A quota of $500,000 for emergency aid to Jewish child refugess in Israel was adopted here today at the concluding session of the Eastern Conference of the Mizrachi Women’s Organization of America. More than 300 delegates voted the sum for emergency aid after hearing Dr. Naham Goldmann, chairman of the American section of the Jewish Agency.
Dr. Goldmann, who returned three weeks ago from Israel, warned the delegates that curtailmant of immigration “could be the tragic result” if funds from the United States are not increased greatly. He revealed that funds originally earmarked for absorption of new immigrants by the Jewish state were endangered by “the urgent necessity for Israel to spend large amounts of money on rearmament in view of the armament of the Arab states.”
Calling for increased American support of the Jewish state, he declared: “The pressure for immigration is building up. Iraq has announced her willingness to let a number of its Jews emigrate; these Jews must be saved now or not at all. The same situation applies to thousands of Jews from Poland and other Eastern European countries and to other thousands from North Africa. The key to Israel’s gates no longer rests in the hands of either the Israel Government or the Jewish Agency; it lies in the hands of the contributors to the United Jewish Appeal. And more U.J.A. dollars mean not only more immigrants.”
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