Emergency action to help the distressed immigrants in the Israel camps was started today by the Federation of Jewish Relief Organizations following an urgent appeal from Mrs. Shoshanna Persitz, the Federations’ honorary representative in Israel.
Mrs. Persitz, in a detailed report, movingly described the plight of the newcomers living in flooded, collapsing tents of the camp-villages. “We have to deal with more than 150,000 naked or almost nakod people in the camps and elsewhere,” the report stated. “They have absolutely nothing. They need everything.”
The Federation recently joined with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad in starting a campaign to collect clothing for the immigrants in Israel. It will immediately send 12 crates of clothing and has purchased three tons of shoes and begun a special collection among Jewish clothiors asking them to donate surplus stocks. An appeal has been cabled to Australia by Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie, asking that a similar drive be conducted there.
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