Stimulation of a “lend lease of human resources” from America to assist the state of Israel in integrating hundreds of thousands of new immigrants and strengthening its economy was proposed by Rabbi Samuel Wohl of Cincinnati this week-end at the Second National Assembly for Labor Israel.
Speaking before more than 300 delegates who came from all over the United States, Rabbi Wohl, chairman of the Assembly, declared that American skill and “knowhow” are indispensable for the greater absorption, the progress and the rapid development of Israel. He proposed that Americans with the necessary skills go to Israel for a year or two to help Israel “provide opportunities for bread and work,” and to establish educational, religious and cultural institutions.
Israel Ambassador Abba S. Eban, who was scheduled to deliver the keynote address, was unable to attend and was replaced by Avraham Harman of the Israel legation in this city, who described developments in the Jewish state and stressed the contribution of American Jews to Israel and the development of its institutions. In a message to the heeting, Ambassador Eban said that “it is a source of encouragement and inspiration to us to feel that the spontaneous sympathy of the American people which attended Israel in its struggle for physical survival and political recognition continues to abide with us.”
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