Leaders of Hadassah today urged Secretary of State Dulles to “give urgent consideration” to launching a “Marshall Plan” for the Middle East as a means of developing the area and curbing the Communist menace there. This action was taken in a resolution adopted unanimously at Hadassah’s Mid-Winter Conference which is attended by more than 250 leaders from all parts of the country, representing the organization’s 315,000 members.
The resolution also urged that “efforts should be made to reconcile the major conflicts in the Middle East through arranging for direct negotiations honorably conducted by the parties directly concerned. ” The resolution is being forwarded to Mr. Dulles at the State Department.
Mrs. A. P. Schoolman, Hadassah’s national Youth Aliyah chairman, announced that twelve havens to be named in memory of Anne Frank, who perished at the hands of the Nazis in World War II, will be established in Israel this year by Hadassah for Youth Aliyah, international agency for relief and rehabilitation of homeless Jewish children. The Anne Frank havens will enable Youth Aliyah to accommodate Jewish children from Poland, Hungary and North Africa, between the ages of seven to twelve years.
Mrs. Schoolman said that the twelve Anne Frank havens–each of which will have dormitory, classroom and recreational facilities–will cost more than $300,000. She disclosed that Hadassah, the official representative of Youth Aliyah in the United States, is sending $100,000 to Israel immediately so that construction of the first four havens can get under way without delay. She added that the $300,000 for the Anne Frank havens will be in addition to the $2,100,000 Hadassah has budgeted for Youth Aliyah this year.
Mrs. Nathan D. Perlman, national chairman of Hadassah’s vocational educational committee, announced that a special two-year course for training laboratory assistants is being inaugurated at the Alice L. Seligsberg High School for Girls in Jerusalem. She said that the course is being instituted to help meet the current shortage of laboratory assistants in Israel, She also noted that this is the first time that adult education is being offered at the Hadassah school. In addition, Mrs.Perlman disclosed, another special two-year course is being offered at the Seligsberg High School to train vocational education teachers.
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