Members of the Philadelphia Zionist Organization of America announced the assembly of $125,000 worth of equipment to be shipped to Israel for the establishment of a needle trades school. Details of the plan were unfolded at a conference at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel here attended by several hundred Zionist leaders from the Eastern seaboard region.
Philip S. Resnikov, president of the Philadelphia Z.O.A. said the equipment would be shipped to Katamon, a suburb of Jerusalem, where the Zionists maintain a youth village for children whose parents were killed by the Nazis. The equipment is now in a warehouse here and will be shipped overseas next month after necessary repairs are made. Out-of-town delegates, expressing enthusiasm for the project, discussed plans for similar drives for second-hand equipment in order to start plumbing, electrical wiring, construction and other schools in Katamon and in another Zionist sponsored youth village near Tel Aviv.
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