More than 2,500 delegates and guests, representing Hadassah’s 315,000 members throughout the United States, will attend the 44th annual convention of the Hadassah organization, which opens here this week-end. The convention will last four days.
Hadassah’s program for the next twelve months, embracing its manifold activities in the United States and Israel, will be formulated at the convention, according to an announcement here today. Also high on the agenda will be a discussion of United States foreign policy and international affairs with special emphasis on latest developments in the Middle East. A highlight of the convention will be a special report by Dr. Miriam K. Freund, national president of Hadassah, who will also outline Hadassah’s plans for the future.
Other speakers will include Israel Ambassador Abba Eban, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Israel and of the World Zionist Organization, who will discuss the situation of World Jewry today; Dr. Kalman J. Mann, director-general of the Hadassah Medical Organization in Israel, who will report on Hadassah’s medical work in Israel; and Moshe Kol, world head of Youth Aliyah, international agency for the relief of underprivileged Jewish children and their rehabilitation in Israel, who will speak on youth problems. Hadassah is the official representative of Youth Aliyah in the United States. The largest Zionist group in the world today, Hadassah spends $9,000,000 a year on its activities.
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