Declaring that “a medical school in Palestine is a component part of a program of social welfare that is necessary for the upbuilding of Palestine as a strong, healthy community,” Judge Simon H. Rifkind tonight opened the 1946-47 campaign for a Palestine Medical School jointly sponsored by the American friends of the Hebrew University and Hadassah.
Judge Rifkind spoke at the Harmonie Club at a campaign organizational meeting attended by over a hundred New York communal leaders who pledged themselves to raise $2,000,000 in New York for the medical school, one-half of the national quota of $4,000,000. Presiding at the dinner was Colonel Frederick F. Greenman. Other speakers Were Colonel Harold Riegelman, co-chairman of the national campaign and Mrs. David de Solar Pool, associate chairman of the New York campaign.
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