Pioneer Women, the Women’s Labor Zionist Organization of America, has raised more than $2,600,000 during the past two years for programs for Moetzet Hapoalot, the Working Woman’s Council in Israel, Mrs. Sidney Leff, national president of the organization, reported here today at the 18th national biennial convention of the women’s group. She said large sums were given to Youth Aliya, Jewish National Fund and Histadrut, and that the organization had a “tremendous” record in Israel bond sales.
Mrs. Beba Idelson, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, and head of Moetzet Hapoalot, addressed the 600 delegates on women’s role in Israel. Tracing the role of the women workers movement in Israeli community development, she said that “in accordance with basic principle of self realization, our struggle from the beginning has been for the privilege of taking full part in the duties of the country and our society, rather than merely the rights of women.”
Membership in Moetzet Hapoalot, she said, has now reached 300,000 women of diverse occupations and ways of life. The organization, she reported, maintains an extensive network of guidance and instruction centers for immigrants, covering such activities as home economics, child care, hygiene and farming. Arab women who until recently never left their homes now participate in community activities and attend courses seminars, she reported.
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