The first contingent of business and communal leaders left today from Idlewild on El Al planes to take part in the Israel Bond Leaders Conference in Israel to consider plans for its economic development in the coming decade.
More than 450 Jewish leaders from the United States, Canada and Latin America will convene in Jerusalem this Tuesday for a ten-day conference and survey of Israel’s economic achievements and needs. The conference is being held in Israel at the invitation of Prime Minister Ben-Gurion and Finance Minister Levi Eshkol to enable its people to share in the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Israel Bond Organization.
Among the American leaders who head the conference delegation are Abraham Fein-berg, president of the Israel Bond Organization; Ira Guilden, national campaign chairman; Dr. Joseph J.Schwartz; Lawrence G. Laskey, of Boston, chairman of the national executive committee; and others. Israel leaders who will address the sessions are President Ben-Zvi, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, Finance Minister Eshkol, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, and other members of the cabinet, as well as leading financial and economic experts.
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