A $600,000 project for the reclamation of land in Israel’s Negev was approved today at the opening session of the two-day New York meeting of the larger national board of Pioneer Women. Mrs. Sidney Leff, national president of Pioneer Women, said that the project, adopted through the Jewish National Fund, would include the planting of “shelter-belts” of afforestation and tree planting on the road and the settlements in the area stretching from Dimona and Kfar Yeruham to S’de Boker.
Bringing to a total of $300,000, the amount transmitted by Pioneer Women since July 1 for its work in Israel, a special $75,000 check was presented to Mrs. Lily Beyrack Cohen director of the department for English-speaking countries in the Ihud Olami (World Federation of Labor Zionists), at a luncheon in her honor. Mrs. Cohen is Pioneer Women’s special emissary from its sister organization in Israel, Moetzet Hapoalot.
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