President Dwight D. Eisenhower today congratulated Hapoel Hamizrachi “on its helping to create and support the agricultural and economic and children’s institutions necessary for the growth of a democratic life in Israel.” In his message to the over 500 delegates attending the opening of the 32nd annual convention of Hapoel Hamizrachi of America at the King David Hotel here, the President also cited the religious laborites for “the devotion of its members to the religious traditions of their faith.”
Rabbi Milton Furst, Brooklyn, convention chairman, announced that some of the important issues to be discussed at the convention will be strengthening American Israeli relations, stimulating aliyah from America, problems of absorption of Moroccan immigrants and methods of combating anti-Zionist propaganda in this country. The vital organizational issues to be decided is the question of merger between Mizrachi and Hapoel Hamizrachi. Instructions to the delegates to the forthcoming World Conference of Mizrachi and Hapoel Hamizrachi in Israel will be given at the convention.
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