The new Jewish National Fund film, “From Every Mountainside,” was screened in the Senate yesterday to acquaint Congressmen with the JNF’s current project, the American Bicentennial National Park in Israel. The screening, which was followed by a reception, was co-sponsored by Sen. Richard Schweiker (D. Pa.) and Sen. Gale McGee (D.Wyo.).
In addition to Congressmen, representatives of the Israel Embassy, American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, and leading members of the Washington and Baltimore Jewish communities also attended.
The film surveys a region in the vicinity of Jerusalem which has been a wilderness since Biblical times, which will be converted into a national park including roads, recreation and picnic park areas, new forests, observation posts, and an observation tower atop the highest peak in the southern Judean mountain chain.
The project, which was initiated last year by the JNF of America, will provide an ecological and forestry infrastructure for an entire network of settlements with the township of Belt Shemesh as its center. The park, which will take three years to complete, will be dedicated on July 4 by a delegation of hundreds of American Jewish leaders and top representatives of the U.S. and Israel governments.
Dr. Maurice S. Sage, JNF national president, Meyer Pesin, past president, and Abram Salomon, executive vice-president, addressed the Senate reception, in addition to Schweiker and McGee.
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