Some 200 communal leaders from ten eastern states formulated plans at a meeting here for the creation of a National Commission for Jewish National Fund Councils, it was announced here today. The new Commission, which was designed to broaden and intensify the scope of JNF endeavors throughout the United States, will consist of representatives of Jewish communities, large and small, throughout the nation.
The Commission is expected to serve as an effective instrument in the creation of new councils in communities where JNF councils do not exist, and in bolstering and supervising council activities in communities where they do exist, it was explained in a statement issued.
Dr. Milton Aron, JNF national director, informed the delegates that “the current and pressing goal of the Jewish National Fund is the reclamation of 13,000 dunams — about 3,250 acres — of land at Yakinton, the new JNF development site along Israel’s border with Lebanon.” He expressed his confidence that American Jewry, through the Jewish National Fund, would meet the challenge posed by the need to develop a new settlement in this “forbidding region, which is now an open invitation to marauders crossing the border to harass peaceful Israeli citizens.”
Dr. Aron revealed that the thirty-one sections of Yakinton are being allocated to Jewish communities throughout the United States with the understanding that each community will mobilize sufficient funds for reclaiming and developing of its own sector of Yakinton.
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