The coming year will bring great tasks to the Zionist movement and will comfort Israel and the Zionist movement with both great dangers and major opportunities, the Jewish Agency declared here today in a Rosh Hashanah message to the Jews of the world.
The coming year “will be fateful for the Zionist movement,” the message said, because of the mass immigration to Israel and the agricultural settlement which must be carried through on a major scale in the Jewish State. The Zionist movement and the State of Israel will “face great tasks to which every citizen of Israel and every Jew throughout the world will be compelled to lend a shoulder,” the statement said, noting that one of the most important tasks to be carried out is the movement of Jews from North Africa to Israel.
Enumerating the achievements of the Jewish Agency in the fields of immigration and settlement in Israel and in promoting Jewish culture everywhere, the New Year’s message said: “We are entering a New Year in the full awareness of the heavy responsibility resting on us and in the faith that the Zionist movement will fulfill the nation’s mission and every Zionist will strive for the great deeds uniting us. We pray that the New Year will be entered in the history of Israel and of our movement and nation as a blessed year of achievement and peace.”
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