The United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York, which has already raised more than $1 billion in 30 yearly drives since 1942 for aid to needy and endangered Jews overseas, will hold the Inaugural Dinner of its 1972 campaign on March 21. Plans for the event have been announced by the organization’s president, Herbert Tenzer. Shimon Peres, Israel’s Minister of Transport and Communications, and Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller will be the principal speakers of the evening.
The dinner will be a testimonial to Jack D. Weiler, communal leader, philanthropist and real estate investor who has been a leading figure in both the New York and nationwide UJA campaigns for a quarter of a century. He will receive the highest honor conferred by the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York, the Herbert H. Lehman Memorial Award for “notable humanitarian leadership.”
The Inaugural Dinner traditionally marks the start of community wide campaigning on behalf of the UJA throughout NYC and Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester Counties. The goal of the 1972 drive has been set at $150 million, largely in response to a drastic increase–to 70,000–in the number of immigrants, including Jews emigrating from the Soviet Union, expected to reach Israel this year. The campaign chairmen are Meshulam Riklis and Laurence A. Tisch.
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