An appeal to American Jewish workers to give maximum support to the Israel Bond drive was made here last night by Mrs. Golda Myerson, Israel’s Minister of Labor, at a Bond rally held by the Workmen’s Circle, largest Jewish fraternal organization in the United States. More than 1,000 persons attended the gathering.
“The dollars already realized from American investments in State of Israel Bonds have given a big lift to the industrialization program that will make Israel economically self-sufficient within the next few years,” Mrs. Myerson said. Declaring that the people of Israel are making “every possible sacrifice today in order to achieve economic independence tomorrow,” she added: “We have no alternative except to win–our people have no place else to go. We ask you not to sympathize with us but to trust us so we won’t need sympathy in the future.”
Speaking for the Workmen’s Circle, Leon Arkin, national president of the organization, pledged that “the 75,000 members of the organization’s branches throughout the United States will continue to be in the forefront of the Israel Bond drive, which is the most important instrument for achieving Israel’s economic emancipation.” Other speakers at the meeting included Henry Montor, vice-president of the American Financial and Development Corporation for Israel, which directs the Israel Bond issue in the United States, and Benjamin Gebiner, assistant general secretary of the Workmen’s Circle.
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