intimate knowledge of and concern about the problems of resettlement that he is making a tour of U.S. communities for the UJA. At 38, General Laskov is one of Israel’s youngest commanders.
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