The Jewish National Fund has raised since its inception 50 years ago, the sum of $200,000,000 in the United States which was spent on redeeming the land of Israel from the waste and preparing it to receive the huge immigration which is now pouring into the country, Dr. Harris J. Levine, president of the Jewish National Fund of America, told the delegates to the annual convention of the Zionist Organization today at a special session devoted to J.N.F. activities.
Supplementing Dr. Levine’s statement, Mendel N. Fisher, executive director of the J.N.F., reported that within the last 20 months the Fund received over $34,000,000 in income, adding that “the greater popular appeal of the Jewish National Fund is best illustrated by the fact that within the last ten years $23,000,000 was collected from the so-called traditional sources.”
The convention adopted a resolution calling for the reclamation through funds supplied by the Z.O.A. of 6,000 dunams of land in the Huleh swamp region in Northern Israel on the Syrian border, and the establishment on that land of a Z.O.A. colony. The Z.O.A. convention also retified an arrangement made recently by Z.O.A. leaders and to the J.N.F. for the opening of a Z.O.A. Department for Jewish National Fund activities which is to stimulate fund-raising efforts among the Z.O.A. membership for the J.N.F. and its projects.
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