“The current year is showing a 25 percent increase over 1952 in the export of Israel’s industrial products, ” Joseph Cherner, noted Jewish communal leader, reported today on his arrival here aboard the steamship United States, after spending the past two months in Israel.
Mr. Cherner, a member of the national Board of Governors of the State of Israel Bond organization, and formerly chairman of its Washington campaign, pointed out that the increase in exports had been achieved “after Israel’s gainfully employed had risen to over half a million people, almost as much as the total population five years ago.” He added that a majority of these persons are employed “in new industrial and agricultural enterprises which have been established in every part of Israel with the support of funds derived from the Israel Bond Issue.”
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