“The danger to Israel of economic isolation has made immediately urgent steps that will permit the country to live increasingly by its own labor. The labor of Israel must be improved in quality and productive efficiency if the country is to surmount its economic difficulties.”
Israeli Consul Moshe Rivlin presented this view in an address to the emergency conference of the National ORT League held in New York. He stated that the economic integration of the new immigrants would require large-scale increases in vocational training programs. He urged ORT to take the lead in mobilizing its resources for a gigantic effort to provide high-level instruction in trades to young and old so as to contribute its share to the country’s physical and spiritual mobilization.
A series of resolutions pledging support to Israel in her struggle for security, urging the U. S. Government and the UN to equal the status of the Jewish refugees from Egypt and pledging vocational aid to Jewish refugees everywhere were adopted at the session.
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