Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller proclaimed today as “Child’s Day for Youth Aliyah” in honor of the agency that has “brought to Israel more than 130,000 uprooted Jewish children” since 1934.
In his proclamation, Gov. Rockefeller lauded the Youth Aliyah program for “working to help rescue additional thousands of Jewish children still waiting for a chance to rebuild their lives in the freedom and security of Israel.”
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