Hadassah’s programs for Israel and the United States for the coming years will be formulated at the 49th annual national convention of the organization which will open next Sunday at the Sheraton Park Hotel here.
The convention, which will last four days, will be attended by more than 2,000 delegates representing 318,000 members in 1,320 chapters. Mrs. Rose L. Halprin, convention chairman and former president, said the agenda will cover Zionism in America, Jewish education, the welfare of Jews in other countries, civil rights, foreign aid and United States foreign policy.
Mrs. Siegfried Kramarsky, Hadassah president, will analyze major problems on the American and international scenes when she addresses the opening convention session Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Halprin will deliver the keynote address. Senators Hubert Humphrey, D. Minn., and Jacob K. Javits, R., N. Y., will speak on American foreign policy and the Middle East at the plenary session Sunday night. Dr. Albert Sabin, discoverer of the oral polio vaccine, will receive the Henrietta Szold award, which includes a gift of $1,000.
W. Averell Harriman, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, and Avraham Harman, Israel Ambassador to the United States, will speak at the convention banquet Tuesday. Mr. Harriman will appraise “The Test Ban Treaty and its Significance to Soviet Objectives and the Sino-Soviet Rift.” Ambassador Harman will discuss Israel against the background of the current situation in the Middle East. Other speakers will include Sargent Shriver, director of the Peace Corps; Yitzhak Raphael Israel’s Deputy Health Minister; Dr. Kalman J. Mann, director-general of the Hadassah Medical Organization in Israel; Mrs. Zena Harman, chairman of the Program Committee for UNICEF, and Eleazer Lipsky, president of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The largest Zionist organization in the world today, Hadassah spends more than $9,000,000 annually on its undertakings. In Israel, Hadassah conducts a comprehensive health, education and social welfare program. In the United States, Hadassah conducts an intensive American Affairs program, through which Hadassah members are kept informed on vital community, state, national and international developments. In addition, Hadassah interprets Israel and its people to the American public and helps foster creative Jewish living through education.
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