Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir of Israel called on Jews throughout the world today to implement a four-point program of aid to the Jewish State to assist it to make good the enormous losses it incurred as a result of the national mobilization for the war effort and the cost of the war itself.
Speaking to Parliament last night on his return from the United States and introducing a bill empowering the Government to use the income from special loans and taxes for defense purposes, Mr. Sapir outlined the program which he said the Jews of the world should shoulder.
The first charge on the Jews of the world, he said, should be to increase markets everywhere for the products of Israel. The second charge should be to increase investment in Israel. The third duty should be to strengthen Israel’s industry by lending it the technical know how so many Jews had acquired in various areas. The fourth duty, he said, should be immigration.
Mr. Sapir said a new era of greatly augmented production for export was ahead of Israel now. He declared that priority had to be given to the development of a reunited Jerusalem, to the repair of war damages and to making up the production lost during the period of hostilities when such a great proportion of Israel’s manpower was mobilized for military service.
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