Israeli President Ephraim Katzir greeted the Jewish National Fund, which has just concluded its triennial national assembly here with an expression of “confident hope that you will enable Keren Kayemeth to perform its daily achievement in land amelioration, strategic road building and greening of the wilderness till in the prophet’s words, ‘the desolate land becomes the Garden of Eden and the people of Israel are redeemed.”
Mrs. Charlotte Jacobson, chairman, American Section of the World Zionist Organization, expressed her appreciation of the JNF’s activities by stating: “The settlements, the roads, the forests and the groves created by the JNF helped determine the borders of the State of Israel twenty-six years ago, and they contributed significantly to the security of Israel during the Yom Kippur War. Access roads, such as that to the top of Mt. Hermon, were decisive in making it possible to repel the Syrian attack across the Golan Heights. And though the war is over, JNF still has its original peacetime role to fulfill; the redemption and reclamation of land that does not attract private buyers.”
Abram Salomon, JNF executive vice-president, announced that this summer the JNF Youth and Education Dept. plans to visit some 200 summer, camps with American-Israeli caravans of entertainers bringing the message of Israel. He also disclosed to the Assembly that the intake from traditional and foundation JNF endeavors for the year ending Sept. 30, 1973 was derived from 1480 localities across the nation, not 480 as previously reported.
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