The United States was urged today to revoke restrictions on travel to Israel and other Middle East countries, imposed when Israel launched the Sinai campaign, in a resolution adopted at the closing session of the Hadassell mid-winter conference. The resolution to be sent to Secretary of State John Foster Dufles, declared that “the restraint on travel by Americans to Israel is an unreasonable burden on American citizens and is contrary to the American tradition of freedom of travel.”
in another resolution, the Hadassah conference urged the United States to “exert the maximum moral pressure upon the Government of Egypt” to halt its “deliberate policy” of anti-Jewish acts. The resolution accused Egypt of expulsion of Jews and confiscation of Jewish property and calculated terrorization of deportees through the detention of hostages.”
Dr. Miriam Freund, Hadassah president, announced that Hadassah will seek to raise $10,000,000 in 1957, $500,000 more than the 1956 goal. A $2,300,000 goal for Youth Aliyah for 1957 has been set, Mrs. A. P. Schoolman, national chairman of Hadassah’s Youth Aliyah committee .reported
Mrs. Herman Shuiman, former Hadassah president, announced at a session that the organization will conduct a “pilgrimage to Israel” in June, 1958 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish State. She said negotiations were under way with ZIM the Israel navigation company, to charter the S. S. Theodor Herzl, now being built in Hamburg, Germany, for the voyage. She said more than 500 Hadassah leaders would participate.
The Henrietta Szoid Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service, which includes a gift of $1,000, was presented by Mr. Shulman to Louis Lipsky, honorary chairman of the American Zionist Council. Mr. Lipsky, in accepting the award, denounced “the peculiarly bizarre, incomprehensible words and actions” of the United States in dealing with the Israel Arab problem.
The delegates were told of “virulent anti-Semitism” among Hungarian refugees now in Austria by Zev Weiss, Youth Aliyah executive member. Asserting that “alarming numbers of Hungarian refugees now in Austria are anti-Semitic,” Mr. Weiss said that the problem became so acute a few weeks ago, “that the Austrian police had to issue a warning that such excesses against Jews would not be tolerated.” Despite the warning, bott verbal and physical assaults took place and the Hungarian Jewish refugees “were placed in a separate camp for their own protection, ” he reported.
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