A demand that all available Palestinian Jewish women be mobilized for work in factories or farms connected with the war effort was made here today at the fifth Palestine Conference of Jewish Working Women. Opening the conference, Ada Fishman, head of the organization, paid tribute to “the millions of our persecuted sisters and brothers” and to the Red Army and the millions of Russian workers. She expressed the hope that after the war the Soviet Union will change its policy toward Zionism.
The 351 delegates and 1,000 guests who attended the parley heard Miss Fishman report that 53,694 Jewish women workers are now organized of which 13,000 are in kvutzoth and kibutzim, 5,000 are on farms and 5,000 are in industry. The Moatzath Hapoaloth, the working Women’s Council, has established nine women’s farms and will soon set up an other in the Huleh region, Miss Fishman stated. The Council has a total investment of over $2,000,000 in its farms and other institutions.
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