Dr. Harris J. Levine was re-elected president of the Jewish National Fund of America at a meeting of the J.N.F. board of directors held at the Biltmore Hotel today.
Declaring that he accepts the unanimous election as a demonstration of confidence on the part of all groups within American Zionism, Dr. Levine announced that in the course of the last 16 years, during which the J.N.F. shared equally in the proceeds of the United Israel Appeal, the Jewish National Fund has collected from all sources in the United States the sum of $175,000,000.
Mendel N. Fisher, executive director of the Jewish National Fund, reporting on the progress made since the last annual meeting, stated that the income of the J.N.F. for the last 12 months was $22,539,000. Surveying the work of the organization, he said Jewish National Fund committees and councils are operating in 1,400 communities in all the 48 states of the Union.
Elias M. Epstein, overseas director of the Jewish National Fund in Jerusalem, summarized the activities of the Fund in the fields of land acquisition, soil amelioration and afforestation. He said the reclamation operations now carried forward by the Jewish National Fund in the Huleh swamp region on the Syrian border are expected to add 60,000 dunams–15,000 acres–of land on which will be established 2,000 farms, whose earnings are eventually expected to reach $10,000,000 a year.
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