“Israel has no more vital task than to establish relations of mutual tolerance with the neighboring Arab states, on the basis of the full political and territorial integrity of Israel within the shelter of the U.N. Charter,” Aubrey S. Eban, chief Israeli representative to the United Nations, told a conference of leaders of 75 Jewish communities from 25 states attending a United Jewish Appeal conference here.
Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, national U.J.A. chairman, emphasized that “even while it proceeds with its vast emigration program, the Joint Distribution Committee must keep up its extensive program of relief and institutional care for the sick, the young and the aged.” Julian B. Venezky, of Peoria, national chairman for Regions for the U.J.A., told the meeting that “the historic opportunities that exist in 1949 for ending the homelessness of hundreds of thousands and placing the Jews in Europe on the road to recovery may be lost if the Jews of the United States fail to respond on the highest level to the $250,000,000 campaign of the U.J.A.”
Messages outlining the critical needs of the U.J.A.-supported agencies were received from Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, European chairman of the J.D.C., and David Namer, U.S. representative of the immigration department of the Jewish Agency.
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