Membership in Pioneer Women, the women’s Labor Zionist organization of America, has increased by 4,000 in the past two years and the number of its local chapters had increased by 19, Mrs. Rose Kaufman, national president, reported to the organization’s 20th national biennial convention here today.
She told the 600 delegates present that, in the past two years, Pioneer Women had raised $200,000 for Jewish educational and youth work in this country in addition to the $3,500,000 it had raised for Israel purposes. The organization, she said, had sold over $8,000,000 in Israel bonds since the last convention, bringing to over $30 million the total it had sold since the first Israel Bond campaign.
Mrs. Lea Rabin, wife of Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Rabin, chief of staff of the Israel defense forces, told the convention that “when war was at stake, everybody in Israel felt that it was a simple question of live or die, to be or not to be, and, with a great desire to live, the nation stood up against this threat — one body, one heart, one soul.”
I.L. Kenan, executive director of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, told the convention that the United Nations could make its greatest contribution to peace by calling on Israel and the Arab states to sit down together to talk.
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