A goal of $105,000,000 In Israel bond sales for 1966 was set here today at a meeting of the national Board of Governors of the Israel Bond Organization to meet Israel’s economic development needs during the coming year, A total of $91,300,000 in Israel bonds was sold during 1965.
The 1966 campaign will be launched next weekend at the annual Israel Bond Inaugural confer once at which Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel’s former Foreign Minister, will be guest of honor. Other speakers at the conference will include George Meany, president of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, and Ambassador James Roosevelt, a member of the United States delegation to the United Nations. Samuel Rothberg, national campaign chairman of the Israel Bond Organization, will be chairman of the conference.
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