The Foundation for the Jewish National Fund has amassed a potential of $20,000,000 in prospective legacies for the afforestation and reclamation of Israel’s soil, Dr. Harris J. Levine, Foundation chairman, announced today.
He also told a meeting of the newly organized Foundation executive committee that the Foundation hoped to raise “within the next decade or so” the sum of $100,000,000 in potential through bequests in wills and the assignment of insurance” to the Foundation. He added that the Foundation would set up local Foundation Councils throughout the United States in an effort to realize those potentials.
Dr. Levine stressed that the JNF was placing “special emphasis on the Foundation because there is a big Job to be done in Israel. We must think, not in terms of from year to year, but in terms of decades. The JNF Foundation,” he added, “is a long-term undertaking and the Jews of America must adopt a long-range point of view in coping with the problem of helping Israel to realize its full potential.”
“We appreciate the life-giving work of the United Jewish Appeal in bringing Jewish immigrants from lands of oppression to the welcoming shores of Israel and in helping to settle them in the Jewish Homeland,” he said. “We recognize the priority of the UJA campaign to mobilize the support of American Jewry for its vital objectives but beyond this urgent problem, there still remains a great task, one of gigantic proportions, the reclamation and development of the 60 per cent of Israel’s territory that is now wasteland, a task that is the sole long-term responsibility of the Jewish National Fund.
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