Delegates to the 52nd annual convention of Hadassah adopted a $8,240,000 quota for the organization’s 1966-67 programs in Israel, budgeted $1,679,125 for its United States activities and reelected Mrs. Mortimer Jacobson to a third one-year term as president at the closing session of the convention here today.
The quota for the Israeli programs included $3,740,000 for the Hadassah Medical Organization, $2,100,000 for Youth Aliyah, $1,000,000 for the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, $700,000 for the Jewish National Fund, $600,000 for Hadassah’s vocational education program, and $100,000 for Hadassah supplies. The 2,000 delegates also voted a series of resolutions covering foreign aid, civil rights and the problem of the Arab refugees.
The resolution on United States foreign aid endorsed legislation designed to continue the provisions of Public Law 480, recognizing “the great role” the law had in the past and its potential in helping to solve the growing world food crisis. PL 480 covers the United States “Food for Peace” program.
The resolution on civil rights noted that Hadassah was on record in support of national legislation guaranteeing equality in voting, education, housing, employment and public accommodations to all American without regard to color, race, or country of origin. The resolution endorsed and supported passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1966 now before Congress.
The resolution on the Arab refugees called on the United Nations Works and Relief Agency to withhold rations from the Arab refugees “who are being trained for aggression against the people of a member state of the United Nations.” The resolution added that “Hadassah’s long experience in Israel, through our medical, Youth Aliyah and vocational training programs, has convinced us that refugees can become creative, self-supporting citizens of new countries, contributing to their peaceful development.”
Mrs. D. Leonard Cohen, of New York, Hadassah’s chairman for vocational education, told the convention that Hadassah has voted a $500,000 program for converting the Alice Seligsberg vocational high school in Jerusalem into the first big city comprehensive high school in Israel. She said the goal of the conversion of the school was to make it possible “for the diverse population in our schools to become an integrated community by learning its skills together, whatever the initial capacity the children bring to their training.”
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