Five dunams in Palestine will be purchased through a contribution from the Governor of New York State.
Governor Lehman has contributed $250 for the purchase of land in Kfar Ussishkin, the new colony which will be established in Palestine in honor of Menachem Ussishkin’s seventieth anniversary, according to an announcement yesterday by Rabbi Israel Goldstein, president of the Jewish National Fund.
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