The national jubilee conference of the Jewish National Fund concluded here today after the adoption of resolutions pledging the organization to complete the draining of the Huleh swamp from which Israel will obtain 15,000 acres of arable land and to widen the scope of the projected “Forest of Six Million.” planted in memory of the Jews martyred in Europe by the Nazis.
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