Leaders from all major Jewish communities in the United States arrived here today for the three-day Golden Jubilee conference of the Jewish National Fund, which opens tomorrow to discuss a ten-year J.N.F. program presented by Dr. Abraham Granott, world president of the organization, who came to this country for the conference.
The “blueprint” of the ten-year program includes a vast irrigation project in the Negev; an afforestation plan involving the planting of 100,000,000 trees; the draining of the Huleh Basin in Galilee; the building of 200,000 housing units; and a vast land cultivation scheme that will double the agricultural output of the country. The estimated capital outlay for this program is about $500,000,000.
The historic achievements of the Jewish National Fund, as well as its plans for the future, are recounted in a call issued today by the J.N.F. to all Jewish communities and groups in the United States. It points out that for decades the J.N.F. has been the platform on which all Zionist groups in America, what their divisions and differences of opinion, have met in a common effort.
“This total unity of the Zionist movement in support of the J.N.F. is demonstrated by the fact that the top leadership of every Zionist group in this country will attend the conference,” the statement says.
The American section of the Jewish Agency last night tendered a reception for Dr. Granott. Distinguished leaders of American Jewry and representatives of the Government of Israel were among the guests who heard Dr. Nahum Goldmann speak on the important role which Dr. Granott has been playing in promoting the agricultural development of the Jewish state.
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