Michael Comay, Israel’s Ambassador to Ottawa, in an address at the 33rd national convention of the Zionist Organization of Canada, appealed to the Canadian Government to display the same statesmanship now that it showed at the time of the time of the creation of the Jewish State. Canada, he continued, should endorse Israel’s need for arms and a Western alliance and should bring its “strong influence” to bear among its allies before it is too late to avert an explosion, “the global consequences of which no one can anticipate.”
The delegates elected Michael Garber of Montreal president of the ZOC, to succeed Edward E. Gelber, who went to live in Israel after nearly six years of service as head of the organization. The convention urged the appointment of Mr. Gelber to the Jewish Agency executive and instructed its delegates to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem next month to press Mr. Gelber’s candidacy. Mr. Gelber was also named honorary president of the ZOC.
An all-out effort to reach the minimum Israel bond sales goal set for this year for Canadian Jewry, $4,500,000, was urged in a resolution adopted at the closing session. The convention also voiced its approval of the establishment of a Canada Forest by the Jewish National Fund of Canada at Ein Karem, a suburb of Jerusalem, and pledged Canadian Jewry’s contribution of 250,000 trees within two years.
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