Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir and Finance Minister Levi Eshkol will discuss Israel’s economic needs during the next five years at the National Economic Conference for Israel, which opens in Chicago on Friday under the auspices of the State of Israel Bond Organization, Dr. Joseph J Schwartz, vice president of the organization, announced here today.
More than 800 Jewish businessmen and communal leaders from the United States and Canada will attend the conference, which will inaugurate the Fall phase of the 1959 campaign to sell $75,000,000 in Israel bonds. The gathering will also mark the attainment of a peak of $400,000,000 in bond sales since the first issue was floated in 1951.
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