The Jewish National Fund has announced that it will conduct a special fund-raising campaign throughout the world to finance a forest that will be planted outside of Jerusalem in honor of President Zalman Shazar on the occasion of his recent 80th birthday. The project was endorsed in a resolution signed by Premier Golda Meir; Louis A. Pincus, Jewish Agency chairman; Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of Keren Hayesod; and Jacob Tsur, president of the JNF.
The JNF said also that it has planted more trees in the Judaea-Samaria districts (West Bank) in the past two years than the Jordanian Government did in 15 years. According to the JNF, two million saplings were planted in the region and hundreds of Arab workers were employed in the afforestation projects.
A European conference of the JNF will be held in Paris this weekend. About 15 delegates from 13 countries are expected to participate in planning JNF activities for the year ahead. The delegates will represented JNF branches in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Britain, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, West Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. A delegation is also expected from Iran.
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