A plan calling for the establishment of a $150,000 fund to be used for the maintenance of Jewish schools in principal cities in the United States was approved today at the closing session of the 13th triennial convention of the Jewish National Workers Alliance. In another resolution, the delegates decided to plant a forest on Jewish National Fund land in Israel to be named “Forest of the Heroes,” in memory of Israel troops who died in the fighting last year.
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